Maria Onetto Obituary

Maria Onetto was an Argentine theatre film and television actress. She died at the age of 56.

Onetto was born in Buenos Aires on 18 August 1966. She was the daughter of Estela Mary Pastore and Jorge Onetto, an employee of the energy company Segba (Servicios Eléctricos del Gran Buenos Aires [es]) and restaurateur who died of a sudden myocardial infarction in 1967 when María was one year old.

Onetto starred in Lucrecia Martel’s 2008 film The Headless Woman, playing Veroníca, a middle-aged woman who becomes haunted by guilt and disconnected from her normal life after a hit-and-run with an unidentified object.

Onetto featured in a 2021 production of Eduardo “Tato” Pavlovsky’s 1987 play Potestad (lit. Power) directed by Norman Briski, which takes inspiration from Noh theatre and in which Onetto plays a girl’s kidnapper during Argentina’s last dictatorship.

Onetto was found dead in her apartment in Buenos Aires on March 2, 2023, at the age of 56. Information released by the Buenos Aires City Police confirmed that she had committed suicide.