Mónica Serna

Mónica Serna

History

Mónica Serna is a Mexican actress of theater, TV, film and dubbing with more than fifty years of artistic career. She worked in the companies CINSA and SISSA in the sixties and seventies and in Telespeciales in the eighties. In addition to being an actress, she was also a dancer. She was part of the National Theater Company working with José Solé. Mónica made her debut in Mexican cinema in 1953 with an extra role in the film "Nunca es tarde para amar" (It's never too late to love). In 2008 she received the Bellas Artes Medal for her 50 years of constant artistic life and for her invaluable contribution to Mexican and universal theater. She is currently retired from showbusiness.

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Mónica Serna

Movies

Las buenas costumbres
Las buenas costumbres
Leonera
Mexican feature film
Beyond Death
Beyond Death
A Nazi scientist carries out secret experiments.
Macho y hembras
Macho y hembras
Mexican feature film
Los 3 reyes magos
Los 3 reyes magos
The biblical story about the magical wizards that come to visit little baby Jesus when he was born.
San Simón de los Magueyes
San Simón de los Magueyes
The statue of a town's patron saint is broken just before the annual Saint's Day festival, so the priest hires a mime from a troupe of traveling players to impersonate the statue during the church's hours of operation.
The Mansion of Madness
The Mansion of Madness
Blanche
The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then put into play their own ideas of how the place should be run.
El metiche
El metiche
Clownish simpleton can't resist meddling in his neighbors' business. Pretty much a remake of El Reveltoso.
Claudia y el deseo
Claudia y el deseo
Woman enters into a marriage of convenience, then has to learn to deal with her continued attraction to other men that she might have preferred.
Pancho Tequila
Pancho Tequila
Naïve moviegoers in his hometown think a certain actor is tough like the characters he plays and will be able to clear their town of badguys.
Estafa de amor
Estafa de amor
Based on the novel by Caridad Bravo Adams.
Estrategia matrimonio
Estrategia matrimonio
Rita Ríos
Pragmatic young woman plots out her flirtations with five rich, eligible bachelors to play to the weaknesses of each one. Then she has to pick one for keeps.
Tirando a gol
Tirando a gol
Brigitte, sirvienta
Blended family comedy/drama -- the narrative hook is that the two original families are fans of opposing soccer teams.
Nosotros los jóvenes
Nosotros los jóvenes
Mónica
Young-adult movie about a crew of 8 or 10 upper-middle-class boys and girls -- mostly about the romance between two of them.
Las Troyanas
Las Troyanas
Coro II
Adaptation of Euripides: lamentations of the women of Troy after their defeat in war.
Servicio secreto
Servicio secreto
Azucena
Two secret agents are after a couple of car thieves who belong to a band of criminals headed by Ernesto. The band has kidnapped the son of Daniel, a boxer who is about to fight for the world title. The agents must destroy Ernesto's band and rescue Daniel's son before the fight so Daniel doesn't lose his chance at the title under the kidnapper's threats.
Vivir del cuento
Vivir del cuento
X has to postpone his marriage for 3 months in order to collect a huge inheritance... so he hires Y to keep his fiancee and her father busy during the hiatus.
El cariñoso
El cariñoso
Romcom with music: owner of an auto-repair shop woos the owner of a beauty parlor.
Gang Adventures
Gang Adventures
La pandilla se divierte
La pandilla se divierte
To Hell with the Music
To Hell with the Music
Sitcom episodes about the daily life of a pop-vocal quartet family. One of four in a series.
Nunca es tarde para amar
Nunca es tarde para amar
Extra (uncredited)
A widowed doctor with a sick child marries a famous singer unpremeditatedly, running at first everything fine until she begins to long for his former life and scenic successes representing the only reason for existence.