Maura Fazi Pastorino (born 11 August 1942), better known as Maura Monti, is an Italian-Mexican actress and model.
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Life and work
Monti was born in Genoa (Italy), but moved with her mother to Mexico, where she started to work as a model. She was however quickly discovered for the movies and appeared in string of Mexican films during the second half of the 1960s. Among them were the neo noir thriller Rage starring Glenn Ford and the superhero movie The Bat Woman (La mujer murciélago). In the latter she played the lead character, a masked female superhero similar to the Batwoman character of DC Comics.
In the early 1970s she ended her career as an actress and began to work as moderator and journalist. In the 1990s she settled with her second husband the writer José Antonio Reyes Matamoros in San Cristóbal de las Casas. There she started to work as a teacher at a local school while pursuing painting and writing as well.
Filmography
1965: Cucurrucucú Paloma
1965: El pecador
1966: El proceso de Cristo
1966: El planeta de las mujeres invasoras
1966: Rage
1966: Hombres de roca
1967: SOS Conspiración Bikini
1967: Su excelencia
1967: La muerte en bikini
1967: Santo, el Enmascarado de Plata vs. la invasión de los marcianos
1967: Don Juan 67
1968: Báñame mi amor
1968: Un Latín lover en Acapulco
1968: The Batwoman (original: La mujer murciélago)
1968: Despedida de casada
1968: María Isabel
1968: El tesoro de Moctezuma
1968: Blue Demon destructor de espías
1968: Los amores de Juan Charrasqueado
1968: Las sicodélicas
1968: El día de la boda
1968: Me casé con un cura
1968: El misterio de los hongos alucinantes
1968: Pasaporte a la muerte
1969: El matrimonio es como el demonio
1969: Veinticuatro horas de vida
1969: Muñecas peligrosas
1969: Minifaldas con espuelas
1969: Las vampiras
1969: Con licencia para matar
1969: La casa de las muchachas
1969: Cazadores de espías
1970: El despertar del lobo
1970: Las tres magníficas
1971: The Incredible Invasion
1978–1989 En vivo (culture magazine, moderation)