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
- If I Were You
- Island of the Dolls as Abuela
- American Curious as Bertha García
- Más sabe el Diablo por Viejo as Marilú
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
- A Double Identity as Doña Belén
- El Infierno as Doña Rosaura
- Chilango Chronicles
- I Miss You
- Crepúsculo Rojo
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»
- Beyond the Sky as Madre
- Cobrador: In God We Trust as La Gitana
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
- Sur Violento
- Manhattan Merengue as Alfidia
1994
- Señora Tentación as Tamara
1989
- Salvajes
- Blood Screams as Angélica / The Witch (Spanish-language version only)
- Las borrachas
- 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
- The Glories of the Great Púas
- In 'N Out as Mona Mur
- 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
- El Macho Biónico as Leonor 'La Leona'
- La pulquería
- The Seven Cucas as Cuca
1980
- Navajeros as Mercedes
- Las Tentadoras as Maga Marion
1979
- Muñecas de medianoche as Lorena
- The Streets of L.A. as Anita Zamora
- The Loving Ones as Lina Lamont
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
- Joshua as Maria
- The Fungi Man as Elvira / Mother
- 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
- End of the Party as Sylvia
- The She Wolf's Orgy as Teresa de Jesús
- Basuras humanas as Laura
1971
- La hora desnuda
- The Wild Season as Mercedes
- The Spring of the Scorpions as Isabel
- Eye for an Eye as Sara Carson
- 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
- El deseo llega de noche as Leda
- Secret of Death as Estrella
- Piranhas Love in Lent as Eulalia / Mother
- Las impuras
- Madame Death as Lisa
- Las golfas as Otilia
- Cuernos debajo de la cama as Elsa
1968
- Por mis pistolas as Lupita Sanchez
- La Cama
- Fear Chamber as Helga
- Las pecadoras as Norma
- The Psychedelic Girls as Dalilah
1967
- S.O.S. Bikini Conspiracy as SOS Stage Director
- Don Juan 67 as Carmén
- Mujeres, mujeres, mujeres as Sofía (segment "El imponente")
- El matrimonio es como el demonio as Aloha
1960
- Violent Summer as Carmen