María Rubio

Acting

María Rubio

Born — Died

1934-09-21 — 2018-03-01

Place of birth

Tijuana - Baja California - Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

39 titles

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

La rosa de Guadalupe poster
7.1

Stories about people who get into problems who use the help of Virgin Mary and where a rose appears and their problems are solved.

La rosa de Guadalupe

2008

Una familia con suerte poster
7.7

A Mexican telenovela based on the Argentinean telenovela Los Roldán.

Una familia con suerte

2011

Salomé poster
7.1

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.

Salomé

2001

El Derecho de Nacer poster
8.2

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 Derecho de Nacer

1981

Tú eres mi destino poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tú eres mi destino

1984

Rina poster
7.7

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.

Rina

1977

Film credits

1990s · 5 titles

1980s · 7 titles

Bloody Moon poster
5.0

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.

Bloody Moon

1981

Monstroid poster
3.6

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.

Monstroid

1980

Valentina poster
6.1

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.

Valentina

1982

Perché non facciamo l'amore poster
3.9

No synopsis available yet.

Perché non facciamo l'amore

1981

Murder in the Central Committee poster
4.7

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.

Murder in the Central Committee

1982

Las trampas del matrimonio poster
7.0

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...

Las trampas del matrimonio

1982

El caso de las envenenadas de Valencia poster
7.0

Valencia, 1955. A down-on-her-luck spinster poisons her friend and employers out of envy.

El caso de las envenenadas de Valencia

1985

1970s · 6 titles

Series credits

La rosa de Guadalupe poster
7.1

Stories about people who get into problems who use the help of Virgin Mary and where a rose appears and their problems are solved.

La rosa de Guadalupe

2008

Una familia con suerte poster
7.7

A Mexican telenovela based on the Argentinean telenovela Los Roldán.

Una familia con suerte

2011

Salomé poster
7.1

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.

Salomé

2001

El Derecho de Nacer poster
8.2

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 Derecho de Nacer

1981

Tú eres mi destino poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tú eres mi destino

1984

Rina poster
7.7

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.

Rina

1977

Las Dos Caras de Ana poster
7.3

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.

Las Dos Caras de Ana

2006

Labyrinth of Passion poster
7.5

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.

Labyrinth of Passion

1999

Crystal Empire poster
6.0

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.

Crystal Empire

1994

Den of Wolves poster
7.5

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.

Den of Wolves

1986

Amor Gitano poster
9.5

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.

Amor Gitano

1999

Querida enemiga poster
2.0

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.

Querida enemiga

2008

Amada enemiga poster
9.0

Amada Enemiga is 1997 Mexican telenovela, starring Dominika Paleta, Susana Dosamantes and Enrique Ibáñez. It was produced by Televisa. This telenovela contained 80 episodes.

Amada enemiga

1997

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Te amo

1984

Abandonada poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Abandonada

1985

El show: crónica de un asesinato poster
7.6

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.

El show: crónica de un asesinato

2023

No tengo madre poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

No tengo madre

1997

Muchacha italiana viene a casarse poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Muchacha italiana viene a casarse

1971