Gabriela Roel

Acting

Gabriela Roel

Born 1959-11-13 · Delicias, Delicias, México

Gabriela Roel (b. 13 December 1959) is a Mexican film and television actress. Gabriela Roel studied theater at the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She began her artistic career in Mexican film and theater in the mid-1980s, with a role in the film "La casa que arde de noche" (The house that burns at night). Subsequently, she made her television debut in the soap opera "Pobre juventud". Since then she has had a prolific career as an actress in film, theater and television. In 2017 she was in charge of writing the theme song for the biographical series "Hoy voy a cambiar" about Lupita D'alessio premiered that same year and what at first was a dialogue for said biographical series, today is D'alessio's most recent and successful theme song.

Acting credits

El Dorado poster
6.3

The story of an expedition down the Orinoco and Amazon rivers in 1560 by Spanish soldiers searching for the fabled city of gold, El Dorado.

El Dorado

1988

Amber poster
5.1

Old Max remembers the time as a child when he was taken to the jungle where he met a prophet, a circus man and other weird characters.

Amber

1994

V/H/S/85 poster
5.7

Unveiled through a made-for-TV documentary, five chilling tales of found footage horror emerge to take viewers on a gore-filled journey through the grim underbelly of the forgotten 1980s.

V/H/S/85

2023

Bathroom Intimacy poster
5.4

A family crisis revealed through each member's bathroom intimacy.

Bathroom Intimacy

1989

I Murder Seriously poster
5.6

A cop sets out to find a man who has been delivering too much of a good thing in this offbeat comedy. Police detective Martinez (Jesus Ochoa) has been handed a most unusual case -- a number of local prostitutes have been murdered, and it's up to Martinez to bring in the killer. What makes the case truly unusual, though, is the manner of death; it seems the hookers all died as a result of having orgasms so powerful they were literally fatal. Teaming up with cultural anthropologist Onofre (Daniel Giménez Cacho), Martinez hits the streets looking for clues, and eventually gets some unexpected help from Father Gorkisolo (Santiago Segura), a priest with a unusually deep knowledge of sexual matters. Asesino en Serio was the first feature film from director Antonio Urrutia; noted Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro served as executive producer.

I Murder Seriously

2002

Old Gringo poster
5.7

A writer forms a triangle with a schoolmarm and a Mexican general on the run.

Old Gringo

1989

The Professor's Sins poster
3.7

What begins as a refuge turns into a battleground when a female professor (Claudia Vega) releases the bitterness she's carried for years into the arms of a much younger lover -- only to find out that he's one of her students. Things become complicated when the student's ex-girlfriend catches wind of the affair and decides to do everything in her power to come between teacher and student. Eleazar Gómez and Gabriela Roel co-star.

The Professor's Sins

2008

El Jeremías poster
6.9

In Sonora, Mexico. Jeremías, an eight year old, who finds out he is a gifted child initiates a journey of self discovery. When an opportunistic physiologist makes contact with Jeremías, a new world of experiences open up to him but at the expense of being away from the family he loves. Jeremías must choose between this exciting but lonely new world he finds himself in or returning home to his loving family.

El Jeremías

2016

City of the Blind poster
5.2

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.

City of the Blind

1991

Chido Guan, el tacos de oro poster
5.8

Street-punk drafted to soccer team, rises to stardom. Cuz he plays so good.

Chido Guan, el tacos de oro

1986

Three of Cups poster
6.1

While touring the towns, two revelers meet a beautiful woman who awakens greed and passion in both.

Three of Cups

1986

Banderas, the Tyrant poster
5.4

In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Banderas rules with an iron fist. A group of rebels trying to seize power by force while some liberals try a change of government legally.

Banderas, the Tyrant

1993

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NR

30 actresses and actors from Latin America, seek to evoke hope in the midst of the health and economic crisis unleashed by Covid-19, through the reading of fragments from the work of Gabriel García Márquez alluding to the plague of oblivion.

La peste del insomnio

2020

Viaje al paraíso poster
4.5

Family plans for a quiet weekend at the beach, but everything goes wrong.

Viaje al paraíso

1985

La Casa Que Arde de Noche poster
5.7

A prostitute enters a brothel and establishes a rivalry faking love with the old owner.

La Casa Que Arde de Noche

1985

Tenants poster
7.3

A couple arrives to an apartment complex where santeria and witchcraft are common practice.

Tenants

2018

To Love Too Much poster
4.5

Laura and Beatriz are two sisters in search of a dream in common: to run a guest house abroad and live off the rents. Laura travels to Spain to start off the project, and Beatriz remains alone in Mexico waiting for the right moment to catch up to her sister. While Beatriz nurtures the desire of moving away, she begins to feed off dreams and fantasies. In the midst of easy love affairs that earn her enough money to support Laura, Beatriz meets Carlos, a man with whom she travels throughout Mexico, discovering the inimaginable beauty of her country, her soul and her own body.

To Love Too Much

2002

Love Around the Corner poster
7.0

Maria escapes from prison. On the run, she breaks her ankle. Julian, a truck driver, finds her sitting at the roadside, crying. He picks her up and takes her to a hospital. On her first chance, Maria flees again and goes to a hotel, where she ends up as a prostitute. She frequents bars and saloons, commits some robberies, but neither sex, nor the tequila, can replace love.

Love Around the Corner

1986

Wooden Town poster
6.6

In this film festival favourite, every day is magical in the tiny logging town of San Miguel de Cruces, Mexico, thanks to director Juan Antonio de la Riva, who captures the rhythms of small-town life through the stories of its inhabitants. From a young couple facing separation as the husband prepares to seek work in the United States to a pair of teens on the cusp of adulthood to the local movie theatre operator struggling to stay open after the introduction of satellite dishes, Pueblo de madera portrays a town—and a people—in transition.

Wooden Town

1990

The Garden of Eden poster
7.3

Tijuana is a mystical city and the scene of different stories, where the characters search for meaning in their lives.

The Garden of Eden

1994

It's Better If Gabriela Doesn't Die poster
6.6

Miguel is a prominent writer of soaps that gets rid of a policeman who stops him for driving intoxicated by telling him the end of the current remake of the hit soap opera "Destiny of Love". This time, as Michael tells the police officer, Gabriela won't die and will get married. When the officer tells everyone that he knows the end of the melodrama nobody believes him, so he will watch Miguel in order to ensure he fulfills his promise. The actress who plays Gabriela has problems with the production department, so they ask the writers to kill Gabriela in the following chapters. Miguel will be in a series of entanglements while he decides whether it is better to ignore or evade his bosses or the harassment of this crazy fanatic police officer.

It's Better If Gabriela Doesn't Die

2008

In The MIddle of Nowhere poster
5.7

A retired union leader runs a restaurant by the highway with the help of his wife and his young son. One day a wounded criminal, his lover and his brother, all fugitives from law and being pursued by the woman's husband, forcefully seek out a hiding place. They take the family hostage until the delinquents are confronted.

In The MIddle of Nowhere

1993

Desde el más allá poster
5.8

A group of ambitious new filmmakers wants to sell a broadcaster a television program involving ghosts and paranormal events. They have lots of special effects, but special effects aren't necesary when something from beyond is lurking.

Desde el más allá

2017

Tales of the City poster
5.8

"Alguien se acerca", "Viajeros", "Lilí" and "Azul celeste", four stories directed by Ramón Cervantes, Rafael Montero, Gerardo Lara and María Novaro, respectively.

Tales of the City

1988