---
name: "Montserrat Marañon"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/montserrat-maranon"
fi1m_id: "montserrat-maranon"
imdb_id: "nm2292317"
tmdb_id: 972609
wikidata_id: "Q47010748"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "6 January 1974"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-30T22:08:47.160418+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."
---

# Montserrat Marañon

## Identity

Montserrat Marañon

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/montserrat-maranon
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** montserrat-maranon
- **IMDb ID:** nm2292317
- **TMDB ID:** 972609
- **Wikidata ID:** Q47010748
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47010748, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2292317/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/972609

Actor. Born 6 January 1974 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 6 January 1974, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47010748, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2292317/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/972609

## Fi1m on Montserrat Marañon

> Montserrat Marañon plays the woman in the kitchen who is too busy to be sad, and lets you see the sadness anyway. Thirty years of Mexican cabaret, sitcom and stage stand behind one exact supporting turn in *Tótem*, and we would like to see more.

In *Tótem* (2023) Montserrat Marañon spends most of a day baking a cake and steadily emptying a bottle while she does it. Nuri is one of the aunts getting a party ready for a dying man, and Lila Avilés never cuts away to make a joke of her. Marañon does not make one either. She keeps her hands moving, keeps the glass within reach, and lets the drinking register as something the character has decided not to notice. It is the kind of part that is usually played for a laugh or for a speech, and she gives it neither.

The career behind it is long and mostly unseen outside Mexico. She trained in dramatic literature and theatre at UNAM, and from the mid-1990s worked in cabaret, in children's theatre and with Seña y Verbo, a company making theatre for the deaf. The wide audience came with television: five years as Betzabé in the comedy series *María de todos los Ángeles* (2009 to 2014), followed by telenovelas. Film arrived in supporting parts from the middle of the last decade, among them Gloria in *Tiempo compartido* (2018), Yolanda in *All the Freckles in the World* (2019) and Marta in *BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths* (2022). We have not reviewed those and will not pretend to weigh them.

What we can weigh is the fit between what she does and where she is now being put. She is cast, again and again, in ensemble pictures about ordinary middle-class Mexican families under strain, and directors who work in close, with glances and pauses rather than gestures, get the most from her. Avilés is one of those, and *Tótem* is built out of a crowded house, a child underfoot and adults trying to hold a shape. Marañon's Nuri is where the shape gives, and we found her harder to watch than the illness in the next room, because the film had shown us the cake, the bottle and the party frock and asked us to add them up ourselves. We did, and it hurt more than we expected from a woman icing a sponge.

The caveat is size. One supporting performance is a small sample, and audiences at home know a broader, louder performer from the sitcom years than the one festival programmers have discovered. Whether the film parts grow to meet the stage training is the open question. On the evidence of *Tótem*, she will be the aunt in the kitchen for a while yet, and the good films will keep finding her there.

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Tótem* (2023), Fi1m 85, as Nuri — [page](https://film.one/film/totem.md)

## Complete filmography (24)

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

- *DOC* (2026), series, as Teresa Contreras
- *No One Will Miss Us* (2024), series, as Beatriz
- *All the Silence* (2023), as Tusa
- *Tótem* (2023), as Nuri — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/totem.md)
- *Perdona nuestros pecados* (2023), series, as Flor
- *BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths* (2022), as Marta
- *Albertano Contra los Mostros* (2022), series, as Doña Catita
- *Agua de Arrayan* (2022), Actor
- *Atrapadas en familia* (2022), as Claudia
- *Sex, Shame and Tears 2* (2022), as Siri Karum
- *Rebelde* (2022), series, as Maestra de Biología
- *Adentro* (2021), Actor
- *Souvenir* (2021), as Amalia
- *You've Got This* (2020), Actor
- *All the Freckles in the World* (2019), as Yolanda
- *The Usurper* (2019), series, as Monserrat
- *Time Share* (2018), as Gloria
- *American Curious* (2018), as Empleada Asilo
- *Guiltless* (2017), Actor
- *A Beginner's Guide to the Presidency* (2016), as María Navarro
- *The Color of Passion* (2014), series, as Brígida Roldán de Zúñiga
- *María de Todos los Ángeles* (2009), series, as Betzabé
- *...todo esto que arde en mi.*, as María
- *Garden Chest*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Actress Montserrat Marañon at the premiere of the film "Totem" at the Berlin Film Festival 2023](https://film.one/media/person/4129149/gallery-3731cf5037ba.jpg) Actress Montserrat Marañon at the premiere of the film "Totem" at the Berlin Film Festival 2023 — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Montserrat_Mara%C3%B1on-62573.jpg/1280px-Montserrat_Mara%C3%B1on-62573.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Actress Montserrat Marañon at the premiere of the film "Totem" at the Berlin Film Festival 2023](https://film.one/media/person/4129149/gallery-b6463992876b.jpg) Actress Montserrat Marañon at the premiere of the film "Totem" at the Berlin Film Festival 2023 — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Montserrat_Mara%C3%B1on-62631.jpg/1280px-Montserrat_Mara%C3%B1on-62631.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Miércoles 21 de agosto 2019. En el Teatro Telcel se llevaron a cabo los Premios Metropolitanos de Teatro (Los Metro), en colaboración con la Secretaría de Cultu](https://film.one/media/person/4129149/gallery-0debd289949c.jpg) Miércoles 21 de agosto 2019. En el Teatro Telcel se llevaron a cabo los Premios Metropolitanos de Teatro (Los Metro), en colaboración con la Secretaría de Cultu — Ingrid Poblano / Secretaría de Cultura de la Ciudad de México, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Montserrat_Mara%C3%B1%C3%B3n_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Montserrat_Mara%C3%B1%C3%B3n_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Actress Montserrat Marañon at the premiere of the film "Totem" at the Berlin Film Festival 2023](https://film.one/media/person/4129149/gallery-22486ad028da.jpg) Actress Montserrat Marañon at the premiere of the film "Totem" at the Berlin Film Festival 2023 — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Montserrat_Mara%C3%B1on-62554.jpg/1280px-Montserrat_Mara%C3%B1on-62554.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Actress Montserrat Marañon at the premiere of the film "Totem" at the Berlin Film Festival 2023](https://film.one/media/person/4129149/gallery-c2d23003b6f0.jpg) Actress Montserrat Marañon at the premiere of the film "Totem" at the Berlin Film Festival 2023 — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Montserrat_Mara%C3%B1on-62561.jpg/1280px-Montserrat_Mara%C3%B1on-62561.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Actress Montserrat Marañon at the premiere of the film "Totem" at the Berlin Film Festival 2023](https://film.one/media/person/4129149/gallery-1389c01657f4.jpg) Actress Montserrat Marañon at the premiere of the film "Totem" at the Berlin Film Festival 2023 — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Montserrat_Mara%C3%B1on-63281.jpg/1280px-Montserrat_Mara%C3%B1on-63281.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actress 2023: Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actress (won), for *Tótem*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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