Tina Romero
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Tina Romero is a Mexican
film
, television
and stage
actress, made famous by starring the film Alucarda
in 1978.
. She is a daughter of Mexican parents and her family relocated to Mexico in 1958 where she developed her skills in acting school. In 1976, at the age of 27, she made her debut as a protagonist in the movie Lo Mejor de Teresa. The same year she participated in the films Chin Chin el Teporocho and Las Poquianchis, directed by Felipe Cazals
.
Santa
, and starred in the film Alucarda
, directed by Juan Lopez Moctezuma with Claudio Brook
, David Silva
, considered a classic horror
film. In 1979 she filmed Cuatro mujeres y un Hombre, Bandera Rota and My Horse Cantador, and also appeared in the telenovela Angel Guerra alongside Andrea Palma
and Diana Bracho
.
Romero married in the 1980s to the Mexican film director Gabriel Retes
, with whom she had two children.
In the 1980s she filmed Estampas de Sor Juana and in 1982 makes her Hollywood debut in the film Missing
starring Sissy Spacey. In 1983 Romero returned to Mexico and made film and television appareances as The Castaways of Liguria directed by her then husband Retes. In 1986 she starred in the film Miracles, and in 1988 returned to Hollywood to take part in Clif Ossmond's movie The Penitent. In México, she starred the telenovelas La Casa al Final de la Calle and Simplemente María
.
In the 1990s and 2000s she participated in such notable telenovelas as; Cadenas de Amargura (1991), Muchachitas
(1991), Alondra
(1995), Rosalinda (1999, with Thalía
), Abrázame muy fuerte
(2000), and most recently Pasion
(2007), and Mi Pecado
(2009).
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...
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...
, television
Television
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and stage
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
actress, made famous by starring the film Alucarda
Alucarda
Alucarda is a 1978 Mexican horror film directed by Mexican horror filmmaker Juan López Moctezuma, starring Tina Romero in the title role...
in 1978.
Early life
Tina Romero Alcazár was born on August 14, 1949, in New York CityNew York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. She is a daughter of Mexican parents and her family relocated to Mexico in 1958 where she developed her skills in acting school. In 1976, at the age of 27, she made her debut as a protagonist in the movie Lo Mejor de Teresa. The same year she participated in the films Chin Chin el Teporocho and Las Poquianchis, directed by Felipe Cazals
Felipe Cazals
Felipe Cazals is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer born in Guethary, France, but registered as born in Zapopan, Jalisco, where he lived his childhood, before being established with his family in Mexico City...
.
Career
In 1977, she starred in her first Mexican telenovelaTelenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...
Santa
Santa (film)
Santa is the first Mexican narrative sound film. It was directed by Antonio Moreno and starred Lupita Tovar, based on the novel of the same name by Federico Gamboa. In 1994, the Mexican magazine Somos published their list of "The 100 best movies of the cinema of Mexico" in its 100th edition and...
, and starred in the film Alucarda
Alucarda
Alucarda is a 1978 Mexican horror film directed by Mexican horror filmmaker Juan López Moctezuma, starring Tina Romero in the title role...
, directed by Juan Lopez Moctezuma with Claudio Brook
Claudio Brook
Claudio Brook was a Mexican actor. Born in Mexico City, Brook had a prolific career, making around 100 film and television appearances in his 38 years. He won two Ariel Awards. He died from stomach cancer in 1995....
, David Silva
David Silva
David Josué Jiménez Silva is a Spanish footballer who plays for Manchester City and the Spanish national team. Silva is capable of playing on the wing, as a traditional number 10 and sometimes as a supporting striker...
, considered a classic horror
Horror film
Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...
film. In 1979 she filmed Cuatro mujeres y un Hombre, Bandera Rota and My Horse Cantador, and also appeared in the telenovela Angel Guerra alongside Andrea Palma
Andrea Palma (Actress)
Andrea Palma was a Mexican film actress. She was considered The First Diva of Mexican and Latin American Cinema after her role in the Mexican film La Mujer del Puerto.-Early life:...
and Diana Bracho
Diana Bracho
Diana Bracho is a Mexican film, television and stage actress.-Early life:Diana Bracho is the daughter of actor/director Julio Bracho, the niece of actress Andrea Palma and the mother of actor Julio Bracho . She married Dr. Felipe Bracho, a university professor. They have a daughter, Andrea...
.
Romero married in the 1980s to the Mexican film director Gabriel Retes
Gabriel Retes
José Ignacio Gabriel Jorge Retes Balzaretti is a Mexican film director. His 1977 film Paper Flowers was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival.-Filmography:*Arresto domiciliario...
, with whom she had two children.
In the 1980s she filmed Estampas de Sor Juana and in 1982 makes her Hollywood debut in the film Missing
Missing (film)
Missing is a 1982 American drama film directed by Costa Gavras, and starring Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea, Charles Cioffi and Janice Rule...
starring Sissy Spacey. In 1983 Romero returned to Mexico and made film and television appareances as The Castaways of Liguria directed by her then husband Retes. In 1986 she starred in the film Miracles, and in 1988 returned to Hollywood to take part in Clif Ossmond's movie The Penitent. In México, she starred the telenovelas La Casa al Final de la Calle and Simplemente María
Simplemente Maria
Simplemente Maria ' is a telenovela, starring Victoria Ruffo, Manuel Saval, Jaime Garza and Silvia Derbez. The telenovela, a production of Valentín Pimstein , premiered on October 16, 1989 and ended on May 11, 1990 on El Canal de las Estrellas....
.
In the 1990s and 2000s she participated in such notable telenovelas as; Cadenas de Amargura (1991), Muchachitas
Muchachitas
Muchachitas is a Mexican telenovela. It was produced for Televisa by Emilio Larrosa, who also wrote the script during 1991 and 1992. The telenovela was also shown on Univisión in the early 1990s, and featured young up-and-coming actors who later became stars.-Full cast:* Cecilia Tijerina as Mónica...
(1991), Alondra
Alondra
The singer Alondra was born in Mexico City. She is a multi-platinum Billboard award winner and Latin Grammy-nominated recording artist. She was also known as "La Madrina de Menudo" for having a group of teenagers open for her concerts. This group eventually became known as the world famous Menudo....
(1995), Rosalinda (1999, with Thalía
Thalía
Ariadna Thalía Sodi Miranda , known simply by the mononym Thalía , is a Mexican singer and actress. She has sold over 40 million albums worldwide...
), Abrázame muy fuerte
Abrázame Muy Fuerte
Abrázame muy fuerte is a Mexican telenovela that aired in 2000–2001, under the production of Salvador Mejia and with Aracely Arámbula and Fernando Colunga as the protagonists.-Plot:...
(2000), and most recently Pasion
Pasión (telenovela)
Pasión ' is the telenovela that began transmissions on September 17, 2007, in Mexico; Canal de las Estrellas. The novela is a production of Carla Estrada and the stars are Susana González, Fernando Colunga, Sebastián Rulli, and Daniela Castro....
(2007), and Mi Pecado
Mi Pecado
Mi pecado is a Mexican telenovela that was produced by Televisa and aired on Canal de las Estrellas from 15 June 2009 through 13 November 2009...
(2009).
Televisión
- Llena de amorLlena de amor__FORCETOC__Llena de amor is a Mexican Spanish-language soap opera, produced by Televisa, that began airing in 2010. It is a remake of the 2002–2003 Venezuelan telenovela Mi Gorda Bella, which itself was inspired by the 1999–2001 Colombian telenovela Yo soy Betty, la fea.Llena de amor...
(2010) - Paula - Mi PecadoMi PecadoMi pecado is a Mexican telenovela that was produced by Televisa and aired on Canal de las Estrellas from 15 June 2009 through 13 November 2009...
(2009) - Asuncion - Verano de amorVerano de AmorVerano de amor is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa. It is a remake of a famous Argentine telenovela, Verano del 98, adapted for the Mexican audience. The soap opera premiered on February 9, 2009, replacing the completed series Juro que te amo...
(2009) - Pura Guerra (Participación especial) - El juramentoEl JuramentoEl Juramento is the title of a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo. It was a limited-run series that debuted in the US on June 30, 2008. It was based on Caridad Bravo Adams's story La Mentira , previously adapted for television in 1965 and...
(2008) - Silvia - PasionPasión (telenovela)Pasión ' is the telenovela that began transmissions on September 17, 2007, in Mexico; Canal de las Estrellas. The novela is a production of Carla Estrada and the stars are Susana González, Fernando Colunga, Sebastián Rulli, and Daniela Castro....
(2007) - Criada - Amarte asíAmarte asíAmarte así is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the American-based television network Telemundo. It stars Litzy, Mauricio Ochmann , Roberto Mateos, and Carla Peterson. It was written by Enrique Torres, directed by Heriberto Lopez de Anda, Cristina Palacios, Hugo A...
(2005) - Evangelina Lizuralde - El juego de la vida (2001) - Mercedes Pacheco
- Abrazame muy fuerteAbrázame Muy FuerteAbrázame muy fuerte is a Mexican telenovela that aired in 2000–2001, under the production of Salvador Mejia and with Aracely Arámbula and Fernando Colunga as the protagonists.-Plot:...
(2000) - Jacinta - Rosalinda (1999) - Dolores Romero
- La mentiraLa MentiraLa Mentira - telenovela, 1998). A production of Televisa, this Mexican telenovela is one of the most successful and popular series of all times.-General information:...
(1998) - Irma Moguel - La culpa (1996) - Lorena
- AlondraAlondra (telenovela)Alondra is a Mexican telenovela shown in 1995, written by Yolanda Vargas Dulché and produced by Carla Estrada, starring with Ana Colchero and the late Beatriz Sheridan...
(1995) - Cecilia - Buscando el paraíso (1994) - Elsa
- Mágica juventud (1992) - Participación especial
- MuchachitasMuchachitasMuchachitas is a Mexican telenovela. It was produced for Televisa by Emilio Larrosa, who also wrote the script during 1991 and 1992. The telenovela was also shown on Univisión in the early 1990s, and featured young up-and-coming actors who later became stars.-Full cast:* Cecilia Tijerina as Mónica...
(1991) - Verónica - Cadenas de amargura (1991) - Martha Gastelum
- La hora marcadaLa Hora MarcadaLa 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...
(episode "Por tu bien") - Carmen (1989) - Simplemente María (1989) - Gabriela
- La Casa al Final de la Calle (1987) - Marina
- El Rincón de los Prodigios (1987)
- Aprendiendo a Vivir (1984) - Silvia
- Bella y Bestia (1979)
- Parecido al Amor(1979)
- Ángel Guerra (1979) - Dulcenombre
- Santa (1978) - Santa
Film
- Sea Of Dreams (2006) - Raquel
- Las Lloronas (2004) - Esther
- Un Dulce Olor a Muerte (1999) - La Chata
- Crisis (1998) - Sandra
- Magnicidio (1995)
- Una Luz en la Escalera (1994) - Teresa Guzman
- La Señorita (1994)
- KinoKinoKino may refer to:In film and theatre:* Kino , a worldwide group of amateur filmmakers* Kino Flo, a manufacturer of lighting equipment for use in motion pictures.* Kino International, a movie theater in Berlin...
(1994) - Cortesana - Silencio de Muerte (1991)
- Violencia a sangre fría (1989)
- The Penitent (1988) - Sandra
- Miracles (1986) - Juanita
- Los Piratas (1986) Constanza
- De Puro Relajo (1986)
- Los Naufragos de Liguria (1985) - Constanza
- Mujeres Salvajes (1984)
- Noche de Carnaval (1984) - Irma
- Las Apariencias Engañan (1983)
- Missing (1982) - María
- Las Grandes Aguas (1980)
- Estampas de Sor Juana (1980)
- Bandera Rota (1979) - Ana
- Mi Caballo Cantador (1979)
- 4 Hembras y un Macho Menos (1979)
- AlucardaAlucardaAlucarda is a 1978 Mexican horror film directed by Mexican horror filmmaker Juan López Moctezuma, starring Tina Romero in the title role...
(1978) - Alucarda - Flor de PapelPaper Flowers (1977 film)Paper Flowers is a 1977 Mexican drama film directed by Gabriel Retes. It was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* Ana Luisa Peluffo* Gabriel Retes* Tina Romero* Claudio Brook* Ignacio Retes* Silvia Mariscal...
(1977) - Las Poquianchis (1976) - María Rosa
- Chin Chin el Teporocho (1976)
- Lo Mejor de Teresa (1976) - Teresa