# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maria-luisa-elio
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:01:30.769Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maria-luisa-elio"
name: "María Luisa Elío"
slug: "maria-luisa-elio"
description: "María Luisa Elío Bernal was a Spanish writer and actress exiled in Mexico. She wrote two books and the script of the award-winning autobiographical film El balcón vacío, which was the first film to depict the lives of Spanish exiles during the Spanish Civil War. She also performed on Mexican television and Mexican films. Elío was involved in several cultural and literary circles. She was also an inspiration for Gabriel García Márquez. His masterwork One Hundred Years of Solitude was dedicated to Elío and her husband."
tagline: "Spanish writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MARIA_LUISA_EL%C3%8DO.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Mexico"
  isoCode: "MX"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1926-08-17"
deathDate: "2009-07-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.99
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.812492
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0253634/"
    handle:    "nm0253634"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BE%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0"
    title: "Элио, Мария Луиса"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Luisa_El%C3%ADo"
    title: "María Luisa Elío"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Luisa_El%C3%ADo"
    title: "María Luisa Elío"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Luisa_El%C3%ADo"
    title: "María Luisa Elío"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Luisa_Elio"
    title: "María Luisa Elio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Luisa_El%C3%ADo"
    title: "María Luisa Elío"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Luisa_El%C3%ADo"
    title: "María Luisa Elío"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6004184"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1539194"
    title: "María Luisa Elío"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump