Irma Serrano

Actress

December 9, 1933 (89 years)

† March 1, 2023

Chiapas, México

Biography

Irma Consuelo Cielo Serrano Castro (9 December 1933 – 1 March 2023), better known simply as Irma Serrano, was a Mexican singer, actress, and politician, widely known by the nickname “La Tigresa.” Born in Comitán de Domínguez in Chiapas, she rose to prominence in the 1960s as a performer of ranchera and corrido music and developed a parallel screen career spanning Mexican cinema from the early 1960s onward. In music, Serrano recorded and performed extensively in traditional Mexican popular style…

Filmography

8.1

La Madrastra

La Duquesa

La Madrastra is a Mexican telenovela. It was produced by Televisa and broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas in Mexico from 7 February 2005 through 29 July 2005. The program became an unexpected success, garnering ratings in excess of 30 points. Starring Victoria Ruffo and César Évora, who last appeared together in 2000's Abrázame muy fuerte, La madrastra tells the story of María, a woman who lost twenty years of her life after being falsely accused of murder and who returns to Mexico to exact revenge on her husband and friends who abandoned her and to see her beloved children once more. La Madrastra is fourth in a series of remakes of the 1981 Chilean production of the same name. The program aired five nights a week, Monday through Friday, at 9 pm for 25 weeks. A follow-up special, La madrastra: años después, aired shortly after the finale on 30 July 2005.

4.7

Naná

Based on the Émile Zola same name novel. The life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century. The film includes numerous musical acts performed by Irma Serrano.

6.9

El Extra

Señorita en la audición

Cantinflas is a man who hangs around the studios and helps anyone who needs his advice while at the same time envisioning his own versions of how certain scenes should be shot. Both angles provide ample opportunities for very witty, subtle barbs at the foibles of the industry.

6.2

Juana la Cubana

The beautiful nightclub singer/dancer Juana the Cuban moonlights as freedom fighter “Commander Zeta”, joining forces with the C.I.A. to overthrow the brutal regime of a military dictator (played by Erik Estrada) who plans to unleash bacteriological warfare on the U.S.A.

5.9

Lola the Truck Driver

Flor de Lotos / Alondra

Lola finds herself into the world of violence and drug trafficking when her father is murdered for refusing to put his truck to the service of a powerful cartel, with protections at high police levels. Knowing the local officials will not serve out justice, she takes matters into her own hands. Armed with a machine gun, she'll attempt to get revenge by her own hands - but the enemy has more firepower than her.

4.4

Santo and the Golden Eagle

Irma Morales

The rich landowner La Tigresa suffers several attacks and seeks help from Santo. The attacks continue but Santo protects and she falls for him.

6.0

La Martina

Martina

Martina is a liberal woman who arrives to a small town, with his godfather. Here, Martina will met with her secret love, a typical "macho-ranchero" man, demanding her hand in matrimony. But he rejects Martina, claiming that she's not virgin and will return her to the godfather. When the godfather dies, Martina finds herself alone, and she'll begin a sexual adventure with almost the last men in the town, even with the shy chaplain.

6.0

El Hijo De Gabino Barrera

Gabino's son tries to find out why his father was murdered.

4.8

Santo vs. the Zombies

Det. Isabel

Masked luchador "Santo" fights against an evil doctor and his zombie army.

6.2

El zurdo

Catalina

Professional gambler is made responsible for the upbringing of an orphan whose father he killed.

6.8

La Chamuscada - Tierra Y Libertad

Chabela Herrero

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

4.4

Lovers of the Lord of the Night

Saurina

Venusita falls in love with the son of a wealthy family whose mother sends her son off to the United States in order to keep the two apart. Not to be rejected so easily, Venusita visits Saurina the sorceress who comes up with a spell that kills off the merchant and zaps the son back home, but Venusita's problems are far from over.

6.4

El corrido de María Pistolas

Sequel to Maria Pistolas. Comic-tomgirl member of Villa's army has boy trouble.

5.8

The Revenge of Gabino Barrera

Alicia, the wife of the vengeful Gabino Barrera, is killed by an escaped convict. Stripped of the one woman he's ever loved, Gabino vows to make the killer pay and pursues him. As he gets closer to his prey, Gabino turns deadlier.

6.0

Adriana del Rio, actriz

Self

No description available

6.3

The Monastery of the Vultures

Amalia

In a remote Mexican monastery, a Father Prior subjects young seminarians to psychoanalysis to test their vocation. As sessions peel back secrets and doubts, faith, desire, and authority collide.

5.3

La tigresa

Irma 'La Tigresa'

Orphan girl grows up to take revenge on the men who killed her parents.

6.9

Shark Hunters

Rosa

Aurelio is a shark fisherman who works very hard to send money to his family in the city and keep Manela, his young lover on the coast. One day, he decides to move to the big city.

5.0

Noches de Cabaret: Las Reinas del Talón

as self

No description available

5.6

El hijo del diablo

Victor Rincon is a smuggler who burns down the coastal ranch of an old man who refused to sell it to him for a low price. The Devil's son, immune to bullets, kills some of the man's henchmen to return his money to the smuggler.