María Prado

Acting

María Prado

Born

1947-11-20 (78)

Place of birth

Chihuahua, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

61 titles

Born in Chihuahua, since she could remember she wanted to be an artist. When she was a child, she excelled in singing since she had a very good voice. At the age of 14, already working in Mexico City, she began to study theater. She is one of the most prolific television actresses, having acted in more than 40 soap operas. She has played all kinds of roles, from good to long-suffering mothers, drunks, servants to villains. She is remembered for different roles in the TV series "Mujer Casos de la vida Real" where she plays the most terrifying part of the program.

Known for

Vecinos poster
8.2

The everyday life of people in Mexican neighborhoods, where anything can be found. Each episode interacts between these peculiar neighbors, where they encounter real and fictitious problems.

Vecinos

2005

Laws of love poster
8.1

The story of two lawyers specializing in family law, Ricardo and Alejandra, that despite coming from two disappointments and being in a world where it seems that love loses strength, before so much divorce, they still have faith in finding true love.

Laws of love

2018

Distilling Love poster
7.7

A romance blossoms between a young country woman and the grandson of the late owner of a tequila company. The young man promises to return and marry his girlfriend once he finishes his studies abroad, unaware that she has become pregnant.

Distilling Love

2007

Tomorrow is forever poster
7.4

Fernanda is the youngest daughter of the landowner Gonzalo Elizalde, owner of a large dairy company, and Eduardo is the son of Soledad, the Elizalde family's housekeeper. The two children have grown up together, united by an innocent and pure love, despite the difference in social class.

Tomorrow is forever

2008

La familia P. Luche poster
7.6

This sitcom is about a Mestizo-Latino American family in P. Luche town. Ludovico and Federica P. Luche are the (mostly) happy couple who serve as the parents of their three kids: Junior, an amnesiac policeman who serves as their 12-year-old son, Bibi, their black sheep daughter who is the smartest of the bunch, and Ludoviquito, an heir who had switched places with their youngest. Together with their maid Exelsa, they live in Ciudad P. Luche, a town where emotions are heightened, the impossible is everyday, and plush fabric covers almost everything.

La familia P. Luche

2002

Hasta el fin del mundo poster
7.8

After their father's death, Sofía Ripoll, the oldest of three sisters, takes over the family's fictional successful chocolate factory. Though she is engaged to a man who uses her for money, she quickly falls in love with Salvador Cruz, a former racecar driver who takes a job as her chauffeur.

Hasta el fin del mundo

2014

Film credits

2010s · 4 titles

1990s · 14 titles

Dos cuates a todo dar poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Dos cuates a todo dar

1990

The Stork's Mistake poster
7.6

India María raises a kidnapped newborn and is pursued by criminals who want the boy.

The Stork's Mistake

1993

When the Night Falls poster
6.7

A young man becomes involved in wars between street gangs during his trip to the city to improve his education with terrible consequences.

When the Night Falls

1991

No artwork available
5.7

An old man makes a pact with the devil to once again see the woman he loves... his niece.

La jaula de la muerte

1990

Don Herculano anda suelto poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Don Herculano anda suelto

1992

Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata

1993

Jóvenes perversos poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

Jóvenes perversos

1991

The Scent Of Death 2 poster
7.3

Two students want to interview young drug addicts. A gang member robs his equipment, cameras and recorders; to reclaim them, they must become acquainted with the band of "Los Chuchos". The drug dealer of the band decides to be in charge of them. He rapes the young student and is willing to kill his companion.

The Scent Of Death 2

1992

Reclusorio poster
6.2

The human and divine justice are exposed through five real life stories related to the legal processes of a prison. The cases presented are: "I want to stay in jail", "Blood between women", "The raped prostitute", "The kidnapped policeman", and "Euthanasia or murder?"

Reclusorio

1997

Las andanzas de Agapito poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Las andanzas de Agapito

1991

Los cargadores poster
4.8

No synopsis available yet.

Los cargadores

1995

Traficantes de Niños poster
5.2

Film about child trafficking in México.

Traficantes de Niños

1992

No artwork available
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Trébol negro

1996

El reportero poster
6.0

Mexican feature film

El reportero

1990

1980s · 13 titles

God's Crooked Lines poster
4.8

Newly-committed to a mental institution, a woman tries to convince her doctors that her husband conspired to have her put away for selfish reasons unrelated to her mental health.

God's Crooked Lines

1983

La venganza de Don Herculano poster
6.7

Don Herculano, a charming old man, has had enough of the suitors chasing after his daughters—two longtime rivals now well past their youth. Convinced they are only after his money, he decides to put them to the test.

La venganza de Don Herculano

1989

Pobres ricos poster
6.0

Mexican drama.

Pobres ricos

1989

Al margen de la ley poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Al margen de la ley

1989

The Scent of Death poster
6.8

The Chemos and the Pachecos are two gangs whose adventures are witnessed by the doctor, the assistant and the social worker of a clinic where they know of the young men's problems.

The Scent of Death

1987

¡El que no corre... vuela! poster
8.1

After mistakenly going to jail, Maria makes friends with a woman whose kids live in the streets and Maria gets the idea to help them.

¡El que no corre... vuela!

1982

Luz's Motives poster
5.4

Luz is in jail, accused of murdering her own children. Her husband and her mother-in-law say she killed them in cold blood. Dr. Rebollar tries to help the woman, but she refuses to remember anything. Luz thinks of jail as the purgatory: it's only one step to reach the Heaven.

Luz's Motives

1986

Angel in the Night poster
4.8

A respectable family is shot by a gang brutally together. Only the mother survives the perfidious raid. They, although psychiatrist, finds the way back only laboriously in the everyday life. However, then you play the chance one of the members of a gang in the hands. A young fellow which does not finish on his part the recollections and takes up unsuspectingly the help of the doctor. This recognizes immediately that the illustrated case is more own to her. Now the woman knows only one: Revenge. Under drugs her patient reveals details and names. As a result through various tricks and in varying disguising she approaches to the single members of a gang. It begins a hunt on life and death...

Angel in the Night

1988

No artwork available
6.3

A young man and woman are running a phony fortune parlor. One day an attractive young woman enters their parlor to get her fortune read. The man makes his usual behind-the-scenes telephone call to learn of the young woman's background while his female accomplice lays down tarot cards. It turns out that the young woman comes from a very wealthy family. The man now decides to use the young woman in a dangerous scam to extort money from her rich parents.

Un adorable sinverguenza

1983

Hilario Cortés, el rey del talón poster
3.8

A crossdresser who robs victims of nightclubs is caught and sent to a women's prison.

Hilario Cortés, el rey del talón

1980

El ánima de Sayula poster
4.8

No synopsis available yet.

El ánima de Sayula

1982

Night of Vultures poster
4.8

Mexican horror-crime-type film, with a group of young people going on a brutal rape and home-invasion-killing crime spree and filming their escapades with a camcorder as it happens.

Night of Vultures

1988

Los humillados poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Los humillados

1984

1970s · 7 titles

Series credits

Vecinos poster
8.2

The everyday life of people in Mexican neighborhoods, where anything can be found. Each episode interacts between these peculiar neighbors, where they encounter real and fictitious problems.

Vecinos

2005

Laws of love poster
8.1

The story of two lawyers specializing in family law, Ricardo and Alejandra, that despite coming from two disappointments and being in a world where it seems that love loses strength, before so much divorce, they still have faith in finding true love.

Laws of love

2018

Distilling Love poster
7.7

A romance blossoms between a young country woman and the grandson of the late owner of a tequila company. The young man promises to return and marry his girlfriend once he finishes his studies abroad, unaware that she has become pregnant.

Distilling Love

2007

Tomorrow is forever poster
7.4

Fernanda is the youngest daughter of the landowner Gonzalo Elizalde, owner of a large dairy company, and Eduardo is the son of Soledad, the Elizalde family's housekeeper. The two children have grown up together, united by an innocent and pure love, despite the difference in social class.

Tomorrow is forever

2008

La familia P. Luche poster
7.6

This sitcom is about a Mestizo-Latino American family in P. Luche town. Ludovico and Federica P. Luche are the (mostly) happy couple who serve as the parents of their three kids: Junior, an amnesiac policeman who serves as their 12-year-old son, Bibi, their black sheep daughter who is the smartest of the bunch, and Ludoviquito, an heir who had switched places with their youngest. Together with their maid Exelsa, they live in Ciudad P. Luche, a town where emotions are heightened, the impossible is everyday, and plush fabric covers almost everything.

La familia P. Luche

2002

Hasta el fin del mundo poster
7.8

After their father's death, Sofía Ripoll, the oldest of three sisters, takes over the family's fictional successful chocolate factory. Though she is engaged to a man who uses her for money, she quickly falls in love with Salvador Cruz, a former racecar driver who takes a job as her chauffeur.

Hasta el fin del mundo

2014

Your Love Is My Fortune poster
7.7

My fortune is loving you tells the story of Natalia and Chente, who both suffer different situations that change their lives instantly. Natalia comes from a high social position; however, she loses everything when Adrián, her husband, leaves her for what was "her best friend" after 20 years of marriage, in addition, he leaves her on the street and penniless. Vicente, from a different socioeconomic class than Natalia, falls into the hands of a financial fraud that also leaves him in a very difficult economic situation, adding the recent loss of Lucía, his wife, at the hands of a bank robbery in which she was. For Natalia and Chente, they have no choice but to live under the same roof, with which, upon meeting the relationship, they will go through a lot of ups and downs of emotions when they try to resolve their personal situations.

Your Love Is My Fortune

2021

Burden of Guilt poster
7.5

Paulino Córdoba, Gabino Roura, Rodolfo Huerta, and Matías Quiroga have been friends since childhood; however, as adults, their priorities shifted, and a sin now threatens to destroy their friendship. Paulino owns the El Milagro apple hacienda and is married to Rosario; they have two children, César and Lucrecia. Rosario has always favored her son while openly rejecting her daughter. Lucrecia was raised by Delfina, Rosario’s maid and Manuel’s mother.

Burden of Guilt

2009

The Power of Destiny poster
8.4

La Fuerza del Destino is a Mexican telenovela produced by Rosy Ocampo for Televisa. Sandra Echeverria and David Zepeda star as the main protagonists, while Laisha Wilkins, Gabriel Soto, Rosa Maria Bianchi, and Juan Ferrara star as the main antagonists. La Fuerza del Destino won 5 awards in Premios TVyNovelas: Best first actress, best original story or adaptation, best male antagonist, best lead actress, and best telenovela of the year. The theme song is sung by Marc Anthony and Sandra Echeverria. Portions of their performance in the recording studio are periodically shown in the closing credits. Canal de las Estrellas aired La Fuerza del Destino from March 14 to July 31, 2011 Univision had announced that La Fuerza del Destino would air on the network as part of the 2011-2012 programming schedule, and was broadcast from August 2 to December 26, 2011, with La que no podía amar replacing it in both countries. It was awarded"The Best Telenovela of 2012" by Premios TVyNovelas.

The Power of Destiny

2011

I love you, Güero poster
7.7

“La mexicana y el güero” is the story of some scammers who try to deceive a millionaire who is looking for his biological mother through a plan that is funny about what is complicated. Itatí Cantoral, Gala Montes, Juan Soler, Luis Roberto Guzmán, Montserrat Marañón, Jacqueline Andere, Rodrigo Abed and Laura Vignatti, among many other stars.

I love you, Güero

2020

María de Todos los Ángeles poster
7.6

No synopsis available yet.

María de Todos los Ángeles

2009

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

The Other Woman poster
6.0

It tells the story of Carlota and Cordelia, the first a modest and withdrawn girl and the second, an ambitious and daring woman. What's similar about them is their appearance: they're identical, but they're not twin sisters. But fate will make doctor Álvaro cross their path.

The Other Woman

2002

Médicos, línea de vida poster
6.3

Médicos, línea de vida is a Mexican medical drama telenovela produced by José Alberto Castro for Televisa and originally broadcast on Las Estrellas from November 11, 2019, to March 15, 2020. The series follows a team of doctors, surgeons, nurses, and medical residents at a prestigious hospital as they balance demanding medical cases with their personal lives. Through stories of love, loss, ethical dilemmas, and professional challenges, they strive to save lives while confronting their own struggles.

Médicos, línea de vida

2019

Fugitivas, en busca de la libertad poster
7.5

Lorena, Frida, Lisset and Montse, four friends who are in prison serving a sentence. One of them is accused unjustly. In the prison where they are held there is a massive escape and they escape. After their escape, the fugitives take refuge in a bar looking for the opportunity to start a new life.

Fugitivas, en busca de la libertad

2024

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

Un poquito tuyo poster
7.3

When his spoiled family forgets his birthday, hardworking and generous successful executive Antonio decides to cut them off unless they work for their money.

Un poquito tuyo

2018

El Junior: El mirrey de los capos poster
8.2

No synopsis available yet.

El Junior: El mirrey de los capos

2020

No artwork available
NR

Tic Tac Toc: El reencuentro is a Mexican comedy television series. It revolves around Tic Tac Toc - a popular children's musical group from the 1980s that seek to repeat their success 35 years later. Natalia, Pierre, Reynaldo and Carlos at first join forces to raise funds to support one of their members who is in need of a surgical procedure. However, each member has their dark secrets and quiet goals that they intend to achieve through this reunion. Together they will try to regain the brilliance and success they had 35 years ago, while the fraudulent businessman Tito Gambino will try to exploit them for his own gain.

Tic Tac Toc: El reencuentro

2021

No artwork available
NR

The show presents mature themes involving love stories and disturbing topics of real-life cases including rape, incest, child abuse, prostitution, discrimination and domestic violence. At the beginning of each episode, Silvia Pinal would discuss the social aspect surrounding the case the audience was about to view.

Women, Real Life Cases

1985

Lorenza poster
6.0

the Lorenza

Lorenza

2019