Maite Urrutia was born in Bilbao, The Basque Country, Spain. She starred on plays like The marriage of Fígaro, Bullets over Broadway, Fear and misery of the Third Reich, and The Tempest, together with the Theater & Dance Basque Company. She made her cinema debut in the movie Underground (ASD Alma sin dueño) by the Canal+ Award winner director and screenwriter Tinieblas González. .
Maite moved to Madrid to improve her acting technic at the Corazza Actor´s Studio, where she worked with teachers such as Juan Carlos Corazza, Manuel Morón, and Ana Gracia.
In Madrid, Maite starred music videos, web series and shortfilms, and she starts writing her first plays and scripts, which she also directs and stars. The Guests, her first short play, is inspired by Chejov´s Three sisters and the economic crisis in Spain.
After her collaboration in several international works (A Death Foretold, a Chinese-Spanish production, and the American film False Colors), Maite moves to Mexico to star in the play Cuando todos pensaban que habíamos desaparecido, a collective creation by the Theater Group Vaca 35. After a tour in Spain in 2015, the play continued a latin american tour, participating in FITU 2015-16 -the International Theater Festival held every year by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)-, the Baja California State Theater Exhibition 2016, the Ibero-American Performing Arts Festival Mirada 2016 (Brasil), and Santiago A Mil 2016 (Chile). Cuando todos... was also played at the 37 MNT, the national theater exhibition of Mexico.
In Mexico Maite works in shortfilms (Boda Negra was selected at Shorts Mexico and Morbido Film Fest), and films (I Fausto, Julio Berthely's feature film starred by mexican actor Christian Vazquez, and Ariel Winograd's latest film Tod@s Caen). In theater Maite recently produced and starred her piece ¡Oh, sí, sí!, directed by Alfonso Pineda Ulloa, and she also premiered Claudio Tolcachir's successful play La Omisión de la Familia Coleman directed by Sebastián Sanchez Amunategui, sharing the stage together with Concepción Marquez, Inés de Tavira, Cayetano Arámburo, Daniel Bretón, and Andrés Palacios.
Whenever she can, Maite keeps improving her acting skills at the workshops of the Actors Studio professor Cornelius Horgan.