Mónica Serna
Biography
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.
Known For & Full Filmography16 Titles
Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Sitcom episodes about the daily life of a pop-vocal quartet family. One of four in a series.
Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • as 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.
Movie - 1976, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The Three Wise Men, Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthazar, set off for Bethlehem to worship the newborn Jesus, but the devil, in the guise of Prince Olbaid, decides to hinder the Kings' journey with the help of the devil Murcio, creating problems at every turn.
Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Mexican feature film
Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • as 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.
Movie - 1973, 2h 15m • as 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.
Movie - 1987, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Mexican feature film
Movie - 1959, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
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.
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
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.
Movie - 1959, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
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.
Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • as Coro II
Adaptation of Euripides: lamentations of the women of Troy after their defeat in war.
Movie - 1972, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Clownish simpleton can't resist meddling in his neighbors' business. Pretty much a remake of El Reveltoso.
Movie - 1988, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A Nazi scientist carries out secret experiments.
Movie - 1973, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
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.
Movie - 1990, 2h 15m • as Leonera
Mexican feature film