Carmen Salinas
Birthday: Born in 1939-10-05 in Torreón, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico
Deathday: 2021-12-09
Carmen Salinas Lozano (October 5th, 1939 - December 9th, 2021) was a Mexican actress, impressionist, comedian, politician, and theatre entrepreneur. She was associated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) during her later career as a politician. She appeared in 115 films, 70 theater works, 23 soap operas, and 9 television series.
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La Hora Marcada
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La Hora Marcada was a 1986 Mexican television anthology series famous for its horror and science fiction themes in the vein of the Twilight Zone. Although virtually unknown outside the country, it achieved a popular and critical success in Mexico. It had a series of rotating writers and directors, among them Emmanuel Lubezki, Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón....
Mujeres asesinas
Character: Carmen, Honrada
Mujeres Asesinas is a series that shows the dark side of women who have been mistreated or abused and become cruel murderers. The series shows how violence and death can overcome the feminine mind....
Mundo de Fieras
Character: Candelaria vda. de Barrios
Mundo de Fieras is a Mexican telenovela produced by Salvador Mejia Alejandre. It was first broadcast in Mexico on July 31, 2006, and in the United States on October 3, 2006. The telenovela starred Gaby Espino, César Évora, and Edith González as the villain Jocelyn....
Hasta que el dinero nos separe
Character: Arcadia Alcalá Vda. del Rincón
Hasta Que el Dinero Nos Separe is a telenovela produced by Emilio Larrosa. It is a remake of the Colombian soap opera Hasta Que la Plata Nos Separe. Hasta Que el Dinero Nos Separe stars Itatí Cantoral, Pedro Fernández, Victor Noriega, Luz Elena González and Joana Benedek. The telenovela made its debut on June 29, 2009 at 8 pm in Mexico's Canal de las Estrellas, in HD in some markets, and January 18, 2010 at 8/7 pm USA's Univision, starting on April 26, 2010, it aired from 8 pm est to 10 pm est i...
Velo de novia
Character: Malvina González
Velo de Novia is a Mexican telenovela produced by Juan Osorio Ortiz to Televisa in 2003. It starred Susana González and Eduardo Santamarina with the principal antagonist portrayed by Cynthia Klitbo and also starred as a primary actor Hector Suarez....
Mi Fortuna Es Amarte
Character: Magos Domínguez Negrete
My fortune is loving you tells the story of Natalia and Chente, who both suffer different situations that change their lives instantly. Natalia comes from a high social position; however, she loses everything when Adrián, her husband, leaves her for what was "her best friend" after 20 years of marriage, in addition, he leaves her on the street and penniless. Vicente, from a different socioeconomic class than Natalia, falls into the hands of a financial fraud that also leaves him in a very diffic...
Sueño De Amor
Character: Margarita Manzanares
Esperanza Guerrero is a single mother working as a teacher at two schools, a state school and an elite school to provide for her two teenagers, Pedro and Patricia. Ricardo Alegría, a married father with two young children, works as an Interpol agent in Los Angeles. Seeking to capture a sleazy jewellery thief known as ‘La Sombra’, he infiltrates the private school where Esperanza is employed and masquerades as the teacher of the criminal’s son. Esperanza and Ricardo are reunited following a 20-ye...
Triunfo del amor
Character: Doña Milagros Robles de Martínez
A love story between a young girl wishing to become a professional model and a rich boy who works in a fashion house and falls in love with her....
Mi marido tiene familia
Character: Crisanta Díaz de Córcega
Julieta is quite happy in her relationship with her live in boyfriend, Robert... and thrilled that she won't have to deal with in-laws since Robert doesn't know his family. Things start going downhill for the couple when they rent an apartment from a very eccentric family dealing with a traumatic incident from their past....
Preciosa
Character: Mamá Pachis
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Mi corazón es tuyo
Character: Yolanda Valverde de Vázquez de Castro
Fernando Lascurain is a wealthy businessman and recent widower, attempting to raise his seven unruly children. He seeks the assistance of a new nanny. He hires and falls in love with Ana Leal, a struggling exotic dancer who tries to hide her double life. Although Ana lacks experience and a refined education, she quickly bonds with the Lascurain children. Ana dreams of being a mother, but when her home is destroyed following an accident, she must borrow money from her ruthless boss at "Chicago", ...
María Mercedes
Character: Filogonia "Doña Filo"
María Mercedes, a poor girl who sells lottery tickets, meets a rich man who hates his own family and sees in María Mercedes an opportunity to make their lives miserable....
No Limite da Paixão
Character: Chelo
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Porque el Amor Manda
Character: Luisa "Chatita" Herrera
Porque el Amor Manda is a 2012 Mexican telenovela produced by Juan Osorio for Televisa. It is a remake of the Colombian telenovela El secretario, produced by Juan Andrés Flórez in 2011. Fernando Colunga and Blanca Soto star as the protagonists Claudia Álvarez stars as the antagonist....
Nosotros los Guapos
Character: Doña Cuca
Vítor and Albertano are in pursuit of the same objective: to find a place to live, and as much as they don't want to, get a job that allows them to live and pay the rent for the room that the two decide to share at Doña Cuca's house....
Mi Pequeña Traviesa
Character: Doña Mati
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La más draga
Character: Carmen Salinas
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Movie Credits
The Glories of the Great Púas
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Journalist becomes a member of a boxing champion's entourage to write a book about the boxer's career....
The Crime of Cacaro Gumaro
Character: Herself
After their fathers death, two brothers dispute the inheritance: the local movie theater known as Linterna Mújica. Their dispute may or not bring the town to its apocalypse, but it will for sure turn it upside-down....
Ruta Madre
Character: Doña Ceci (Grandma)
After his first love breaks his heart, a young American singer reluctantly leaves his home in San Diego, California and embarks on an epic road trip through Baja with his uncle in order to reconnect with his Mexican roots and find himself....
Red Lips
Character: Señora Claudia
In Mexico City, Ricardo is a family man, pressed by responsibilities, when he finally lands a better job as creative director for an ad agency. But that's when his problems really begin: his boss is a martinet, and suddenly Ricardo finds himself unable to perform in bed with his luscious wife, whose red lips have driven him wild to now. She's dismayed that he's seemingly lost interest; she seeks advice from friends and tries to spice things up with Ricardo. Meanwhile, at the office, he faces oth...
Huele a gas
Character: La Corcholata
A former boxing champion now works as a gas delivery man. He is accompanied by two assistants, who try to seduce all the female neighbors in the neighborhood....
The Useless Life of Pito Pérez
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A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him....
El día que murió Pedro Infante
Character: Neighbor
Mexican feature film...
D.F./Distrito Federal
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Anthology film, six little anecdotes about life in the big city....
Reclusorio
Character: Carmen García (segment 'Sangre entre mujeres")
The human and divine justice are exposed through five real life stories related to the legal processes of a prison. The cases presented are: "I want to stay in jail", "Blood between women", "The raped prostitute", "The kidnapped policeman", and "Euthanasia or murder?"...
Veritas, Prince of Truth
Character: Elva Maria
Kern has to fight an evil menace that could destroy the earth when Veritas, his favorite comic book hero, comes to life and seeks his help....
Las mil y una aventuras del metro
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The Other Family
Character: Doña Chuy
Jean Paul and Chema have been together ten years. They have successful careers, a comfortable home and many friends. But that's all turned turned upside down when close friend Ivana rescues Hendrix from his broken home and asks them to care for the boy. Hendrix's mother Nina is a drug addict who suffers at the hands of her abusive partner Patrick. The men begin to consider making Hendrix part of their family....
Compassionate Sex
Character: La madame
Dolores is a mature and kind woman whose husband abandons her because he can't stand her uncanny generosity. Desperate to get her husband back, she devotes her life to works of charity, which is to go to bed with the other men of the town. Dolores, now "Lolita", becomes so famous that all men seek out her help now. It is through her compassionate sex that she brings back the colour and the happiness to a town that was immersed in sadness. Written by HoMordomo....
La chica de la piscina
Character: Carolina
A famous television showman is suffering a mental and spiritual crisis. But fortunately three friends who once have all been lovers of his try to help him......
Victorio
Character: Petra
A story of redemption, drama and action, where only love can overcome all obstacles....
Danzón
Character: Doña Tí
A telephone operator from Mexico City tries to support a family and her passion for popular dance....
Cartas a Elena
Character: Vieja Samora
In the beautiful hills of the Copper Canyon in Chihuahua, Mexico, a young boy (Emilio) is adopted by the mailman (Teo). As part of their daily tasks, they not only deliver the mail but read letters to the villagers, as well as take dictation, since most are illiterate. Young Emilio quickly learns to read and write but feels saddened by the mostly difficult stories sent by relatives, that moved north to Denver, Colorado in pursuit of a better future. One day Teo becomes disabled and Emilio takes ...
El rey de los albures
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Albures Mexicanos
Character: Susanita Estaca
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Piernas cruzadas
Character: Cabaret Singer
Lucerito is a Spanish star who has come to Mexico, accompanied by her godfather and her agent, to find work. Rosario is from upper class society and has grown tired of the demands made upon her by her family. When they meet each other in a Mexican hotel, they discover that they could be each other's identical twin and decide to change places....
Noche de carnaval
Character: Panchita
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Las ficheras (Bellas de noche II)
Character: La corcholata
Bellas de noche continues. The ex-fichera who bought the cabaret continues to work with several of her former companions, the waiter Fabian, the pugilist Bronco who returns to boxing, Carmen, his wife, who returns to booking, the drunk “La Corcholata”, in love with an old man, and a French woman and the pimp “El Vaselinas”, whose favors are disputed by all the women, but who loses his virility and fights to regain it....
The Loving Ones
Character: La Corcholata
Juan Alonso goes through life without giving himself time to smell the flowers along the way. He stumbles upon a cabaret show and falls in love with the star. What he finds out later is that the lead dancer is actually a transsexual and he is torn by her feelings for her. Surprisingly beautiful, this story really takes a lot of twists and turns....
Have You Seen Lupita?
Character: Chepita
Lupita, a young mexican girl, runs away from her family who want to commit her into a hospital. She will start a journey that will take us into a world that seems crazier than she is. With her sensuality, innocence and romanticism, Lupita invites us to think that the world can be experienced in other ways....
Martin at Dawn
Character: Elpidia
When Martin's car breaks down in the middle of the desert, he has no choice but to head off across the empty landscape to look for help. Along the road he happens upon a mysterious brothel. He has no choice but to go there. But when he goes inside he unknowingly is drawn into a fateful game of chance. In this suspenseful film from Mexico, not everything is what it seems....
Masacre en el río Tula
Character: La Madrastra
Based on a real event, twelve dead bodies are found in the Tula River, we see the events that lead up to the massacre in a tale of crime, vice, corruption and sleaze....
My First Movie
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It narrates the obstacles Sebastian Delgado, a slacker and aspiring writer faces when, to win the love of a beautiful girl, finally decides to do something: a movie....
Todo el poder
Character: Doña Cleofas
Gabriel is a filmmaker in Mexico City, where he is a victim of crime and violence sometimes even three times a day. This is a black comedy that shows the extreme situation Mexico City is suffering as far as crime is concerned, and the tension the city and it's inhabitants live day after day....
La corneta de mi general
Character: Almorrana Monroy 'La Corcholata'
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El secuestro de los cien millones
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Noches de ronda
Character: Petrita
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El mil hijos
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Bellas de noche
Character: La Corcholata
The Boxer Germán Bronco Torres loses his license, and works as bouncer at the cabaret El Pirulí, where he falls for the fichera Carmen, and befriends of the pimp Margarito Fuensanta El Vaselinas, who lost a bet and has to pay to a gangsters. For 500 pesos for El Vaselinas, Bronco prepares a trap in the cabaret to the taxi driver Raul, to seduce his girlfriend, not knowing that the victim is his own sister Lupita....
Mexicano ¡Tú puedes!
Character: Carmen
Vicente and Carmen, are spouses, he works in a factory, although he is a womanizer and irresponsible; she sells cosmetics or fayuca. Both dream of owning a home. Vincent did not want to leave their neighborhood but after several discussions they decide to buy a land......
Espinas
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Magdalena is fifteen, but unlike many girls her age, her life is apathetic and somber, due to the abuse she receives from her father, a hopeless alcoholic, and her strange passion for Carlos, a neighborhood thug. A series of complex characters parade through Magdalena's life looking for themselves, such as Gabriel, the homosexual brother, and Huker, a violent judicial policeman who has an important secret. A portrait of the emotional depths of the strange and terrible Mexico City....
El rincón de las vírgenes
Character: Pancha Fregoso
"Faith-healer" develops a cult-like following in 1920s Jalisco....
Ratero
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Solovino is called like that because no one knows where he came from. He is a miserable province man trying to improve his life, but sees himself forced to steal to survive. When he comes up with a large jewelry bounty a pair of cops offer him his freedom in exchange of the bounty and becomes the target of the police harassment....
El diablo en persona
Character: Benedita
Young rural-gentry dude sows wild oats, settles down to raise a family, and fights in the Revolution, all at the same time....
La pulquería
Character: La Corcholata
The Devil offers a man to help him if he can show him to love....
Burdel
Character: Reina
(AKA: Ratero 2 or Cada quien su madre.) Innocent man forced to hide from the police, ends up taking refuge in a brothel....
Me importas tú... y tú
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Nerdy college boy gets romantic advice from the apparition of a dead film star....
Under the Same Moon
Character: Doña Carmen 'La Coyota'
Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico....
Santos Peregrinos
Character: Abuela
When greed comes calling, say goodbye to saintliness. An irresistible comedy about what happens when the residents of a Mexico City apartment building discover that three religious figurines passed down through the decades from Emiliano Zapata are full of solid gold. Tempers fly, libidos flare and no one emerges unscathed, including viewers overcome by a heavenly dose of hilarity in Santos Peregrinos....
Inspector Calzonzin
Character: Doña Eme
Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974...
Doña Macabra
Character: Lucila
The story of Armida (named ¨Doña Macabra¨ by her neighbors) and Demetria, two old women who live in an old house with Octavio, a kind of mad scientist. Their lives take an unexpected turn when the nephew of Armida, Lucila, recently married with Othón, arrive to the house looking for and old treasure, believed to be buried in the house. They will find a lot of dark and unexpected secrets....
El tonto que hacía milagros
Character: Tomasa
A movie projectionist discovers that he has magical powers....
All Souls' Day
Character: Cholita
Two families gather at a cemetery to honor their departed....
Prax
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Huevos rancheros
Character: María (segmento 'Un Palo Bien Dado')
Two "naughty" comedy episodes with naked women and bodies of water....
The Living Forces
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It narrates the phenomenon of the Mexican Revolution, satirically reflected through what happens in a town far from the places where the true Revolution was fiercely fought....
Narrow North
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The legal and illegal status of immigrants and the discrimination endured by a segment whom are only looking to a better way of life....
A Silent Love
Character: Georgina
Through an Internet service, a Montreal professor arranges for himself a Mexican bride. But both husband and wife, even with their good intentions, are in for a bumpy ride toward marital harmony....
4 Maras
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Mexican feature film...
Alicia en el pais del dolar
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Long live Tepito!
Character: Concha
Slice of life covering four or five days in a badly run-down neighborhood. Matriarch of a slum family dies unexpectedly; relatives from neighboring blocks cope with the loss and arrange her funeral....
Hoy no circula
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Las noches del Blanquita
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Mexican feature film...
El sexo sentido
Character: Tía Lupe
About a nymphomaniac and an artist that constantly spies on her....
Appointment with Death
Character: Ella
Four different director contribute a segment to this horror anthology....
Pancho cachuchas
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The Scent of Death
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The Chemos and the Pachecos are two gangs whose adventures are witnessed by the doctor, the assistant and the social worker of a clinic where they know of the young men's problems....
Noches de Cabaret: Las Reinas del Talón
Character: Cleopatra
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El testamento
Character: Doña Cleo
After the death of her husband the industrialist, unprepared trophy-wife takes over the management of his business concerns....
Fieras contra fieras
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In a small town governed by two rival families, the children break a decades-long feud by running away to the circus....
La pulquería 2
Character: La Corcholata
In this second part, the devil (Alfonso Zayas) returns to earth in search of a cure for his loss of masculinity; while Gerardo (Jorge Rivero), the rich and handsome character, continues to seduce his beloved....
The Place Without Limits
Character: Lucy
Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town....
Los fayuqueros de Tepito
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Sttreet vendors get caught up in the beef between their wholesale supplier and one of his competitors....
La palomilla al rescate
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Cute elementary-school kids get mixed up with black-marketeers....
Tivoli
Character: Chapas
While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commercial corruption....
Casos de Alarma
Character: Lucerito
Stranger with a dark past infects a small-town girl with HIV, and the contagion spreads out from there. Public health officials get involved......
Las Tentadoras
Character: La Corcholata
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Nos reimos de la migra (Destrampados y mojados)
Character: La Corcholata
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Man on Fire
Character: Guardian Three
Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life....
Mi Verdad
Character: Carmen Salinas
Film about the scandal of TV producer Juan Osorio with Cuban dancer Niurka Marcos....
Esta noche cena Pancho
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Four friends gather to organize a wild and sleazy bachelor party....
Hermoso Silencio
Character: Luz
Hermoso silencio (Beautiful Silence) is a film that tells the story of a man (Cruz) born and raised in the mountains of north Mexico, unaware of modern society. After his Parents death he sets himself on a journey to the discovery of the world long kept from his simple existence. His path into the unknown reveals the evil and good in the human heart and the harsh realities of life....
Muñecas de medianoche
Character: La Corcholata
Two young men go into hiding to escape from a contract killer; they put on women's clothing and hang around in bars....
Tiempo de lobos
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Two young emigres return home from USA to their family farm to visit for a week....
No hay quinto malo
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El Día de la Unión
Character: Doña Tere
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Cita en el paraíso.
Character: Abuela
Alejandra (Gutiérrez), a drugstore clerk, receives a note from a strange man (Alcázar). The note only shows a number, but Alejandra seems to understand its meaning. That night, Alejandra walks directly to a creepy downtown hotel, climbs the stairs and finds the man waiting for her in a room. The strange rendez-vous is not what it seems to be....
Goza conmigo
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Comezón a la Mexicana
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This belly-laugh funny theatrical hit spawned a genre of racy comedies revolving around "The Seven Year Itch." As several wacky bumblers find out, the "itching" can be true love, the "scratchin" a whole lot of fun, but what happens when the inevitable embarrassing situations ensue is pure hilarity....
El superman... Dilon
Character: Doña Cándida
In this movie, Rafael Inclán stars as a man who claims at work that he is the "boss" at home but the truth is that his wife is the one who rules the house....
Las modelos de desnudos
Character: La Corcholata
Three interlocking anecdotes about boy/girl stuff. Two gigolos make a bet to see which can boff an heiress first, a young artist tries to persuade his upper-class parents that his artist's-model fiance is a good choice for marriage, and a guy on the run from the mafia hides from them by cross-dressing....
Corrupción
Character: Jesusita
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La pulquería 3: Entre ficheras anda el diablo
Character: La Corcholata
After regaining his manliness, he escapes from hell Satan for embezzling Secretary of infernal hacienda, being chased by a couple of poor devils good for nothing, and took refuge in the cabaret ends up working as a transvestite....
The Valet
Character: Cecilia
World famous movie star Olivia faces a PR disaster when a paparazzi snaps a photo of her with her married lover, Vincent. The hard-working valet Antonio accidentally appears in the same photo and is enlisted to pose as Olivia’s new boyfriend as a cover-up. This ruse with Olivia thrusts Antonio into the spotlight and unexpected chaos....
At a Lame Pace
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Ragtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising....