Verónica Merchant

Acting

Verónica Merchant

Born

1963-11-28 (62)

Place of birth

Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

31 titles

Verónica Merchant (November 28, 1963) is a Mexican film, theater, and television actress, recognized as one of the most accomplished and versatile performers of her generation. She won the Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the acclaimed film Deep Crimson (1996) and has received numerous nominations and awards from theater critics. Her career is distinguished by a consistent balance between independent films, high-caliber theater productions, and her participation in some of the most iconic melodramas on Hispanic television. She began her artistic training at the University Center for Theater (CUT) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), establishing a t…

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

Alondra poster
5.7

Alondra is a Mexican telenovela shown in 1995, written by Yolanda Vargas Dulché and produced by Carla Estrada, starring with Ana Colchero and the late Beatriz Sheridan. This telenovela contains 78 episodes.

Alondra

1995

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

La Jefa poster
8.4

Gloria's perfect life shatters when hitmen kill her fiancé at their wedding. Abandoned by family, pursued by enemies, and stripped of assets, she must enter the money laundering world to protect her son.

La Jefa

2025

Luz Clarita poster
7.5

Mariano de la Fuente's family opens their home to a young orphan named Luz Clarita. Little Mariela views her as a rival and sets out to make her life miserable, but Luz Clarita will fight to find happiness.

Luz Clarita

1996

Timeless Love poster
6.0

Vivir a Destiempo is a Mexican telenovela produced by Fides Velasco and Jacky Castro for Azteca. It stars Edith González and Ramiro Fumazoni as the protagonists alongside Humberto Zurita, Andrea Noli and Wendy de los Cobos as the main villains. The original story and screenplay is written by Eric Vonn. From February 25 to September 20, 2013 Azteca 13 broadcast Vivir a Destiempo, replacing Los Rey.

Timeless Love

2013

Film credits

2000s · 6 titles

Sex, Love And Other Perversions II poster
2.8

The private, the forbidden and the obscene. Eight short stories to be moved, surprised and have fun. Three different views about relationships, love, sex; three directors will take you from comedy to drama and backford, from the story of an old lady with cancer having a love affair to the love between two teenagers who try to make love for the first time or to the burning desire of a cop who is bewitched by cupid.

Sex, Love And Other Perversions II

2006

Christmas, Inc. poster
7.1

With Christmas approaching, Santa Claus has to contend with the fact that the North Pole is melting and find a way to rid the holiday of its capitalist nature.

Christmas, Inc.

2008

Spam poster
3.0

Tobias, a maladjusted young high-school student, must use his investigative skills to stop a deadly supernatural chain started by one of his school friends, Lucia, before death reaches them.

Spam

2008

Corazones rotos poster
6.0

Many stories of families within an urban complex.

Corazones rotos

2002

Nadie te habla: Manos libres poster
7.5

Two students at a Mexico City university are desperate to attend an Acapulco rave — so desperate that they’ll kidnap a girl to raise the funds to get there.

Nadie te habla: Manos libres

2005

Enemigos íntimos poster
4.2

Tells the stories of eight characters suffering from different ailments: a doctor who does not acknowledge his homosexuality, a woman who refuses to accept that she is growing old, a mute nurse, a failed writer, an autistic child, a young pregnant woman and an adolescent in a coma, who are linked together by the fact that one of them, Guillermo is diagnosed with a malignant tumor in his kidney.

Enemigos íntimos

2009

1990s · 7 titles

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

Alondra poster
5.7

Alondra is a Mexican telenovela shown in 1995, written by Yolanda Vargas Dulché and produced by Carla Estrada, starring with Ana Colchero and the late Beatriz Sheridan. This telenovela contains 78 episodes.

Alondra

1995

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

La Jefa poster
8.4

Gloria's perfect life shatters when hitmen kill her fiancé at their wedding. Abandoned by family, pursued by enemies, and stripped of assets, she must enter the money laundering world to protect her son.

La Jefa

2025

Luz Clarita poster
7.5

Mariano de la Fuente's family opens their home to a young orphan named Luz Clarita. Little Mariela views her as a rival and sets out to make her life miserable, but Luz Clarita will fight to find happiness.

Luz Clarita

1996

Timeless Love poster
6.0

Vivir a Destiempo is a Mexican telenovela produced by Fides Velasco and Jacky Castro for Azteca. It stars Edith González and Ramiro Fumazoni as the protagonists alongside Humberto Zurita, Andrea Noli and Wendy de los Cobos as the main villains. The original story and screenplay is written by Eric Vonn. From February 25 to September 20, 2013 Azteca 13 broadcast Vivir a Destiempo, replacing Los Rey.

Timeless Love

2013

Tu vida es mi vida poster
8.5

Paula, a woman who, upon finding out that she suffers from an illness, for which she has 6 to 8 months to live, rethinks her existence and abandons her job as a businesswoman to spend this time with her 3 children. Upon arriving at the town there will be a confrontation between Lorenzo and Pepe's family, a good man with noble feelings who has just asked his wife for a divorce, a selfish woman who is unfaithful to him with Rafa, his own brother. Although the relationship between them begins in a less than cordial manner, Paula and Pepe cannot help but feel attraction for each other. Paula's illness, family secrets from the past, the problems that her children will face, combined with the intrigues of Malena, Pepe's wife, and Rolando, Paula's suitor who, together with Natalia, her partner and supposed best friend, will cause all kinds of conflicts to prevent the union of Paula and Pepe

Tu vida es mi vida

2024

The Five Juanas poster
7.3

Five women with the same birthmark set out to unravel the truth about their pasts and discover a tragic web of lies spun by a powerful politician.

The Five Juanas

2021

Eternamente Tuya poster
NR

Eternamente Tuya is a Mexican telenovela produced by Oscar Guarín and Azteca, starring Fernanda Romero and Kothan Fernandez with Andrés Palacios and antagonistic participation of Verónica Merchant.

Eternamente Tuya

2009

Una luz en el camino poster
7.0

Una luz en el camino is a Mexican children's telenovela produced by Mapat L. de Zatarain for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from March 30 to July 31, 1998. It is an adaptation of the Argentine children's telenovela El árbol azul (1991–1992), created by Mario L. Mortheo and adapted for Mexican television by Alejandro Orive and Carlos Daniel González. The story follows Luciana, a young girl who loses her mother at an early age and longs to have a loving family again. After meeting child psychologist Marcela, she becomes determined to bring her and her widowed father, Rodrigo, together. Along the way, they must overcome grief, misunderstandings, and the schemes of the ambitious Astrid, who seeks to marry Rodrigo for his fortune.

Una luz en el camino

1998

Nothing to See Here poster
7.9

When an aspiring blind comedian goes after his dreams, it's him and his best friend with cerebral palsy against the world, no matter what runs them over.

Nothing to See Here

2023

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

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6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Agua y Aceite

2002

Atrapada poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Atrapada

2018

Quererte Así poster
NR

Quererte Así is a Mexican telenovela produced by Eric Vonn for Azteca. Filming lasted from January 30, 2012 to June 15, 2012. During the week of April 16, TV Azteca broadcast Quererte Así weeknights at 7:30pm. From April 23 to May 25, TV Azteca moved the telenovela from 7:30pm to 6pm. From May 28 to August 3, 2012, it was moved again from 6pm to 4pm. On July 27, TV Azteca announced that broadcasts of Quererte Así would end on August 3, 2012, due to low ratings, with Corazón Apasionado replacing it. As a result, only 80 episodes were broadcast on Azteca out of the 120 episodes that were filmed. Telenovela is normally sold internationally with 120 episodes.

Quererte Así

2012