Blanca Guerra
Birthday: Born in 1953-01-10 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Deathday: Alive
Blanca Guerra Islas (born January 10, 1953) is a Mexican actress. In 1983 she was a member of the jury at the 13th Moscow International Film Festival. Initially she was a dentistry student, but she abandoned her studies to study at the UNAM University Theater Center, which allowed her to debut as a theater actress. Later, she ventured into the cinema acting in the film La loca de los milagros, which marks her artistic debut and the beginning of her extensive film career. She has to his credit more than sixty films. In 2018 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invited her to be a special part of its new members.
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La Hora Marcada
Character: (Varios)
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....
Abismo de pasión
Character: Alfonsina Mondragón de Arango
Rosendo Arango, the owner of Grupo La Anita, is married to Alfonsina. They have one son, Damian. Estefanía Bouvier is married to Augusto Castanon and they have one daughter, Elisa. Rosendo cheats on his wife with Carmina Bouvier, Estefanía's sister. Damian and Elisa become friends because Augusto and Rosendo were best friends. But one day, Rosendo and Carmina try to go away from La Ermita, the pueblo in which they live in. But, Estefanía, who had found out about their plans, wants to prevent thi...
Velo de novia
Character: Ricarda Sánchez de del Álamo
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....
Para Volver a Amar
Character: Maestra de Ceremonias (invitada)
Para Volver a Amar is a Televisa telenovela that aired on the Canal de las Estrellas channel in Mexico from July 12, 2010 to January 30, 2011. It stars Rebecca Jones, Rene Strickler, Alejandro Camacho, Alejandra Barros, and Africa Zavala. The Mexican version however is taken from the original Colombian soap opera series "El Último Matrimonio Feliz". The story is about six women who befriend each other and help each other deal with the pains of life, particularly in regards to marriage and relati...
Valentina
Character: Deborah Andrade
Valentina is a Mexican telenovela produced by José Alberto Castro for Televisa. Which aired in 1993 on Canal de las Estrellas and it stars Verónica Castro and Juan Ferrara....
Alma de Hierro
Character: Elena Jiménez de Hierro
Alma de Hierro is a 2008–2009 Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa. It is a remake of the Argentinian soap opera Son de Fierro, with the character's names rewritten and adapted to the Mexican audience. The main actors were Blanca Guerra, Alejandro Camacho, Christian Vega, Flavio Medina, Lisardo and Alejandra Barros, with Jorge Poza, Zuria Vega, Adamari López, Angelique Boyer, Eddy Vilard, Martha Julia and Luz María Aguilar playing supporting roles. The show earned 8 awards at the "TV y Novela...
Los Pecados de Barbara
Character: Matilde Robledo
A woman returns to her home village in Mexico after 19 years and opens up a strip club for women....
Juana Iris
Character: Magali Santacilia
Juana Iris is a Mexican telenovela from 1985, starring Victoria Ruffo and Valentín Trujillo....
La casa en la playa
Character: Marina Aduriz de Villarreal
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Marea de Pasiones
Character: María Inés de Bernal
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Al Filo de la Muerte
Character: Alina Estrada
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La Rebelión
Character:
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Un Extraño Enemigo
Character: Carmen Martínez
Fernando Barrientos, Head of the National Security Directorate, Mexico's Secret Police, is trying to reach the highest position in the country. On his way, he'll have to manipulate, betray, and kill, and he's well prepared for it. However, his path will be full of obstacles. Nobody, not even his family, will be immune to the chaos left in his quest for total power....
Las Lunas del Auditorio
Character: Self
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Charm School
Character: Maca Ribera
Defiant 18-year-old Adela León pushes her father and an unbending headmistress to the limit in this delicious comedy....
Mystery of the Maya
Character: Archaeologist
Filmed in IMAX, a young Mayan boy who lives close to the ruins becomes acquainted with an archaeologist (Guerra) and asks her to tell him about his ancestors. The crew travelled to over 15 locations in Mexico and Guatemala, including Tulum and Chichén Itzá....
Insignificant Things
Character: Mara
Esmeralda is a teenager with an unusual obsession: she collects lost, forgotten or discarded objects from people she doesn't know and keeps them in a box beneath her bed. This is the tale of three objects in the box and the people behind them, all in some way incapable of relating to the person they love most. It is also a tale of the box itself, and of how Esmeralda learns to open it, to feel and to hoard the most valuable thing of all: human relations....
¿Cómo matar a mamá?
Character: Rosalinda
After learning an irreversible truth, Camila, Teté and Margo must abandon their busy lives to come up with a plan to end their mother Rosalinda's life....
Memorias de un Visitador Médico
Character: Sra. Gayosso
A pharmaceutical salesman travels around the country and has sexual adventures in every place, but no woman really interests him. When returning from one of his travels, he is hit by a car and falls in love with the driver, but none of his tactics of conquest get results. Written by Anonymous...
Kada kien su karma
Character: Eva
Every abandoned woman has dreamed of taking revenge on her husband. Fate gives Eva that possibility. On the first anniversary of running away to find the love of a younger woman, Joaquín, her ex-husband, has to return to the family home temporarily disabled. Eva will be in charge of taking care of him. A film about women's fear of abandonment and men's fear of impotence....
Clear and Present Danger
Character: Escobedo's Wife
Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president, is murdered on his yacht, Ryan starts discovering links between the man and drug dealers. As former CIA agent John Clark is sent to Colombia to kill drug cartel kingpins in retaliation, Ryan must fight through multiple cover-ups to figure out what happened and who's responsible....
Separate Vacations
Character: Alicia the Working Girl
A young architect finds himself in a situation that he never had to deal with before--now that he is successful (and married), sexy young women are throwing themselves at him!...
Bendita Suegra
Character: Blanca
Andrea, a successful veterinarian who loves her job and is in a relationship with Lucio, an up-and-coming lawyer who grew up in the country. Lucio has some news for Andrea: his mother is turning 60 and is throwing a big party to celebrate. Andrea visits the town where Lucio was raised for the first time and would like to become very close to his family, especially her new Mother-in-law Blanca, who is an overprotective mother, ultra-conservative and always thinks she’s right about everything. And...
Where the Tracks End
Character: Maga Etérea
Georgina is a teacher determined to make a difference in the lives of the children she educates in the classroom of a wagon school in rural Mexico....
Santa Sangre
Character: Concha
A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his mother – the leader of a strange religious cult – and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name....
The flying pony
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Mythical and fantastic story on the wishes of a peasant boy, Diego, who become reality in the course of a day and a night. On the eve of his birthday, the child's godfather gives her a shot of cardboard. At night, the little dreams that is mounted on the horse and find a nymph that describes the exact location of much needed water does to your family....
The Queen of the Night
Character: La Jaira
The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ranchera" style singing. Her story begins in 1939, where at 33 she still lived at home with her mother, Dona Victora, the madame of a renowned Mexico City whorehouse. Lucha marries the liberal Pedro Calderon and then buys a beggar's daughter. S...
Under the Salt
Character: Guadalupe Calva
A series of murders leads Commander Trujillo to Santa Rosa de la Sal a town close to a salt mine, where he meets Victor Zepeda - a lonely teenager who works in his father's funeral home and spends his free time making crude animated horror films - who's strange behavior seems to point at him as the culprit of the crimes....
What Do You Think?
Character: Fish vendor
Award-Winning filmmaker Paul Leduc (Frida, Naturaleza Viva, Reed: Insurgent Mexico, Barroco) directed this gritty musical drama about life in the ghettos of Mexico City during the 1980s. With a soundtrack of Mexican rock music, the camera takes the viewer through the streets, to rock concerts, and to the bars and clubs, where he exposes the hunger, repression, unhealthy conditions and violence in the marginal communities of Mexico's capital city....
Knock Out
Character: Lilia Montero
Rodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is chasing him, he remembers his past....
La cripta
Character: Mercedes
A patient is released from a mental hospital to help the police find a student who disappeared a few days ago....
Motel
Character: Marta Camargo
The discovery of the mutilated body of a wealthy woman leads a detective to an isolated motel....
Estas ruinas que ves
Character: Gloria Revirado
In this sexy romantic comedy from Mexico, the life of a college professor is turned upside down when he falls for a former student, who is already pledged to marry another man....
The Zone
Character: Lucía
Residents of an enclosed neighborhood in the middle of Mexico DF are shocked by a violent crime, and for one resident in particular, young Alejandro, the drama is ratcheted up when he encounters the lone kid who escaped the event and is hiding out within the neighborhood's borders....
The Realm of Fortune
Character: La Caponera
Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die....
Sabor latino
Character: Norma
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Como México no hay dos
Character: Lupe
Rags-to-riches story about the rise of a fictional ranchera-music superstar....
Perro callejero
Character: La Chiquis
An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him....
Perro callejero 2
Character: La Chiquis
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Juan Charrasqueado y Gabino Barrera
Character:
Revolution-era Mexico: two well-known bandits hook up, then join forces with an outlaw woman....
El sinvergüenza
Character:
Married man hires a surrogate to pose as the father of the four children he has had with his mistress....
Burdel
Character: Malena
(AKA: Ratero 2 or Cada quien su madre.) Innocent man forced to hide from the police, ends up taking refuge in a brothel....
Mambo Dreams
Character: Cristina
Dámaso Pérez Prado, known as "el rey del mambo", came back from the dead to look for the love of his life....
Una pura y dos con sal
Character:
Young woman engineers a reconciliation between her long-estranged parents....
Mojado Power
Character: Xochitl
Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1981...
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....
Under a Spell
Character: Felipa / Teacher
In the Yucatan coast of the thirties , Elisha, a boy of 13, is initiated into the art of love by Felipa , his schoolteacher. After discovering the relationship, Felipa runs away from the village , leaving Elisha mired in nostalgia. Forced to marry another woman and lead a routine life , recalling the years passed Eliseo romance with Felipa until ten years later, the woman returns , removing his wounds and changing forever the life of Elisha , his family and the whole town...
En la trampa
Character: Isabel Salas
Oscar Cardenas is a free young man who dreams of being a racer. One day he is trapped by Isabel Salas, a young secretary, who while finds a husband, she is sleeping with her boss. Oscar and Isabel end at the altar. From that moment Oscar, is falling into the traps that the 'society' puts over him......
Caras vemos
Character: Viviana
It follows an unconventional family who find themselves embroiled in a personality swap after little Zoe has a mystical encounter with an ancient god. As a result, each family member finds themselves in the body of another....
Coyote and Bronca
Character: María Trinidad / La Bronca
A murder forces Juan "El Coyote" and Trinidad "La Bronca" to escape from a life of easy money and prostitution and become a real couple....
El billetero
Character:
A poor family hits the lottery....
Sinverguenza pero honrado
Character:
Man and woman get married, they adapt to living together and he adapts to living with her four children....
Chile Picante
Character: Wife of Compadre #1 (segment "Los Compadres")
A woman uses her husband's money to open a beauty parlor/spa... so she'll have a place to meet with her lover....
El cafre
Character: Adriana Rojas
Trucker accepts an assignment to haul an extremely dangerous load of explosives from Tijuana to Mexico City....
Dos de abajo
Character: Sara
Two bozo construction workers discover a cache of 19th century gold coins while demolishing a building....
La revancha
Character:
Industrial spies are holed up in a safe-house after killing a half-dozen people to steal some data. On their way to the private airfield where their handlers are waiting to extract them, they run afoul of a small-town wedding. Unfortunately, it's the wedding of the town's chief of police....
El complot mongol
Character:
In the context of a visit by the President of the United States to Mexico, there is a threat that China will attack his life. Policeman Filiberto is commissioned to avoid it, at any cost. His searches in the Chinatown will lead him to endanger his life, while he will find love in the young Marta....
Mamá, soy Paquito
Character: Susana Gomez
Paquito lives with his mother in poverty. When she dies, he looks for his father's love, who is a very wealthy man....
Cabalgando con la muerte
Character:
Wandering gunslinger trains peaceable farmers to defend themselves for an impending range war....
Falcon's Gold
Character: B.G. Alvarez
An archaeologist travels to Mexico to investigate rumors of the discovery of the ancient statue of a fertility goddess....
The Segua
Character: Petronila Quesada
Encarnacion is a beautiful villager and Petronila is her jealous, evil nemesis. When Petronila's love interest, a fetching young Spanish lieutenant, starts to fall for Encarnacion, Petronila gets even by simply destroying his sanity with a vile potion. Petronila begins to delude Encarnacion with suggestions that she is actually a "segua" or a female spirit that attacks men....
Forget Everything You Have Ever Seen: The World of Santa Sangre
Character: Herself
After his dream project DUNE fell apart, visionary filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky took a break from cinema, only to return over a decade later with his most triumphant work: SANTA SANGRE....
The Seven Cucas
Character: Cuca's Stammering Daughter
A worker's wife and six pretty daughters are desired by all the men in their little town, so he decides to move his family elsewhere....
Walker
Character: Yrena
William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat....
Zapata en Chinameca
Character: Ernestina Martínez
Urbino Martínez, on his deathbed, regrets his wrongdoing after betraying Emiliano Zapata....
Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna
Character: Dolores Preciado
Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister town, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…...
In The MIddle of Nowhere
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A retired union leader runs a restaurant by the highway with the help of his wife and his young son. One day a wounded criminal, his lover and his brother, all fugitives from law and being pursued by the woman's husband, forcefully seek out a hiding place. They take the family hostage until the delinquents are confronted....
Red Bells Part I: Mexico on Fire
Character:
A chronicle of the Russian and Mexican revolutions in the early 20th century....
Conexión Criminal
Character:
Two secret police officers fight against drug dealers and a sadistic criminal who executes the mafia's enemies....
My Mexican Shivah
Character: Julia Palafox
After Moishe's death, family and friends sit Shiva in Mexico City. During seven days, secrets will be disclosed....
Moonlight Sonata
Character:
A high-strung love triangle of mystery and suspense arises between Julia, a beautiful and ambitious woman who, helped by Raúl, her lover, kill her husband....
Erendira
Character: Ulysses' mother
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....
Difficult Days
Character: Luisa Castelar
Two shareholder brothers close several factories due to economic problems, except for their chemical plants....
Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest
Character: Courtesan
Propped up on his deathbed, a 17th century Spanish missionary named Father Kino (Enrique Rocha) looks back on his remarkable life and relives one of his greatest challenges: bringing the teachings of Christianity to California's native population while convincing the Spanish military to respect the Indians' traditions....
Oro blanco, droga maldita
Character:
Cocaine industry in the Colombian outback....
Orinoco
Character: Fifi
Two ditzy dance-hall girls are stranded on a tugboat floating down the big river after a night when all the crew kill each other in an unexplained frenzy....
Danzón
Character: Colorada
A telephone operator from Mexico City tries to support a family and her passion for popular dance....
The Beginning and the End
Character: Julia
The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on...
Valentín Lazaña
Character:
Parody of the Zorro-styled "noble bandit" story....
Salón México
Character: Almendrita
In this remake of the 40's classic, two lovers murder each other, leading to an investigation and the closing of the Saln Mxico, a famous place where people used to go to dance before WWII. The police investigation leads to several flashbacks about the life and death of a low-life dancer named Mercedes (Maria Rojo) and her lover....
Deadly Embroidered Memories
Character: Claudia Castejón
A woman with a degree in biology and a particular taste for arachnids gets involved with some unfinished business left by her dead mother, leading her to face unlikely events that revolve around the banana mafia in a South American country, such as an etheric eminence that anticipates tragedies, a cryptozoological being that is mentioned with skepticism and a terrorist society that seeks to dismantle the fraudulent and sinister structure of land concessions....
El juego de la muerte
Character:
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Dying in the Gulf
Character: Leonora
The story of the oil leader Lázaro Pizarro, of his political and personal wars, the use of crime to settle conflicts and the course of his power between the basements and the domes of Mexican politics, have a narrative record made in the Gulf of accuracy and dexterity...
Cacería implacable
Character: Isabel
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La Revolución De Juan Escopeta
Character: La Soldadera (voice)
Mexico 1914. During the Revolution, a raid by the army in a small mining town leaves Gapo, 11, orphaned. Taken captive to be turned into a child soldier he escapes with the help of Juan Escopeta, a gunman for hire. Together they travel through a country absorbed in civil war in search of Gapo’s older and only brother: a famed revolutionary outlaw....
Aquel famoso Remington
Character: Anita
Historical drama about the career of a hit-man who specialized in political assassinations in Mexico in the 1920s-30s....
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
Character: Self
This documentary explores key moments in the life of writer Juan Rulfo, with artists such as Werner Herzog and Eduardo Galeano reflecting on his work....
Secuestro a Mano Armada
Character: Mónica
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