Mayra Sérbulo is a Mexican film, theater and television actress born in Santa María Jalapa del Marqués, Oaxaca, Mexico.
[2] In 2006 she achieved international fame with her role in Mel Gibson's Apocalypto (2006), which would go on to be one of the highest grossing films of that year.
[3] In 2017 she started playing María in "Todos Santos", a theatre monologue written by Mónica Perea, directed by Sixto Castro Santillán, and music performed live by Ariel Torres.
While she prepares her boss´ dinner, she tells us what made her run from her town and why she must go celebrate her departed relatives in the Day of the Death.
In between honest laughter and unbearable pain and tears, "Todos Santos" talks through several important harsh facts that indigenous people live in Mexico everyday, from the entrance of drug traffic to the forced displacement of their hometowns.