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
- Más sabe el Diablo por Viejo as Marilú
- American Curious as Bertha García
- If I Were You
- Island of the Dolls as Abuela
- Guatemala 1982 as Rosaura
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
- I Miss You
- Crepúsculo Rojo
- Chilango Chronicles
2009
- María de Todos los Ángeles
- Amar as Concha
- Conozca la cabeza de Juan Pérez as Adivina
- Más allá del muro
2008
- Killer Women as Margarita, ponzoñosa
- Tear This Heart Out as Gitana
2007
- Passion as María Julia «La Paisana»
- Cobrador: In God We Trust as La Gitana
- Beyond the Sky as Madre
2005
2004
- Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self (archive footage)
- Pink Punch as La Güera
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
- Manhattan Merengue as Alfidia
- Sur Violento
1994
- Señora Tentación as Tamara
1989
- Blood Screams as Angélica / The Witch (Spanish-language version only)
- Las borrachas
- Salvajes
- Los desmadrados
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
- Rituals as Maria
- The Glories of the Great Púas
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
- The Seven Cucas as Cuca
- La pulquería
- Bordello as Tamar
- El Macho Biónico as Leonor 'La Leona'
1980
- Navajeros as Mercedes
- Las Tentadoras as Maga Marion
1979
- The Loving Ones as Lina Lamont
- Muñecas de medianoche as Lorena
- The Streets of L.A. as Anita Zamora
1978
- Casa de citas as Nati
- Red Gold as María
1977
- The Rhinemann Exchange as Anna
- María, la santa as La Mulata
- Acto de posesión as Raquel
1976
- Drum as Marianna
- The Fungi Man as Elvira / Mother
- Joshua as Maria
- La India as La India
- 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
- Basuras humanas as Laura
- The She Wolf's Orgy as Teresa de Jesús
- End of the Party as Sylvia
1971
- Eye for an Eye as Sara Carson
- The Wild Season as Mercedes
- La hora desnuda
- The Rules of the Game as Verónica
- The Spring of the Scorpions as Isabel
1970
- Prohibido as Sra. Vega
- The World's Oldest Profession as Yolanda
- La buscona as Ana
1969
- Secret of Death as Estrella
- Madame Death as Lisa
- Pact with the Devil
- Cuernos debajo de la cama as Elsa
- Las golfas as Otilia
- Piranhas Love in Lent as Eulalia / Mother
- Las impuras
- El deseo llega de noche as Leda
1968
- Por mis pistolas as Lupita Sanchez
- La Cama
- Fear Chamber as Helga
- Las pecadoras as Norma
- The Psychedelic Girls as Dalilah
1967
- Don Juan 67 as Carmén
- El matrimonio es como el demonio as Aloha
- S.O.S. Bikini Conspiracy as SOS Stage Director
- Mujeres, mujeres, mujeres as Sofía (segment "El imponente")
1960
- Violent Summer as Carmen