María Rojo

Born: 1943-08-15

María Rojo is the artistic name of María de Lourdes Rojo e Incháustegui (Mexico City, August 15, 1943), a Mexican film, theater and television actress. Daughter of Roberto Rojo, an agronomist, and Águeda Incháustegui, a school teacher. From her childhood, she remembers being nervous and suffering from dyslexia, which brought her personality problems and insecurity, but she soon stood out for her artistic skills. She began her artistic career at the age of eight, when she was selected in a casting to participate in the Teatro Fantástico program, where she played the girl Ciquirritica. Then, she has developed a fruitful career that exceeds 60 years, and in 2018, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences officially invited her to be a special part of its new members. She is the first actress to receive the "Premio Bellas Artes" for her great career, and Winner of the Ariel Award, including the "Ariel de Oro" out of a total of 11 nominations, she is considered one of the best actresses in the history of Mexico.


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El Infierno

as Doña Mari Reyes
Released: 2010-09-03

After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel...

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Under the Same Moon

as Reyna
Released: 2007-07-27

Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of...

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Violet Perfume: No One Is Listening

as Madre de Yessica
Released: 2001-03-11

Yessica is a rebellious girl who forms an unlikely friendship with quiet schoolmate Miriam....

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The Perfect Dictatorship

as Doña Chole
Released: 2014-10-16

TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving...

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Midaq Alley

as Doña Cata
Released: 1995-05-05

Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose...

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Castle of Purity

as Young at store
Released: 1973-05-10

A disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order...

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Red Dawn

as Alicia
Released: 1990-10-18

On October 2, 1968, a student uprising descends into violence after the Mexican government...

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Las Poquianchis

as Lupe
Released: 1976-11-17

During the mid-1970s, in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities discover a clandestine...

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A Not So Merry Christmas

as Silvia
Released: 2022-12-20

A curse is placed on grinchy Chuy, who wakes up to find he's lived a full year, but is doomed to...

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A Wonderful World

as Comadre chismosa
Released: 2006-03-17

A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico.

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Valentina's Wedding

as Luz Evelia
Released: 2018-02-09

Valentina's seemingly idyllic life in the US is interrupted when planning a wedding means...

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Homework

as Virginia / María
Released: 1991-08-23

Virginia is taking a class at film school, and has decided on her solo project for the class....

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A Breakfast Chronicle

as Luzma
Released: 2000-11-01

A view of the end-of-the-century Mexican family. A father who comes back home after a long...

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New World

as Intérprete indígena
Released: 1978-08-10

Towards the end of the 16th century, the Spanish conquerors living in the New World faced a...

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The Day I Lost Myself

as Sofía “Old Twinky”
Released: 2020-11-01

Xochil is a woman who must immerse in her past to find herself, opening the doors to a world...

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Danzón

as Julia Solórzano
Released: 1991-06-27

A telephone operator from Mexico City tries to support a family and her passion for popular dance.

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Dying in the Gulf

as Conchita
Released: 1990-03-08

The story of the oil leader Lázaro Pizarro, of his political and personal wars, the use of crime...

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The Mystery of the Almond Trees

as Dona Josefina
Released: 2004-01-01

A pair of macho private detectives pose as a gay couple to gain access into the world of a...

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Las Horas Contigo

as Julieta
Released: 2015-02-05

Ema finds out she is pregnant with an unplanned child she's not sure she wants to keep, the same...

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Castle Chronicle

as Bertha
Released: 2014-05-30

Dramatized series that shows a mosaic of stories, which run in parallel and sometimes...

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The Heist

as Meche
Released: 1976-08-05

In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting...

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Maria of My Heart

as Maria Torres Lopez
Released: 1979-05-17

Héctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician...

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The Cousin

as Juliana
Released: 2018-02-02

A married woman, who's husband leaves her alone way too many times, is seduced by a junior...

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Candy Stripe Nurses

as Marisa Valdez
Released: 1974-05-01

Young, sexy nurses and their hospital adventures: free-loving Sandy tries to cure a rock star of...

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Danish Girls Show Everything

as Nun
Released: 1996-06-14

Despite its suggestive title, this multi-part Danish omnibus film is not a work of exploitation....

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Living Is What Matters

as Chabela
Released: 1987-10-21

A drifter named Candelario asks to spend the night at the hacienda of Don Lazaro. Once there, he...

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The Legend of a Mask

as Emilia
Released: 1991-02-21

A reporter starts investigating the life of the recently deceased wrestler "The Masked Angel"

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Gabo & Cinema

as Self
Released: 2016-04-17

It is said that Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez never allowed for a film adaptation of...

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The Humiliated

as Mother Teresa
Released: 1986-01-01

Four nuns are raped by a group of lepers. Although they all turn out to be pregnant, their...

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El Garabato

as Senator
Released: 2008-01-11

The story of a naive young man, provincial and not very experienced, to whom the circumstances...

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Naufragio

as Leticia
Released: 1978-11-02

One woman lives waiting for her son who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he...

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Malvada

as Doña Claudia
Released: 2022-12-29

A desperate mother contacts his son's ex-girlfriend to tell her that he's about to marry a...

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Mi Canción

as Abue
Released: 2021-08-19

"Mi Canción" follows the rise of young Guadalajara rapper C-Kan, as he realizes the danger he...

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The Crime of Cacaro Gumaro

as María Cocinera
Released: 2014-03-15

After their fathers death, two brothers dispute the inheritance: the local movie theater known...

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Bathroom Intimacy

as Esperanza
Released: 1989-07-06

A family crisis revealed through each member's bathroom intimacy.

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To Love Too Much

as Tía Greta
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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The Heart of the Night

as Interprete
Released: 1984-03-15

A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably...

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Vai Trabalhar Vagabundo II: A Volta

as uncredited
Released: 1991-01-02

Exiled in Acapulco, the bon vivant Dino cheats a rich widow into financing his coming back to...

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Viaje al paraíso

as Queta
Released: 1985-09-08

Family plans for a quiet weekend at the beach, but everything goes wrong.

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Esmeralda Comes by Night

as Esmeralda Loyden
Released: 1997-09-05

The husbands of a charismatic nurse devise a plan to free her from prison when she is arrested...

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Forbidden Homework

as María / Aisel / Mother
Released: 1992-12-04

A young man completing an assignment for his film class invites Marieda, a middle-aged woman,...

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Confidencias

as Anastasia
Released: 1982-12-13

Rich woman and her maid start answering penpal ads in a lonelyhearts magazine, just for giggles,...

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With Fear in the Veins

as Francisca
Released: 1990-12-24

Compilation tape of Hora Marcada episodes.

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Under the Shrapnel

as Maria
Released: 1983-11-17

A guerrilla commando tries to kidnap a politician. In the attempt, several policemen and a...

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El malogrado amor de Sebastián

as Herself
Released: 2006-05-27

Sebastian meets Antonio and it is love at first sight. But the obstacles do not wait.

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Zapata en Chinameca

as Amalia Martínez
Released: 1987-02-15

Urbino Martínez, on his deathbed, regrets his wrongdoing after betraying Emiliano Zapata.

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She's Ramona

as Marcela Godínez
Released: 2015-06-17

Ramona is fat woman with too much weight and barely any luck. She recalls a childhood filled...

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El edén

as Magda
Released: 2004-03-24

A conservative businesswoman promises her dying husband to bring their son, long-absent and...

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Los confines

as Natalia
Released: 1987-05-17

Mix magical universe of Juan Rulfo, in which Juan Preciado, "Pedro Paramo", located incestuous...

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El extensionista

as Güera
Released: 1991-02-28

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The Overturning Of The Heart

as Raquel
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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Reclusorio

as Gloria Castro (segment "La Prostituta violada")
Released: 1997-09-19

The human and divine justice are exposed through five real life stories related to the legal...

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The Cubs

as Lucy
Released: 1973-05-10

After having his genitals brutally mutilated during childhood, a man must face prejudice and...

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File of Attempted Murder

as Madre de Arroyo
Released: 2010-08-27

Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man,...

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Todos hemos pecado

as La Perfida
Released: 2008-11-01

No one could ever imagine that one day La Chingada Vieja would fall in love. Because she is...

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Pole Dance

as Lic. García
Released: 2023-12-15

Magda is getting divorced from an alcoholic mariachi in rehab. While she tries to find her inner...

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A Shred Of Mist

as Tía Elizabeth
Released: 2014-04-10

After the dead of his mother, Daniel is put under the care of his aunt Elizabeth, a foreign...

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Deceitful Appearances

as Fina
Released: 1983-03-24

The sexual misunderstandings caused by the real identity of a rich woman serve Hermosillo to...

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Alta Tensión

as uncredited
Released: 1997-06-06

A retired man that used to work for the National Electricity Company fight with his sons who...

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Tequila

as Bailarina
Released: 1992-08-21

Nearly thirty years after making his surrealist La Formula Secreta, director Rubén Gámez...

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Me llaman la Chata Aguayo

as uncredited
Released: 1986-01-01

Mexican feature film

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Blue Memories

as Esperanza Gómez
Released: 1991-03-20

Drug-trade kingpin tries to coerce a woman into marriage, but her former boyfriend turns up and...

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Cloroform

as Doña Consuelo
Released: 2012-04-02

Life of boxing in Mexico city, bets, deception, love, crime and courage takes place in the lives...

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Crimes of the North Sea

as uncredited
Released: 2017-03-10

Year 1942 in Mexico City, Goyo Cárdenas studies biology and has a beautiful girlfriend, but Goyo...

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La señorita

as Amida
Released: 1994-06-02

Violent death of a loan shark investigated by diligent policeman.

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Break of Dawn

as Maria
Released: 1988-12-01

The true story of the first Spanish-language radio announcer and political activist, Pedro J...

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Forbidden Kisses

as Alicia
Released: 1956-08-16

Nightclub singer has to choose between marrying again or reuniting with her divorced husband.

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Passionate Mobile

as uncredited
Released: 1994-02-02

Gyula Kodar is a commissioner who investigates the murder of an American executive. Keep track...

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El chupes

as Martha
Released: 1992-12-31

A bureaucrat sees how little by little his world is disintegrating because of alcoholism. Based...

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Memories of the Future

as Prostituta del burdel
Released: 1969-06-25

A story where the Cristero Rebellion creates a story of love, passion, and betrayal. When the...

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One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo

as Self
Released: 2017-11-03

This documentary explores key moments in the life of writer Juan Rulfo, with artists such as...

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La sombra del ciprés es alargada

as Jane
Released: 1990-05-19

Avila, early twentieth century. Pedro, a boy of nine years, accompanied by his tutor, comes to...

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Astucia

as Mujer Melesio
Released: 1986-11-06

Historical melodrama on horseback, 1840s or so in central Mexico. Pulpy, Zorro-ish...

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Infamia

as uncredited
Released: 1991-01-01

MARÍA ROJO, who established herself as a great actress in "Rojo Amanecer", "Danzón" and "La...

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Me importas tú... y tú

as uncredited
Released: 2009-09-04

Nerdy college boy gets romantic advice from the apparition of a dead film star.

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All Souls' Day

as Yolanda
Released: 1988-10-27

Two families gather at a cemetery to honor their departed.

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Dos auroras

as Aurora
Released: 2005-11-10

When her son Mauricio suffers a severe crisis, Aurora, a wealthy woman from Guadalajara, returns...

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Salón México

as Mercedes
Released: 1996-02-02

In this remake of the 40's classic, two lovers murder each other, leading to an investigation...

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The Oil Conspiracy

as uncredited
Released: 1981-01-01

While Mexico swims in the oil veins that were deeded to him by the Devil, a bureaucrat is thrown...

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The Eve

as Margarita
Released: 1982-10-07

Aging politicians who have faded from the public eye hold a cocktail party to celebrate one...

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Autumn

as Woman
Released: 1993-03-25

A woman, who lives alone with her mother, invents a fantasy life to escape her reality.

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The Portrait’s Secret

as Maria
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A true story, with multiple short stories that show human rights violations and economic...

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Doble indemnización

as Paulina
Released: 1996-01-01

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Lo mejor de Teresa

as Carmen
Released: 1977-02-02

Ambitious young woman decides to leave her backwards hometown and move to Mexico City to study...

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El otro crimen

as uncredited
Released: 1988-01-01

Mexican feature film

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Amor que mata

as Adriana
Released: 1994-01-01

Diego is a young musician who lives the terrible death of his uncle to AIDS. While in his deep...

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Robachicos

as uncredited
Released: 1986-01-01

One woman and a detective are looking for lost children, in México City.

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Encuentro Inesperado

as Estela
Released: 1993-04-29

Pilar Landeros, famous singer, comes to a huge and luxurious mansion from the airport. The...

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Exquisite Corpse

as uncredited
Released: 2010-01-06

Dark humor that shows human misery.

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Las asesinas del panadero

as uncredited
Released: 1989-01-01

Mexican feature film

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Idilio

as Mujer
Released: 1978-01-01

Short film that seeks to identify human relationships from the deconstruction of love.

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Senora Acero

as Mercedes "La Mecha" Berríos
First aired: 2014-09-23

The adventures of Vicenta Acero, the feared coyote who now leads the dynasty of illicit dealings...

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Narcos: Mexico

as Norma Arellano Felix
First aired: 2018-11-16

See the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting...

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Casados con Hijos

as Fabiola
First aired: 2005-04-12

Argentine re-make of American television series Married... with Children. It follows the Argento...

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Killer Women

as Milagros
First aired: 2008-06-17

Mujeres Asesinas is a series that shows the dark side of women who have been mistreated or...

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Killer Women

as Emma Ramírez
First aired: 2008-06-17

Mujeres Asesinas is a series that shows the dark side of women who have been mistreated or...

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Killer Women

as Emilia, cocinera
First aired: 2008-06-17

Mujeres Asesinas is a series that shows the dark side of women who have been mistreated or...

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Tomorrow is forever

as Soledad Cruz
First aired: 2008-10-20

Mañana es para siempre is a Mexican telenovela that began airing on October 20, 2008 on XEW-TV,...

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Tomorrow is forever

as Soledad
First aired: 2008-10-20

Mañana es para siempre is a Mexican telenovela that began airing on October 20, 2008 on XEW-TV,...

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Until the End of Time

as Guadalupe
First aired: 2014-07-28

After their father's death, Sofía Ripoll, the oldest of three sisters, takes over the family's...

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El Albergue

as Esperanza de la Lama
First aired: 2012-03-12

Doña Caridad and Don Tranquilino are cared for by their only daughter, a woman in the middle of...

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We Were Kings

as Herminia
First aired: 2024-09-25

A tight-knit crew of three reigns over a bustling barrio in Mexico City — until a sudden tragedy...

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Alborada

as Victoria Mansera de Oviedo
First aired: 2005-10-24

Alborada is a telenovela made by the Mexican TV network Televisa. It is an historical drama, set...

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Conversando con Cristina Pacheco

as María Rojo
First aired: 1997-09-26

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Las Lunas del Auditorio

as Self
First aired: 2002-09-04

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Hasta que te conocí

as Maribel
First aired: 2016-04-18

"Hasta que Te Conocí" unravels the life of the Divo de Juárez: Juan Gabriel. Gabriel's...

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The Marked Hour

as Francisca
First aired: 1988-08-01

La Hora Marcada was a 1986 Mexican television anthology series famous for its horror and science...

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Your Love Is My Fortune

as Magos Domínguez Negrete (Recast)
First aired: 2021-11-08

My fortune is loving you tells the story of Natalia and Chente, who both suffer different...

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Dark Fate

as Lucrecia Vargas
First aired: 2003-10-20

Mariana de la Noche is a Mexican telenovela from 2003. Written by Delia Fiallo and produced by...

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Gritos de Muerte y Libertad

as Madre de Pedro
First aired: 2010-08-30

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Te Sigo Amando

as Felipa
First aired: 1996-11-18

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Wild Heart

as Clemencia
First aired: 2009-10-12

Corazón salvaje is a Mexican telenovela produced by Salvador Mejía Alejandre in conjunction with...

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Pena Ajena

as Tere
First aired: 2022-05-19

Jesús and Nuria live in an apartment belonging to her father. His best hope at winning him over...

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Su nombre era Dolores, la Jenn que yo conocí

as Doña Rosa
First aired: 2017-01-15

In a world dominated by men, a tenacious woman with an outspoken personality makes headway into...

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Sincronía

as Madame
First aired: 2017-03-07

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