Mauricio Islas
Encyclopedia
Mauricio Islas is a Mexican
television
and film
actor. He is best known for his work in telenovelas.
, Mexico
, Islas is the son of businessman Juan Islas and Rosalinda Ilescas and the youngest of two brothers.
in 1998.
From then on he continued working mainly as a leading actor, but occasionally playing villains, as in his 2000 participation in Primer amor... a mil por hora
where he interpreted the malicious Demián and in 2006 Amores de Mercado
starring as the evil Fernando Leyra.
In 2001 he starred in El manantial
alongside Adela Noriega
and won a TVyNovelas Award
for his performance. In 2003 he starred in the acclaimed historical telenovela Amor real
, interpreting the army soldier Adolfo Solis.
In 2004 he signed a contract with Telemundo
and starred in Prisionera
, Amores de Mercado
, Pecados Ajenos
and other successful productions of the network.
He returned to Mexico in 2010 and starred in Azteca's
telenovela La Loba. His most recent telenovela is Cielo Rojo
from 2011.
He has a son, Emiliano, with his current partner, Paloma Quezada. The baby was born on February 24, 2011 in El Paso
, Texas
.
Mexican people
Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....
television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
and film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
actor. He is best known for his work in telenovelas.
Early life
Born in Mexico CityMexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
, Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
, Islas is the son of businessman Juan Islas and Rosalinda Ilescas and the youngest of two brothers.
Career
After working in various telenovelas, Islas made his protagonist debut in Preciosa alongside Irán CastilloIrán Castillo
Irán Castillo Pinzón is a Mexican actress, TV Host and singer. who reach the fame in the 1990s, after roles in successful telenovelas such as Agujetas de color de rosa, Confidente de Secundaria, Preciosa...
in 1998.
From then on he continued working mainly as a leading actor, but occasionally playing villains, as in his 2000 participation in Primer amor... a mil por hora
Primer amor... a mil por hora
Primer amor... a mil por hora is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced by and broadcast on Televisa in 2001 and in Brazil in 2003. It is a remake of another Televisa telenovela titled Quinceañera. The protagonist were played by the teen heartthrob Kuno Becker and the young Anahí. Both are also...
where he interpreted the malicious Demián and in 2006 Amores de Mercado
Amores de mercado
Amores De Mercado is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo and RTI Colombia. This limited-run series ran for 125 episodes from June 14, 2006 to January 12, 2007. It aired in Europe and the Middle East on Zone Romantica.This show was...
starring as the evil Fernando Leyra.
In 2001 he starred in El manantial
El Manantial
El Manantial is a Mexican telenovela that first aired in 2001, starring Adela Noriega and Mauricio Islas."The Best Telenovela of the Year 2002" - Plot summary :...
alongside Adela Noriega
Adela Noriega
Adela Amalia Noriega Méndez , better known as Adela Noriega , is a Mexican actress. Noriega is best known for her starring roles in telenovelas. She came to prominence as a teenager, starring in teen-oriented coming-of-age telenovelas in the late 1980s...
and won a TVyNovelas Award
Premios TVyNovelas
The TVyNovelas Awards, also known as the Premios TVyNovelas are presented annually by Televisa and the magazine TVyNovelas to honour the best Mexican television productions, especially telenovelas. Instituted in 1983, the award ceremony is held in Forum Mundo Imperial in Acapulco...
for his performance. In 2003 he starred in the acclaimed historical telenovela Amor real
Amor real
Amor real is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced and broadcast by Televisa in 2003. Amor Real is a historical telenovela set in the Mexican post-independence period of the mid-19th century. It also aired on Univision in the United States in 2004 and on REN TV in Russia...
, interpreting the army soldier Adolfo Solis.
In 2004 he signed a contract with Telemundo
Telemundo
Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....
and starred in Prisionera
Prisionera
- Plot :Wrongfully accused of a crime she didn't commit, 13 year old Guadalupe Santos is sentenced to 30 years in jail, while in jail she gives birth to a baby girl who is taken from her by her older sister Milagros. 15 years later she escapes jail and meets with Daniel Moncada who turns out to be...
, Amores de Mercado
Amores de mercado
Amores De Mercado is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo and RTI Colombia. This limited-run series ran for 125 episodes from June 14, 2006 to January 12, 2007. It aired in Europe and the Middle East on Zone Romantica.This show was...
, Pecados Ajenos
Pecados Ajenos
Pecados Ajenos is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo. This limited-run series was shot in Florida by Telemundo Studios, Miami. It is also known as A Chance to Love This telenovela was sold to 16 countries around the world.Pecados Ajenos...
and other successful productions of the network.
He returned to Mexico in 2010 and starred in Azteca's
TV Azteca
Azteca, is the second largest Mexican television entertainment. It was established in 1983 as the state-owned Instituto Mexicano de la Televisión , a holding of the national TV networks channel 13 and 7 and was privatized under its current name in 1993 and now is part of Grupo Salinas...
telenovela La Loba. His most recent telenovela is Cielo Rojo
Cielo Rojo
Cielo Rojo is a Mexican telenovela by TV Azteca.It stars Edith González and Mauricio Islas as the leading protagonists, with Regina Torné as the main villain and Alejandra Lazcano as leading teen cast. It began its shooting on April 4, 2011...
from 2011.
Personal life
On November 29, 2001, he married Venezuelan singer Patricia Villasaña. They had a daughter, Camila, born on May 3, 2002. They divorced in 2006.He has a son, Emiliano, with his current partner, Paloma Quezada. The baby was born on February 24, 2011 in El Paso
El Paso
El Paso, a city in the U.S. state of Texas, on the border with Mexico.El Paso may also refer to:-Geography:Colombia:* El Paso, CesarSpain:*El Paso, Santa Cruz de TenerifeUnited States:...
, Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
.
Filmography
| Telenovelas | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2011 | Cielo Rojo Cielo Rojo Cielo Rojo is a Mexican telenovela by TV Azteca.It stars Edith González and Mauricio Islas as the leading protagonists, with Regina Torné as the main villain and Alejandra Lazcano as leading teen cast. It began its shooting on April 4, 2011... |
Andrés Rentería | |
| 2010 | La Loba | Emiliano Alcazar | Azteca TV Azteca Azteca, is the second largest Mexican television entertainment. It was established in 1983 as the state-owned Instituto Mexicano de la Televisión , a holding of the national TV networks channel 13 and 7 and was privatized under its current name in 1993 and now is part of Grupo Salinas... |
| 2007-2008 | Pecados Ajenos Pecados Ajenos Pecados Ajenos is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo. This limited-run series was shot in Florida by Telemundo Studios, Miami. It is also known as A Chance to Love This telenovela was sold to 16 countries around the world.Pecados Ajenos... |
Adrián Torres | Award Fama for Best Actor |
| 2006 | Amores de Mercado Amores de mercado Amores De Mercado is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo and RTI Colombia. This limited-run series ran for 125 episodes from June 14, 2006 to January 12, 2007. It aired in Europe and the Middle East on Zone Romantica.This show was... |
Antonio Álamo | |
| 2005 | Decisiones Decisiones Decisiones is a Telemundo-produced Spanish-language television anthology of steamy melodramas about passion and sex in the modern world. The hour-long series features impassioned people thrust into amorous adventures and pushed to their breaking points... |
Fabricio Salas | |
| 2005 | Los Plateados | Gabriel Campuzano | |
| 2004 | Prisionera Prisionera - Plot :Wrongfully accused of a crime she didn't commit, 13 year old Guadalupe Santos is sentenced to 30 years in jail, while in jail she gives birth to a baby girl who is taken from her by her older sister Milagros. 15 years later she escapes jail and meets with Daniel Moncada who turns out to be... |
Daniel Moncada | Telemundo Telemundo Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision.... |
| 2003 | Amor real Amor real Amor real is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced and broadcast by Televisa in 2003. Amor Real is a historical telenovela set in the Mexican post-independence period of the mid-19th century. It also aired on Univision in the United States in 2004 and on REN TV in Russia... |
Adolfo Solís | Sol de Oro for Best Antagonist Califa de Oro for Best Antagonist |
| 2001 | El manantial El Manantial El Manantial is a Mexican telenovela that first aired in 2001, starring Adela Noriega and Mauricio Islas."The Best Telenovela of the Year 2002" - Plot summary :... |
Alejandro Ramírez Insunza | TVyNovelas Award for Best Lead Actor TVyNovelas Award for Best Lead Actor - Winners :- Records :* Most awarded actor: Fernando Colunga with 5 awards* Most nominated actor: Fernando Colunga with 9 nominations* Most nominated actor : Juan Ferrara with 5 nominations- External links :* at esmas.com... El Heraldo Award El Heraldo de México El Heraldo de México Awards were given annually by the newspaper "El Heraldo de México" to honour the best professionals in advertising, television, radio, theatre, film, music and sports. The ceremony was televised by Televisa.- History :... for Best Television Actor Bravo Award for Best Lead Actor |
| 2000 | Primer amor... a mil por hora Primer amor... a mil por hora Primer amor... a mil por hora is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced by and broadcast on Televisa in 2001 and in Brazil in 2003. It is a remake of another Televisa telenovela titled Quinceañera. The protagonist were played by the teen heartthrob Kuno Becker and the young Anahí. Both are also... |
Demian Ventura | Nominated - TVyNovelas Award for Best Male Antagonist TVyNovelas Award for Best Male Antagonist - Winners :- Records :* Most awarded actor: Enrique Rocha with 4 awards* Most nominated actor: Enrique Rocha and Alejandro Camacho with 6 nominations... Eres Award for Best Antagonist |
| 2000 | Mi destino eres tú Mi Destino Eres Tú Mi destino eres tú is a 2000 Mexican telenovela. It is a production of Carla Estrada and the protagonists were Lucero and Jorge Salinas.-Main cast:*Lucero as Andrea San Vicente*Jorge Salinas as Eduardo Rivadeneira... |
Ramiro Galindo Suárez | |
| 1999 | DKDA: Sueños de juventud | Mauricio | |
| 1999 | Amor gitano | Renzo | |
| 1998 | Preciosa | Luis Fernando | Nominated - TVyNovelas Award for Best Young Lead Actor TVyNovelas Award for Best Young Lead Actor - Winners :- External links :* at esmas.com* at the univision.com... |
| 1997 | Mi pequeña traviesa | Juan Felipe | |
| 1997 | Mi querida Isabel | Marcos | |
| 1996 | Canción de amor | Edgar | |
| 1995 | Pobre niña rica Pobre Niña Rica Pobre Niña Rica is a Mexican telenovela shown in 1995, starring with Victoria Ruffo, Ariel López Padilla, and Paulina Rubio. This telenovela contains 65 episodes.- Synopsis :... |
David | |
| 1994 | Volver a empezar Volver a empezar Volver a empezar is the name of two things.*Volver a Empezar, a popular Mexican soap opera of the 1990s*Volver a empezar, an award-winning Spanish film of 1982 also known as Begin the Beguine.... |
Freddy Landeros | |
| 1992 | Mágica juventud | Alfredo | |
| 1992 | Carrusel de las Américas | N/A | Televisa Televisa Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract... |
| Films | |||
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2011 | Viento en contra | Matías Parga | |
| 2010 | El secreto | Maurice de Gavrillac | |
| 2009 | El cártel | Santos | |
| 2006 | Ambiciona | Raúl | |
| 2005 | Don de Dios | N/A | |
| 2002 | Punto y aparte | Sergio | |
| 2001 | Primer amor... tres años después | Demián Ventura Camargo | TV movie |