Isela Vega
Born: 1939-11-06 in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico
Died: 2021-03-09
Known For: Acting
Biography
Isela Vega Durazo (Hermosillo, Sonora, November 5, 1939-Mexico City, March 9, 2021) was a Mexican actress and screenwriter. Considered one of the best Mexican actresses and a sex symbol after being the first Latina woman to appear in the adult magazine "Playboy". Between soap operas and movies, she participated in more than 90 productions, both Mexican and American, as well as Brazilian, Argentine, Australian and English.
Filmography
2025
- Juan Gabriel: I Must, I Can, I Will as Self (archive footage)
2020
- Cindy La Regia as Mercedes
2019
- Dora and the Lost City of Gold as Old Woman
2018
- The House of Flowers as Victoria Aguirre
- Like, la Leyenda as Eduarda
- Guatemala 1982 as Rosaura
- American Curious as Bertha García
- Más sabe el Diablo por Viejo as Marilú
- If I Were You
- Island of the Dolls as Abuela
2017
- Sin tu mirada as Dominga Zepahua
2016
- El Chema as Celia
- El Jeremías as Herminia
2015
- Las Horas Contigo as Abu
2014
- Italian Bride as Eloísa Ángeles
- Passion & Poetry: Sam's Favorite Film as Self
2011
- Saving Private Pérez as Doña Elvira de Pérez
- The Misfits as Rosario
2010
- El Infierno as Doña Rosaura
- A Double Identity as Doña Belén
- Chilango Chronicles
- Crepúsculo Rojo
- I Miss You
2009
- María de Todos los Ángeles
- Amar as Concha
- Más allá del muro
- Conozca la cabeza de Juan Pérez as Adivina
2008
- Killer Women as Margarita, ponzoñosa
- Tear This Heart Out as Gitana
2007
- Passion as María Julia «La Paisana»
- Beyond the Sky as Madre
- Cobrador: In God We Trust as La Gitana
2005
2004
- Pink Punch as La Güera
- Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self (archive footage)
2003
- Amor Descarado as Nora
- Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut as Self - Actress
2000
- Ramona as Matea
1999
- Herod's Law as Doña Lupe
1997
- Gente bien as Mercedes Figueroa
1995
- Sur Violento
- Manhattan Merengue as Alfidia
1994
- Señora Tentación as Tamara
1989
- Las borrachas
- Blood Screams as Angélica / The Witch (Spanish-language version only)
- Los desmadrados
- Salvajes
1987
- The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory as Senora Cos
- Nos reimos de la migra (Destrampados y mojados) as Monica / Sinforosa Oropeza
1986
1985
- Naná as Rosa Mignon
1984
- In 'N Out as Mona Mur
- The Glories of the Great Púas
- Rituals as Maria
1983
- Deceitful Appearances as Adriana
- The Black Widow as Matea Gutiérrez
- Love Is a Strange Game
1982
- Barbarosa as Josephina
- Una gallina muy ponedora as Claudia
1981
- Bordello as Tamar
- The Seven Cucas as Cuca
- La pulquería
- El Macho Biónico as Leonor 'La Leona'
1980
- Navajeros as Mercedes
- Las Tentadoras as Maga Marion
1979
- Muñecas de medianoche as Lorena
- The Loving Ones as Lina Lamont
- The Streets of L.A. as Anita Zamora
1978
- Red Gold as María
- Casa de citas as Nati
1977
- The Rhinemann Exchange as Anna
- Acto de posesión as Raquel
- María, la santa as La Mulata
1976
- Drum as Marianna
- La India as La India
- Joshua as Maria
- The Fungi Man as Elvira / Mother
- Celestina as Melibea
1975
- The Cry of the Turtle as Diana
1974
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia as Elita
1973
- The Deadly Trackers as Maria
- Volveré a nacer as Mónica
1972
- End of the Party as Sylvia
- Basuras humanas as Laura
- The She Wolf's Orgy as Teresa de Jesús
1971
- La hora desnuda
- Eye for an Eye as Sara Carson
- The Wild Season as Mercedes
- The Spring of the Scorpions as Isabel
- The Rules of the Game as Verónica
1970
- La buscona as Ana
- The World's Oldest Profession as Yolanda
- Prohibido as Sra. Vega
1969
- Pact with the Devil
- Madame Death as Lisa
- Secret of Death as Estrella
- Las impuras
- Las golfas as Otilia
- El deseo llega de noche as Leda
- Cuernos debajo de la cama as Elsa
- Piranhas Love in Lent as Eulalia / Mother
1968
- Por mis pistolas as Lupita Sanchez
- Fear Chamber as Helga
- La Cama
- The Psychedelic Girls as Dalilah
- Las pecadoras as Norma
1967
- Don Juan 67 as Carmén
- S.O.S. Bikini Conspiracy as SOS Stage Director
- El matrimonio es como el demonio as Aloha
- Mujeres, mujeres, mujeres as Sofía (segment "El imponente")
1960
- Violent Summer as Carmen