Alberto Estrella

Acting

Alberto Estrella

Born

1962-09-23 (64)

Place of birth

Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

89 titles

Known for

Alma de Hierro poster
7.8

Alma de Hierro is a 2008–2009 Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa. It is a remake of the Argentinian soap opera Son de Fierro, with the character's names rewritten and adapted to the Mexican audience. The main actors were Blanca Guerra, Alejandro Camacho, Christian Vega, Flavio Medina, Lisardo and Alejandra Barros, with Jorge Poza, Zuria Vega, Adamari López, Angelique Boyer, Eddy Vilard, Martha Julia and Luz María Aguilar playing supporting roles. The show earned 8 awards at the "TV y Novelas" award celebration, becoming the highest-awarded production of the 2009 season.

Alma de Hierro

2008

Man on Fire poster
7.5

Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.

Man on Fire

2004

What Life Took From Me poster
7.8

The beautiful young Montserrat is forced to marry a man she does not love in order to save her family from ruin and maintain their social standing.

What Life Took From Me

2013

Alguna Vez Tendremos Alas poster
8.3

No synopsis available yet.

Alguna Vez Tendremos Alas

1997

Para Volver a Amar poster
7.8

Para Volver a Amar is a Televisa telenovela that aired on the Canal de las Estrellas channel in Mexico from July 12, 2010 to January 30, 2011. It stars Rebecca Jones, Rene Strickler, Alejandro Camacho, Alejandra Barros, and Africa Zavala. The Mexican version however is taken from the original Colombian soap opera series "El Último Matrimonio Feliz". The story is about six women who befriend each other and help each other deal with the pains of life, particularly in regards to marriage and relationships. They'll realize that even amidst their problems, happiness is not impossible to attain. It won seven Premios TVyNovelas awards for Best Telenovela of the Year, Best Male Villain, Best First Actress, Best First Actor, Best Co-Star Actress, Best Co-Star Actor, and Best Young Lead Actor. Para Volver a Amar aired in the United States on Univision from March 8, 2011 to October 28, 2011 at 12am/11pm central.

Para Volver a Amar

2010

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

Film credits

2020s · 8 titles

2010s · 14 titles

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

It's Not You, It's Me poster
7.5

Javier se ha casado con María, el amor de su vida, y ahora lo único que desea es estar feliz con ella el resto de su vida, pero el destino se la quita poco después de la boda. Ahora Javier está enredado en sus emociones: ¿cómo aceptará la muerte de su mujer para encontrar nuevamente el amor?

It's Not You, It's Me

2010

Sangre nocturna poster
7.0

What could a couple, two girlfriends, two rival gangs, one murderer, and four prisoners have in common? The night will be stained in blood...

Sangre nocturna

2011

The Similars poster
6.0

Eight people experience a strange phenomenon while waiting for a bus at a remote station on a rainy October night.

The Similars

2015

El diario de una prostituta poster
6.5

During a murder investigation, the police uncover a human trafficking network that involves a politician the media is protecting.

El diario de una prostituta

2013

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

Qué importa corazón poster
NR

El Mudo, a solitary detective investigates a murder. Alicia is the main suspect, a beautiful woman whose only passion is dancing. The case takes them to a place where love and mystery are no strangers: a Mexico City night club.

Qué importa corazón

2011

Crimes of the North Sea poster
5.3

Year 1942 in Mexico City, Goyo Cárdenas studies biology and has a beautiful girlfriend, but Goyo also has some contained violence about to explode on the brink of World War II.

Crimes of the North Sea

2017

Bleak Street poster
6.1

Two wrestlers decide to go to a hotel in order to meet two prostitutes.

Bleak Street

2015

Todos hemos pecado poster
6.3

No one could ever imagine that one day La Chingada Vieja would fall in love. Because she is always alone, because no one has ever turn to see her, because everyone is always closing the door at her nose, because when they feel her coming they cross themselves, but most of all because no one could ever fall in love with death. But El Hombre sin nombre, has appeared in her life for good. Only the confusion of an avenging town and the desire of four men to arrive to heaven could change the plans of these two beings. Of whom the purist feelings alive have resurrected them.

Todos hemos pecado

2011

Gritos D Muerte y Libertad poster
NR

An special and heroic Representation of Independence, the Past Narrated in “Gritos de Muerte y Libertad,” which examines the roles of independence heroes in the series’ narrative and in Mexican historiography. Extended and more detailed pilot that expands the show.

Gritos D Muerte y Libertad

2010

El Cobrador de la Mafia poster
3.5

No synopsis available yet.

El Cobrador de la Mafia

2013

Youth, Disillusions and Yearnings of Hernán Cortés Delgado poster
5.4

Director Jaime Humberto Hermosillo's filmed memoir about his late-teen years in an unglamorous smaller town. Going to the movies a lot, discovering his artistic vocation, stuff like that.

Youth, Disillusions and Yearnings of Hernán Cortés Delgado

2010

Another Mexican poster
5.5

Antonio (Ricky Mergold) is a 16 year old boy from a village in the Mexican province, living the awakening of consciousness with the intensity of the contradictions that surround him: a dogmatic religion, mediocre educational institutions, corrupt politicians an a society full of conformity. His life changes when a young teacher with a genuine desire to teach their students comes to the town, a guide that encourages them to live with dignity and to be critical of the world around them. This story is full of drama and misadventures, which Antonio lives without proper orientation and promiscuity.

Another Mexican

2010

2000s · 18 titles

Man on Fire poster
7.5

Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.

Man on Fire

2004

The Virgin of Lust poster
6.8

In Vera Cruz in the 1940s, Nacho, an Indian, waits tables at Don Lázaro's café at Hotel Ofélia. He falls for Lola, an opium-addicted, alcoholic whore who's hopelessly in love with Gardenia Wilson, a masked wrestler who slept with her once but knows she's unbalanced. Don Lázaro warns Nacho about Lola, and Nacho knows his love will be unrequited, but he'll do anything, regardless of how degrading, to be near her. Lola, for her part, can be sadistic. Republican exiles who are regulars at the café encourage Lola's desire to assassinate Franco. Nacho in turn mixes this political mirage with his fascination with the plot of "The Mikado." Where do fantasies and obsessions lead?

The Virgin of Lust

2002

Sexo impostor poster
6.0

Between dreams and hallucinations, a man, Kasper Gutman, gives in to his most hidden obsessions. Two crimes, a family and a movie star retired 40 years ago, Lorna Steele, turn his life into a dead end.

Sexo impostor

2005

Three Prisoners poster
6.3

Three prisoners escape from a train or something. And I think they had to go find a treasure. They shoot some people at some point. Also, one of them had a retarded kid that either got shot or shot someone. Most of the movie takes place on a farm with some old people. Maybe they are holding the old people hostage? That's all I remember.

Three Prisoners

2000

Simon, el gran varón poster
4.3

The first-born son of a wealthy Mexican businessman, Simon is doted upon by his father, Don Andres. But as Simon grows older, he displays a fondness for dressing in women's clothing and playing with dolls, and is eventually banished from home and disinherited. He then finds work as a performer in a nightclub that his father patronizes. Not recognizing his son as a beautiful young woman, Don Andres discloses some surprising secrets of his own.

Simon, el gran varón

2002

El Chapo's Escape poster
5.7

They claim to be taken to maximum security prisons, but when government power and corruption intervene there is no impossible escape, such is the case of this story that everyone witnessed and that we now present.

El Chapo's Escape

2001

Atrapada poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Atrapada

2003

Love 'Till Death poster
7.0

Alejandro is frustrated due to the constraints put on his life by his rich and corrupt father. He flees and goes to a town where he falls in love with Rosa, who is under the thumb of a local gangster.

Love 'Till Death

2009

No artwork available
5.0

Mexican feature film

Sotana roja

2001

Scars 2 poster
8.7

Diana Golden and Martha Ortiz are the stars of this shocking video in which Juan Carlos; one of the characters learned that being a true macho is imposing your will on others regardless of whether it destroys dignity or feelings. He himself witnessed the mistreatment and outrageous life that his mother suffered as a wife and woman because of his father's machismo. This chain of machismo almost destroyed her life and that of her family. But God has mercy on his life and Juan Carlos finds Jesus and a new life: that of a man transformed into the image of the true man of Christ Jesus.

Scars 2

2007

Simón, el gran varón 2 poster
2.5

No synopsis available yet.

Simón, el gran varón 2

2004

Buddah's Head poster
3.0

Tomás, a famous and egocentric actor, buying a Buddha head in Lagunilla . In an attempt to avoid being robbed, the thief accidentally kills in self-defense , with the relic . His life starts to change , forcing him to confront this crime and discover the sheer banality of existence. Seeking redemption faced with the mother of the thief and asks forgiveness , learning to forgive yourself

Buddah's Head

2009

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sentencia de narcoticos

2000

El patrón mas chingon en prision poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

El patrón mas chingon en prision

2002

Políticos, mentiras y videos poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Políticos, mentiras y videos

2004

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

Oblivion poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Oblivion

2007

El malogrado amor de Sebastián poster
4.5

Sebastian meets Antonio and it is love at first sight. But the obstacles do not wait.

El malogrado amor de Sebastián

2006

1990s · 16 titles

Ruby Cairo poster
5.0

Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around the world.

Ruby Cairo

1992

The Beginning and the End poster
7.7

The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.

The Beginning and the End

1994

Salón México poster
5.7

In this remake of the 40's classic, two lovers murder each other, leading to an investigation and the closing of the Saln Mxico, a famous place where people used to go to dance before WWII. The police investigation leads to several flashbacks about the life and death of a low-life dancer named Mercedes (Maria Rojo) and her lover.

Salón México

1996

Esmeralda Comes by Night poster
5.3

The husbands of a charismatic nurse devise a plan to free her from prison when she is arrested for being a polygamist.

Esmeralda Comes by Night

1997

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

Optical Fibre poster
4.6

When a Brazilian woman is falsely accused of killing a prominent Mexican politician, Marco, a young journalist, is hired by a stranger to discover the real motive of the crime. He is assisted by his photographer girlfriend María, and they are trapped in a web of torture, prostitution, corruption and power struggle.

Optical Fibre

1998

Ultima llamada poster
6.0

Gilberto Cortés is an actor in a theatre play about a father fighting to save his son from the death penalty. Years later, he faces the same dilemma in real life when his own son is accused of the murder of a child molester.

Ultima llamada

1996

Seeds of Tragedy poster
7.2

Coca leaves making their way from Peru to Downtown Los Angeles.

Seeds of Tragedy

1991

Danish Girls Show Everything poster
5.8

Despite its suggestive title, this multi-part Danish omnibus film is not a work of exploitation. Instead, it presents 20 different short films (back-to-back) on the general theme of Danish women, directed by filmmakers including Krzysztof Zanussi, Monika Treut, Gustav Hamos, David Blair, Vibeke Vogel, Dusan Makavejev, Morten Skallerud and Lars Norgaard. Some dramatic vignettes mix with other comedic ones, but all are offbeat and experimental. The picture includes one animated sequence (by Norgaard).

Danish Girls Show Everything

1996

The Queen of the Night poster
5.0

The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ranchera" style singing. Her story begins in 1939, where at 33 she still lived at home with her mother, Dona Victora, the madame of a renowned Mexico City whorehouse. Lucha marries the liberal Pedro Calderon and then buys a beggar's daughter. She becomes the mother to this child, Luzma. Lucha craves lasting love like junkies crave heroin. But for her loyal daughter, she never finds it and in the end no one can help her.

The Queen of the Night

1994

Acosado poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Acosado

1991

On the Air poster
4.2

Alberto is a disc-jockey at a radio station. His life is torn apart by the memories of his ex-wife and his free and careless life in the 60s. Alberto remembers, and his memories don't let him live his present life with Ana, his current girlfriend.

On the Air

1995

Prófugo de la muerte poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Prófugo de la muerte

1998

El chacal de la sierra poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

El chacal de la sierra

1998

Salto al vacío poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Salto al vacío

1995

El destino de un mojado poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

El destino de un mojado

1998

Series credits

Alma de Hierro poster
7.8

Alma de Hierro is a 2008–2009 Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa. It is a remake of the Argentinian soap opera Son de Fierro, with the character's names rewritten and adapted to the Mexican audience. The main actors were Blanca Guerra, Alejandro Camacho, Christian Vega, Flavio Medina, Lisardo and Alejandra Barros, with Jorge Poza, Zuria Vega, Adamari López, Angelique Boyer, Eddy Vilard, Martha Julia and Luz María Aguilar playing supporting roles. The show earned 8 awards at the "TV y Novelas" award celebration, becoming the highest-awarded production of the 2009 season.

Alma de Hierro

2008

What Life Took From Me poster
7.8

The beautiful young Montserrat is forced to marry a man she does not love in order to save her family from ruin and maintain their social standing.

What Life Took From Me

2013

Alguna Vez Tendremos Alas poster
8.3

No synopsis available yet.

Alguna Vez Tendremos Alas

1997

Para Volver a Amar poster
7.8

Para Volver a Amar is a Televisa telenovela that aired on the Canal de las Estrellas channel in Mexico from July 12, 2010 to January 30, 2011. It stars Rebecca Jones, Rene Strickler, Alejandro Camacho, Alejandra Barros, and Africa Zavala. The Mexican version however is taken from the original Colombian soap opera series "El Último Matrimonio Feliz". The story is about six women who befriend each other and help each other deal with the pains of life, particularly in regards to marriage and relationships. They'll realize that even amidst their problems, happiness is not impossible to attain. It won seven Premios TVyNovelas awards for Best Telenovela of the Year, Best Male Villain, Best First Actress, Best First Actor, Best Co-Star Actress, Best Co-Star Actor, and Best Young Lead Actor. Para Volver a Amar aired in the United States on Univision from March 8, 2011 to October 28, 2011 at 12am/11pm central.

Para Volver a Amar

2010

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

Contra viento y marea poster
7.2

Contra viento y marea is a Mexican telenovela aired from April 25 until November 4, 2005. This was also the last acting role of Beatriz Sheridan, who died in 2006 of a heart attack.

Contra viento y marea

2005

Doménica Montero poster
8.2

A respected and renowned businesswoman and philanthropist, considered one of the most sought-after brides in the country, who is left at the altar on her wedding day. Humiliated, betrayed, and turned into a target of public scrutiny, Doménica decides to flee and take refuge in one of her parents’ old estates. There, marked by pain, she faces new challenges and meets Luis Fernando, the owner of the neighboring estate, who also carries a painful past. Between them, an explosive relationship develops, marked by pride, misunderstandings, and growing attraction, where land disputes intertwine with their shared desire to rebuild, heal, and give new meaning to their lives.

Doménica Montero

2025

No Limite da Paixão poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

No Limite da Paixão

2002

La desalmada poster
7.7

Fernanda Linares (Livia Brito) is a woman thirsty for revenge after the murder of her husband on their wedding night, where in addition, Fernanda was a victim of rape after the event occurred. However, Fernanda's life will change when she meets Rafael Toscano (José Ron), a handsome young man who recently just received his university degree with whom she will empathize and return to Fernanda the opportunity to love again.

La desalmada

2021

Passion poster
8.2

Pasión is the telenovela that began transmissions on September 17, 2007, in Mexico; Canal de las Estrellas. The novela is a production of Carla Estrada and the stars are Susana González, Fernando Colunga, Sebastián Rulli, and Daniela Castro.

Passion

2007

Esta Historia Me Suena poster
6.0

Inspired by classical songs, This Story Sounds to Me Vol. 2 is an broadcast in which music tells life stories, because everyone has a memorable song that "sounds like it." This Story Sounds to Me Vol. 2 consists of 23 episodes and, as in its first season, it takes place with the lead singer María José.

Esta Historia Me Suena

2019

A Double Identity poster
2.0

Niña de mi Corazón is a teen Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa and Telefe adapted from Pedro Damian's 1997 Mi Pequeña Traviesa, that premiered on March 8, 2010 and ended on July 9, 2010. Damian was also the producer of this telenovela.

A Double Identity

2010

Entre el amor y el odio poster
9.2

A lonely and serious man finds in the death of his uncle, the love of his life and also the hate that may spread in his world.

Entre el amor y el odio

2002

El Noveno mandamiento poster
6.1

El Noveno Mandamiento is a Mexican soap opera produced by Lucero Suárez in 2001. As of June 24th, 2013, Unimas is broadcasting 2 hour episodes of this soap opera.

El Noveno mandamiento

2001

Dulce Desafío poster
6.8

Dulce Desafío is a Mexican telenovela starring Adela Noriega and Eduardo Yáñez.

Dulce Desafío

1988

El Mochaorejas poster
8.1

The story of Daniel Arizmendi's rise, the corruption and fear that allowed his gang to terrorize Mexico in the 1990s, where he became known as "el mochaorejas" for his shady crimes

El Mochaorejas

2026

Loving Again poster
8.0

Amar Otra Vez is a Mexican telenovela produced by Lucero Suárez for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from May 31 to November 5, 2004. Created by Pablo Serra and Erika Johanson, with literary editing by Julián Aguilar and Víctor Ontiveros, the telenovela stars Irán Castillo and Valentino Lanús. The story follows Rocío Huertas, a talented seamstress who dreams of becoming a bridal dress designer. After being abandoned at the altar when her fiancé Fernando fakes his own death for personal gain, Rocío moves to Mexico City to rebuild her life. There she meets Daniel Suárez, and together they must overcome betrayal, family secrets, ambition, and dangerous schemes as they fight for a second chance at love and happiness.

Loving Again

2004

La Malquerida poster
7.4

La malquerida is a Mexican telenovela produced by José Alberto Castro for Televisa. It is an adaptation of the play "La malquerida", written by Spanish playwright Jacinto Benavente. Victoria Ruffo and Christian Meier will star as the adult protagonist, Ariadne Díaz and Mane de la Parra will star as the young protagonists, while Brandon Peniche will star as the main antagonist.

La Malquerida

2014

El Gallo de Oro poster
8.0

The story of a passionate love between La Caponera, a palenque singer, and possessor of a gift that gives luck to the man who accompanies her, and Dionisio, a strange and introverted town crier, as they wander from fair to fair through the center of the country.

El Gallo de Oro

2023

Gloria Trevi: Ellas soy yo poster
7.7

No synopsis available yet.

Gloria Trevi: Ellas soy yo

2023

Mi Camino es Amarte poster
7.5

Guillermo "Memo" Santos is a simple, hardworking long-haul truck driver of humble origins. Upon learning he has a daughter, Memo decides to seek her out at her adoptive family's home. Meeting his daughter awakens in Memo the greatest feeling a human being can experience: a father's love.

Mi Camino es Amarte

2022

Una Familia Complicada poster
9.0

For the Navarro family, appearances are everything. But after the sudden death of Alberto, the family patriarch, their carefully constructed façade begins to crumble. Doña Telma takes control of the family fortune and reputation while struggling to contain the conflicts among her children, whose betrayals, ambitions, and reckless decisions bring them dangerously close to crime.​ Amid secrets, deception, marriages of convenience, and forbidden relationships, the Navarro family is drawn into a spiral of chaos. Yet Doña Telma’s greatest challenge will be the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, a silent threat that could erase not only her memories, but also the secrets holding her family together.

Una Familia Complicada

2026

Mariachis poster
8.3

When Rosendo is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, his wife and family – along with his estranged brother – form a mariachi band in hopes of delaying the effects...but ultimately uncover decades of deeply buried secrets.

Mariachis

2023

Gritos de Muerte y Libertad poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Gritos de Muerte y Libertad

2010

Vencer el miedo poster
7.5

Vencer el Miedo is a Mexican telenovela produced by Rosy Ocampo for Televisa and originally broadcast on Las Estrellas from January 20 to March 22, 2020. It is the first installment of the Vencer anthology series. Created by Rosy Ocampo, the telenovela was written by María J. Cervantes, with collaboration from a team of writers, and stars Paulina Goto, Danilo Carrera, Arcelia Ramírez, Jade Fraser, Emmanuel Palomares, Alejandra Barros, and Alberto Estrella. The story follows Marcela Durán, a shy and insecure teenager whose life changes after an unexpected pregnancy. As she struggles with domestic violence, social prejudice, and emotional abuse, the women around her—including her mother Inés and sister Cristina—also confront their own fears and personal challenges. Together, they learn to overcome trauma, rebuild their lives, and find strength through solidarity, resilience, and hope.

Vencer el miedo

2020

No artwork available
2.0

El Equipo is a Mexican series starring Alfonso Herrera, Zuria Vega, Alberto Estrella and Fabián Robles are the protagonists. Is a series that blends action, drama, love, and shows the work and effort of the Mexican federal police, who every day risk their lives to protect society. The story centers around Santiago, Fermin, Magda and Mateo, who at one time in his life made the decision to become a Federal Police officer. In each chapter, the team will solve a different case where we can see the intelligence process, the operation and the capture of the offender while the characters must face their feelings and solve their own problems of everyday life. A blockbuster inspired by real events, produced by Pedro Torres and directed by Carlos Garcia Agraz and Chava Cartas.

El equipo

2011

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cruzando destinos: Marruecos en el corazón

2026

Behind the camera