Marta May

{{short description|Spanish actress}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Marta May

| image = Marta May - Gatti rossi in un labirinto di vetro (cropped).jpg

| caption = Marta May in Eyeball (1975)

| birth_name = María Jesús Mayor Ávila

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1939|06|14|df=y}}

| birth_place = Santander, Cantabria

| occupation = Actress

}}

Marta May, born María Jesús Mayor Ávila (14 June 1939) is a Spanish actress.

In 1968, she was awarded by the Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos for best actress in La piel quemada.{{cite web |url=http://www.cinecec.com/EDITOR/premios/palmares/1968.htm |title=Premios del CEC a la producción española de 1968 |year=1968 |access-date=25 July 2018 |work=Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos |language=es}}{{cite book |first=Ronald |last=Schwartz |title=Great Spanish Films Since 1950 |url=https://archive.org/details/greatspanishfilm0000schw_t9l3 |url-access=registration |publisher=Scarecrow Press |date=5 September 2008 |page=[https://archive.org/details/greatspanishfilm0000schw_t9l3/page/261 261] |isbn=9781461696612}}

In 1975, Esteban Durán directed Algo de ti en el arcoiris at the Teatro Don Juan in Barcelona, and it starred Alejandro Ulloa, Marta May, and Eduardo Criado.{{cite book |last=Torres Nebrera |first=Gregorio |title=Historia y antología del teatro español de posguerra (1940-1975) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aIpwg60sP94C&pg=PA77 |publisher=Editorial Fundamentos |year=2006 |page=77 |editor-first=Víctor |editor-last=García Ruiz |isbn=9788424509965}}

In 2010s, she made paintings about great women in the 20th century and jazz artists.{{cite news |url=https://escuellar.es/retratos-obra-de-marta-may-en-la-sala-alfonsa-de-la-torre/ |title=Retratos obra de Marta Mayen la sala Alfonsa de la Torre |date=12 May 2015 |access-date=27 July 2023 |first=Nuria |last=Pascual Mayo |language=es |newspaper=Escuellar}}