Martha Roth
Acting
Biography
Martha Roth (29 May 1932 – 7 October 2016) was an Italian-born Mexican film actress. She became a star during the Golden age of Mexican cinema.
Born: May 29, 1932
Place of Birth: Padua, Veneto, Italy
Known For
El pecado de Oyuki
El Pecado de Oyuki is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa in 1988. It was based on an original story by Yolanda Vargas Dulché, who also adapted the screenplay for television. The original comic book series was in the style of the foto-novela. For the role of Oyuki, the photographer selected the Mexican Japanese Sachiko Tsuchiya. Born in Tepic, Nayarit, she became the most recognizable Asian Mexican of her time. The telenovela was shown in the United States in 1988 through Univision. Dulché's story was also adapted for Brazilian television in 1967 and as a comic published starting April 11, 1975 by Grupo Editorial Vid. The Brazilian version was called "Yoshiko, um poema de amor" and starred actors Luis Gustavo and Rosa Miake.
Distilling Love
Destilando Amor is a 2007 Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa and Nicandro Díaz. It stars Angélica Rivera and Eduardo Yáñez as the main protagonists and was set primarily in Tequila, Jalisco. It is a remake of the 1994 Colombian telenovela Café, con aroma de mujer, and was nominated for twelve Premios TVyNovelas of which it won ten including Best Telenovela of the Year.
Mi Pequeña Traviesa
Romance de fieras
Newly-graduated lawyer gets caught up in the personal drama surrounding a rich industrialist and his sociopathic son.
The Outsider
Rodrigo Junquera finds out he is close to death, he decides to ask the nanny of his young child, Virginia Martínez, a beautiful and honest woman, to marry him with the intention of preparing the road so she can look after his children when he's gone. Virginia has to deal with the contempt of Rodrigo's children who acuse her of being an ambitious woman who married their father for his money. Virginia is in love with Rodrigo's eldest son, Carlos Alberto, who has come to mistreat her after finding out she married his dad.
A Family Like Many Others
The dynamics of a typical middle-class family are shaken up after the introduction of an enthusiastic door-to-door vacuum salesman.
Forgotten Faces
A woman looses her baby girl in a train accident but, years later, the girl's father reveals that the baby survived and was raised by him with two other daughters.
La madrecita
El derecho de nacer
In Havana, turn of the century, Maria Elena is seduced by a man who leaves her pregnant and abandoned. The girl's parents do not want their name tainted with dishonor see your daughter, so send it to a remote ranch. There, with the black nanny care Mama Dolores, born Alberto, whom the grandfather, Rafael, want you dead. Mother Dolores takes the small and educated with the help of a suitor of Maria Elena, when she enters a convent to wash their sin. Years pass, and Alberto becomes a renowned doctor.
Ventarrón
Ex-con presides over an underworld court trial in an abandoned warehouse to determine the fates of some accused "squealers." Flashbacks reveal the facts of the case being tried.
Filmography
as Rosita
as Pilar Gil viúva de Montalvo
as Norma Del Bosque
as Dalila Sotomayor
as Elena Zapata Carvajal
as Leda Dumont
as Lady Elizabeth Pointer
as Madre superiora
as Eloísa
as Laura / Alejandra
as Elena
as Laura
as Mónica de Molnar
as Angélica Chávez
as Raquel González
as Juanita
as Gabriela de Alba
as Elena Miranda
as Licha
as Marta
as Martha
as Rosa
as Barbara Smith
as Alicia del Valle
as Olga
as Diana
as Maru Cataño
as Mary