Assumpta Serna

Born: 1957-09-16

Assumpta Serna is a Spanish actress. She is known for her roles in I, the Worst of All, portraying famous Mexican religious scholar Sor Juana, Nostradamus, The Craft, and Wild Orchid, although she may be most remembered for her role as Peninsular War guerrilla commander Teresa Moreno in the first four of the ITV Richard Sharpe series. Serna was born as Assumpta Rodés Serna in Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). She married her co-star in Sharpe's Company, Scott Cleverdon. She has also appeared in the 2003 ITV television drama on King Henry VIII as Catherine of Aragon, and the Spanish TV series Aquí no hay quien viva. She has written two books on acting technique, Screenacting and Monologues in VO, and currently teaches courses Acting for Camera, Directing Actors and The Script and the Actor at various acting schools and workshops. She has also served as president of AISGE (Actores e Intérpretes - Sociedad de Gestión de España), Spain's principal actors' union. She is fluent in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan and Spanish.


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The Craft

as Lirio
Released: 1996-05-03

A Catholic school newcomer falls in with a clique of teen witches who wield their powers against...

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Wild Orchid

as Hanna Munch
Released: 1989-12-22

A woman lawyer becomes mesmerized by a self-made millionaire during an encounter in Rio setting...

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Pepi, Luci, Bom

as Nuria
Released: 1980-10-27

After a young heiress is assaulted by a policeman, she seeks revenge by befriending the...

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L’orgia

as Montse
Released: 1978-11-26

A group of boys and girls are locked up a weekend in a friends house in which they do a party...

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The Servant

as uncredited
Released: 2023-03-24

Domestic service worker Lera is accused of a crime. In a cell in the premises of a Civil Guard...

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Matador

as María
Released: 1986-03-07

A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death...

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Uncertainty

as Sylvia Montero
Released: 2009-11-15

Every choice has a consequence. But what if the flip of a coin could trigger two separate but...

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Sharpe's Enemy

as Comandante Teresa Moreno
Released: 1994-06-01

Portugal 1813. A band of deserters, including Sharpe's old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have...

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The Shooter

as Marta
Released: 1995-12-15

A CIA agent gets caught up in political intrigue after he gets brought in to solve the murder of...

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Nostradamus

as Anne
Released: 1994-08-18

A dramatic retelling of the life of Michel de Nostredame, from his early work as a plague doctor...

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Sharpe's Company

as Comandante Teresa Moreno
Released: 1994-05-25

Spain 1812 The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz. A murderous figure from...

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The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes

as Assumpta
Released: 2005-09-09

Dark fairytale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on...

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Sharpe's Rifles

as Comandante Teresa Moreno
Released: 1993-05-05

During the Peninsular War in Spain against the French, Sergeant Richard Sharpe saves the life of...

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One Hundred and One Nights

as Mute Actress in Hollywood
Released: 1995-01-25

Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so...

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Catalan Cuckold

as Estela (as Assumpta Rodes)
Released: 1979-08-31

Comedy about a marriage guidance counselor whose own marriage is on the rocks.

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Why Not Me?

as Diane
Released: 1999-01-06

Four gay French expatriots share a business in Barcelona. When they and their parents are thrown...

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I Vicerè

as Duchess Radalì
Released: 2007-11-09

In late 19th-century Sicily, the noble Uzeda family—whose lineage dates back to the ancient...

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The Crime of Cuenca

as Manuela
Released: 1981-08-17

Osa de la Vega, Cuenca, Spain, 1913. Gregorio and León, employees on the estate of the village's...

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Sharpe's Eagle

as Comandante Teresa Moreno
Released: 1993-05-12

Sharpe is a Captain saddled with the South Essex, a battalion run by incompetents and filled...

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The Journeyman

as Cleopatra
Released: 2001-03-10

In the Wild West at the turn of the century, two young brothers watch as their Grandpa is gunned...

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I, the Worst of All

as Juana Inés de la Cruz
Released: 1990-08-09

Assumpta Serna stars as the brilliant and beautiful poet Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz in this...

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Kiss & Tell

as Dr. Monica DeBirdy
Released: 1997-10-17

A performance artist turns up dead with a carrot up her butt by LAX. Three detectives interview...

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Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel

as Judge Cristina Soto
Released: 1992-01-19

This follow-up to "Drug Wars: The Camarena Story" chronicles the fact-based fight by the U.S....

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Beyond the Walls

as La Huéspeda
Released: 1985-09-01

This 1985 Spanish film reveals one of the many terrible aspects of 16th century Spain, still...

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Chain of Desire

as Cleo
Released: 1992-05-26

A series of unrelated amorous lovers are connected by a chain of desire.

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Lulú de noche

as Amelia
Released: 1986-02-20

German, a young theater director, tries to organize a theater play about Lulu, a prostitute that...

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Hunting Ground

as Adela
Released: 1983-01-01

A female lawyer passionately defends criminals, believing that everyone deserves a second...

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The Secret Garden

as Lucía
Released: 1984-11-05

A few days ago, Lucia (Assumpta Serna) receives anonymous letters in which he is forced to...

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The Fencing Master

as Adela de Otero
Released: 1992-09-18

A fencing master in pre-revolution Spain is hired to teach fencing to a beautiful young woman....

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The Network of Freedom

as Sœur Hélène Studler
Released: 2017-10-20

France, beginning of World War II. Hélène Studler is a nun who has been dedicated to the care of...

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The Wrath of a God

as uncredited
Released: 1988-11-10

On the beach lies the body of Claudio O'Riley, heir to a monopoly shrimp, and his voice recounts...

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Bullfighter

as Ahandra / Allison
Released: 2000-10-01

Jack is a wanderer whose aimless roaming leads him to a number of interesting locations and into...

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Rossini! Rossini!

as Maria Marcolini
Released: 1991-09-12

An funny, witty and bright biopic by the master of italian comedy Mario Monicelli about the...

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National Heritage

as (uncredited)
Released: 1981-03-26

After the death of General Franco, the Leguineche family leaves their estate of Los Tejadillos,...

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Sweet Hours

as Berta, the actress / Teresa, Juan's mother
Released: 1982-02-15

Juan Sahagún, since childhood, feels passion for his mother. One day in the street he sees a...

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Dos y dos, cinco

as Teresa
Released: 1981-11-23

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La jeune fille et l'enfer

as uncredited
Released: 1986-01-10

Erotic drama from France featuring beautiful Florence Guerin as a teenager who is switched in by...

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Bajo en nicotina

as Concha
Released: 1984-04-25

A film buff can't watch his videos in peace as he is disturbed by his clingy girlfriend and...

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¡He matado a mi marido!

as Berta
Released: 2018-04-13

A desperate woman accidentally murders her unfaithful husband the morning of a big party...

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Lola

as Silvia
Released: 1986-01-17

Lola is a young woman who works in a factory. She lives a violent and tormented love with Mario....

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Managua

as Martha
Released: 1996-04-09

When a fellow Vietnam veteran is alleged to have thrown his lot in with the cocaine cartels,...

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Shortcut to Paradise

as María
Released: 1994-08-14

Quinn shows up at an apartment building in Paradise, a small backwoods community in Puerto Rico,...

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Belle al bar

as Simona
Released: 1994-12-16

During a marriage crisis, unhappy Leo has to go to another town for work. There he meets his...

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Sharpe: The Legend

as Teresa
Released: 1997-10-13

Several years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London...

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El Cepa Returns

as Self - Actress (Manuela)
Released: 2019-05-24

Forty years later, Guillermo Montesinos, the actor who played José María el Cepa in The Cuenca...

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Revolver

as Countess Angela Rossetti
Released: 1992-04-19

Nick Suster, a secret intelligence agent paralyzed by an assassin's bullet, sets out to track...

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Ballad of Dog Beach

as Mena
Released: 1987-03-12

In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as...

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Crónica sentimental en rojo

as Blanca Bassegoda
Released: 1986-07-31

Veteran Inspector Méndez investigates the death of a woman found on a tourist beach.

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The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway

as Agnes von Kurowsky
Released: 1988-01-01

Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles...

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Pájaros de ciudad

as uncredited
Released: 1983-05-16

After committing a murder, an ordinary man escapes from the police with the help of his ex-wife....

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Day of Reckoning

as Marissa
Released: 1994-03-07

Action-adventure following a onetime Special Forces Captain in Vietnam turned tour guide in...

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Un si beau voyage

as Pilar
Released: 2009-03-18

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Le intermittenze del cuore

as Adriana
Released: 2003-09-04

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Like a Bolt of Lightning

as Sonia
Released: 1996-11-04

Miguel Hermoso's Like Lightning offers a fresh take on a familiar scenario, the teenaged boy...

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7 cabalgan hacia la muerte

as Ann
Released: 1979-01-01

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La vieja música

as Luz
Released: 1985-09-26

The new coach of the basketball team of Lugo arrives from Uruguay. He really knows nothing about...

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À quoi tu penses-tu ?

as Mireille
Released: 1992-03-04

Because he only thinks about Karine, the wife of his best friend André, Pierre, a writer, can no...

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Petra de San José

as Condesa Corbos
Released: 2022-02-01

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Henry's Romance

as Judith
Released: 1993-12-20

It is carnival time in Munich and participants are overindulging in alcohol and sensual...

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Circle of Passions

as Elisa di Villafratti
Released: 1983-07-06

An aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with...

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Nadia Coupeau, dite Nana

as Sabine Muffat
Released: 2001-03-02

Victim of a rape, Nadia Coupeau decides to keep the child despite her precarious personal...

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Bernarda

as Bernarda
Released: 2018-10-26

Bernarda is a loose adaptation of the play La casa de Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca ....

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Soldados de plomo

as Elena
Released: 1983-08-12

Andrew returns to his hometown after a long absence. His father was a military high society who...

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The Day of Reckoning

as Hélène
Released: 1990-05-04

A young man begins to have terrifying nightmares after visiting his obsessive uncle's automated...

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La cripta

as Isabel Peraplana
Released: 1981-09-15

A patient is released from a mental hospital to help the police find a student who disappeared a...

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Subjúdice

as Irene
Released: 1998-06-19

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Magic Powder

as Carlota
Released: 1979-08-03

Arturo and Paco arrives at a castle where Paco is going to marry Sulfurina, who turns out to be...

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La nuit de l'océan

as Claire
Released: 1992-06-03

After the disappearance at sea of a young fisherman, his childhood friend and his mother begin...

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The Hidden Truth

as Rosa
Released: 1987-07-20

After a long and turbulent time in America at the beginning of the century, Adrian Massaguer...

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Vecinos

as Aurora
Released: 1981-07-10

Luis and Aurora live in the outskirts of Madrid, his life is quiet and peaceful until it reaches...

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Valentina

as Baba Yaga
Released: 1989-01-01

Italian erotic thriller television series that originally aired on Italia 1 from September 29 to...

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Slaves and Kings

as Señora Sandoval
Released: 2021-09-24

The compelling story of Saint Anthony Mary Claret, a Spanish Roman Catholic Archbishop, writer...

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Stolen Moments

as uncredited
Released: 1998-07-02

1947, in Patagonia, in a little village on the seaside. An abandoned house on the beach shelters...

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Qui t’estima, Babel?

as Mare
Released: 1988-01-27

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El método

as uncredited
Released: 2019-09-01

An aspiring actor, Juan Luis, suffers an incalculable pain by becoming the laughing stock of his...

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Les Derniers Jours de la victime

as Amanda
Released: 1995-09-04

Mendizábal, a reputed hitman, is commissioned to eliminate Rodolfo Kulpe, a small-time criminal.

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La Brute

as Solange Vauthier
Released: 1987-07-29

Jacques Vauthier, a blind, deaf and mute writer is accused of a crime he quickly confesses to...

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Havanera 1820

as Yvonne Duchamp
Released: 1993-05-21

The year is 1820, and trade between Cuba and Catalonia is a booming business, although the goods...

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El asesino a sueldo

as Sra. Kaplan
Released: 2009-12-30

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Expansivas

as Irene
Released: 2020-12-05

Two sisters marked by their mother’s murder years before find the murder weapon and the clues...

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Love Crisis

as Voice
Released: 2013-01-15

During one night at the end of the summer, in a random plaza in the centre of Madrid there is...

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Teresa, Teresa

as Presentadora TV
Released: 2003-10-03

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Behold the Monkey

as uncredited
Released: 2016-01-19

A modern fairytale based on the true story of an elderly Spanish cleaner's infamous attempt to...

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Falcon Crest

as Anna Cellini
First aired: 1981-12-04

Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for...

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Aquí no hay quien viva

as Marta Puig
First aired: 2003-09-07

A caustic satire of many of the 'types' found in Spanish society.

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Sharpe

as Teresa Moreno
First aired: 1993-05-05

Sharpe is a British series of television dramas starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a...

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Borgia

as Vannozza Catanei
First aired: 2011-10-10

The name Borgia stands for betrayal, intrigue and corruption in the Vatican, which was the...

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Henry VIII

as Catherine of Aragon
First aired: 2003-10-12

The life of Henry VIII of England from the disintegration of his first marriage to an aging...

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90-60-90, diario secreto de una adolescente

as Chantal Casares
First aired: 2009-09-07

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Chillers

as Hélène
First aired: 1990-04-14

Based on Patricia Highsmith short stories. Displaying a sinister atmosphere, delving into the...

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Brigada Central

as Julia
First aired: 1989-11-03

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Valentina

as Baba Yaga
First aired: 1989-09-29

The stories revolve around the investigations of Valentina Rosselli, and the intrigues in which...

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Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel

as Judge Christina Soto
First aired: 1992-01-19

A D.E.A. Agent goes to Columbia to take on the Cartel. He learns that the Cartel is not above...

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El crac

as Kitty Fullola
First aired: 2014-09-29

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Regards d'enfance

as La Mère
First aired: 1993-05-05

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