Mónica Dionne

Acting

Mónica Dionne

Born

1967-02-07 (59)

Place of birth

Waterbury, Connecticut, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

46 titles

Mónica Xochitl Dionne Lazo is an American actress born in Waterbury, Connecticut. She is of Mexican descent. Dionne is best known for her roles in telenovelas produced by TV Azteca. She also acted in movies such as "Sexo, pudor y lágrimas" where she played the role of "María". In 2007 she played the role of Flavia Portillo de Cisneros in the telenovela Madre Luna.

Known for

DOC poster
9.3

After an attack wipes 12 years of memories, a brilliant doctor must relearn his past, navigate tangled romances and a looming scandal over a new medication.

DOC

2026

Mrs. Garcia and Her Daughters poster
7.5

Determined mother Mrs. Garcia strives to give daughters Valeria and Mar a better future, shielding them from poverty. She'll fight to see her dreams reflected in them and provide the highest standard of living.

Mrs. Garcia and Her Daughters

2024

Nothing Personal poster
7.5

Police chief Fernándo Gomez Miranda kills his friend, the well-respected lawyer and likely candidate for Attorney General, Raúl de Los Reyes and his youngest daughter of only thirteen in a vehicle ambush. Gomez' son, Luis Mario – a sad-eyed broadcast journalist of passionate conviction – arrives on the scene soon after with his camera and discovers a wounded survivor in the car; Camila, the eldest daughter of de Los Reyes. Luis rushes her to the hospital, saving her life and thereby creating a bond between them that he cannot escape. Luis' half-brother, police detective Alfonso Carbajal, is assigned to the case. An old schoolmate of Camila's, Alfonso has long been in love with her and conflicts arise when all evidence points to Camila being involved in the drug trade. The two brothers find themselves caught between their professional duty that would require them to expose Camila and their desire to protect her.

Nothing Personal

1996

The Arrival poster
6.0

Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a Hitchcockian labyrinth of paranoia and intrigue.

The Arrival

1996

Momfluencer: The Mother of All Lies poster
6.0

Lucrecia lives with her boyfriend Fede, and neither of them wants to have children. But when Fede changes his mind and Lucrecia decides to leave him, Lucrecia faces a lot of social pressure to become a mother and in a fit of rage, posts a fake pregnancy test on social media. She then becomes @momfluencer, one of the biggest mom influencers, until she must reckon with the burden of keeping the lie.

Momfluencer: The Mother of All Lies

2025

No manches, Frida poster
7.7

After being released from prison, Zequi, a bank robber, sets out to recover money buried by his accomplice; but is horrified to learn that a high school gymnasium is now over the site where the loot is hidden.

No manches, Frida

2016

Film credits

2020s · 7 titles

Sex, Shame and Tears 2 poster
6.7

Twenty years have passed since those two apartments in the heart of Mexico City were the battlefield of a war of the sexes between Ana, Carlos, Andrea, Miguel, Tomás and María. All that is left of those apartments are memories and the image of Tomás' dead body at the bottom of the elevator shaft. Their lives have changed, their families have grown and new and unexpected characters have come to unsettle their daily lives and trigger a chain of events that will make them realize that modesty has been replaced by public disclosure; sex is only an app away; but love...love is still something elusive that everyone in today's banal and chaotic world is seeking.

Sex, Shame and Tears 2

2022

Dear Sobriety: You're Killing Me poster
5.3

Raffi, nearly forty and defiant of the system, has cycled through rehab countless times. After being kicked out of the clinic in his fifth attempt to get clean, he is forced to return to the person he despises most: his mother. Two days later, she kicks him out, and Raffi turns to Trino, his last remaining friend, for refuge. When he learns that his high school crush, Inés, is newly divorced, Raffi vows to win her over, even if it means getting a regular job, growing up, and finally taking his recovery seriously.

Dear Sobriety: You're Killing Me

2026

The Wingwalker poster
8.2

A young widower is deported as his daughter is scheduled for a heart transplant, this will lead him to orchestrate the boldest border crossing plan in history.

The Wingwalker

2024

El sabor de la Navidad poster
8.5

Three parallel stories revolving around Mexico City’s Christmas celebrations intertwine in the film’s finale. In the first story, an estranged daughter seeks reconciliation with her family. In the second, two friends put their friendship to the test when they start working as competing Santa Clauses in Alameda Central Park. In the third, a lonely chef that cooks Christmas dinners for other families confronts her feelings for her kitchen assistant.

El sabor de la Navidad

2023

The Divine Tragedy poster
NR

Follows Cristián, a refined traditionalist homosexual who is abandoned by his rich husband Carlos after a 24-year relationship and is forced to live with his wild, sexually hedonistic gay half-brother Roy.

The Divine Tragedy

2026

A Year of Marriage poster
NR

It's 1991. Ana and Juan, a newlywed couple, receive a creature as a wedding gift. Amid the oppressive atmosphere of Juan's family, will they be able to care for it for a year to preserve their marriage?

A Year of Marriage

2025

Mundos cósmicos poster
NR

Drugs won’t solve your problems, but they might help. At least that’s what Memo, a artist tortured by his own failure, thinks. About to turn 30, and in a troubled relationship with his girlfriend, Memo decides to try LSD for the first time in hopes that a psychedelic trip provides him with the answers he so desperately needs. Through the use of this hallucinogenic substance, Memo will access parts of his psyche previously unknown even to him. Come along for the ride.

Mundos cósmicos

2023

2010s · 15 titles

No manches, Frida poster
7.7

After being released from prison, Zequi, a bank robber, sets out to recover money buried by his accomplice; but is horrified to learn that a high school gymnasium is now over the site where the loot is hidden.

No manches, Frida

2016

4 Moons poster
7.3

Four interwoven stories about love and self-acceptance: An eleven year-old boy struggles to keep secret the attraction he feels towards his male cousin. Two former childhood friends reunite and start a relationship that gets complicated due to one of them’s fear of getting caught. A gay long lasting relationship is in jeopardy when a third man comes along. An old family man is obsessed with a young male prostitute and tries to raise the money to afford the experience.

4 Moons

2014

Canon (Fidelidad al límite) poster
7.2

Mariana and Julian are a couple that have been happily married for many years. They have two kids: Juan Maria and Bibiana. They are in love and are very successful in their professional lives. They have a wonderful sex life and in the foreplay that they enjoy in privacy, he tells her that she can have sex with other man if she tells him everything in detail.

Canon (Fidelidad al límite)

2014

Te Presento a Laura poster
6.8

This is the story of 23-year-old Laura who lives in the largest city in the world and yet feels alone. She also knows the exact date in which she'll die: April 30. What Laura doesn't know is what she'll do from now till then, and thus she enrolls in a group of optimists, which she finds pathetic but fun. In that group she writes a list of 10 things she wants to do before she dies, some that mean a lot and some that are a lot of fun. The first thing on her list is to save a life.

Te Presento a Laura

2010

Cómplices poster
5.3

An expert seducer takes his nephew on a beach trip in search of hot women. But an old love, the only woman capable of causing him trouble, shows up there.

Cómplices

2018

A Beginner's Guide to the Presidency poster
4.3

A governor wants to be president, but in order to reach his goal he needs to do what he hates most: being a politician.

A Beginner's Guide to the Presidency

2016

El viaje de Keta poster
3.4

Keta is a professional makeup artist with a big butt and large thighs, but she also has big dreams. The truth is that Keta with her overweight, her addiction to marijuana and her pink hair can not get a job anywhere, so she ends up as a drug dealer handing out goods to her neighbor - who is addicted to all kinds of painkillers-, to an actress of soap operas as schizophrenic as a cocaine addict; also going through a swinger couple, a prude housewife, a not so prude nun and a host of characters that will surely make more than one viewer is reflected.

El viaje de Keta

2018

Dos policías con suerte 3 poster
2.3

The female police force are back in action.

Dos policías con suerte 3

2019

Te juro que yo no fui poster
6.9

Running away from some evil arabs, a woman hides in a counterbass case, causing problems to his owner, a musician with a jelous wife who is trying to win her back.

Te juro que yo no fui

2018

Help Me Make It Through the Night poster
5.7

A family on the brink of a break up: dad is about to throw out mom because of her gambling addiction, the oldest boy's girlfriend is about to leave him because of his epilepsy and the youngest child thinks he has the perfect plan to bring the family back together again.

Help Me Make It Through the Night

2018

Love Taste like Chocolate poster
7.2

After losing her boyfriend, Moni decides to focus on her thesis, which consists on chocolate pastry-making. When she starts seeing other guys, the ghostly figure of her abusive boyfriend Javi appears, provoking funny situations since Moni is the only one who sees him.

Love Taste like Chocolate

2013

Crossing the Desert poster
4.0

Victor, a successful and well-respected businessman, is obsessed by the legend that an indigenous woman told him when he was a child. Victor lives a conventional life with a family that knows and complains about his constant infidelities. When the woman is dying, she sends for Victor and her son Jose Francisco, who is working as his chauffeur. They both answer the summons. Their lives take an unexpected turn.

Crossing the Desert

2012

The Insomnia Club poster
6.7

Three people with insomnia get together at a supermarket where they share their experiences.

The Insomnia Club

2018

The Promise poster
5.0

A talented rural student struggles with his teacher and fellow students.

The Promise

2018

Canela poster
5.8

Maria is a girl who loves to cook and lives with his grandmother, Doña Tere, in Mexico City's downtown. Doña Tere has a traditional Mexican restaurant called "El Molcajete". After the death of her daughter, Doña Tere abandoned his passion for cooking and stopped working in "El Molcajete", now operating under the direction of chef Rosi. Maria does everything possible to bring her grandmother back to the restaurant, while chef Rosi cooks dishes according to new trends in fusion cuisine which highlights the light food, but Maria and Doña Tere won't accept the traditional flavors and cooking secrets to be forgotten. The cuisine battle between Tere and chef Rosi is an epic fight not only between long-stablished mexican food and light food, but also a struggle of family bonds, friendship, cooking secrets, flavour’s passion and more than two hundred ingredients that are needed in order to prepare Mole, a traditional mexican sauce.

Canela

2013

2000s · 5 titles

Eros una vez María poster
3.4

When Tonatiuh loses his beloved Maria, grief and obsession to be loved lead him to seek love in a variety of women also called Maria.

Eros una vez María

2007

Looking for an Angel poster
4.8

Three men share nothing but the same name: Angel Flores Fuentes. When a woman in search for her lost true love opens the telephone book, she has no option but to send a desperate love message to the three, hoping to obtain a response from the "real one". The men who are not the "real" Angel Flores Fuentes, believe that the message was left by a different woman, their own lost or impossible love.

Looking for an Angel

2008

The Wind of Fear poster
5.8

Claudia is a troubled teen confined in a very particular support center ruled with roughness by renowned psychiatrist Bernarda Alquicira. Coexisting with girls who have experienced similar trances, Claudia confronts horrible visions of Andrea, a beautiful intern who committed suicide a year ago. Another strange patient -Josefina- and doctor Lucia Franyutti -the right arm of Bernarda- seem to know the key to the bizarre return of Andrea, but even they are disturbed by the supernatural events that take place when the wind starts to blow.

The Wind of Fear

2007

Fantasías poster
6.6

The movie tells the story of a middle-class couple with two teenage children and a boring sex life, in search of new experiences- first with their sexy maid. Later with the advice of an older female friend who has swinger lifestyle with her husband, they decide to explore the possibility of sparking fresh passion by hooking up with a swinger couple. But then, problems arrive when they start to get blackmailed by the male swinger, who wants money to not show some private pictures of the wife. Written by lament

Fantasías

2004

ADN: La prueba poster
5.0

Married couple's son is hit by a car and killed. Their marriage comes very close to falling apart, and while they're working back toward their relationship, they learn about a son born to a former girlfriend of the husband's; the child may be his. And then...

ADN: La prueba

2005

1990s · 7 titles

The Arrival poster
6.0

Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a Hitchcockian labyrinth of paranoia and intrigue.

The Arrival

1996

Sex, Shame & Tears poster
6.6

A comedic drama featuring two couples and two old friends in Mexico City. Tomas visits Carlos and Ana, while Miguel and Andrea are joined by Maria. The presence of guests triggers lust, rejection, infidelities, reconciliation and other consequences.

Sex, Shame & Tears

1999

Sólo con tu pareja poster
6.5

Tomás Tomás is a young yuppie playboy with a string of discarded girlfriends. But when Silvia, the victim of one of his adventures, tries to get revenge by typing "positive" on his AIDS test, Tomás experiences for the first time the realities of love and death.

Sólo con tu pareja

1992

Little Saints poster
5.0

After St. Jude appears in Esperanza's oven, she sets out to find her daughter, who died under mysterious circumstances. The journey forces Esperanza to challenge her own beliefs and face her fears in order to be reunited with her beloved daughter.

Little Saints

1999

Parejas poster
8.0

Comedy about different forms of love in this busy period in which we live. Two pairs of great friends celebrate together their weddings. Between drunkenness and friendship , things get confused. Will love defeat guilt? A prominent businessman lives unbeatable location : it has a beautiful lover, a new job, and wants a child with your partner. But she discovers that she cheats on him . Is a type of self- love?

Parejas

1996

No artwork available
NR

Mexican short film

Blue Note

1999

Guerrero Negro poster
5.2

No synopsis available yet.

Guerrero Negro

1994

Series credits

DOC poster
9.3

After an attack wipes 12 years of memories, a brilliant doctor must relearn his past, navigate tangled romances and a looming scandal over a new medication.

DOC

2026

Mrs. Garcia and Her Daughters poster
7.5

Determined mother Mrs. Garcia strives to give daughters Valeria and Mar a better future, shielding them from poverty. She'll fight to see her dreams reflected in them and provide the highest standard of living.

Mrs. Garcia and Her Daughters

2024

Nothing Personal poster
7.5

Police chief Fernándo Gomez Miranda kills his friend, the well-respected lawyer and likely candidate for Attorney General, Raúl de Los Reyes and his youngest daughter of only thirteen in a vehicle ambush. Gomez' son, Luis Mario – a sad-eyed broadcast journalist of passionate conviction – arrives on the scene soon after with his camera and discovers a wounded survivor in the car; Camila, the eldest daughter of de Los Reyes. Luis rushes her to the hospital, saving her life and thereby creating a bond between them that he cannot escape. Luis' half-brother, police detective Alfonso Carbajal, is assigned to the case. An old schoolmate of Camila's, Alfonso has long been in love with her and conflicts arise when all evidence points to Camila being involved in the drug trade. The two brothers find themselves caught between their professional duty that would require them to expose Camila and their desire to protect her.

Nothing Personal

1996

Momfluencer: The Mother of All Lies poster
6.0

Lucrecia lives with her boyfriend Fede, and neither of them wants to have children. But when Fede changes his mind and Lucrecia decides to leave him, Lucrecia faces a lot of social pressure to become a mother and in a fit of rage, posts a fake pregnancy test on social media. She then becomes @momfluencer, one of the biggest mom influencers, until she must reckon with the burden of keeping the lie.

Momfluencer: The Mother of All Lies

2025

Secretos del alma poster
NR

Diana Cervantes is a simple and lukewarm secretary to Andrés Lascurain, since she seeks the love of her life when she is hired, she falls in love with Andrés, enduring the misdeeds and injustices of Denisse, who is committed to Andrés, to be his future wife. Andrés and Diana marry leaving Denisse out of her life, while she is an accomplice and lover of Roberto Meráz, who has a dark past with Andrés and has a desire to take revenge. Andres has a family with his late wife (as believed dead) made up of the children Elisa, Claudia, Andresito, Alex's rebel and the deceased's evil sister, Soledad. Andres and Diana are going to face many events such as the threat of Denisse Junot and Roberto Meráz. Denisse dies at the hands of Olympus when he learns that he betrayed him, he gives Denisse's son to his daughter Soledad.

Secretos del alma

2008

La mujer del diablo poster
7.6

Natalia is a school teacher who wants to dedicate herself to local tourism. Cristo is a criminal who pretends to be a benefactor to those in need. Cristo becomes obsessed with Natalia and does unimaginable things to win her over.

La mujer del diablo

2022

Hasta que te conocí poster
8.8

"Hasta que Te Conocí" unravels the life of the Divo de Juárez: Juan Gabriel. Gabriel's extraordinary talent as a singer-songwriter allowed him to rise above poverty, betrayal, and prejudice, eventually making him one the most beloved performers in all of Ibero-America.

Hasta que te conocí

2016

El extraño retorno de Diana Salazar poster
8.0

In the 17th century, Leonor and Eduardo's forbidden love ends tragically when she is executed for witchcraft. Centuries later their souls reincarnate in Diana and Mario, but they face the fear of being discovered for their true selves.

El extraño retorno de Diana Salazar

2024

MasterChef Celebrity México poster
10.0

Mexican celebrities compete to win the coveted cookery competition title.

MasterChef Celebrity México

2021

Madre Luna poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Madre Luna

2007

Sin miedo a la verdad poster
7.9

No synopsis available yet.

Sin miedo a la verdad

2018