Luisa Huertas

Born: 1951-01-01

Luisa Huertas is an actress of Salvadoran and Mexican nationality, born on June 24, 1951, in San Salvador, El Salvador. Born to a Spanish refugee father and a Mexican businesswoman mother, Luisa was trained at the Escuela de Arte Teatral del INBA and the Centro Universitario de Teatro CUT-UNAM, two of Mexico's most respected institutions. She spent part of the 1970s in film and was also known for her role as Rosita in the children's series Sesame Street, before beginning her remarkable career in Mexican television, in several of the most popular and recognized telenovelas, including Dulce Desafío (1988-1989), Carrusel (1989), Al filo de la muerte (1991), Volver a empezar (1994), among others. A founding member of the Mexican Academy of Theatrical Art, in addition to being a member of the Advisory Board of the CUT of the UNAM, she has also been a stable and frequent cast member of the National Theater Company. In recent years, Luisa has participated in series such as La casa de las flores (2020), Todo por nada (2021) and in films such as Dos mujeres y una Vaca (2015) and Cosas imposibles (2021). She is a graduate of the Escuela de Arte Teatral del INBA and the Centro Universitario de Teatro, CUT-UNAM where she has also taught. She is co-founder and General Director of the Centro de Estudios para el Uso de la Voz (CEUVOZ). She received the Asociación de Periodistas de Teatro award and the Metro award both for best actress for El diccionario. She won the Ariel for her role in Arturo Ripstein's Mentiras Piadosas. She is a founding member of the Academia Mexicana de Arte Teatral, A.C. and is part of the stable cast of the Compañía Nacional de Teatro. In 2020 she was named by Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum, Living Cultural Heritage of Mexico City, celebrating 50 years of career.


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as Nanny
Released: 1998-07-16

It has been twenty years since Don Diego de la Vega fought Spanish oppression in Alta California...

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as Security Woman
Released: 1996-05-31

Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial...

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The Juror

as Car Rental Agent
Released: 1996-02-02

With his gangster boss on trial for murder, a mob thug known as "the Teacher" tells Annie Laird...

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Beat

as Maria (uncredited)
Released: 2000-01-29

The true story of two murders that shaped the lives of several college students who went on to...

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McHale's Navy

as Nurse
Released: 1997-04-18

Retired Lieutenant Commander Quinton McHale spends his days puttering around the Caribbean in...

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The Crime of Padre Amaro

as Dionisia
Released: 2002-10-01

Sent to Mexico to help take care of aging Father Benito, young Father Amaro faces a moral...

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Impossible Things

as Eugenia
Released: 2021-06-17

Matilde is a woman who, after the death of her husband—a man who constantly abused her—finds her...

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Pulling Strings

as Old Woman
Released: 2013-10-05

Rachel is an intelligent, modern-day woman constantly on the move. Primarily focused on her...

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Love Lies

as Pilar
Released: 1989-07-01

Set in Mexico City, Mentiras Piadosas is the doomed love story of Clara and Israel. She is a...

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Hasta Morir

as Cajera
Released: 1994-06-01

A street kid's wish to run away to Tijuana is hampered by lies and betrayal

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KM 31: Kilometer 31

as Anciana
Released: 2006-10-19

While driving through the kilometer 31 of a lonely road, Agata Hameran hits a boy. She leaves...

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Under a Spell

as María - Eliseo's Mother
Released: 1999-02-19

In the Yucatan coast of the thirties , Elisha, a boy of 13, is initiated into the art of love by...

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Potosí

as Rafaela
Released: 2013-07-21

Potosi, a rural town in Latin America, is the crossfire of the ravaging that has devastated the...

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Machete Language

as uncredited
Released: 2012-06-01

Love and political passion shared between an activist and his punk singer girlfriend goes to...

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Blue Eyelids

as Mercedes
Released: 2007-04-02

Marina wins a paradise vacation for two, but when she realizes that she has no one to bring...

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Violent Stories

as uncredited
Released: 1985-08-29

Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.

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The Beginning and the End

as Isabel
Released: 1994-06-24

The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against...

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To Love Too Much

as Vendedora de flores
Released: 2002-06-07

Laura and Beatriz are two sisters in search of a dream in common: to run a guest house abroad...

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Half of the World

as Graciana
Released: 2011-01-21

The story is about a young man suffering mental retardation and sexual awakening, poet is...

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Sin remitente

as Teresita de Jesús
Released: 1995-10-06

A lonely, aging postal worker finds himself the victim of a cruel practical joke in this...

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The Realm of Fortune

as Campesina
Released: 1986-11-28

Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that...

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Rencor

as uncredited
Released: 2005-08-30

A beautiful, wealthy socialite is implicated in a violent murder by her aimless younger lover,...

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En las manos de Dios

as uncredited
Released: 1996-01-01

Melodrama that revolves around a woman who suddenly discovers her husband's infidelity without...

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The Overturning Of The Heart

as uncredited
Released: 1996-10-18

1941, Jose Antelmo Cruz regrets his past while writing a novel and falling in love with a...

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De la infancia

as Vecina
Released: 2010-03-14

It tells the story of Niebla, who died in a shootout with the police and whose ghost comes back...

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Sofía

as uncredited
Released: 2000-06-22

A volcano scientist (Issabela Camil) arrives in Mexico to study the Popocatepetl volcano. The...

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Bedtime Fairy Tales for Crocodiles

as Isabel
Released: 2002-03-22

A man who travels back to the house of his father, grandfather and backwards.

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The Queen of the Night

as Beggar
Released: 1994-09-07

The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography (...

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Written on the Body of Night

as uncredited
Released: 2001-05-26

A look back at a director's life with his neurotic mother.

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We Shall not be Moved

as Socorro
Released: 2024-03-14

Socorro is a lawyer obsessed with finding the soldier who killed her brother during the 1968...

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The Last Veil

as Josefina
Released: 2013-09-14

Citliali, a lonely woman, faces a difficult, marginalized life, which seems to be full of...

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Dos mujeres y una vaca

as Rosana
Released: 2016-05-19

After months without news of Pastor, his wife Hermelinda receives a letter. Eager to know the...

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We Vanish

as Carmella
Released: 2018-08-12

After the devastating disappearance of her teenaged daughter, Rocío attempts to uncover the...

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The Cost of Living

as uncredited
Released: 1989-03-16

This is a prophetic drama about a young couple, Miguel and Patricia, who desperately need money...

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Iguana Like the Sun

as uncredited
Released: 2022-10-31

In a humble coastal tropical compound, amidst a total eclipse of the sun, an unexpected guest...

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Patrona

as Tere
Released: 2023-09-01

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Gotita de Amor

as Hermana Cándida
First aired: 1998-08-03

Gotita de amor is a Mexican drama broadcast by Canal de las Estrellas, starring Laura Flores and...

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El Chema

as Nelly
First aired: 2016-12-06

Follow one man's epic journey as he transforms from wily underage drug smuggler to one of the...

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Gitanas

as Mamá Pasca Antich
First aired: 2004-07-27

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