Isela Vega
Acting
Biography
Isela Vega Durazo (Hermosillo, Sonora, November 5, 1939-Mexico City, March 9, 2021) was a Mexican actress and screenwriter. Considered one of the best Mexican actresses and a sex symbol after being the first Latina woman to appear in the adult magazine "Playboy". Between soap operas and movies, she participated in more than 90 productions, both Mexican and American, as well as Brazilian, Argentine, Australian and English.
Born: November 6, 1939
Place of Birth: Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico
Known For
Juan Gabriel: I Must, I Can, I Will
Rare videos and exclusive interviews reveal the genius, sacrifices and duality between the public and private lives of iconic singer-songwriter Juan Gabriel.
Herod's Law
In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor is recruited to become the new mayor, and he believes he will modernize the little town and usher in a reign of peace. But the system corrupts him very quickly, and he takes to abusing his power while associating with an unscrupulous assortment of opportunists, hypocrites and criminals.
Tear This Heart Out
A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one woman's life and a powerful account of post-revolutionary Mexico from a female perspective.
El Infierno
After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.
Cindy La Regia
When Cindy decides that she doesn't want to marry her boyfriend, she runs to Mexico City, where new friendships and unexpected paths teach her that there are so much more possibilities on her life and her talent than she imagines.
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the Western genre forever.
Like, la Leyenda
The experiences of a group of young people interned at the Life Institute of Knowledge and Evolution (LIKE), a prestigious and cosmopolitan educational institution, with a supposedly modern and open educational system, but in reality it is deeply traditional and schematic.
The House of Flowers
A wealthy matriarch tries to maintain her family's facade of perfection after her husband's mistress exposes their dirty secrets.
Por mis pistolas
Fidencio Borer, an apothecary in a village on the northern border of Mexico, discovers some old title of a mine in Arizona and decides to claim them. Trying to cross the border is a border guard intercepted by exaggerating in the line of duty. On the way is captured by a tribe of Apaches and is about to be burned alive, but thanks to the Great Head Horse Lying having toothache and learns that the prisoner it can heal, ordered his release on the condition that the cure. Fidencio would take the wheel and gets the eternal friendship of the Chief apache.
Passion
Pasión is the telenovela that began transmissions on September 17, 2007, in Mexico; Canal de las Estrellas. The novela is a production of Carla Estrada and the stars are Susana González, Fernando Colunga, Sebastián Rulli, and Daniela Castro.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Mercedes
as Old Woman
as Abuela
as Eduarda
as Victoria Aguirre
as Marilú
as Bertha García
as Rosaura
as Dominga Zepahua
as Celia
as Herminia
as Abu
as Eloísa Ángeles
as Rosario
as Doña Elvira de Pérez
as Doña Rosaura
as Doña Belén
as Adivina
as Concha
as Gitana
as Margarita, ponzoñosa
as La Gitana
as María Julia «La Paisana»
as Madre
as Self (archive footage)
as La Güera
as Nora
as Self - Actress
as Matea
as Doña Lupe
as Mercedes Figueroa
as Alfidia
as Tamara
as Angélica / The Witch (Spanish-language version only)
as Senora Cos
as Monica / Sinforosa Oropeza
as Amparo
as Graciela
as Rosa Mignon
as Mona Mur
as Matea Gutiérrez
as Adriana
as Claudia
as Josephina
as Cuca
as Tamar
as Leonor 'La Leona'
as Mercedes
as Maga Marion
as Lorena
as Anita Zamora
as Lina Lamont
as María
as Nati
as Raquel
as Anna
as La Mulata
as Maria
as La India
as Elvira / Mother
as Marianna
as Melibea
as Diana
as Maria
as Mónica
as Teresa de Jesús
as Laura
as Sylvia
as Isabel
as Sara Carson
as Verónica
as Mercedes
as Ana
as Sra. Vega
as Yolanda
as Lisa
as Estrella
as Otilia
as Elsa
as Eulalia / Mother
as Dalilah
as Lupita Sanchez
as Norma
as Helga
as Sofía (segment "El imponente")
as Carmén
as Aloha
as SOS Stage Director
as Carmen