In addition to her stage credits, she has also performed in film and television works.

[1] María Luisa Mira Franco was born in 1944 in Valencia.

[3][5] She moved to Barcelona in 1971,[6] graduating in performing arts from the Institut del Teatre.

[4] She earned early recognition in the Spanish theatre scene by playing Molly Bloom in La noche de Molly Bloom [es], a monologue premiered in 1979 based on the last chapter of Ulysses.

[7][8] After a long acting career in theatre, she made her directorial debut with Top Girls, followed by a staging of The Dog in the Manger in 2002.