Rita Cortese

Acting

Rita Cortese

Born

1949-08-05 (77)

Place of birth

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Known for

Acting

Credits

57 titles

Adela Rita Cortese (born August 5, 1949, in Buenos Aires) is a renowned Argentine actress and singer. Her career spans across films, series, and telenovelas, earning her three Martín Fierro Awards as well as a Silver Condor Award. In 1967, she began studying Philosophy and Letters but dropped out a year later. In 1974, she entered the theater school directed by Néstor Raimondi, although, according to her own statements, she started her professional career in 1972 at the Teatro Latino in San Telmo. As a film actress, she worked in La nube, and in 2003, she received the Silver Condor Award for Best Actress for Herencia. As a television actress, she received a Martín Fierro Award in 2002 for…

Known for

Endless Summer poster
7.0

Verano del '98 is an Argentine telenovela, produced by Cris Morena. It was broadcast on Telefe television in the period January 12, 1998-November 17, 2000. The telenovela had three seasons, and changed its cast many times. Cris Morena also composed songs for Verano del '98 soundtrack.

Endless Summer

1998

Wild Tales poster
7.9

Injustice and the demands of the world can cause stress for many people. Some of them, however, explode. This includes a waitress serving a grouchy loan shark, an altercation between two motorists, an ill-fated wedding reception, and a wealthy businessman who tries to buy his family out of trouble.

Wild Tales

2014

Costumbres argentinas poster
8.0

The story of the rivalry between two families, the Rosettis and the Pagliaros. Vicente Rosetti and Ernesto Pagliaro have known each other since they were children; they were schoolmates and close friends until life, ideas, and love separated them.

Costumbres argentinas

2003

In the Mud poster
7.6

Five female prisoners forge a unique bond after a deadly accident... until corruption and turf wars within a ruthless prison threaten to destroy them.

In the Mud

2025

Captive poster
7.9

An Argentine dramatic television miniseries co-produced by TNT and FLOW. It follows the life of a nun who, after fifteen years, manages to escape from a cloistered convent where she was a victim of psychological abuse and held against her will. Starring Carolina Kopelioff, Lorena Vega, Rita Cortese, and Julieta Zylberberg.

Captive

2026

Montecristo poster
5.3

Montecristo was an Argentine telenovela produced by Grupo Telefe, premiered on April 24, 2006, on Telefe, which achieved great national and international success.

Montecristo

2006

Film credits

2020s · 7 titles

The Substitute poster
5.8

Lucio, a prestigious university professor, takes the position of substitute teacher at a high school in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, where he grew up. Through tales, novels and poetry, he tries to distract his class from the harsh reality of their everyday lives. But soon, he must step out of his professional duties when Dilan, one of his students, is threatened by a local drug kingpin.

The Substitute

2022

An Argentinian Crime poster
6.6

Rosario in the 80s. The disappearance of a man during the military dictatorship. Two young people from the court must do everything possible to solve the case while facing police corruption and various dangers that put their lives at risk.

An Argentinian Crime

2022

Blondi poster
6.8

Blondi and Mirko live together, listen to the same music, watch the same films, like to smoke pot and share the same friends. But, even though they seem to be the same age, Blondi is Mirko's mother.

Blondi

2023

Shadow of the Cat poster
6.3

Gato lives on a remote farm with his teenage daughter Emma where without even basic communications tools they’re entirely cut off from the outside world. But once Emma comes into possession of a phone, she’s contacted by a party claiming to be working on behalf of her mother, who her father claimed abandoned her at birth. Infuriated, Emma heads off on a journey of self-discovery to reconnect with her mother, all the while Gato and his best pal Sombra (Danny Trejo) race to rescue her from the grim fate she’s unknowingly heading towards.

Shadow of the Cat

2021

Most People Die on Sundays poster
6.8

David, a young middle-class Jewish boy, overweight, homosexual and afraid of flying, returns to Buenos Aires from Europe when his uncle dies. During his time there, David learns that his mother has decided to disconnect his father from the ventilator.

Most People Die on Sundays

2024

The Siamese Bond poster
7.2

Estela and her mother Clota must travel from Junín, where they live, to the town of Costa Bonita, in Necochea, to see some apartments that Estela's father has inherited from her.

The Siamese Bond

2021

Indisciplinado. Historia de un proyecto político poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Indisciplinado. Historia de un proyecto político

2023

2010s · 10 titles

Wild Tales poster
7.9

Injustice and the demands of the world can cause stress for many people. Some of them, however, explode. This includes a waitress serving a grouchy loan shark, an altercation between two motorists, an ill-fated wedding reception, and a wealthy businessman who tries to buy his family out of trouble.

Wild Tales

2014

Heroic Losers poster
7.6

In a town in the Northwest of the province of Buenos Aires, a group of neighbors is organized to recover the economy of the area, but when the corralito is implemented in the country and they suffer a fraud, their hopes disappear. Now, they will unite to recover the lost money and give the blow of their lives to their greatest enemy.

Heroic Losers

2019

Cinco velitas poster
NR

A woman leaves her son on his 5th birthday and goes out to look for what she doesn't have: a job. What could be just another party becomes complicated when a shrewd grandmother suspects that the child does not belong to her grandson's group of classmates.

Cinco velitas

2010

Fragmentos poster
NR

It is 1982. Nélida (68) lives with her grandson Ernesto (17) in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. Nélida is finishing setting the table for lunch when Ernesto comes home from the street. The silence is impossible to break and hangs over the house. Ernesto's anguished expression is evident, and his grandmother tries to calm him with a gesture and a few words... even though her gaze reflects only helplessness and concern. The next day, he must report for military service: the Falklands War has begun.

Fragmentos

2014

Widows poster
5.6

A married man's death puts his widow and mistress in an unusual living arrangement.

Widows

2011

Una cita, una fiesta y un gato negro poster
10.0

In just three days, Gabriela feels that her ideal marriage and her flourishing business are in grave danger, due to the sudden and fearful reappearance in her life of Felisa, a former high school classmate, who carries the history of bringing bad luck and misfortune with her.

Una cita, una fiesta y un gato negro

2012

Los Marziano poster
5.5

Los Marziano reconstruye la oportunidad de un reencuentro entre dos hermanos tras un largo período de distanciamiento. Se trata de un relato que trabaja con profunda inteligencia -y con rasgos de comedia- el universo de las relaciones familiares.

Los Marziano

2011

Brother and Sister poster
6.6

They are both alone. They need each other but, at the same time, they despise each other. Siblings Marcos and Susana are unable to heal the old wounds festering within them after the death of their mother. When Susana sells their mother's flat, she deprives her brother of the home where he had cared for their mother his whole life. Marcos's need to start living again surfaces when his sister forces him to leave Buenos Aires for Uruguay.

Brother and Sister

2010

Verdades verdaderas, la vida de Estela poster
5.6

In 1976, a coup d'etat by the Armed Forces replaced the argentine constitutional Government and policies of terror that trampled on human rights were implemented. In a few years, the hidden and silent violence of these policies spiraled and 30,000 citizens of different ages and social conditions were murdered. They were wrongly called the disappeared and, among them, there were young children or unborn young who were delivered in prisons of the military dictatorship and whose kidnappers abducted and registered as their own children. This movie tells the story of Estela Barnes Carlotto, a human rights activist in Argentina, chairwoman of the Association of Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, who stopped being a housewife to get involved in public affairs after the kidnap of her daughter, Laura Estela Carlotto in 1977. The film is about the way her life was transformed.

Verdades verdaderas, la vida de Estela

2011

Bruja poster
7.6

A single mother is an expert in black magic, but has never used it to do evil, until a prostitution network kidnaps her daughter.

Bruja

2019

2000s · 10 titles

Apariencias poster
7.3

Carmelo, who is 30-years old and extremely shy, finds it difficult to reveal his innermost feelings to Verónica, his co-worker. Carmelo's world collapses when he finds out that she intends to get married soon. Accidentally, she spots him demonstrating in a gay rally where he becomes a leader of that cause. Of course, Verónica assumes that Carmelo is gay, and he takes adv antage of this misunderstanding.

Apariencias

2000

Horizontal/Vertical poster
NR

En una ciudad desconocida, en un edificio a través de las ventanas se puede ver el momento exacto en el que las cosas cambian. El antes comienza a ser el después y viceversa. Y nada vuelve a ser como antes. En este universo idéntico y diferente a la vez, se ve como los personajes cambian para siempre. In an unknown city, in a building through the windows you can see the exact moment when things change. The before begins to be the after and vice versa. And nothing goes back to the way it was before. In this identical and different universe at the same time, it is seen how the characters change forever.

Horizontal/Vertical

2009

Samy and Me poster
6.6

Things begin to fall apart for Samy (Ricardo Darín), a longtime television writer on the brink of turning 40, when his midlife crisis starts interfering with his career. Suddenly, his scripts just aren't that funny, and he's considering leaving showbiz altogether. Can a pretty new actress (Angie Cepeda) help him turn his life around? Eduardo Milewicz directs this Spanish-language romantic comedy.

Samy and Me

2002

Monobloc poster
5.4

The godmother and Perla are the world to "the little girl," a world defined by the four walls of a studio apartment with one window looking nowhere. Only space and alter the monotony, the blood transfusion sessions to which must be submitted Pearl and almost anonymous sexual encounters of the baby.

Monobloc

2005

Reparaciones poster
NR

The special is a comedy of entanglement that happens around a typical neighborhood of the city that was altered by the presence of Nelson, a line, which we vizinhos consider an ungrateful place. Decide to hold a meeting to decide what to do and this is the scene for the first meeting between Mariela and Octavio. The problems of the neighborhood need to be excused by two young people to relate them.

Reparaciones

2007

Lugones Family poster
6.0

Argentine history during the 20th century discovered by two teenagers, who investigate the lives of members of four different generations of the Lugones family.

Lugones Family

2007

Do You Swim? poster
6.3

A unfulfilled man tries to find something to ling to, traveling from town to town, in one of them he'll find enough reason to stay.

Do You Swim?

2002

Inheritance poster
6.8

Peter, a young German, enters a suburban Buenos Aires restaurant; seeking only directions, he instead accidentally ends up with a plate smashing into his head, thrown by the irritable Olinda, the 60 year-old Italian immigrant owner of the restaurant. The two develop a friendship once they discover that the reasons for their having moved to Argentina are strikingly similar.

Inheritance

2002

No artwork available
7.0

An eccentric female detective is tasked with finding a small baby kidnapped by a gang of criminals.

¿Y dónde está el bebé?

2002

30 años de vida venciendo a la muerte poster
NR

Who are the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo? What is the story of these women who knew how to turn pain into struggle? What is their struggle? How did they become a global symbol of the fight for human rights, freedom, and socialism?

30 años de vida venciendo a la muerte

2006

1990s · 6 titles

Cenizas del paraíso poster
6.9

A judge falls from the roof of the Federal Courthouse. A woman is murdered. Between them and the three sons of the judge there is a connection that will be investigated by a woman judge who is determined to discover the truth.

Cenizas del paraíso

1997

A Wall of Silence poster
5.7

A woman would rather forget her husband's forced disappearance at the hands of the government.

A Wall of Silence

1993

Alma mía poster
5.5

The lives of Alma (Araceli Gonzalez) and Leo (Pablo Echarri) did not seem destined to cross. She, a baker in the mouth, with her ​​family and her boyfriend Mario since adolescence. The, an architect with secure wedding date with Valeria. One night, fate brought them together and this unexpected encounter will not go unnoticed. Both Alma and Leo not be fidgety to what happens between them.

Alma mía

1999

El sueño de los héroes poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

El sueño de los héroes

1997

Cohen vs. Rosi poster
5.5

Two rival families of different origin join the force by the love of two young. The journalist Ariel Cohen falls in love for Carla Rosi, while investigating his father, Giancarlo, a wealthy shady business that is congressional candidate with presidential aspirations.

Cohen vs. Rosi

1998

Stolen Moments poster
9.0

1947, in Patagonia, in a little village on the seaside. An abandoned house on the beach shelters Letty's dreams, her loneliness that only Miguel, a very young pianist, may share with her. Tomas, her husband, loves Letty and eagerly defends her against all the village, while she keeps playing her part of a 'femme fatale' with a romantic past and a very adventurous file. But on a windy day, a handsome and strange foreigner appears, coming from the sea, a man just as those Bette Davis used to fall in love with. For Letty, reality begins to look like the most incredible dreams of her. But this will call the police inspector's attention. With that mysterious spy, Letty will be involved in a story that will end as those stories she was so fond of when she was going to the movie theater of her little willage.

Stolen Moments

1998

Series credits

Endless Summer poster
7.0

Verano del '98 is an Argentine telenovela, produced by Cris Morena. It was broadcast on Telefe television in the period January 12, 1998-November 17, 2000. The telenovela had three seasons, and changed its cast many times. Cris Morena also composed songs for Verano del '98 soundtrack.

Endless Summer

1998

Costumbres argentinas poster
8.0

The story of the rivalry between two families, the Rosettis and the Pagliaros. Vicente Rosetti and Ernesto Pagliaro have known each other since they were children; they were schoolmates and close friends until life, ideas, and love separated them.

Costumbres argentinas

2003

In the Mud poster
7.6

Five female prisoners forge a unique bond after a deadly accident... until corruption and turf wars within a ruthless prison threaten to destroy them.

In the Mud

2025

Captive poster
7.9

An Argentine dramatic television miniseries co-produced by TNT and FLOW. It follows the life of a nun who, after fifteen years, manages to escape from a cloistered convent where she was a victim of psychological abuse and held against her will. Starring Carolina Kopelioff, Lorena Vega, Rita Cortese, and Julieta Zylberberg.

Captive

2026

Montecristo poster
5.3

Montecristo was an Argentine telenovela produced by Grupo Telefe, premiered on April 24, 2006, on Telefe, which achieved great national and international success.

Montecristo

2006

Los secretos de Papá poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Los secretos de Papá

2004

Lalola poster
8.0

Lalo Padilla, a chauvinistic man and the director of a popular men's magazine, fell victim to a revenge spell cast by one of his mistresses after he stood her up. Upon waking, Lalo discovered that his body had transformed into that of a woman. Now known as Lola, he must live this way while searching for a way to become Lalo again.

Lalola

2007

Killer Women poster
6.0

Anthology series, in which every episode introduces fictionalized versions of real cases about women who, for different reasons, ended up committing murder.

Killer Women

2005

Esperanza mía poster
7.6

No synopsis available yet.

Esperanza mía

2015

The Best Heart Attack of My Life poster
7.5

Ariel, a ghostwriter with a scandalous life, falls into crisis when his wife leaves him. A compulsive smoker, overweight, and with a sense of humor as dark as his underwear, he suffers a heart attack while staying in a rented house in another country, alongside a girl he has just met. This emotional event begins to bring new meaning to his life and the lives of many people around him.

The Best Heart Attack of My Life

2025

The Mind Behind Power poster
6.8

The president-elect's psychologist is blackmailed by a mysterious organization to force the chief executive to resign.

The Mind Behind Power

2024

Maradona, Blessed Dream poster
7.4

The controversial life and history of Argentine football legend Diego Armando Maradona. From his beginnings in Villa Fiorito, one of the poorest barrios of Buenos Aires, to achieving glory on the international football league. Earning himself a well-deserved place in history. Living a life strewn with drugs, sex and public scrutiny, he played by his own rules regardless of the consequences. Watch the man who took the world by storm and made his way into the hearts of millions.

Maradona, Blessed Dream

2021

The Man of Your Dreams poster
8.1

No synopsis available yet.

The Man of Your Dreams

2011

Malandras poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Malandras

2003

Sol Negro poster
7.8

Sol Negro was an Argentine television miniseries that aired on the América TV channel in late 2003. The plot focuses on the story of a young man who is admitted to a neuropsychiatric hospital to evade prison, and revolves around his insertion in the circle of inmates of the hospital and a complicity network to take away his share of a family inheritance.

Sol Negro

2003

R.R.D.T. poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

R.R.D.T.

1997

So Far, So Good poster
NR

Ariel, a 50-year-old cartoonist with five kids and aging parents, faces a mid-life crisis, complicated by a hernia. His physical limits force him to reflect on freedom, family duties, and what matters most.

So Far, So Good

2026

Sin código poster
9.0

Axel Etcheverry is a young hacker.One day,he steals the password of the site of the Police department.Gabriel Nielsen is a policeman.One day,he's going to arrest Axel,but he does not arrest him because they become friends.Axel will help Gabriel on his cases.

Sin código

2004

No artwork available
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

1000 millones

2002

Tiempo de pensar poster
NR

Time to Think proposes to address the problem of gender violence, questioning stereotypes and the ways in which women are represented in the media. Each episode poses a conflict that runs through the daily life of a woman and her environment. With a mixture of drama, romantic comedy, and humor, it addresses a socio-emotional conflict that runs through a woman's life, faced with situations that intersect opposite feelings.

Tiempo de pensar

2011

Esa mujer poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Esa mujer

2013