Verónica Merchant

Acting

Verónica Merchant

Born November 28, 1963 · Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico (age 62)

Verónica Merchant (November 28, 1963) is a Mexican film, theater, and television actress, recognized as one of the most accomplished and versatile performers of her generation. She won the Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the acclaimed film Deep Crimson (1996) and has received numerous nominations and awards from theater critics. Her career is distinguished by a consistent b…

Known For

Hasta MorirHasta Morir · 1994
Hasta Morir
5.01994
MovieActionCrime
A street kid's wish to run away to Tijuana is hampered by lies and betrayal
Deep CrimsonDeep Crimson · 1996
Deep Crimson
6.81996
MovieCrimeDrama
Driven by desire and desperate for self-love, Coral and Nicolás will abandon their past lives in a journey surrounded by murder.
Sex, Love And Other Perversions IISex, Love And Other Perversions II · 2006
Sex, Love And Other Perversions II
2.82006
MovieComedy
The private, the forbidden and the obscene. Eight short stories to be moved, surprised and have fun. Three different views about relationships, love, sex; three directors will take you from comedy to drama and backford, from the story of an old lady with cancer having a love affair to the love between two teenagers who try to make love for the first time or to the burning desire of a cop who is bewitched by cupid.
SpamSpam · 2008
Spam
3.02008
Movie
Tobias, a maladjusted young high-school student, must use his investigative skills to stop a deadly supernatural chain started by one of his school friends, Lucia, before death reaches them.
City of the BlindCity of the Blind · 1991
City of the Blind
5.21991
MovieDrama
Over more than thirty years, a department of the Condesa in Mexico City, is the setting in which they are carried out ten stories, mixed, form one whose only constant is the rupture. The passage of time and the outside world only guess through the windows and objects that come with the characters. The set is a great solitude, possible in a city of the blind.
The Beginning and the EndThe Beginning and the End · 1994
The Beginning and the End
7.61994
MovieDrama
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.
Nadie te habla: Manos libresNadie te habla: Manos libres · 2005
Nadie te habla: Manos libres
7.32005
MovieThrillerDrama
Two students at a Mexico City university are desperate to attend an Acapulco rave — so desperate that they’ll kidnap a girl to raise the funds to get there.
Christmas, Inc.Christmas, Inc. · 2008
Christmas, Inc.
7.12008
MovieComedy
With Christmas approaching, Santa Claus has to contend with the fact that the North Pole is melting and find a way to rid the holiday of its capitalist nature.

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Tu vida es mi vidaTu vida es mi vida · 2024
Tu vida es mi vida
8.52024
SeriesFamilySoap
Paula, a woman who, upon finding out that she suffers from an illness, for which she has 6 to 8 months to live, rethinks her existence and abandons her job as a businesswoman to spend this time with her 3 children. Upon arriving at the town there will be a confrontation between Lorenzo and Pepe's family, a good man with noble feelings who has just asked his wife for a divorce, a selfish woman who is unfaithful to him with Rafa, his own brother. Although the relationship between them begins in a less than cordial manner, Paula and Pepe cannot help but feel attraction for each other. Paula's illness, family secrets from the past, the problems that her children will face, combined with the intrigues of Malena, Pepe's wife, and Rolando, Paula's suitor who, together with Natalia, her partner and supposed best friend, will cause all kinds of conflicts to prevent the union of Paula and Pepe
Una luz en el caminoUna luz en el camino · 1998
Una luz en el camino
7.01998
SeriesFamilyDrama
Una luz en el camino is a Mexican children's telenovela produced by Mapat L. de Zatarain for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from March 30 to July 31, 1998. It is an adaptation of the Argentine children's telenovela El árbol azul (1991–1992), created by Mario L. Mortheo and adapted for Mexican television by Alejandro Orive and Carlos Daniel González. The story follows Luciana, a young girl who loses her mother at an early age and longs to have a loving family again. After meeting child psychologist Marcela, she becomes determined to bring her and her widowed father, Rodrigo, together. Along the way, they must overcome grief, misunderstandings, and the schemes of the ambitious Astrid, who seeks to marry Rodrigo for his fortune.

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