María Mercader

{{Short description|Spanish actress (1918–2011)}}

{{About|the Spanish actress|the American journalist|Maria Mercader}}{{Family name hatnote|Mercader|Forcada|lang=Spanish}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}

{{Infobox person

| image = Maria_Mercader.jpg

| caption = Mercader in 1941

| name = María Mercader

| birth_name = María de la Asunción Mercader Forcada[http://www.enciclopedia.cat/enciclopèdies/gran-enciclopèdia-catalana/EC-GEC-0042023.xml?s.q=maria+mercader#.UnlTo_lLPzk Maria Mercader i Fordada - Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana] (in Catalan)

| birth_date = {{birth date|1918|3|6|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Barcelona, Spain

| death_date = {{death date and age|2011|1|26|1918|3|6|df=yes}}

| death_place = Rome, Italy

| occupation = Actress

| years_active = 1923–1992

| spouse = {{ubl|

{{marriage|Giuliano Scicolone|1949|1955|end=divorced}}|

{{marriage|Vittorio De Sica|1968|1974|end=died}}}}

| children = Manuel De Sica
Christian De Sica

| relatives = Caridad del Río (aunt by marriage)
Ramón Mercader (cousin)

| father = Luís Mercader Marina

| mother = María Salses

}}

María de la Asunción Mercader Forcada ({{IPA|es|maˈɾi.a meɾkaˈðeɾ|lang}}; {{langx|ca|Maria de l'Assumpció Mercader i Forcada}} {{IPA|ca|məˈɾi.ə məɾkəˈðe|}}; 6 March 1918 – 26 January 2011) was a Spanish film actress who appeared in some forty films between 1923 and 1992. She moved to Italy in 1939, later becoming the second wife of film director Vittorio De Sica.{{cite web |url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/participant.jsp?spid=46765 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090202022149/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/participant.jsp?spid=46765 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 February 2009 |title=Vittorio De Sica |access-date=7 September 2010 |work=Turner Classic Movies}}

Mercader's paternal aunt by marriage was Caridad Mercader, whose son Ramón Mercader murdered Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in 1940.