Biography
Maya Zapata is an actress, known for Bordertown (2006), De la calle (2001) and Under the same moon (2007).
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Red Thread
2025
as Laura
Abril, a rebellious and daring stewardess, and Manuel, a shy and traditional businessman, meet on a plane and instantly feel an undeniable attraction.

At Midnight
2023
as Aurelia
Alejandro's life is disrupted when actress Sophie Wilder stays at his hotel. To their surprise, the two fall for one another, meeting at midnight.

Soy tu fan: La película
2022
as Rocío Lozano
In 2012, Charly leaves Nicolás minutes before getting married and moves to another country. Heartbroken, he writes to her a letter where predicts an u...

Enfermo Amor
2022
as Emilia
The story of love struggles of 9 different couples, connected only by the complexity of human relationships.

Lexi
2022
as Camille
“Laughing Lexi” has gone missing. As the tale unfolds, the story of what really happened becomes stranger than fiction.

The Ship
2022
as Leo
A radio host has to deal with his son's cancer with the help of a trainer.

Deadly Embroidered Memories
2020
as Akili (voice)
A woman with a degree in biology and a particular taste for arachnids gets involved with some unfinished business left by her dead mother, leading her...

Such Is Life in the Tropics
2016
Two families dispute a land with a land dealer.

Meister des Todes
2015
as Pina Aquila
Based on explosive investigations, the thriller "Meister des Todes" ("Master of Death") tells of a German arms manufacturer and their questionable wea...

The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
2015
as Babysitter
Seven vignettes explore the difference between fantasy and reality, memory and history, and the joy and agony of the human condition.

Eisenstein in Guanajuato
2015
as Concepción Cañedo
In 1931, following the success of the film Battleship Potemkin, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, to shoot...

Demon Inside
2013
Marta used to be a recognized and successful psychic, but after a dramatic experience, she loses faith in her gift and develops agoraphobia. She could...

Bolero de noche
2011
as Greta
Trovador seeks to write an immortal bolero, but the inspiration does not reach him. That's why the Devil appears to him and decides to make a pact: hi...

The Misfits
2011
as Graciela
A lonely boy did not want to live until he meets a girl who pretends to be a star performer. An arrogant lawyer gets a lesson of life to get stuck in ...

Nikté
2009
Nikté is an orphan girl with a very difficult character who wants to be important and, to achieve this, she deceives her people by pretending to be th...

Mujeres de la Revolución Mexicana
2009
as Hermila Galindo
Many women participated in the Mexican Revolution and were erased from history. Their names do not appear as the heroines they were, alongside the mos...

Morenita: el escándalo
2009
as Magdalena
Desperate to save his family from death threats by a notorious drug dealer, Mateo Cruz steals the venerated image of the Virgin of Guadalupe causing p...

Casi divas
2008
as Francisca
Four ambitious and beautiful young women. From four very different corners of Mexico. Just like hundreds of others, they are caught up in the frenzy t...

All Inclusive
2008
as Usnavy
A family visits an idyllic five-star resort in the Mayan Riviera in order to spend some quality time together for the first time in many years. A seri...

La sorpresa
2008
as Selena

Cobrador: In God We Trust
2007
as La Rebeca
Adaptation and unification in a single story of several stories by the writer Rubem Fonseca, where the theme of violence in contemporary society is ex...

Under the Same Moon
2007
as Alicia
Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illeg...

Two Embraces
2007
as Silvina
Four lonely and disenfranchised urbanites in contemporary Mexico City: a preteen boy under tremendous emotional strain, the pretty cashier with whom h...

Bordertown
2007
as Eva Jimenez
American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. Th...

Never on a Sunday
2006
as Ana
A middle-class Mexican family is forced to hire the services of a funeral home with a dubious reputation, without imagining the danger that the owner ...

Sexo, amor y otras perversiones
2006
as Mariela
Compilation of short film about sex, love and other perversions.

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
2005
as El Tostón Woman #1
When brash Texas border officer Mike Norton wrongfully kills and buries the friend and ranch hand of Pete Perkins, the latter is reminded of a promise...

Santos Peregrinos
2004
as Maria
When greed comes calling, say goodbye to saintliness. An irresistible comedy about what happens when the residents of a Mexico City apartment building...

El Mago
2004
as Morgana
A young man returns to differente people and places in his life, to repay favors once done and change the lives of those surrounding him, forever.

Caribe
2004
as Irene
Vicente and Abigail run a banana plantation in Limon Province, on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. Abigail's half-sister Irene, about whom Abigail k...

Streeters
2001
as Xóchitl
Authentic and committed, moving and stormy drama of street kids from Mexico City. Wonderful adaptation of successful play about street kids who have m...

Herod's Law
1999
as Chencha
In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor is recruited to become the new may...

The Other Conquest
1999
as Xochiquetzal - Niña Intérprete
The film is a drama about the aftermath of the 1520s Spanish Conquest of Mexico told from the perspective of the indigenous Aztec people. It explores ...

Little Saints
1999
as Blanca
After St. Jude appears in Esperanza's oven, she sets out to find her daughter, who died under mysterious circumstances. The journey forces Esperanza t...

Dance with the Devil
1997
as Niña Mexicana 1
She's sexy, shameless and loves taking people to their limit. She's a dangerous young woman who dreams about a jaguar that licks her naked body and sl...

The Blood Oranges
1997
as Goat Girl
Cyril and Fiona, a free-wheeling married couple, travel to a tropical coastal town to follow their sexual fantasies. Cyril is a manipulator. There, th...

The Cisco Kid
1994
as Alicia
This update of the 1950 western TV series changes Cisco and Pancho from wandering heroes of the old west to somewhat anti-"gringo" Mexican revolutiona...

Old Gringo
1989
as Dolores
A writer forms a triangle with a schoolmarm and a Mexican general on the run.

Goitia: A God for Himself
1989
as Margarita
The Mexican painter Francisco Goitia, feeling his death approaching, manages to make a memory of his life: the reunion with his country and his people...

Three of Cups
1986
While touring the towns, two revelers meet a beautiful woman who awakens greed and passion in both.

Memoria y Tolerancia
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XX-XY fuera del mundo
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A couple moves into an old hotel. After making love, they will fulfill a suicide pact.
Huehxolotl
N/A
When Xochit is pursued by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E) agents, a tense standoff ensues outside her restaurant, with her 8-year-old s...