Biography
Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez Cruz (Mexico City, November 2, 1959) is a leading Mexican film, television and theater actress, as well as a director and acting teacher. She worked in more than 40 plays and participated in nearly 40 movies, more than 15 soap operas and 5 radio soap operas. In 2018 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invited her to be a special part of its new members.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Son of His Father
2024
Gabriel, a devoted and loving single father, is thrown into turmoil when his mother announces she is selling the house they lived in for years. This n...

Glaciar
2023
as Micaela

¡Que viva México!
2023
as Socorro
After his grandfather's death, a man travels with his wife and kids to his hometown, where chaos ensues with his relatives over the inheritance.

Actors, Inc.
2013
as La Actriz
Thomas is a young actor, the adopted son of Don Antonio, director and founder of the theatrical company to witch he belongs and where he presents his ...

The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas
2012
as Madre de Sabina Rivas
In the Mexican-Guatemalan border, young teenage lovers, Sabina and Jovany, both Hondurans, accidentally meet again after some years without seeing eac...

Youth, Disillusions and Yearnings of Hernán Cortés Delgado
2010
Director Jaime Humberto Hermosillo's filmed memoir about his late-teen years in an unglamorous smaller town. Going to the movies a lot, discovering hi...

El Infierno
2010
as Señora Buitre
After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.

Enemigos íntimos
2009
Tells the stories of eight characters suffering from different ailments: a doctor who does not acknowledge his homosexuality, a woman who refuses to a...

Buddah's Head
2009
as Reportera
Tomás, a famous and egocentric actor, buying a Buddha head in Lagunilla . In an attempt to avoid being robbed, the thief accidentally kills in self-de...

Más allá del muro
2009
A house is to be demolished to make a parking lot. In the process, the children of an orphanage and the old people of an asylum, both neighbors of the...

Spam
2008
as (Vecina)
Tobias, a maladjusted young high-school student, must use his investigative skills to stop a deadly supernatural chain started by one of his school fr...

Wait for Me in Another World
2008
Marcela is a young woman who lives in Mexico City, where she makes her living teaching ballroom dancing. Everything seems to be fine in her little wor...

I am My Mother
2008
as Sable Sainte
Glasgow-based artist Phil Collins’s film Soy Mi Madre examines the immigrant populations of Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley, a sizable percentage of wh...

Two Embraces
2007
as Madre de Silvina
Four lonely and disenfranchised urbanites in contemporary Mexico City: a preteen boy under tremendous emotional strain, the pretty cashier with whom h...

Charm School
2007
as Fina
Defiant 18-year-old Adela León pushes her father and an unbending headmistress to the limit in this delicious comedy.

Bordertown
2007
as Lourdes Jimenez
American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. Th...

El Mago
2004
as Mother
A young man returns to differente people and places in his life, to repay favors once done and change the lives of those surrounding him, forever.

The Miracle
2003
A miracle is about to happen, Margarita, like everyone wants to attend, but Alfonso, her husband, believes that everything is a sham.
Mientras me muero
2003

Leftie
2003
as Maestra
Futuristic movie about Alejandro, a gifted left-handed child marble player who must win a competition as the entire town's hopes - and money - rest on...

Love Hurts
2002
as Claudia
Family and friends try to sabotage the budding romance between a young upper class girl and a humble student.

Dark Cities
2002
as Zezé
Adapted by writer/director Fernando Sariñana from the stories by Juan Madrid, Ciudades Oscuras (Dark Cities) tells a story of interwoven lives in the ...

La maceta
2002

El ladrón de sombras
2002

In the Time of the Butterflies
2001
as Mother Superior
Based on the book by Julia Alvarez. Three sisters become activists during the Dominican Republic's Trujillo regime when members of their family are ki...

In The Country Where Nothing Happens
2000
as Luisa
A crooked CEO is kidnapped and nobody cares enough to pay his ransom.
Conejo
1999
A boy named Rabbit finds some magics marbles in abandoned house. He then discovers a world where anything is possible.

The Other Conquest
1999
as Beata Conversa
The film is a drama about the aftermath of the 1520s Spanish Conquest of Mexico told from the perspective of the indigenous Aztec people. It explores ...

Divine
1998
"La Nueva Jerusalem" is a small community of believers lead by Papá Basilio and Mamá Dorita. They're waiting for the second coming of Christ, so they'...

If I Never See You Again
1997
as Silvia
Five elderly men form a music group and run away from the nursing home where they are interns with the hope of playing for an audience. They confront ...

All of Them Witches
1996
as Eva
Something strange is going on in Dolores' apartment house--or is it mainly in Dolores' head that the strangeness lies... When her best friend Eva is m...

Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman
1996
as Mujer de Pancho Villa
Gina, a modern business woman in her late forties, has a lover named Adrian, a journalist, who she sees once in a while just to have sex. They are bot...

Straight to Heaven
1996
Two girls in love are going to discover that a bus can take you from a traffic jam in Mexico City to a celestial place.

Death and the Compass
1992
as Ms. Espinoza / Harlequin
In a totalitarian future, in a nightmare metropolis, inhabited only by criminals and police, Erik Lonnrot, a gifted detective, investigates a series o...

Wild Blue Moon
1992
as Luz
A young woman uses witchcraft to take her revenge on an artist who dumped her.

Cita en el paraíso.
1992
as Alejandra
Alejandra (Gutiérrez), a drugstore clerk, receives a note from a strange man (Alcázar). The note only shows a number, but Alejandra seems to understan...

Highway Patrolman
1991
as Griselda
A naïve rookie in the Mexican highway patrol must adapt in order to survive as he contends with widespread corruption, dangerous drug runners and the ...

City of the Blind
1991
as Teo
Over more than thirty years, a department of the Condesa in Mexico City, is the setting in which they are carried out ten stories, mixed, form one who...

Cuantas viejas quieras
1990
Rodrigo and Mariano plot a robbery; Rodrigo's station wagon will be the get away car. They dream of their wealth to be. A triangle is established when...

Dispárenle a matar
1989
A man gets involved in a murder and his life is radically transformed. He decides to return to his hometown to find his family and an old love. Unfort...

Gaby: A True Story
1987
as Hospital Nurse
The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.

Hotel Colonial
1987
as Linda
Marco Veniera goes to Bogotá, Colombia to find his brother, Luca who supposedly committed suicide. In his search, he meets fiery and exotic Irene Cost...

The Realm of Fortune
1986
as La Pinzona
Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the de...

Firewalker
1986
as Indian Girl
A pair of adventurers try to track down an ancient Aztec/Mayan/Egyptian/Apache horde of gold.

Miracles
1986
as La mujer de K'in
Jean and Roger decide to divorce after 10 years, but 12 hours later, they're together again by accident. Their cars collide, swerving to miss Juan, th...

The Humiliated
1986
as Sister Encarnación
Four nuns are raped by a group of lepers. Although they all turn out to be pregnant, their status is hidden from them in the convent.

Viaje al paraíso
1985
as Carola
Family plans for a quiet weekend at the beach, but everything goes wrong.

Violent Stories
1985
Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.

El Norte
1983
as Rosa
Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the drea...
The Enemy Sister
1979
A 1979 short by Rosario Hernández.

Rarotonga
1978
as Tuituila
Doctor visiting an under-served island community gets deeply involved with a mysterious priestess-chieftain-exotic dancer. Remake of Zonga, El Angel D...

The Fight with the Panther
1975
as Patricia's Friend
Three nymphets struggle to have a beneficial youth: Ana is suicidal, Mercedes is attracted to her brother William, and Patricia desires to be sexually...
The Healer
N/A
Manuel is desperate to save his wife from death. A mysterious man appears to him one day at church, convincing him to go to a Healer who can help her.