
María Rojo
Biography
María Rojo is the artistic name of María de Lourdes Rojo e Incháustegui (Mexico City, August 15, 1943), a Mexican film, theater and television actress. Daughter of Roberto Rojo, an agronomist, and Águeda Incháustegui, a school teacher.
From her childhood, she remembers being nervous and suffering from dyslexia, which brought her personality problems and insecurity, but she soon stood out for her artistic skills.
She began her artistic career at the age of eight, when she was selected in a casting to participate in the Teatro Fantástico program, where she played the girl Ciquirritica. Then, she has developed a fruitful career that exceeds 60 years, and in 2018, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences officially invited her to be a special part of its new members.
She is the first actress to receive the "Premio Bellas Artes" for her great career, and Winner of the Ariel Award, including the "Ariel de Oro" out of a total of 11 nominations, she is considered one of the best actresses in the history of Mexico.
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Acting History
2025
Tespis Teporocho
2025Grayffiti as Rosa
2025Amanecer as Prudencia Morales
2024Atypical Pirate
2024We Were Kings as Herminia
2023Pole Dance as Lic. García
2022Malvada as Doña Claudia
2022A Not So Merry Christmas as Silvia
2022Pena Ajena as Tere
2021Your Love Is My Fortune as Magos Domínguez Negrete (Recast)
2021Mi Canción as Abue
2020The Day I Lost Myself as Sofía “Old Twinky”
2018Narcos: Mexico as Norma Arellano Felix
2018Valentina's Wedding as Luz Evelia
2018The Cousin as Juliana
2017One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo as Self
2017Crimes of the North Sea
2017Sincronía as Madame
2017Su nombre era Dolores, la Jenn que yo conocí as Doña Rosa
2016Hasta que te conocí as Maribel
2016Gabo & Cinema as Self
2015She's Ramona as Marcela Godínez
2015Las Horas Contigo as Julieta
2014The Perfect Dictatorship as Doña Chole
2014Senora Acero as Mercedes "La Mecha" Berríos
2014Hasta el fin del mundo as Guadalupe
2014A Shred Of Mist as Tía Elizabeth
2014Crónica de castas as Bertha
2014The Crime of Cacaro Gumaro as María Cocinera
2012Cloroformo as Doña Consuelo
2012El Albergue as Esperanza de la Lama
2011Todos hemos pecado as La Perfida
2010Gritos D Muerte y Libertad as Madre de Pedro
2010El Infierno as Doña Mari Reyes
2010Gritos de Muerte y Libertad as Madre de Pedro
2010File of Attempted Murder as Madre de Arroyo
2010Exquisite Corpse
2009Wild Heart as Clemencia
2009Me importas tú... y tú
2009María de Todos los Ángeles
2008Tomorrow is forever as Soledad Cruz
2008Tomorrow is forever as Soledad
2008Killer Women as Milagros
2008Killer Women as Emma Ramírez
2008Killer Women as Emilia, cocinera
2008El Garabato as Senator
2007Under the Same Moon as Reyna
2006El malogrado amor de Sebastián as Herself
2006Amor
2006A Wonderful World as Comadre chismosa
2005Dos auroras as Aurora
2005Alborada as Victoria Mansera de Oviedo
2005Casados con Hijos as Fabiola
2004El edén as Magda
2004The Mystery of the Almond Trees as Dona Josefina
2003Dark Fate as Lucrecia Vargas
2002Las Lunas del Auditorio as Self
2002To Love Too Much as Tía Greta
2001Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You as Madre de Yessica
2000A Breakfast Chronicle as Luzma
1997Conversando con Cristina Pacheco as María Rojo
1997Reclusorio as Gloria Castro (segment "La Prostituta violada")
1997Esmeralda Comes by Night as Esmeralda Loyden
1997Alta Tensión
1997Reencuentros as Soledad
1996Te Sigo Amando as Felipa
1996The Overturning Of The Heart as Raquel
1996De muerte natural
1996Danish Girls Show Everything as Nun
1996Salón México as Mercedes
1996Doble indemnización as Paulina
1995Midaq Alley as Doña Cata
1994La señorita as Amida
1994Passionate Mobile
1994Amor que mata as Adriana
1993Encuentro Inesperado as Estela
1993Autumn as Woman
1993Las mil y una aventuras del metro
1992La casa de los cuchillos
1992El chupes as Martha
1992Forbidden Homework as María / Aisel / Mother
1992Tequila as Bailarina
1991Homework as Virginia / María
1991Danzón as Julia Solórzano
1991Blue Memories as Esperanza Gómez
1991El extensionista as Güera
1991The Legend of a Mask as Emilia
1991Vai Trabalhar Vagabundo II: A Volta
1991Infamia
1990With Fear in the Veins as Francisca
1990Red Dawn as Alicia
1990La sombra del ciprés es alargada as Jane
1990Dying in the Gulf as Conchita
1990La mudanza
1989Bathroom Intimacy as Esperanza
1989Las asesinas del panadero
1988Break of Dawn as Maria
1988All Souls' Day as Yolanda
1988The Marked Hour as Francisca
1988El otro crimen
1987Living Is What Matters as Chabela
1987Los confines as Natalia
1987Zapata en Chinameca as Amalia Martínez
1986Astucia as Mujer Melesio
1986Me llaman la Chata Aguayo
1986The Humiliated as Mother Teresa
1986Robachicos
1985Viaje al paraíso as Queta
1984The Heart of the Night as Interprete
1983Under the Shrapnel as Maria
1983Deceitful Appearances as Fina
1982Confidencias as Anastasia
1982The Eve as Margarita
1981Complot Petróleo: La cabeza de la hidra
1979The Enemy Sister
1979Maria of My Heart as Maria Torres Lopez
1978Naufragio as Leticia
1978New World as Intérprete indígena
1978Idilio as Mujer
1977Lo mejor de Teresa as Carmen
1976Las Poquianchis as Lupe
1976The Heist as Meche
1974Candy Stripe Nurses as Marisa Valdez
1973Castle of Purity as Young at store
1973The Cubs as Lucy
1969Memories of the Future as Prostituta del burdel
1956Forbidden Kisses as Alicia
—Huehxolotl
—Podcast, rapaces nocturnos as Mendoza
—The Portrait’s Secret as Maria









