Luisa Huertas

Luisa Huertas

Born: January 1, 1951
in San Salvador, El Salvador
Luisa Huertas is an actress of Salvadoran and Mexican nationality, born on June 24, 1951, in San Salvador, El Salvador. Born to a Spanish refugee father and a Mexican businesswoman mother, Luisa was trained at the Escuela de Arte Teatral del INBA and the Centro Universitario de Teatro CUT-UNAM, two of Mexico's most respected institutions. She spent part of the 1970s in film and was also known for her role as Rosita in the children's series Sesame Street, before beginning her remarkable career in Mexican television, in several of the most popular and recognized telenovelas, including Dulce Desafío (1988-1989), Carrusel (1989), Al filo de la muerte (1991), Volver a empezar (1994), among others. A founding member of the Mexican Academy of Theatrical Art, in addition to being a member of the Advisory Board of the CUT of the UNAM, she has also been a stable and frequent cast member of the National Theater Company. In recent years, Luisa has participated in series such as La casa de las flores (2020), Todo por nada (2021) and in films such as Dos mujeres y una Vaca (2015) and Cosas imposibles (2021).

She is a graduate of the Escuela de Arte Teatral del INBA and the Centro Universitario de Teatro, CUT-UNAM where she has also taught. She is co-founder and General Director of the Centro de Estudios para el Uso de la Voz (CEUVOZ). She received the Asociación de Periodistas de Teatro award and the Metro award both for best actress for El diccionario. She won the Ariel for her role in Arturo Ripstein's Mentiras Piadosas. She is a founding member of the Academia Mexicana de Arte Teatral, A.C. and is part of the stable cast of the Compañía Nacional de Teatro. In 2020 she was named by Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum, Living Cultural Heritage of Mexico City, celebrating 50 years of career.

Movies for Luisa Huertas...

We Shall not be Moved
Title: We Shall not be Moved
Character: Socorro
Released: March 14, 2024
Type: Movie
Socorro is a lawyer obsessed with finding the soldier who killed her brother during the 1968 student massacre in Mexico. Fifty years later, she receives the clue that leads her to set up an absurd plan of revenge, putting her heritage, her family, and even her life at risk.
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Patrona
Title: Patrona
Character: Tere
Released: September 1, 2023
Type: Movie
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Iguana Like the Sun
Title: Iguana Like the Sun
Released: October 31, 2022
Type: Movie
In a humble coastal tropical compound, amidst a total eclipse of the sun, an unexpected guest arouses the broken dreams of a family that has lost its guardian figure, overshadowed by the cosmic loneliness where they were left to their faith.
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Impossible Things
Title: Impossible Things
Character: Eugenia
Released: June 17, 2021
Type: Movie
Matilde is a woman who, after the death of her husband—a man who constantly abused her—finds her new best friend in Miguel, her young, insecure, disoriented and even dealer neighbor
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We Vanish
Title: We Vanish
Character: Carmella
Released: August 12, 2018
Type: Movie
After the devastating disappearance of her teenaged daughter, Rocío attempts to uncover the truth in the dense tangle of bureaucracy and patriarchal social norms.
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Title: El Chema
Character: Nelly
Released: December 6, 2016
Type: TV
Follow one man's epic journey as he transforms from wily underage drug smuggler to one of the world's most infamous cartel leaders.
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Dos mujeres y una vaca
Title: Dos mujeres y una vaca
Character: Rosana
Released: May 19, 2016
Type: Movie
After months without news of Pastor, his wife Hermelinda receives a letter. Eager to know the content, she persuades Rosana, who also does not know how to read, to accompany her to the nearest village in search of someone who can decipher the writing. When they arrive, they discover the village has been attacked by a group on the fringes of the law.
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Pulling Strings
Title: Pulling Strings
Character: Old Woman
Released: October 5, 2013
Type: Movie
Rachel is an intelligent, modern-day woman constantly on the move. Primarily focused on her career as a diplomatic consul for the U.S. embassy, she's literally lived her life on the move, globe-trotting from city to city. Currently working in Mexico City and set to leave for London, Rachel's world turns upside down on the eve of her own goodbye party when she gets drunk and passes out on the street. Saved by Alejandro, a handsome Mariachi singer and single father, Rachel wakes up in his apartment with no recollection of how she got there. Nor does she remember that she rejected his visa the day before, which he desperately needs for his daughter. Romance unexpectedly blossoms between the two, but either sparks or fists will fly after she finds out his secret.
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The Last Veil
Title: The Last Veil
Character: Josefina
Released: September 14, 2013
Type: Movie
Citliali, a lonely woman, faces a difficult, marginalized life, which seems to be full of obstacles. During the day we will discover the real cause of her affliction.
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Potosí
Title: Potosí
Character: Rafaela
Released: July 21, 2013
Type: Movie
Potosi, a rural town in Latin America, is the crossfire of the ravaging that has devastated the north of the country. An accident along a deserted road connects three stories, an 82 year old goat herder that has not shot his gun in 40 years, a woman who is a victim of domestic violence and a humble peasant living on guard to protect his family from the country’s war against organized crime.
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Machete Language
Title: Machete Language
Released: June 1, 2012
Type: Movie
Love and political passion shared between an activist and his punk singer girlfriend goes to extremes as violent repression pushes them over the edge.
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Half of the World
Title: Half of the World
Character: Graciana
Released: January 21, 2011
Type: Movie
The story is about a young man suffering mental retardation and sexual awakening, poet is charismatic and has the ability to pay attention to those little insignificant details of everyday life. His new status as a lover will bring popularity and with it problems will expose prejudice and false morality of a blinded people to wash their sins charged with the death of the less guilty.
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De la infancia
Title: De la infancia
Character: Vecina
Released: March 14, 2010
Type: Movie
It tells the story of Niebla, who died in a shootout with the police and whose ghost comes back to help change Francisco´s fate, a 10 years old boy. Francisco´s father, Basilio, an abusive and violent thief, adored and feared by his son, destroys his mother and brothers, when he takes out his frustrations at home. The ghost protects Francisco from his father´s violence and handholds him threw his first love with Roxana who has her own story of abuse. Feeling protected, Francisco is able to face his oppression.
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Blue Eyelids
Title: Blue Eyelids
Character: Mercedes
Released: April 2, 2007
Type: Movie
Marina wins a paradise vacation for two, but when she realizes that she has no one to bring along, she decides to invite a stranger named Victor. The pair soon discovers that true love depends more on compatibility rather than idyllic scenery.
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KM 31: Kilometer 31
Title: KM 31: Kilometer 31
Character: Anciana
Released: October 19, 2006
Type: Movie
While driving through the kilometer 31 of a lonely road, Agata Hameran hits a boy. She leaves her car to help the victim and another car runs over her and she falls in a deep coma. Her twin sister Catalina telepathically feels the pain of Agata and hears her whispering for help. Together with her boyfriend Nuno and Agata's mate Omar, they return to the km 31 of the road, and find out that the place is surrounded by supernatural accidents caused by the ghost of a mother that lost her boy many years ago. Further, Catalina discloses that the spirit of Agata is trapped between the worlds of the living and the dead.
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Rencor
Title: Rencor
Released: August 30, 2005
Type: Movie
A beautiful, wealthy socialite is implicated in a violent murder by her aimless younger lover, and her life is forever changed as she tries to protect herself and him from the impending investigation.
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Title: Gitanas
Character: Mamá Pasca Antich
Released: July 27, 2004
Type: TV
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The Crime of Padre Amaro
Title: The Crime of Padre Amaro
Character: Dionisia
Released: October 1, 2002
Type: Movie
Sent to Mexico to help take care of aging Father Benito, young Father Amaro faces a moral challenge when he meets a 16-year-old girl who he starts an affair with. Likewise, the girl's mother had been having an affair with Father Benito. Father Amaro must choose between a holy or sinful life.
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To Love Too Much
Title: To Love Too Much
Character: Vendedora de flores
Released: June 7, 2002
Type: Movie
Laura and Beatriz are two sisters in search of a dream in common: to run a guest house abroad and live off the rents. Laura travels to Spain to start off the project, and Beatriz remains alone in Mexico waiting for the right moment to catch up to her sister. While Beatriz nurtures the desire of moving away, she begins to feed off dreams and fantasies. In the midst of easy love affairs that earn her enough money to support Laura, Beatriz meets Carlos, a man with whom she travels throughout Mexico, discovering the inimaginable beauty of her country, her soul and her own body.
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Bedtime Fairy Tales for Crocodiles
Title: Bedtime Fairy Tales for Crocodiles
Character: Isabel
Released: March 22, 2002
Type: Movie
A man who travels back to the house of his father, grandfather and backwards.
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Written on the Body of Night
Title: Written on the Body of Night
Released: May 26, 2001
Type: Movie
A look back at a director's life with his neurotic mother.
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Sofía
Title: Sofía
Released: June 22, 2000
Type: Movie
A volcano scientist (Issabela Camil) arrives in Mexico to study the Popocatepetl volcano. The journey will change her whole life
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Beat
Title: Beat
Character: Maria (uncredited)
Released: January 29, 2000
Type: Movie
The true story of two murders that shaped the lives of several college students who went on to become some of the most influential writers of the "Beat Generation."
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Under a Spell
Title: Under a Spell
Character: María - Eliseo's Mother
Released: February 19, 1999
Type: Movie
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
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Title: Gotita de Amor
Character: Hermana Cándida
Released: August 3, 1998
Type: TV
Gotita de amor is a Mexican drama broadcast by Canal de las Estrellas, starring Laura Flores and Álex Ibarra. The novela also stars Andrea Lagunes in her first lead role as the protagonist Chabelita.
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The Mask of Zorro
Title: The Mask of Zorro
Character: Nanny
Released: July 16, 1998
Type: Movie
It has been twenty years since Don Diego de la Vega fought Spanish oppression in Alta California as the legendary romantic hero, Zorro. Having escaped from prison he transforms troubled bandit Alejandro into his successor, in order to foil the plans of the tyrannical Don Rafael Montero who robbed him of his freedom, his wife and his precious daughter.
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McHale's Navy
Title: McHale's Navy
Character: Nurse
Released: April 18, 1997
Type: Movie
Retired Lieutenant Commander Quinton McHale spends his days puttering around the Caribbean in the old PT-73 selling homebrew, ice cream, and swimsuit calendars. He's brought out of retirement when his old nemesis turned the second best terrorist in the world, Major Vladikov, takes over the island of San Moreno and starts building a nuclear launch silo on it. With help from his old crew and hindrances from Captain Wallace B. Binghampton, who sank a cruise liner a while back, McHale tries to put Vladikov out of business.
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The Overturning Of The Heart
Title: The Overturning Of The Heart
Released: October 18, 1996
Type: Movie
1941, Jose Antelmo Cruz regrets his past while writing a novel and falling in love with a prostitute.
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The Arrival
Title: The Arrival
Character: Security Woman
Released: May 31, 1996
Type: Movie
Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a Hitchcockian labyrinth of paranoia and intrigue.
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The Juror
Title: The Juror
Character: Car Rental Agent
Released: February 2, 1996
Type: Movie
With his gangster boss on trial for murder, a mob thug known as "the Teacher" tells Annie Laird she must talk her fellow jurors into a not-guilty verdict, implying that he'll kill her son Oliver if she fails. She manages to do this, but, when it becomes clear that the mobsters might want to silence her for good, she sends Oliver abroad and tries to gather evidence of the plot against her, setting up a final showdown.
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En las manos de Dios
Title: En las manos de Dios
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Melodrama that revolves around a woman who suddenly discovers her husband's infidelity without assuming that the person he is cheating on is with another man. Thus, the film addresses the issue of homosexuality and AIDS and the irresponsibility of men in sexual relations.
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Sin remitente
Title: Sin remitente
Character: Teresita de Jesús
Released: October 6, 1995
Type: Movie
A lonely, aging postal worker finds himself the victim of a cruel practical joke in this pessimistic Mexican drama. The trouble begins when crotchety postman Andre begins complaining about his young neighbor Marianna's propensity for playing loud music every time she entertains a lover. To get back at him, Marianna begins sending him anonymous love letters. The old man is intrigued by the mysterious letters and hires a cheap detective to find their author. The detective is convinced the perpetrator is Teresita, a veteran hooker who joins in on the scheme to earn a little extra cash. Andre's friend and colleague tries to warn Andre that it is all a game, but his friend is in love and will not listen. Meanwhile, Marianna attempts to woo Luis Felipe, a hard, unfeeling tabloid journalist who has her take grisly pictures of murder victims for him. Both Marianna and Andre are destined to meet an unpleasant fate at the story's end.
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The Queen of the Night
Title: The Queen of the Night
Character: Beggar
Released: September 7, 1994
Type: Movie
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. She becomes the mother to this child, Luzma. Lucha craves lasting love like junkies crave heroin. But for her loyal daughter, she never finds it and in the end no one can help her.
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The Beginning and the End
Title: The Beginning and the End
Character: Isabel
Released: June 24, 1994
Type: Movie
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 the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.
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Hasta Morir
Title: Hasta Morir
Character: Cajera
Released: June 1, 1994
Type: Movie
A street kid's wish to run away to Tijuana is hampered by lies and betrayal
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Love Lies
Title: Love Lies
Character: Pilar
Released: July 1, 1989
Type: Movie
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
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The Cost of Living
Title: The Cost of Living
Released: March 16, 1989
Type: Movie
This is a prophetic drama about a young couple, Miguel and Patricia, who desperately need money and are forced to commit robbery -- until the fear they experience during their second hold-up forces them to flee. They run away together, but their relationship is tested when Patricia begins to see new possibilities in her life, while Miguel remains stuck in his old ways.
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Las asesinas del panadero
Title: Las asesinas del panadero
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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José, hijo del hombre
Title: José, hijo del hombre
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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The Realm of Fortune
Title: The Realm of Fortune
Character: Campesina
Released: November 28, 1986
Type: Movie
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.
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Violent Stories
Title: Violent Stories
Released: August 29, 1985
Type: Movie
Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.
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Laudate Pueri
Title: Laudate Pueri
Released: March 5, 1983
Type: Movie
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Take It as you Like
Title: Take It as you Like
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Three students wander through the UNAM University City at the dawn of the October 2 massacre and in the midst of the 1968 student movement
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Title: The Marked Hour
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
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.
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El Conserje
Title: El Conserje
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
At 75 years old, Ricardo has problems balancing his job as a janitor at an elementary school and the care his wife requires in a wheelchair. Since it is impossible for him to survive on the pension he would receive, he must continue working and the conflict with a student will end up causing him to lose everything.