A multi-award-winning actress and producer in the Mexican entertainment industry. She has appeared in dozens of projects, including feature films, television shows, and stage plays.
She made her debut at the age of six in the film “Gringo Viejo” (Dir. Luis Puenzo), alongside Jane Fonda and Gregory Peck, a role that would be followed by other major films in Argentine cinema.
Throughout her career, she has received various awards, most notably the Ariel Award for Best Actress ( 2002) for the film “De la calle” (Dir. Gerardo Tort); the Mayahuel Award for Best Actress (2005) for ‘El Mago’ (Dir. Jaime Aparicio), awarded by the Guadalajara Film Festival; and the Diosa de Plata Award for Best Actress ( 2008) for ‘Morirse en Domingo’ (Dir. Daniel Gruener).
Her filmography includes titles such as “Goitia, a God unto Himself” (Dir. Diego López Rivera), “Santitos” (Dir. Alejandro Springall), “The Other Conquest” (Dir. Salvador Carrasco), “Herod’s Law” (Dir. Luis Estrada), “Two Hugs” (Dir. Enrique Begne), “Almost Divas” (Dir. Issa López), “Eisenstein in Guanajuato” (Dir. Peter Greenaway), “La Nave” (Dir. Batan Silva), “Enfermo Amor” (Dir. Marco Polo Constandse, Rodrigo Nava), “I’m Your Fan: The Movie” (Dir. Mariana Chenillo) and “At Midnight” (Dir. Jonah Feingold).
On television, she has appeared in TV series, including “Soy tu Fan” (Canal Once) for all three seasons, “La Ruta Blanca” (Cadena Tres), “Kdabra” (Fox International), “Mozart in the Jungle” (Prime Video), “El César” (Space), “Run Coyote Run” (FOX), “Selena’s Secret” (BTF Media), “Prime Time” (Star+), “Every Minute Counts” (Prime Video) and “El Hilo Rojo” (ViX).
In 2012, she made her debut as a theater producer with the play “La acera de enfrente”, and later “The House of the Spirits” and “Feroces”.
Maya Zapata is known for making her work her primary form of activism. She firmly believes in the power of narrative arts as a source of inspiration for imagining different futures, as well as one of the best tools for social transformation.
