Born María del Carmen Machi Arroyo in Madrid, she grew up in Getafe. Her father's family comes from Genoa. After several years as a theatre actress, she became popular thanks to her character Aída first in the TV series 7 Vidas, and later in a TV series made for this character, Aída. Description above from the Wikipedia article Carmen Machi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.