Majida Issa
Birthday: Born in 1981-06-27 in San Andrés, Colombia
Deathday: Alive
Majida Margarita Issa Bellotto (born June 27, 1981) is a Colombian actress and singer of Italian and Lebanese descent. She is widely recognized as one of the most complete and versatile performers of her generation, noted for her powerful presence in both drama and musical theater. She has received multiple awards, including the TVyNovelas Award for Best Female Villain and the India Catalina Award. Additionally, she was nominated for a Latin Grammy in 2017 for Best Ranchera/Mariachi Album for her work "Pero No Llorando". Born in San Andrés Island, she comes from a distinguished artistic lineage, being the niece of the legendary actress Teresa Gutiérrez. She moved to Mexico to pursue professional acting studies at the Escuela Nacional de Arte Teatral (ENAT), where she graduated before returning to Colombia to launch her television career in the mid-2000s. Her early notable roles included appearances in productions such as Pocholo (2007) and La quiero a morir (2008). Her definitive breakthrough came through her portrayal of complex and powerful women. In 2012, she earned critical acclaim for her role as Diana Turbay in the series Escobar, el patrón del mal, and later for playing the young Helenita Vargas in the biological series La ronca de oro (2014), where she also showcased her vocal talent. However, she achieved massive international fame by portraying the iconic antagonist Yésica Beltrán "La Diabla" in the hit saga Sin senos sí hay paraíso (2016–2018). Most recently, she has starred in global productions such as Operación Pacífico (2020) and the Netflix thriller series Fake Profile (2023).
TV Credits
Corazones Blindados
Character: Subintendente Diana Ochoa
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Operación Pacífico
Character: Amalia Ortega
The story of Captain Amalia Ortega, leader of a secret unit, whose mission is to capture the most wanted Mexican drug trafficker, putting both her profession and family's life at risk....
Sin senos sí hay paraíso
Character: Yésica Beltrán 'La Diabla'
A young woman born in a mafia-controlled town seeks revenge on those who wrongfully harmed and imprisoned her family....
Lady, la vendedora de rosas
Character: Fátima Tabares
The life story of Colombian film star Lady Tabares, who was plucked off the mean streets to star in a film and quickly rose to fame....
La Guzmán: La Reina Del Rock
Character: Alejandra Guzmán
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La sustituta
Character: Eva Cortés
The intrigues and mysteries of Eva, an employee in Victoria Urquijo's house; and the investigation of the talented psychiatrist Mabel, will collide dangerously thanks to a coincidence that will put the lives of the three women at risk....
Sin senos sí hay paraíso
Character: Yésica Beltrán "La Diabla"
A young woman born in a mafia-controlled town seeks revenge on those who wrongfully harmed and imprisoned her family....
Amor Sincero
Character: Mercedes Doval "Mechi"
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Pocholo (2007)
Character: Margarita León
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El Cartel de los Sapos
Character: Soledad
The Cartel follows ten friends, all of them members of a dangerous drug cartel, whose ambition for power and money will cause them to eventually kill each other. For it is an undeniable truth that, in this business, you always lose....
La quiero a morir
Character: Yuri Cepeda "La Mugrosa"
La quiero a morir is a 2008-2009 Colombian telenovela produced and broadcast by Caracol TV....
Niños Ricos, Pobres Padres
Character: Martha Granados
Niños Ricos, Pobres Padres is a Colombian telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo. It debuted on July 7, 2009 at 9:30 pm Eastern Time, taking over the second half of El Rostro de Analía until Friday, July 17, when it completely replaced it in the 9–10 pm slot. The story revolves around Alejandra Paz, a beautiful 17-year-old girl and her mother, Lucía, an illegal US immigrant who is deported from Miami back to Bogotá, Colombia; desperate and broke, they are fo...
El Clon
Character: Rania Castañeda de la Caridad
Lucas falls for a young Arab girl named Jade. She is caught between modern values and her Islamic upbringing. They separate and two decades pass. Then a strange turn of luck brings the pair together. Then Jade meets a clone, who is just like Lucas, but twenty years younger. She must choose between the man she loved and the memory she cherishes....
Los caballeros las prefieren brutas
Character: Lili
A smart, successful woman changes her perspective on how to meet the right man after her fiancé cheats on her right before the wedding....
A Corazón Abierto
Character: Rosa María
María Alejandra Rivas Cavalier, a young aspiring surgeon with a prestigious family name, joins the highly regarded internship program at Santa María University Hospital. There, alongside a group of new friends and her relationship with renowned surgeon Andrés Guerra, she faces medical and personal challenges that shape her journey. Amid intriguing medical cases and the quest for her own path, the hospital becomes her new home and the stage where friendship, love, and sacrifice intertwine....
Historias Clasificadas
Character: Beatriz
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Las Santísimas
Character: Carmen Pulido Ramos
Five close friends will make us live different stories, in which each one has had to go through difficult things. The most holy ones? They are 5 women with the names of saints who are around 40 years old and together they will try to find what they lack to feel good. For example we will see Helena, a woman who has been widowed and has fallen into a deep depression. We will also meet another woman, Carmen, who has to fight to raise her 7-year-old son, despite not having the child's father. A nov...
Casa de reinas
Character: Jazmín
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La ronca de oro
Character: Sofía Helena Vargas Marulanda "Helenita"
This story is based on a true story of the singer of Colombian popular music Helenita Vargas, better known as "La Ronca de Oro"....
La Luz de Mis Ojos
Character: Faride Bula Chadid
Soledad Burgos was born in the midst of adversity. The worst part was losing her sight at an early age. Accidentally, her disability provokes her older brother's death and the undaunted hate from a mother that keeps a secret. Life deprived Soledad from one of the most important senses, but in return it gave her a gift: she sings with the perfection that only the best singers in the world can achieve. But her gift is brutally restrained, hidden and emphatically denied by Delfina, her bitter and a...
Enfermeras
Character: Jefe Alexandra Luján "Alex"
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Noticia de un Secuestro
Character: Diana Turbay
The early 90s, Colombia. The government tries to combat drug trafficking with extradition laws. Maruja Pachón and Beatriz Villamizar - the wife and sister of congressman Alberto Villamizar - are kidnapped by the Extraditables. The police begin a search for clues that could help them close in on the kidnappers, and Alberto joins the operation to rescue his family....
Leandro Díaz
Character: Nellys Soto
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La vorágine
Character: Clarita
This adaptation of the Colombian literary classic follows a wealthy young woman and an idealist poet, two rebellious lovers who flee from the rules of the 20th century into a jungle promising freedom, unaware that an even crueler law reigns there....
Movie Credits
El bolero de Rubén
Character: Marta
Far from being a film about life in the gangs of Medellín, El Bolero de Rubén is a tragedy set to the rhythm of boleros where Marta, after fifteen years of waiting for her boyfriend to get out of jail, is consumed by the walls of her half-finished house; at the same time, her dream of becoming a singer takes her through imaginary places that reflect her frustration, rage and fear. Based on the homonymous play....
Virginia Casta
Character: Luisa
Virginia is determined to commit suicide. But unknowingly her decision far from ending her life, will open the way to finally live without dragging the burden of a terrible heartbreak; One she has been carrying since her father left her. Between rock, tears, and frenzy, Virginia will make her journey to discover the secrets of the past and the desire to live. A scruffy musician, two dysfunctional friends and a pot head grandmother, accompany her through this story that pays respect to the cinema...
Doble
Character: Mariana
Federico dissatisfied with the current state of his marriage with Mariana revisits the apartment they had first met each other at twenty years ago. A mysterious event causes him to reflect on his past decisions and how much he is willing to sacrifice for the woman he loves....
Heart of a Lion
Character: Silvana
After she loses her mobile phone, a lawyer receives a call from the person who found it. They talk and hit it off very quickly. But she's in shock when she sees that he's very short....
Aurora
Character: Aurora
Aurora is a young Colombian who, forced by circumstances, decides to emigrate to New York in search of a better future for herself and her family, working and sending newspapers money to her home. But when her mother falls ill, she must choose between returning to her country of origin and what this entails, giving up returning forever since she is undocumented, or staying and enduring the plight of her loved one from a distance and thus helping financially with her medical emergency. But this h...
Rodrigo Branquias
Character: Liliana
A 9-year-old boy with an extraordinary talent for holding his breath underwater dreams of participating in a freediving championship, and at the same time wants to prove to his mother that dreams, with passion and perseverance, can come true....
El guapo
Character:
Unattractive man receives a large inheritance on condition that he use the money to get plastic surgery and create a better life for himself....