María Rubio

Acting

María Rubio

Born September 21, 1934 · Tijuana - Baja California - Mexico

Died March 1, 2018 · aged 83

María de Jesús Rubio Tejero was a first Mexican actress. She is remembered for her impeccable portrayal of Catalina Creel in the highly successful telenovela Cuna de lobos in Mexico and Latin America. Additionally, People en Español magazine ranked it as one of the ten best soap operas. Catalina Creel has been a figure throughout the world as the best villain of all time.

Known For

MonstroidMonstroid · 1980
Monstroid
3.61980
MovieHorrorScience Fiction
A rural Colombian village is attacked by a horrible sea serpent, aroused by industrial pollution of a nearby lake. Based on a real event that took place in June of 1971.
ValentinaValentina · 1982
Valentina
6.11982
MovieDrama
In 1939, in a French prison camp, José Garcés of the defeated Spanish Republican army raises the spirits of his fellow prisoners by telling the story of the year he was 8 years old, 1911, in a small town in northeastern Spain. He was a rascal, baffling his father, always in trouble, and in love with Valentina, a neighbor girl. On his roof top at night he sends semaphore messages to her. He writes poems. He gets them into trouble, killing her father's breeding pigeons. When the two families camp at a decaying castle, his tutor, a sympathetic priest, tells him about the most valiant men, the saints, the heroes, and the poets. Already a poet, he learns a lesson about being a hero.
El hijo de Huracán RamírezEl hijo de Huracán Ramírez · 1966
El hijo de Huracán Ramírez
5.91966
MovieDramaAction
A wrestler is arrested on suspicion of assault, but his son manages to capture the real culprits.
El rediezcubrimiento de MéxicoEl rediezcubrimiento de México · 1979
El rediezcubrimiento de México
5.61979
MovieDramaAdventure
forty years without sexforty years without sex · 1979
forty years without sex
4.01979
MovieComedy
Through various episodes we are shown sexual repression and desire at the same time, in the Spanish of yesteryear.
La noche violentaLa noche violenta · 1970
La noche violenta
4.21970
Movie
Police are chasing him for a murder, so man breaks into an expensive home and takes husband and wife hostage. The bloodshed continues...
Bloody MoonBloody Moon · 1981
Bloody Moon
5.01981
MovieHorrorThriller
After being released from a mental asylum, a disfigured man becomes obsessed with a student at his sister’s boarding school while grappling with his dark past.
Las trampas del matrimonioLas trampas del matrimonio · 1982
Las trampas del matrimonio
7.01982
MovieDrama
A writer, a professional journalist currently working for his father-in-law's company, has a bad relationship with his wife and is dumped by her. He then decides to return to his real profession and moves to a new city. While there, he begins a relationship with a young woman...

Movies

MonstroidMonstroid · 1980
Monstroid
3.61980
MovieHorrorScience Fiction
A rural Colombian village is attacked by a horrible sea serpent, aroused by industrial pollution of a nearby lake. Based on a real event that took place in June of 1971.
ValentinaValentina · 1982
Valentina
6.11982
MovieDrama
In 1939, in a French prison camp, José Garcés of the defeated Spanish Republican army raises the spirits of his fellow prisoners by telling the story of the year he was 8 years old, 1911, in a small town in northeastern Spain. He was a rascal, baffling his father, always in trouble, and in love with Valentina, a neighbor girl. On his roof top at night he sends semaphore messages to her. He writes poems. He gets them into trouble, killing her father's breeding pigeons. When the two families camp at a decaying castle, his tutor, a sympathetic priest, tells him about the most valiant men, the saints, the heroes, and the poets. Already a poet, he learns a lesson about being a hero.
El hijo de Huracán RamírezEl hijo de Huracán Ramírez · 1966
El hijo de Huracán Ramírez
5.91966
MovieDramaAction
A wrestler is arrested on suspicion of assault, but his son manages to capture the real culprits.
El rediezcubrimiento de MéxicoEl rediezcubrimiento de México · 1979
El rediezcubrimiento de México
5.61979
MovieDramaAdventure
forty years without sexforty years without sex · 1979
forty years without sex
4.01979
MovieComedy
Through various episodes we are shown sexual repression and desire at the same time, in the Spanish of yesteryear.
La noche violentaLa noche violenta · 1970
La noche violenta
4.21970
Movie
Police are chasing him for a murder, so man breaks into an expensive home and takes husband and wife hostage. The bloodshed continues...
Bloody MoonBloody Moon · 1981
Bloody Moon
5.01981
MovieHorrorThriller
After being released from a mental asylum, a disfigured man becomes obsessed with a student at his sister’s boarding school while grappling with his dark past.
Las trampas del matrimonioLas trampas del matrimonio · 1982
Las trampas del matrimonio
7.01982
MovieDrama
A writer, a professional journalist currently working for his father-in-law's company, has a bad relationship with his wife and is dumped by her. He then decides to return to his real profession and moves to a new city. While there, he begins a relationship with a young woman...
Some birds aren't mean to be cagedSome birds aren't mean to be caged · 2016
Some birds aren't mean to be caged
2016
MovieDramaRomance
Manuel and Adela are not going through the best stage of their relationship. In a trip to Las Cañas lake they will meet Santi, a young bird spotter.
Traficantes de NiñosTraficantes de Niños · 1992
Traficantes de Niños
5.21992
MovieCrimeDrama
Film about child trafficking in México.
Con el amor no se juegaCon el amor no se juega · 1991
Con el amor no se juega
6.51991
Movie
Susana, a beautiful young girl living in 1990, is happily looking forward to her forthcoming marriage - and has bought an antique mirror to grace her future home. Three weeks before the wedding, the mirror is delivered to her Grandmother's home and taken to Susana's room. Later that day, when looking into the glass, Susana is startled to see the image of a handsome soldier, Nicolas (from 1863), instead of her own reflection. It soon becomes obvious that he can see Susana as clearly as she can see him - and life, for them both, is never quite the same again. Contains three shorts as a trilogy: The Two Way Mirror (El espejo de dos lunas) 1990, 0:29:23 With You from a Distance (Contigo en la distancia) 1991, 0:27:38 Saturday Night Thief (Ladrón de sábado) 1996, 0:24:57
Murder in the Central CommitteeMurder in the Central Committee · 1982
Murder in the Central Committee
4.71982
MovieThriller
The plot follows a private detective, an ex communist and former CIA agent, who travels from Barcelona to Madrid to discover the identity of the assassin of the leader of the Spanish Communist party who was stabbed during a blackout while presiding over a meeting of the party's central committee. The film is a thriller with ironic political overtones.
Perché non facciamo l'amorePerché non facciamo l'amore · 1981
Perché non facciamo l'amore
3.91981
MovieComedy
To Die... To Sleep... Perchance to DreamTo Die... To Sleep... Perchance to Dream · 1976
To Die... To Sleep... Perchance to Dream
6.21976
MovieDrama
Given the proximity of death, the experiences of the past come to the memory of Juan. In a fragmented, sometimes confused way, Juan relives the crucial moments of his life, always linked to the names of women. Moments that remind him of having missed numerous opportunities to be happy.
El caso de las envenenadas de ValenciaEl caso de las envenenadas de Valencia · 1985
El caso de las envenenadas de Valencia
7.01985
MovieCrime
Valencia, 1955. A down-on-her-luck spinster poisons her friend and employers out of envy.
A Secretary's IntimaciesA Secretary's Intimacies · 1971
A Secretary's Intimacies
6.81971
MovieDrama
Mexican feature film
No One Will Love You Like I DoNo One Will Love You Like I Do · 1972
No One Will Love You Like I Do
6.01972
Movie
A student-movement leftist becomes a nun and absorbs lots of deep, deep TV-movie spiritual lessons about God's glorious plan.
The Simón's Jigsaw: A Trip to the Universe of Juan Piquer SimónThe Simón's Jigsaw: A Trip to the Universe of Juan Piquer Simón · 2015
The Simón's Jigsaw: A Trip to the Universe of Juan Piquer Simón
2015
MovieDocumentary
A journey through the work of Spanish filmmaker Juan Piquer Simón (1935-2011).
Diabolical VengeanceDiabolical Vengeance · 1990
Diabolical Vengeance
6.31990
MovieHorror
Mexican revenge horror.
Vivir o morirVivir o morir · 1990
Vivir o morir
6.31990
Movie
Mexican feature film

TV Shows

La rosa de GuadalupeLa rosa de Guadalupe · 2008
La rosa de Guadalupe
7.12008
SeriesDrama
Stories about people who get into problems who use the help of Virgin Mary and where a rose appears and their problems are solved.
Una familia con suerteUna familia con suerte · 2011
Una familia con suerte
7.72011
SeriesComedyDrama
A Mexican telenovela based on the Argentinean telenovela Los Roldán.
Las Dos Caras de AnaLas Dos Caras de Ana · 2006
Las Dos Caras de Ana
2.02006
SeriesDrama
Las Dos Caras de Ana is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa and Fonovideo that debuted in 2006, starring: Ana Layevska and Rafael Amaya. The telenovela was made, filmed and set in Miami, Florida. The title is upon the phrase Las Dos Caras de Jano.
Querida enemigaQuerida enemiga · 2008
Querida enemiga
2.02008
Series
Querida Enemiga is a telenovela distributed by Televisa. It starts Ana Layevska, Gabriel Soto, Carmen Becerra and Jorge Aravena. The telenovela is a production of Lucero Suárez.
Den of WolvesDen of Wolves · 1986
Den of Wolves
7.51986
SeriesDrama
Cuna de lobos is a Mexican soap opera produced by Televisa and broadcast by Canal de las Estrellas in 1986 to 1987. The serial, about the struggle for power within a wealthy Mexican dynasty, was enormously popular in its native Mexico. It was also a hit in several foreign countries, including the United States, Germany and Australia. The soap opera starring antagonistically María Rubio as the main villain interpreting the evil "Catalina Creel", with Gonzalo Vega, Diana Bracho, Alejandro Camacho and Rebecca Jones.
SaloméSalomé · 2001
Salomé
7.12001
SeriesDrama
Fernanda Quiñones, whose stage name is Salomé, is a dancer who works at the D'Rubí cabaret in Mexico City with her friend Karicia. One day, Salomé meets Julio, son of the millionaire Montesino family, who is married to Ángela, a sickly woman who cannot have children. Lucrecia, Julio's mother, who is obsessed with the idea of ​​having a grandson who will inherit the family fortune, proposes to Salomé that she be the mother of that grandson. But, when she finds out that Julio, even though he loves her, will not only not leave Angela, but that she will be the one to raise the child as if it were her own, she flees far away with her son and two other babies abandoned by a neighbor. Twenty years later, Salomé becomes a wealthy business woman who lives with her three children. When he returns to Mexico, Julio and his mother will try to find out who Salomé and Julio's son is.
Amada enemigaAmada enemiga · 1997
Amada enemiga
9.01997
SeriesDrama
Amada Enemiga is 1997 Mexican telenovela, starring Dominika Paleta, Susana Dosamantes and Enrique Ibáñez. It was produced by Televisa. This telenovela contained 80 episodes.
Crystal EmpireCrystal Empire · 1994
Crystal Empire
6.01994
SeriesDrama
Imperio de Cristal is a Mexican telenovela that aired on Televisa in 1994 with 124-episode from the plot to the main cast it was officially first launched on Monday, 29 August 1994 & ceased transmission on Friday, 17 February 1995 was aired runtime of 45-minutes with commercial on weekday at 21:00 to 22:00 CST/22:00 to 23:00 MST/23:00 to 00:00 PST.
El Derecho de NacerEl Derecho de Nacer · 1981
El Derecho de Nacer
7.71981
SeriesDrama
A young woman visits Dr. Alberto Limonta seeking an abortion because she does not want to have the child, but the doctor attempts to dissuade her by telling her a story. It is the story of the Del Junco family—one of the wealthiest in the city of Veracruz—comprising Don Rafael, the strict patriarch; his devoted wife, Clemencia; and their daughters, María Elena and Matilde, who are in the care of their Black nanny, María Dolores.
El show: crónica de un asesinatoEl show: crónica de un asesinato · 2023
El show: crónica de un asesinato
7.62023
SeriesDocumentaryCrime
The murder of Paco Stanley, the most popular comedian on television in Mexico, unleashes a series of intrigues in the world of politics and entertainment. Through an in-depth investigation, the use of archival material of the time and the direct testimony of the main people involved in the case, this documentary series delves into the culture of show business and exposes the lies and tragedies that unexpectedly marked the arrival of democracy in Mexico in the year 2000.
Amor GitanoAmor Gitano · 1999
Amor Gitano
9.51999
Series
En un lejano pasado donde las injusticias son pan de cada día, Rodolfo Farnesio, vil señor feudal, se dispone a exigir su "derecho a la pernada" sobre una campesina y para eso irrumpe en la boda de la muchacha. Pero sus planes son interrumpidos por la llegada del noble Renzo el Gitano. Pronto Renzo se verá obligado a defender a otra víctima de Farnesio. Se trata de la Condesa Adriana de Astolfi que está siendo forzada a casarse con el villano. Para deshacerse del gitano, Rodolfo lo acusa de un crimen que no ha cometido y hace que lo deporten a la Isla de los Condenados, una infecta isla-prisión. Allá lo sigue Adriana, que bajo la personalidad de "Luna" podrá amarlo libremente. Pero nuevamente, Rodolfo se interpone y los separa. Adriana, ahora amnésica, se convertirá en la esposa de Rodolfo. Tendrá que regresar Renzo, bajo otra identidad, para rescatarla de Rodolfo y de la ex tabernera Isa Valenti quien, a base de chantajes, se ha convertido en la cuñada de Adriana.
Tú eres mi destinoTú eres mi destino · 1984
Tú eres mi destino
9.01984
SeriesDrama
No tengo madreNo tengo madre · 1997
No tengo madre
6.71997
SeriesDramaComedy
Labyrinth of PassionLabyrinth of Passion · 1999
Labyrinth of Passion
7.31999
SeriesDrama
Laberintos de pasión is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa in 1999. Starring Leticia Calderon, Francisco Gattorno, César Évora, in addition to the participation of Manuel Ojeda, Monika Sanchez and Azela Robinson.
RinaRina · 1977
Rina
7.71977
SeriesDrama
The story follows Rina, a young hunchback who sells flowers to support her father and siblings after being abandoned by her mother. One day, while selling her flowers, she is beckoned from a window by Leopoldo—a wealthy, elderly, bitter, and invalid man—who manipulates her into marrying him because he refuses to leave his inheritance to his sister-in-law, Rafaela. Rina agrees to the marriage due to financial hardship. Shortly thereafter, Leopoldo dies, and Rina inherits a vast fortune. She undergoes surgery to correct her hunchback and transforms into a beautiful woman. Unwilling to accept the loss of the inheritance, Rafaela devises a scheme with the help of her son, Carlos Augusto, who has recently been widowed.
AbandonadaAbandonada · 1985
Abandonada
8.01985
Series
Muchacha italiana viene a casarseMuchacha italiana viene a casarse · 1971
Muchacha italiana viene a casarse
7.01971
SeriesDrama