María Mercader

María de la Asunción Mercader Forcada (Maria de l'Assumpció Mercader i Forcada ; 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.

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