---
name: "María Cecilia Botero"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/maria-cecilia-botero"
fi1m_id: "maria-cecilia-botero"
imdb_id: "nm1239720"
tmdb_id: 2521631
wikidata_id: "Q5637433"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "13 May 1955"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T03:14:58.297398+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# María Cecilia Botero

## Identity

María Cecilia Botero

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/maria-cecilia-botero
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** maria-cecilia-botero
- **IMDb ID:** nm1239720
- **TMDB ID:** 2521631
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5637433
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Cecilia_Botero, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5637433, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1239720/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2521631

Actor. Born 13 May 1955 in Medellín, Colombia.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 13 May 1955, Medellín, Colombia
- **Also known as:** María Cecilia Botero Cadavid
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Cecilia_Botero, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5637433, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1239720/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2521631

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Encanto*](https://film.one/film/encanto.md) (80)

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## Biography

María Cecilia Botero is a Colombian actress, television presenter and journalist. She was born María Cecilia Botero Cadavid on 13 May 1955 in Medellín and began her career in 1971 with the television production *El Fantasma de Canterville*. She had previously studied anthropology.

Botero is the daughter of actor, librettist and director Jaime Botero Gómez and the niece of actress Dora Cadavid. Her sister Ana Cristina Botero is also an actor. She is known for telenovelas including *Nuevo Rico Nuevo Pobre* (2007) as Antonia Mancera de Ferreira and for voicing Abuela Alma in the Disney film *Encanto* (2021). She later appeared in *Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado* (2025).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Encanto* (2021), Fi1m 80, as Abuela Alma (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/encanto.md)

## Complete filmography (21)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado* (2025), as Abuela
- *Same, Again* (2025), as Laura
- *Quiero que me mantengan* (2024), Actor
- *El Yuppie Y El Guiso* (2023), Actor
- *Eva Lasting* (2023), series, as Lucy Cepeda
- *El Gran Bingo* (2023), Actor
- *Encanto* (2021), as Abuela Alma (voice) — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/encanto.md)
- *Her Mother's Killer* (2020), series, as Eugenia Márquez de la Torre
- *Enfermeras* (2019), series, as Beatriz
- *Amalia* (2018), as Elena
- *Las Hermanitas Calle* (2015), series, as Isabel
- *La Hipocondriaca* (2013), series, as Maruja Maldonado de Pulido
- *In fraganti* (2009), as Alcira
- *Bermúdez* (2009), series, as Cecilia Arbeláez
- *Muñoz Vale x 2* (2008), series, as Actriz
- *Nuevo Rico Nuevo Pobre* (2007), series, as Antonia Mancera de Ferreira
- *Lorena* (2005), series, as Rufina De Brigard de Ferrero
- *Bolívar, el hombre de las dificultades* (1980), series, as Manuela Sáenz
- *Revivamos Nuestra Historia: Jose María Córdova* (1979), series, as Manuela
- *María* (1972), Actor
- *Castro's Daughter*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![María Cecilia Botero](https://film.one/media/person/1619386/gallery-5b57d8f915fb.jpg) María Cecilia Botero — Revista Diners, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Mar%C3%ADa_Cecilia_Botero_2021.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Actriz y presentadora colombiana. (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/1619386/gallery-dfb5732cdf4e.jpg) Actriz y presentadora colombiana. (2016) — Maria Puyo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Maria_Cecilia_Botero_Cadavid.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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