Delia Casanova
Birthday: Born in 1948-11-04 in Poza Rica, Veracruz, Mexico
Deathday: Alive
Delia Casanova (born November 4, 1948) is a Mexican film, theater and television actress, winner of a Silver Ariel. He completed his acting studies at the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA), in Mexico City. She began her artistic career in the theater, to later venture into the cinema and a decade later into television, as an actress in soap operas, in productions made by Televisa.
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La esposa virgen
Character: Clemencia
La esposa virgen is a Mexican telenovela that first aired in 2005. Produced by Salvador Mejia, it starred Adela Noriega and Jorge Salinas....
Su nombre era Dolores, la Jenn que yo conocí
Character: Doña Gloria Salgado
In a world dominated by men, a tenacious woman with an outspoken personality makes headway into success through the use of determination, perseverance and savviness....
Sin pecado concebido
Character: Hermana Jovita
Adrián is the son of Claudio and Amparo Martorel, the owners of a perfume factory and the ranch "La Encantada", where Mariana also used to live when she was a little girl under Amparo's protection. However, a terrible event forces Mariana to leave the house and to enter a boarding school, while her brothers and father stay at the ranch. In the convent she meets mother Ángeles and sister Jovita, who along with father Gonzalo, become her spiritual advisors, and she thinks of becoming a nun. Five y...
Cadenas de amargura
Character: Natalia Vizcaíno Lara
After her parents death, the little Cecilia is under the care of her aunts: Natalia and Evangelina. Evangelina is a cruel woman who doesn't love the child and she treats her bad. Unlike Evangelina, Natalia is good and will help Cecilia because she is her real mother. She was seduced and got pregnant by Padre Julio. Evangelina hates Padre Julio because in the past he preferred Natalia to her. Many years later, there is a problem, because Evangelina doesn't want to give Cecilia money to attend the...
La Fuerza del Destino
Character: Doña Carlota vda. de Curiel
La Fuerza del Destino is a Mexican telenovela produced by Rosy Ocampo for Televisa. Sandra Echeverria and David Zepeda star as the main protagonists, while Laisha Wilkins, Gabriel Soto, Rosa Maria Bianchi, and Juan Ferrara star as the main antagonists. La Fuerza del Destino won 5 awards in Premios TVyNovelas: Best first actress, best original story or adaptation, best male antagonist, best lead actress, and best telenovela of the year. The theme song is sung by Marc Anthony and Sandra Echeverria...
Nunca Te Olvidaré
Character: Doña Carmen
Nunca te olvidaré is a Mexican telenovela produced by Juan Osorio for Televisa in 1999. It is based on a novel by Caridad Bravo Adams and starring Edith González, Fernando Colunga and antagonistic interests of Alma Muriel, Eugenia Cauduro and Humberto Elizondo....
La Culpa
Character: Graciela
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Rayito de luz
Character: Gertrudis Montes
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La doble vida de Estela Carrillo
Character: Doña Herminia
After witnessing a murder, single mother Estela Carrillo must hide the fact that she is an undocumented immigrant escaping a dark past. While hiding her secret, romantic interests and her dream of becoming a singer complicate her plans....
De pura sangre
Character: Laura Blanchet
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Lo imperdonable
Character: Matilde
Martín (Iván Sánchez) hurries to Mina Escondida after getting an urgent letter from his brother begging to be rescued from the hell in which he's living. On arrival, Martin despairs upon finding out that Demetrio (Pablo Montero), his brother, has committed suicide. His sorrow is transformed into hatred and a thirst for vengeance against the woman who caused his brother suffering and brought him to death....
Pasión y poder
Character: Dolores Durán
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Los Parientes Pobres
Character: Eloísa de Olmos
Los Parientes Pobres is a telenovela made by Mexican TV network Televisa. It is a telenovela set in Mexico. This telenovela was broadcast in 1993....
Luz y Sombra
Character: Micaela "Mica" de Suárez
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La pasión de Isabela
Character: Natalia
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Movie Credits
Herod's Law
Character: Rosa
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....
Luz's Motives
Character: Dra. Maricarmen Rebollar
Luz is in jail, accused of murdering her own children. Her husband and her mother-in-law say she killed them in cold blood. Dr. Rebollar tries to help the woman, but she refuses to remember anything. Luz thinks of jail as the purgatory: it's only one step to reach the Heaven....
Todos hemos pecado
Character: Doña Chayo
No one could ever imagine that one day La Chingada Vieja would fall in love. Because she is always alone, because no one has ever turn to see her, because everyone is always closing the door at her nose, because when they feel her coming they cross themselves, but most of all because no one could ever fall in love with death. But El Hombre sin nombre, has appeared in her life for good. Only the confusion of an avenging town and the desire of four men to arrive to heaven could change the plans of...
Midaq Alley
Character: Eusebia
Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose lives cross paths in Mexico City. There is the bar-owner's son, Chava, who yearns to emigrate to America. A poor barber, Abel, is madly in love with the gorgeous Alma, who eventually becomes a high-class prostitute. Finally, there is Susanita, the desperate spinster who pursues many love affairs in hopes of finding a husband....
All of Them Witches
Character: Madame Endor
Something strange is going on in Dolores' apartment house--or is it mainly in Dolores' head that the strangeness lies... When her best friend Eva is murdered on her doorstep, and her husband begins to have violent nightmares, it appears that there is definately something amiss in the world of delusional Dolores....
Pole Dance
Character: Clienta María
Magda is getting divorced from an alcoholic mariachi in rehab. While she tries to find her inner strength by practicing pole dance she meets Jaime, who gets obsessed with her, unleashing a story of abuse and gender violence....
The Heist
Character: La Chata
In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out and locked up in the "apando," the dreaded punishment cell. Protests over the treatment of those held in the cell lead to a bloody confrontation....
El día que murió Pedro Infante
Character: Laura
Mexican feature film...
Así es la Suerte
Character: Lidia
Ramiro is a theater actor who lives estranged from his father and half brother. One morning, he runs into a suicide, who says he is an evil omen. Despite Ramiro´s efforts, the young man dies before his eyes, which leads him to believe that he has caught his bad luck. From then on, his life turns upside down, at the same time as he gets together with his family to fulfill his father´s last wish: to find the love of his life and say goodbye to her....
Erendira
Character: Narrator (voice)
While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her grandmother holds Erendira responsible and, in order to extract restitution from the girl, forces her into prostitution. Erendira's surreal mystical experiences continue while her grandmother grows rich from exploiting her....
Long live Tepito!
Character: Mariana
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....
All That Is Invisible
Character: Socorro
When a car accident causes Jonás to completely lose his vision, he finds himself unable to live the life he used to know. Despite his refusal to accept his new condition or to show any vulnerability in the presence of his wife and daughters, the circumstances will lead him to discover new and unsuspected paths that will allow him to carry on....
Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman
Character: 1ra esposa de Adrián
Gina is a modern business woman in her late forties, she has a lover named Adrian, who she sees once in a while just to have sex; they are both atracted to the historic figure of Pancho Villa, while he admires his power, she admires his virility. As Gina helps Adrian (who is a journalist) to write a book about Pancho Villa, she discovers the similarity between Villa's relation to women to that of Adrian and hers. She gets sick of only having sex, and when she decides to get married with him and ...
Brigada de la Muerte
Character:
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Como tú me has deseado
Character:
Non-conformist advertising executive pressured to toe the line and behave....
Everyone's Hell so Feared
Character: Mariana
The inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and drugs, lead him to his self-destruction under the guise of confusing political positions....
Alsino and the Condor
Character: Rosaria
Alsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops when a US advisor orders the army to open a staging area by the boy's hamlet. Alsino tries to be a child, climbing trees with a girl, looking through his grandfather's trunk of mementos and trying to fly; he goes to town to sell a saddle, has his first drink and is taken to a brothel. But the war surrounds him. The US advisor takes Alsino on a chopper...
In the Shadow of the Moon
Character:
Ana starts falling in love with an ecologist engineer that comes with her father who is from Russia....
Drizzle
Character: Luisa
Returning from a business trip, a man meets some peasants who arouse fears in him....
Hope
Character: Catalina
At only 19 years old, Vladimir Olhosvky, fleeing the Russian Revolution and going into exile in Mexico City, will have to make his way in a new country, totally unknown to him but that will bring him a new life....
Love Lies
Character: Clara Zamudio
Set in Mexico City, Mentiras Piadosas is the doomed love story of Clara and Israel. She is a health inspector and he is an herb merchant, who is obsessed with the construction of an enormous model of the ancient city of Tenochtitlan. They both decide to leave their respective partners to live together, however, jealousy, blackmail and guilt will become unbreakable patterns destroying their tragic relationship...
El viaje
Character:
After the death of his mother, a man agrees to travel to Europe as a tourist guide falls in love with the head of the agency....
Death Squad
Character: Ruth, la Peregrina
Mario Balbuena, a honest cop, becomes the victim of an ambush by drug dealers and dirty cops, after that, he recruits a group of sleazy criminals in order to strike his revenge....
Bésame en la boca
Character: Consuelo
Popstar dies by accident, and Heaven's bureaucrats send her back to earth to inhabit a different body....
Nahuí - the woman behind the legend
Character: Nahuí Olín
The woman behind the legend. Biographical film about Nahuí Olín, painter, model and poet born in the late nineteenth century and died in 1978, who lived in Paris and San Sebastian, and throughout his life rubbed shoulders with artists like Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera , Frida Kahlo or David Alfaro Siqueiros, among many others....
Lady Rancho
Character: Doña Chona
A spoiled girl is sent to her family's ranch to work during summer vacations....
Violent Stories
Character:
Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film....
Tear This Heart Out
Character: Julia
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....
Autumn
Character: Friend
A woman, who lives alone with her mother, invents a fantasy life to escape her reality....
The Birthday of the Dog
Character: Secretaria
Two couples. One of the husbands kills his wife. He is temporarily helped by the other couple. The husband wants to help him, but his wife wants to turn him in to the police....
El Bulto
Character: Alba
After being in a comma for 20 year, Lauro (Retes) wakes up in a very different Mexico than the one he lived on. Ideas, hopes, ways-of-life and customs have changed, and Mexicans of the nineties are strangers for a man sleeping since 1971. Lauro will have to deal with the changes brought by the History, and will have to accept that the future is never as we imagined it when we were young....
Cuartelazo
Character: Soldadera
Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill President Francisco I. Madero, Vice President José María Pino Suárez and Senator Belisario Dominguez. The film recreates the moment of the execution at the hands of Huerta and his accomplices Bernardo Reyes, Félix Díaz and Manuel Mondragón....
The Long Awaited Desperate Love
Character: Girl's mother
A thirty-something woman fears that life is passing her by and that she's going to end up as the family's 'maiden aunt'. She imagines that somebody in her circle is courting her, and he's too polite to disillusion her. And then......