Teresa Sánchez

Acting

Teresa Sánchez

Born 1968-03-10 · Mexico City, Mexico

Since she was a child she was always interested in shows and art, interests that stood out above school subjects, giving more interest to dance, music and theater. She finally became interested in theater during a break from school and got to know the Centro Cultural del Bosque, where she began to frequent and attend the plays that were presented. In high school she enrolled in a theater workshop, where, regardless of the discrimination she suffered for being an overweight woman, she understood that it could be the profession she wanted to pursue. Teresa moved to the city of Morelia, where she began to study in the theater workshops offered by the houses of culture and went through several plays until she participated in one that was presented at the National Theater Showcase of Mexico, and with which she began to gain some recognition. After several plays in her career the actress debuted in film with the movie ¿Dónde están sus historias, followed by Jodidos polleros (2007) and Verano de Goliat (2010) with which she obtained her first Ariel award nomination, as best actress in 2012. She has worked in feature films such as El silencioso (2010), Minotauro (2015) and La camarista (2018), a film that gave her her second Ariel nomination, this time in the category of best female co-actress.

Acting credits

The Face poster
NR

17-year-old Joel, a recently recruited night guard, watches over a compound marked by cartel violence. When the darkness begins to whisper, he realizes some secrets never die.

The Face

2026

Tótem poster
6.8

In a bustling Mexican household, seven-year-old Sol is swept up in a whirlwind of preparations for the birthday party for her father, Tona, led by her mother, aunts, and other relatives. As the day goes on, building to an event both anticipated and dreaded, Sol begins to understand the gravity of the celebration this year and watches as her family does the same.

Tótem

2023

Everything Else Is Noise poster
NR

Rosa, a contemporary music composer, agrees to give her first television interview at her colleague Tere’s apartment to keep it secret from her husband. What begins as a simple professional conversation turns into an absurd and comic portrait of rivalries and affections among three women—Rosa, Tere, and Tere’s daughter Luisa—interrupted by power outages, a constantly barking dog, and the visit of a famous composer. As the interview unravels, family and artistic tensions surface, revealing, with humor, both the fragility of prestige and the strength of complicity.

Everything Else Is Noise

2026

The Huntress poster
NR

In the border city of Juárez, México, where violence against women is perpetrated with impunity, an unlikely defender emerges with a desperate call for change. Inspired by true events.

The Huntress

2026

Prayers for the Stolen poster
7.6

Ana and her two best friends, Maria and Paula, navigate life in their oppressive countryside village. Whilst their families struggle in the poppy fields harvesting opium, the girls try to grow alongside the creeping terror of their cartel oppressors.

Prayers for the Stolen

2021

Flies poster
7.2

Olga lives a strictly regulated life without attachments in a vast apartment block. When out of financial necessity she rents a room in her apartment to a man who also sneaks-in his nine-year-old son, an unlikely bond forms. Her carefully controlled world begins to shift, and their lives become intertwined against her will.

Flies

2026

The Follies poster
6.4

Six women share a common 'friend': madness. It visits us all, pushes us to decide reality, to make daring decisions and to transform our lives.

The Follies

2025

Far From the Trees poster
7.0

Adela, a Mexican sound artist, travels from the jungle to the Peruvian Andes alongside Lucho, a guide and translator. Following the legacy of her grandfather, a Republican exiled in Mexico, she weaves a sound map of endangered languages. When the fear of death breaks in, reality fractures. The journey turns into an intimate passage that confronts her with memory, grief, uprooting and identity.

Far From the Trees

2026

Juana poster
NR

Juana is a woman driven by an unshakable sense of duty who delves into infamous crimes against women, giving herself entirely to the pursuit of truth. Each revelation carries weight and each step forward increases the tension, drawing the viewer into a world where obsession, courage, and vulnerability collide.

Juana

2025

The Chambermaid poster
6.5

Eve, a young chambermaid at a luxurious Mexico City hotel, confronts the monotony of long workdays with quiet examinations of forgotten belongings and budding friendships that nourish her newfound and determined dream for a better life.

The Chambermaid

2019

Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building poster
NR

Mexico City, early 90s. The day Bruno turns 11, his growing feelings for his best friend Vladimir clash with the sudden announcement that his father has HIV. Like in salsa songs, his family tries to sing and dance their pain away. Thirty years later, Bruno films and reimagine the memory of what he could not quite perceive as a child.

Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building

2026

Crocodiles poster
NR

A young photojournalist in the city of Veracruz, Mexico, will risk his life to dig up a shocking truth after picking up the investigation that his journalist friend and mentor left unfinished when getting killed by the organized crime.

Crocodiles

2025

Heartbeat poster
7.0

The newly separated Leonor comes from the monied class, while sixteen year old aspiring ballerina Emilia does not. They begin a tense pas de deux waiting out Emilia’s pregnancy in a remote country home, isolated from the world and each other.

Heartbeat

2023

Dos estaciones poster
5.7

Fifty-year-old Maria Garcia is the owner of the Dos Estaciones, a once-majestic tequila factory struggling to stay afloat, and the final hold-over from generations of Mexican-owned tequila plants in the highlands of Jalisco; the rest have folded to foreign corporations. Once one of the wealthiest people in town, Maria knows her current financial situation is untenable. When a persistent plague and an unexpected flood cause irreversible damage, she is forced to do everything she can to save her community's main source of economy and pride.

Dos estaciones

2022

The Palace poster
5.3

The Palace is a documentary that follows the everyday life of seventeen women who live together, sharing a large house for emotional and financial reasons. They help each other to train for various jobs. Most become nannies, domestic workers and private nurses for elderly patients.

The Palace

2013

Xibalba Monster poster
NR

Rogelio (8) wants to unravel the mystery of death. When his parents send him off to Yucatán, he meets the Xibalba Monster, an old hermit who is sick but has made a deal with the Lords of the Underworld to remain amongst the living.

Xibalba Monster

2025

Tere poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tere

2021

The Immaculate Honey poster
8.0

Chucho is taken care of by his mother Alma for a few days, during which they will grow closer.

The Immaculate Honey

2025

Copper poster
NR

On the outskirts of an isolated mining town, Lázaro discovers a dead body. He thinks he has a respiratory illness and doesn’t want to go back to the mine. Rumours, suspicion and desire surround him.

Copper

2025

Till Your Soul Dances poster
NR

Alma, a middle-aged woman, really wants to attend dance classes. However, her busy daily routine of caring for her sick mother Gladys and the lack of cooperation from her brother Rubén prevent her from doing so.

Till Your Soul Dances

2024

The Days of Love poster
6.0

In the 1920s, Mexico was still in a state of near-chaos. Rebellions and revolutions had followed one after the other for decades. Though things were beginning to settle down some, it was still a time when one had the feeling that anything could happen.

The Days of Love

1972

Lázaro at Night poster
5.2

Three friends – a trio in love – get together after an audition. Their prosaic exchanges take a different turn when they remember how they met.

Lázaro at Night

2024

Fauna poster
5.5

Luisa and Gabino visit their parents in a mining town in the north of Mexico. Their father’s only interest in them is sparked by Luisa’s actor boyfriend when he acts out the role of a narco kingpin. To cope with family tensions, Gabino imagines a parallel reality of detectives and organized crime.

Fauna

2021

Estanislao poster
6.7

After 15 years, Mateo returns to the old textile factory to say goodbye to his recently deceased mother. Incidentally, he will have to spend time with his alcoholic father, whom he can't stand.

Estanislao

2021