Irene Azuela

Acting

Irene Azuela

Born

1979-10-27 (46)

Place of birth

Mexico City, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

38 titles

Irene Azuela (b. October 27, 1979) is a British-born Mexican actress and producer.

Known for

Like Water for Chocolate poster
8.2

Tita de la Garza and Pedro Muzquiz are two souls in love who cannot be together due to deep-rooted family customs, which will force Tita to navigate with magical tints and flavors between the destiny dictated by her family and the fight for her love, while we accompany her in her greatest refuge: the kitchen.

Like Water for Chocolate

2024

La Querida del Centauro poster
7.5

Yolanda Acosta is a woman capable of altering law and order out of love for her daughter. She serves as a hook to catch the Centauro, one of the most dangerous drug traffickers in Mexico.

La Querida del Centauro

2016

Capadocia poster
8.1

Capadocia is a Mexican HBO Latin America television series. It started on March 2, 2008 and its second season was planned for 2010.

Capadocia

2008

Welcome to Reality poster
10.0

This dramatic series follows a group of troubled Mexican teens in their last year of school, coping with such challenges as drug abuse and sexual identity. In other words, growing up.

Welcome to Reality

2011

El Encanto del Águila poster
7.8

A detailed dramatization of historical events during the time of the Revolution in Mexico. Using never-before-known historical documents, details about what happened during the period from 1910 to 1928 are revealed.

El Encanto del Águila

2011

Amores, querer con alevosía poster
7.0

Actor Héctor Bonilla was considered for a stellar role in the series but he turned the offer down since he was working on the successful stage play 'La Escalera' (also starring Damián Alcázar) at Teatro Monterrey in Mexico City. Then director Luis Vélez, good friend with Bonilla, offered him a small supporting role for the series final weeks and Bonilla eventually accepted.

Amores, querer con alevosía

2001

Film credits

2020s · 5 titles

2010s · 9 titles

The Obscure Spring poster
6.9

Igor is a plumber; Pina serves coffee. It is winter and they both deeply desire each other, but they are not free. In trying to figure out how to realize their love, she decides to make a lion costume for her little son and he decides to buy a photocopying machine for his wife. Spring will come at last and with it the consummation of love, filling their lives with hope and sex.

The Obscure Spring

2014

Miss Bala poster
6.7

The story of a young woman clinging on to her dream to become a beauty contest queen in a Mexico dominated by organized crime.

Miss Bala

2011

El Santos vs la Tetona Mendoza poster
6.6

Santos, an overweight pacheco fighter suffers from his recent divorce with La Tetona Mendoza, a voluptuous and wild female fighter. To get out of his depression, Santos begins a campaign to help Sahuayo Zombies. However, his philanthropic campaign soon becomes a very profitable business that leverages Santos for their benefit. The population becomes a zombie plague and Santos threatens to dispose of them. However, the Peyote Murderer gets rid of the zombies. But the world without zombies turns out to be worse than anyone could have imagined and the only choice to save the nation is for Santos and Peyote to work together to repopulate the world.

El Santos vs la Tetona Mendoza

2012

Opus Zero poster
5.5

Paul, an American composer, arrives in the desert town of Real de Catorce where his father recently died. For the past ten years, Paul has been consumed with the task of composing an ending for the masterpiece of an early twentieth century musician. Being isolated from the world, he sees an opportunity to finish the symphony. However, Paul is caught up in a new mystery, the disappearance thirty years ago of a woman named Marianne.

Opus Zero

2018

The Kids Are Back poster
6.8

A retired couple will have to defend their home against an unpredicted menace: Their kids moving back.

The Kids Are Back

2017

Sucedió en un día poster
3.5

No synopsis available yet.

Sucedió en un día

2010

Así es la Suerte poster
5.0

Ramiro is a theater actor who lives estranged from his father and half brother. One morning, he runs into a suicide, who says he is an evil omen. Despite Ramiro´s efforts, the young man dies before his eyes, which leads him to believe that he has caught his bad luck. From then on, his life turns upside down, at the same time as he gets together with his family to fulfill his father´s last wish: to find the love of his life and say goodbye to her.

Así es la Suerte

2011

The Last Call poster
6.1

Turmoil becomes the order of the day when a Mexican theatrical company begins its rehearsals of absurdist philosopher Albert Camus's “Caligula” for an influential upcoming international theater festival.

The Last Call

2013

File of Attempted Murder poster
6.3

Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against the President of the Mexican Republic, General Porfirio Diaz.

File of Attempted Murder

2010

2000s · 6 titles

Tear This Heart Out poster
7.9

A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one woman's life and a powerful account of post-revolutionary Mexico from a female perspective.

Tear This Heart Out

2008

The Night Buffalo poster
4.6

Unable to cope with the fact that his girlfriend cheated on him with his best friend, a 22-year-old schizophrenic sets an elaborate revenge plan into motion before taking his own life.

The Night Buffalo

2007

Love, Pain and Vice Versa poster
5.3

Chelo is an architect, withdrawing from her social life because of realistic dreams she's having of a romance with a strange man. She's convinced the man is real, out there, destined to be with her. She reports a rape to the police, describing the man of her dreams to a sketch artist. The police find a suspect: he's Marcos, a physician. Chelo tells the police this is not the man who raped her, but now she has Marcos in her sights. Her plan for him to fall in love with her is complicated by his having a fiancée. What can Chelo do? Meanwhile, Marcos has violent dreams about an unfamiliar woman. Chronologies overlap, glass breaks. Can a mind lie to itself?

Love, Pain and Vice Versa

2008

Under the Salt poster
6.3

A series of murders leads Commander Trujillo to Santa Rosa de la Sal a town close to a salt mine, where he meets Victor Zepeda - a lonely teenager who works in his father's funeral home and spends his free time making crude animated horror films - who's strange behavior seems to point at him as the culprit of the crimes.

Under the Salt

2008

Burn the Bridges poster
6.6

A story of two teens, brother and sister, who live with their dying mother in a rundown mansion in Zacatecas, sustain by a dangerously dependent relationship.

Burn the Bridges

2007

Mujeres de la Revolución Mexicana poster
NR

Many women participated in the Mexican Revolution and were erased from history. Their names do not appear as the heroines they were, alongside the most important leaders of the heroic deed. As ideologues, they played an important role from their trench of activists, teachers, journalists and messengers. The documentary brings names like Carmen Serdán, Hermila Galindo, Dolores Jiménez Muro, Elvia Carrillo Puerto, Elena Arizmendi, Sara Pérez de Madero, to the front and recognizes their value in the formation of a nation.

Mujeres de la Revolución Mexicana

2009

Series credits

Like Water for Chocolate poster
8.2

Tita de la Garza and Pedro Muzquiz are two souls in love who cannot be together due to deep-rooted family customs, which will force Tita to navigate with magical tints and flavors between the destiny dictated by her family and the fight for her love, while we accompany her in her greatest refuge: the kitchen.

Like Water for Chocolate

2024

La Querida del Centauro poster
7.5

Yolanda Acosta is a woman capable of altering law and order out of love for her daughter. She serves as a hook to catch the Centauro, one of the most dangerous drug traffickers in Mexico.

La Querida del Centauro

2016

Capadocia poster
8.1

Capadocia is a Mexican HBO Latin America television series. It started on March 2, 2008 and its second season was planned for 2010.

Capadocia

2008

Welcome to Reality poster
10.0

This dramatic series follows a group of troubled Mexican teens in their last year of school, coping with such challenges as drug abuse and sexual identity. In other words, growing up.

Welcome to Reality

2011

El Encanto del Águila poster
7.8

A detailed dramatization of historical events during the time of the Revolution in Mexico. Using never-before-known historical documents, details about what happened during the period from 1910 to 1928 are revealed.

El Encanto del Águila

2011

Amores, querer con alevosía poster
7.0

Actor Héctor Bonilla was considered for a stellar role in the series but he turned the offer down since he was working on the successful stage play 'La Escalera' (also starring Damián Alcázar) at Teatro Monterrey in Mexico City. Then director Luis Vélez, good friend with Bonilla, offered him a small supporting role for the series final weeks and Bonilla eventually accepted.

Amores, querer con alevosía

2001

The Envoys poster
7.8

Two Vatican officials with very different conceptions of what faith is are sent to different parts of the world to investigate and verify the veracity of alleged miracles and healings attributed to members of the church.

The Envoys

2021

An Unknown Enemy poster
8.0

Fernando Barrientos, Head of the National Security Directorate, Mexico's Secret Police, is trying to reach the highest position in the country. On his way, he'll have to manipulate, betray, and kill, and he's well prepared for it. However, his path will be full of obstacles. Nobody, not even his family, will be immune to the chaos left in his quest for total power.

An Unknown Enemy

2018

Secrets at the Hotel poster
7.0

The story of Secrets at the Hotel begins in 1908. Julio Olmedo and Isabel Alarcón travel on the same train to the Gran Hotel, property of the Alarcón family. Both of them ignore that their lives will take a new twist in that place, produced by love, treason, and the secrets hidden there.

Secrets at the Hotel

2016

Monarca poster
7.4

After 20 years, Ana María returns to Mexico and vies for control of her family's tequila empire as it threatens to crumble under corruption and secrets.

Monarca

2019

Thursday's Widows poster
6.3

Teresa finds her husband and his two best friends dead in the lavish community where they live. As the truth comes to light, so will dark secrets.

Thursday's Widows

2023

Belascoaran, PI poster
8.0

Héctor Belascoarán leaves his corporate job and dull marriage to become an independent detective and tackle shocking criminal cases in 1970s Mexico City.

Belascoaran, PI

2022

Paramedics poster
8.0

Three new paramedics face the challenge of work in the biggest city of the world, full of problems, different situations and a bunch of workmates that could make their life even worst.

Paramedics

2012

Gritos de Muerte y Libertad poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Gritos de Muerte y Libertad

2010

Gritos de Muerte y Libertad poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Gritos de Muerte y Libertad

2010

Behind the camera