Adriana Roel

Acting

Adriana Roel

Born — Died

1934-07-05 — 2022-08-04

Place of birth

Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

53 titles

Rosa María Gorbea Osorio (4 July 1934 – 4 August 2022), better known as Adrian Roel, was a Mexican actress from the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema.

Known for

El extraño retorno de Diana Salazar poster
7.6

El extraño retorno de Diana Salazar is a 1988 Mexican telenovela starring Lucía Méndez and Jorge Martinez. It is an unusual example of a telenovela which addresses supernatural topics.

El extraño retorno de Diana Salazar

1988

Killer Women poster
7.6

Mujeres Asesinas is a series that shows the dark side of women who have been mistreated or abused and become cruel murderers. The series shows how violence and death can overcome the feminine mind.

Killer Women

2008

Juana Iris poster
9.0

Juana Iris is a Mexican telenovela from 1985, starring Victoria Ruffo and Valentín Trujillo.

Juana Iris

1985

Al Filo de la Muerte poster
6.7

Al filo de la muerte is a Mexican telenovela produced by Emilio Larrosa for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from June 17, 1991, to February 21, 1992. Created by Fernanda Villeli and Marcia Yance, the telenovela stars Humberto Zurita and Gabriela Rivero. The story follows Tracy López, a young nurse living in Los Angeles whose life is turned upside down after she witnesses her boyfriend commit a murder. Placed in the Witness Protection Program under the new identity of Mariela Foret, she flees to Mexico City, where she begins working at a prestigious hospital. There she meets cardiologist Francisco Riquer, and despite their difficult first encounters, they fall in love while facing danger, revenge, and the lingering threat of Tracy's criminal past.

Al Filo de la Muerte

1991

The Marked Hour poster
8.3

La Hora Marcada was a 1986 Mexican television anthology series famous for its horror and science fiction themes in the vein of the Twilight Zone. Although virtually unknown outside the country, it achieved a popular and critical success in Mexico. It had a series of rotating writers and directors, among them Emmanuel Lubezki, Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón.

The Marked Hour

1988

Hurricane poster
7.0

Huracán is a Mexican telenovela shown in Mexico from October 13, 1997 to March 27, 1998, starring with the late Jorge Russek, Fernando Balzaretti, and Eduardo Palomo.

Hurricane

1997

Film credits

1970s · 8 titles

Alucarda poster
6.5

After the death of her parents, young Justine is sent to live in a convent, where she meets and falls in love with the mysterious and macabre Alucarda. However, Alucarda has friends in low places... very low places. And a blood pact has just granted them entry to the church.

Alucarda

1977

Rubí poster
7.1

This is the story of Rubí, a young, selfish and hypocritical woman who, through ambition and deception, ruins the lives of those around her and her own.

Rubí

1970

Resigned for Reasons of Health poster
6.8

A mid-level government bureaucrat is forced to think hard about his ideas on governmental corruption and his own integrity.

Resigned for Reasons of Health

1976

Kaliman, the Incredible Man poster
7.4

Archaeologists, tomb robbers, a strange character and an adventurer undertake the search for the tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh, driven by different motivations: from the mere archaeological find to the destruction of humanity.

Kaliman, the Incredible Man

1972

Diamantes, Oro y Amor poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

Diamantes, Oro y Amor

1973

End of the Party poster
5.4

A motorcycle gang goes to a mansion where a party is being held and joy turns into tragedy.

End of the Party

1972

Paper Flowers poster
4.6

On the thinnest of pretexts, a horde of homeless people descend on the apartments of two members of the comfortable middle class and proceed to loot and vandalize both homes, leaving the next morning with many of the belongings they found there, as well as one of the residents who has opted to join them. This political allegory is based on two plays by the Chilean playwright Egon Wolff.

Paper Flowers

1978

Anacrusa poster
6.2

The divorced university professor, Victoria, signs a letter of protest for the political disappeared that her students request, although she is not interested in politics. That afternoon his daughter, a twenty-year-old medical student, disappears. This event will change the vision of Victoria and her participation together with relatives of other political disappeared to obtain justice.

Anacrusa

1979

1960s · 24 titles

Viva Maria! poster
6.1

1907 Central America: Maria II is the daughter of an Irish terrorist. After her father's death, she meets Maria I, a performer, and decides to stay with the circus, and on her debut as a singer, unintentionally invents the striptease and makes the circus famous. Their inadvertent encounter with a socialist revolutionary lands them leading a revolution against the dictator, the capitalists, and the Church.

Viva Maria!

1965

Cri-Cri the Singing little cricket poster
8.1

Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to teach him to play the piano. Later he went to the city to study music theory and began writing his first songs.

Cri-Cri the Singing little cricket

1963

Planet of the Female Invaders poster
6.3

A group of sexy space vixens flies down to Earth, sets up a shop at a carnival (disguising their ship as a ride), and kidnap some earthlings in their scheme to conquer our planet. The humans, including Marcos, a crooked boxer and our hero, Silvia, his love interest, and a gang of comical mobsters out to kill Marcos, are taken to the women’s home planet. There they are held prisoner by the evil queen Adastrea and aided by her selfless twin Alburnia. Meanwhile, a standard issue hunky scientist back on Earth, who happens to be Silvia’s boss, tries to rescue them.

Planet of the Female Invaders

1966

El alazán y el rosillo poster
6.1

Two rival landowners: one is exploiting the local peasantry and dispossessing them of their land, and the other believes in fair play and justice for all.

El alazán y el rosillo

1966

Violent Summer poster
4.6

During the Mexican Revolution, Beatriz's body is discovered by some kids. The police began to investigate the history of Beatriz.

Violent Summer

1960

Autumn Days poster
7.1

Luisa is a small-town girl who works in the bakery of the widower Don Albino. Luisa dreams of marrying and loves children. Just as Don Albino shows interest in her, Luisa announces that she will marry soon with Carlos, the driver of a rich house whom she met recently...

Autumn Days

1963

Seis días para morir poster
6.7

Public health thriller: rabies in Mexico City.

Seis días para morir

1967

Me llaman el cantaclaro poster
6.3

The story of the ruthless female boss of a hacienda who meets her match in the city-educated Santos Luzardo.

Me llaman el cantaclaro

1964

La Chamuscada - Tierra Y Libertad poster
6.8

A sharecropper and his daughter, a swarthy beauty, flee from the hacienda on which they live and join the Mexican Revolution.

La Chamuscada - Tierra Y Libertad

1969

Veinticuatro horas de vida poster
5.8

Two cabdrivers accidentally get caught up in criminal/gang activity.

Veinticuatro horas de vida

1969

La entrega de Chucho el Roto poster
6.3

Gentleman swindler runs cleverly-orchestrated scams. Four of four in a series.

La entrega de Chucho el Roto

1962

The Prodigal Son poster
6.0

Suffering mother is reunited with her son after a long absence... and he turns out to be a real rotter.

The Prodigal Son

1968

Sor Ye-yé poster
5.1

Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night with them. One of his friends, Ernesto, is in love with her, though she does not seem to feel the same about him. In fact, multiple existential doubts and feel a strange emptiness in his life suddenly drive to enter a convent as a novice, breaking Ernestos' heart. However, with her cheerlul character, open and rebellious, not appear to conform to life in the cloister, and especially have problems with the novices director , who often punished for trying to take the right path. In the convent, which also functions as children's hospital, she meets a doctor with which it takes quite right for the contrast between his two characters, but his way with love and mutual respect.

Sor Ye-yé

1968

Aventuras de Chucho el Roto poster
6.7

Number 2 of 4 in a series about the exploits of a crew of Robin Hood-esque con artists.

Aventuras de Chucho el Roto

1961

Neutron Traps the Invisible Killers poster
6.1

Masked hero El enmascarado de oro faces a criminal that turns invisible.

Neutron Traps the Invisible Killers

1965

Planetary Giants poster
4.2

Daniel Wolf, scientist with a brand new rocket ship and a girlfriend/secretary is sent to 'the planet of the eternal night' to fight the guy who has threatened earth. He is supposed to go alone, but his assistant sneaks in the ship somehow, along with two other guys.

Planetary Giants

1966

A Woman Possessed poster
5.8

An evil princess who kills her lovers is condemned by the Inquisition. Four centuries later she returns with the help of a vampire and tries to live forever in the body of an identical woman.

A Woman Possessed

1968

El Silencioso poster
6.8

Taciturn gunslinger 'helps out' a widow lady under siege from bad guys.

El Silencioso

1967

No artwork available
6.0

A new recruit rises through the ranks of Pancho Villa's army as his leadership skills become apparent.

El caudillo

1968

La captura de Chucho el Roto poster
6.3

"Gentleman bandit" and his gang execute a series of elaborate heists. #3 of 4 in a series.

La captura de Chucho el Roto

1961

No artwork available
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Furia en el Edén

1964

Los Jóvenes poster
6.6

A gang member is attracted to a beautiful young woman, but approaching her only causes problems that will be difficult to solve.

Los Jóvenes

1961

The She-Wolf poster
6.0

Professor Fernandez is studying the metamorphosis in living organisms to cure his daughter of a strange disease that occurs in full moon nights.

The She-Wolf

1965

Chucho el Roto poster
5.4

First of four in series about Robin Hood-type social-justice criminal. Elaborate heist scenarios.

Chucho el Roto

1960

Series credits

El extraño retorno de Diana Salazar poster
7.6

El extraño retorno de Diana Salazar is a 1988 Mexican telenovela starring Lucía Méndez and Jorge Martinez. It is an unusual example of a telenovela which addresses supernatural topics.

El extraño retorno de Diana Salazar

1988

Killer Women poster
7.6

Mujeres Asesinas is a series that shows the dark side of women who have been mistreated or abused and become cruel murderers. The series shows how violence and death can overcome the feminine mind.

Killer Women

2008

Juana Iris poster
9.0

Juana Iris is a Mexican telenovela from 1985, starring Victoria Ruffo and Valentín Trujillo.

Juana Iris

1985

Al Filo de la Muerte poster
6.7

Al filo de la muerte is a Mexican telenovela produced by Emilio Larrosa for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from June 17, 1991, to February 21, 1992. Created by Fernanda Villeli and Marcia Yance, the telenovela stars Humberto Zurita and Gabriela Rivero. The story follows Tracy López, a young nurse living in Los Angeles whose life is turned upside down after she witnesses her boyfriend commit a murder. Placed in the Witness Protection Program under the new identity of Mariela Foret, she flees to Mexico City, where she begins working at a prestigious hospital. There she meets cardiologist Francisco Riquer, and despite their difficult first encounters, they fall in love while facing danger, revenge, and the lingering threat of Tracy's criminal past.

Al Filo de la Muerte

1991

The Marked Hour poster
8.3

La Hora Marcada was a 1986 Mexican television anthology series famous for its horror and science fiction themes in the vein of the Twilight Zone. Although virtually unknown outside the country, it achieved a popular and critical success in Mexico. It had a series of rotating writers and directors, among them Emmanuel Lubezki, Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón.

The Marked Hour

1988

Hurricane poster
7.0

Huracán is a Mexican telenovela shown in Mexico from October 13, 1997 to March 27, 1998, starring with the late Jorge Russek, Fernando Balzaretti, and Eduardo Palomo.

Hurricane

1997

Bajo la misma piel poster
8.3

Bajo la misma piel is a Mexican telenovela produced by Carlos Moreno Laguillo for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from September 15, 2003, to January 16, 2004. Created by Martha Carrillo and Cristina García, the story follows four women from the same family as they face love, betrayal, family conflicts, and personal struggles. Sara, Regina, Miranda and Esther must overcome challenges such as an unhappy marriage, a complicated love triangle, illness, and forbidden relationships while searching for true love and happiness.

Bajo la misma piel

2003

My Love, My Sin poster
8.1

Amarte es mi pecado is a Mexican telenovela produced by Ernesto Alonso for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from January 5 to May 14, 2004. Created by Liliana Abud, with adaptation by Jaime García Estrada and Orlando Merino, the story follows Leonora Madrigal, a young woman whose life is marked by betrayal, sacrifice, and forbidden love. After being accused of a crime she did not commit, Leonora faces the consequences of a painful past while trying to rebuild her life and find happiness. The telenovela explores themes of love, revenge, ambition, and redemption.

My Love, My Sin

2004

Si Dios Me Quita La Vida poster
7.5

Si Dios Me Quita La Vida is a telenovela made by Mexican TV network Televisa. This telenovela was broadcast in 1995. This is a remake of the 1961 telenovela La Leona starred by Amparo Rivelles and Ernesto Alonso.

Si Dios Me Quita La Vida

1995

Life of Lies poster
NR

Mentir para vivir is a Mexican telenovela produced by Rosy Ocampo for Televisa. The telenovela is written by Maria Zarattini, who last wrote La Fuerza del Destino. Mayrín Villanueva and David Zepeda star as the protagonists, while Altair Jarabo, Leticia Perdigón and Diego Olivera star as the antagonists.

Life of Lies

2013

Atrévete a Olvidarme poster
6.9

Atrévete a Olvidarme is a Mexican telenovela produced by Roberto Hernández Vázquez for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from August 6 to September 7, 2001. Created by Martha Carrillo, Roberto Hernández Vázquez, and Martha Oláiz, the telenovela stars Jorge Salinas and Adriana Fonseca. Due to low ratings, it was shortened to 25 episodes. The story follows Andrea Rosales, a kind-hearted young woman living in the mining town of Real del Monte. Her life changes when she falls in love with Daniel González, a young journalist searching for his grandfather and the truth about his family's past. Their romance revives a tragic love story from the previous generation, forcing them to confront jealousy, family secrets, revenge, and the belief that history is destined to repeat itself.

Atrévete a Olvidarme

2001