Biography
Assumpta Serna is a Spanish actress. She is known for her roles in I, the Worst of All, portraying famous Mexican religious scholar Sor Juana, Nostradamus, The Craft, and Wild Orchid, although she may be most remembered for her role as Peninsular War guerrilla commander Teresa Moreno in the first four of the ITV Richard Sharpe series. Serna was born as Assumpta Rodés Serna in Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). She married her co-star in Sharpe's Company, Scott Cleverdon. She has also appeared in the ...
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Más cinco
2025
as Maite

The Christ of the Skull
2023
Executive Producer
In the darkness of a gothic night, two knights engage in a deadly duel, illuminated only by the mysterious light of a lantern. A noble lady, confined ...

The Servant
2023
Domestic service worker Lera is accused of a crime. In a cell in the premises of a Civil Guard barracks, she meets Mihaela and Julia, two prostitutes ...

Petra de San José
2022
as Condesa Corbos

Slaves and Kings
2021
as Señora Sandoval
The compelling story of Saint Anthony Mary Claret, a Spanish Roman Catholic Archbishop, writer and publisher, missionary, and confessor to Queen Isabe...

Expansivas
2020
as Irene
Two sisters marked by their mother’s murder years before find the murder weapon and the clues that lead her to the perpetrator.

El método
2019
An aspiring actor, Juan Luis, suffers an incalculable pain by becoming the laughing stock of his class due to the close relationship he has with his m...

El Cepa Returns
2019
as Self - Actress (Manuela)
Forty years later, Guillermo Montesinos, the actor who played José María el Cepa in The Cuenca Crime (1980), directed by Pilar Miró, returns to the va...

Bernarda
2018
as Bernarda
Bernarda is a loose adaptation of the play La casa de Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca . Five women are kidnapped and locked in a strange factor...

¡He matado a mi marido!
2018
as Berta
A desperate woman accidentally murders her unfaithful husband the morning of a big party honoring his recent Pritzker Prize, now she must survive the ...

The Network of Freedom
2017
as Sœur Hélène Studler
France, beginning of World War II. Hélène Studler is a nun who has been dedicated to the care of orphans and the abandoned people. But the times have ...
The Fresco Fiasco
2016
Documentary about Cecilia Gimenez, the Spanish lady who ruined a fresco of Jesus but in turn restored her home town.

Behold the Monkey
2016
A modern fairytale based on the true story of an elderly Spanish cleaner's infamous attempt to restore a fresco.

Love Crisis
2013
as Voice
During one night at the end of the summer, in a random plaza in the centre of Madrid there is room for anything to happen - even turtles.

Atrapats
2012

El asesino a sueldo
2009
as Sra. Kaplan

Uncertainty
2009
as Sylvia Montero
Every choice has a consequence. But what if the flip of a coin could trigger two separate but parallel destinies? Bobby and Kate are a young New York ...

Trash
2009
Trash tells the story of several characters that transport us to a social reality that is reflected in our personal relationships: the current culture...

Un si beau voyage
2009
as Pilar

I Vicerè
2007
as Duchess Radalì
In late 19th-century Sicily, the noble Uzeda family—whose lineage dates back to the ancient viceroys that ruled those lands—fights to preserve its wan...

The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
2005
as Assumpta
Dark fairytale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale.

Teresa, Teresa
2003
as Presentadora TV

Le intermittenze del cuore
2003
as Adriana
Germanes de sang
2001
as Marga
Marga, a well-known television presenter, organizes a dinner with old friends from boarding school to which he has not seen for 30 years. But the meet...

The Journeyman
2001
as Cleopatra
In the Wild West at the turn of the century, two young brothers watch as their Grandpa is gunned down in cold blood. The desperados kidnap the older b...

Nadia Coupeau, dite Nana
2001
as Sabine Muffat
Victim of a rape, Nadia Coupeau decides to keep the child despite her precarious personal situation. But her child is soon taken away from her and pla...

Bullfighter
2000
as Ahandra / Allison
Jack is a wanderer whose aimless roaming leads him to a number of interesting locations and into the company of many interesting people, and despite h...

Why Not Me?
1999
as Diane
Four gay French expatriots share a business in Barcelona. When they and their parents are thrown together for a "coming out" party, another French Far...

Stolen Moments
1998
1947, in Patagonia, in a little village on the seaside. An abandoned house on the beach shelters Letty's dreams, her loneliness that only Miguel, a ve...

Subjúdice
1998
as Irene

Kiss & Tell
1997
as Dr. Monica DeBirdy
A performance artist turns up dead with a carrot up her butt by LAX. Three detectives interview her friends to find out who killed her and why.

Sharpe: The Legend
1997
as Teresa
Several years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London inn reminiscing about the brave and determined officer ...

Like a Bolt of Lightning
1996
as Sonia
Miguel Hermoso's Like Lightning offers a fresh take on a familiar scenario, the teenaged boy searching for his unknown father. Pablo is a typical teen...
Puro veneno
1996
as Virginia

The Craft
1996
as Lirio
A Catholic school newcomer falls in with a clique of teen witches who wield their powers against all who dare to cross them -- be they teachers, rival...

Managua
1996
as Martha
When a fellow Vietnam veteran is alleged to have thrown his lot in with the cocaine cartels, special commando Paul Gleason is dispatched to Nicaragua ...

The Shooter
1995
as Marta
A CIA agent gets caught up in political intrigue after he gets brought in to solve the murder of a Cuban ambassador.

Les Derniers Jours de la victime
1995
as Amanda
Mendizábal, a reputed hitman, is commissioned to eliminate Rodolfo Kulpe, a small-time criminal.

One Hundred and One Nights
1995
as Mute Actress in Hollywood
Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all ...

Belle al bar
1994
as Simona
During a marriage crisis, unhappy Leo has to go to another town for work. There he meets his long-lost cousin Giulio, who has become... Giulia, a very...

Nostradamus
1994
as Anne
A dramatic retelling of the life of Michel de Nostredame, from his early work as a plague doctor to his time at the court of Catherine de Medici, afte...

Shortcut to Paradise
1994
as María
Quinn shows up at an apartment building in Paradise, a small backwoods community in Puerto Rico, purporting to be the new caretaker the owner has been...

Sharpe's Enemy
1994
as Comandante Teresa Moreno
Portugal 1813. A band of deserters, including Sharpe's old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have captured two women, one the wife of a high-ranking English o...

Sharpe's Company
1994
as Comandante Teresa Moreno
Spain 1812 The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz. A murderous figure from Sharpe's past uses a beautiful woman revenge himself on Sharp...

Day of Reckoning
1994
as Marissa
Action-adventure following a onetime Special Forces Captain in Vietnam turned tour guide in remote parts of Asia, who, while on a trek with two resear...

Henry's Romance
1993
as Judith
It is carnival time in Munich and participants are overindulging in alcohol and sensual pleasures. "Follow us into madness" beckons Lys who is drunk o...

Havanera 1820
1993
as Yvonne Duchamp
The year is 1820, and trade between Cuba and Catalonia is a booming business, although the goods that arrive to Cuba are not always the products that ...

Sharpe's Eagle
1993
as Comandante Teresa Moreno
Sharpe is a Captain saddled with the South Essex, a battalion run by incompetents and filled with soldiers who have never been in battle. When the Sou...

Sharpe's Rifles
1993
as Comandante Teresa Moreno
During the Peninsular War in Spain against the French, Sergeant Richard Sharpe saves the life of Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington and i...

The Fencing Master
1992
as Adela de Otero
A fencing master in pre-revolution Spain is hired to teach fencing to a beautiful young woman. Although he has never taught a woman before he is fasci...

La nuit de l'océan
1992
as Claire
After the disappearance at sea of a young fisherman, his childhood friend and his mother begin an ambiguous relationship.

Chain of Desire
1992
as Cleo
A series of unrelated amorous lovers are connected by a chain of desire.
Adelaide
1992
as Clara

Revolver
1992
as Countess Angela Rossetti
Nick Suster, a secret intelligence agent paralyzed by an assassin's bullet, sets out to track down his assailant and in the process, uncovers a major ...

À quoi tu penses-tu ?
1992
as Mireille
Because he only thinks about Karine, the wife of his best friend André, Pierre, a writer, can no longer write. The situation is all the more complex a...

Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel
1992
as Judge Cristina Soto
This follow-up to "Drug Wars: The Camarena Story" chronicles the fact-based fight by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the Colombian government to ...

Rossini! Rossini!
1991
as Maria Marcolini
An funny, witty and bright biopic by the master of italian comedy Mario Monicelli about the famed italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, here portrayed ...
The Neon Man
1991
as Lynda
A poor man who scrapes by installing neon advertisements gets a better-paying offer from a pair of journalists who simply want him to receive a packag...

I, the Worst of All
1990
as Juana Inés de la Cruz
Assumpta Serna stars as the brilliant and beautiful poet Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz in this magnificent portrayal of 17th Century Mexico. In order t...

The Day of Reckoning
1990
as Hélène
A young man begins to have terrifying nightmares after visiting his obsessive uncle's automated chicken farm.

Wild Orchid
1989
as Hanna Munch
A woman lawyer becomes mesmerized by a self-made millionaire during an encounter in Rio setting off a series of erotic encounters.

Valentina
1989
as Baba Yaga
Italian erotic thriller television series that originally aired on Italia 1 from September 29 to December 22, 1989. It is based on the Valentina comic...

The Wrath of a God
1988
On the beach lies the body of Claudio O'Riley, heir to a monopoly shrimp, and his voice recounts his rise to power: the incestuous relationship with h...

Qui t’estima, Babel?
1988
as Mare

The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
1988
as Agnes von Kurowsky
Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his suicide...

La Brute
1987
as Solange Vauthier
Jacques Vauthier, a blind, deaf and mute writer is accused of a crime he quickly confesses to having committed. Jacques refuses to explain himself to ...

The Hidden Truth
1987
as Rosa
After a long and turbulent time in America at the beginning of the century, Adrian Massaguer returns to his birthplace on the Mediterranean coast, bec...
Lucky Ravi
1987
as Miss Côte d'Azur

Ballad of Dog Beach
1987
as Mena
In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after h...

Crónica sentimental en rojo
1986
as Blanca Bassegoda
Veteran Inspector Méndez investigates the death of a woman found on a tourist beach.

Matador
1986
as María
A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.

Lulú de noche
1986
as Amelia
German, a young theater director, tries to organize a theater play about Lulu, a prostitute that was killed in London by Jack the ripper. While lookin...

Lola
1986
as Silvia
Lola is a young woman who works in a factory. She lives a violent and tormented love with Mario. To get away from him, Lola moved to Barcelona. There ...

The Young Girl and Hell
1986
Erotic drama from France featuring beautiful Florence Guerin as a teenager who is switched in by a writer her mom allow us to move around in with them...

La vieja música
1985
as Luz
The new coach of the basketball team of Lugo arrives from Uruguay. He really knows nothing about training a basketball team so he keeps the previous c...

Beyond the Walls
1985
as La Huéspeda
This 1985 Spanish film reveals one of the many terrible aspects of 16th century Spain, still plagued by the radical Christian Inquisition, one of a pl...

The Secret Garden
1984
as Lucía
A few days ago, Lucia (Assumpta Serna) receives anonymous letters in which he is forced to perform certain actions that she accepts without question. ...

Bajo en nicotina
1984
as Concha
A film buff can't watch his videos in peace as he is disturbed by his clingy girlfriend and noisy neighbours. He will take drastic measures to get the...

Soldados de plomo
1983
as Elena
Andrew returns to his hometown after a long absence. His father was a military high society who abandoned his wife to join the mother of Andrew, one c...

Circle of Passions
1983
as Elisa di Villafratti
An aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with his nymphomaniac daughter because he thinks she is his w...

Pájaros de ciudad
1983
After committing a murder, an ordinary man escapes from the police with the help of his ex-wife. A vigilante state will not allow them to relive their...

Hunting Ground
1983
as Adela
A female lawyer passionately defends criminals, believing that everyone deserves a second chance. But her latest defendants have no qualms about makin...
La rebelión de los pájaros
1982
as Teresa
One day, without knowing how or why, the birds of a big city leave, disappear. It is believed to be a protest against environmental pollution. Some ch...

Sweet Hours
1982
as Berta, the actress / Teresa, Juan's mother
Juan Sahagún, since childhood, feels passion for his mother. One day in the street he sees a woman identical to her. He follows her and finds out that...

Dos y dos, cinco
1981
as Teresa

La cripta
1981
as Isabel Peraplana
A patient is released from a mental hospital to help the police find a student who disappeared a few days ago.

The Crime of Cuenca
1981
as Manuela
Osa de la Vega, Cuenca, Spain, 1913. Gregorio and León, employees on the estate of the village's mayor, a powerful landowner, are arrested and accused...

Vecinos
1981
as Aurora
Luis and Aurora live in the outskirts of Madrid, his life is quiet and peaceful until it reaches Antonio, her new neighbor. Luis says that neighbors a...

National Heritage
1981
as (uncredited)
After the death of General Franco, the Leguineche family leaves their estate of Los Tejadillos, where they have remained for decades in voluntary exil...

Pepi, Luci, Bom
1980
as Nuria
After a young heiress is assaulted by a policeman, she seeks revenge by befriending the policeman’s mousy wife and introducing her to her circle of ou...

Catalan Cuckold
1979
as Estela (as Assumpta Rodes)
Comedy about a marriage guidance counselor whose own marriage is on the rocks.

Magic Powder
1979
as Carlota
Arturo and Paco arrives at a castle where Paco is going to marry Sulfurina, who turns out to be a witch.

7 cabalgan hacia la muerte
1979
as Ann

L’orgia
1978
as Montse
A group of boys and girls are locked up a weekend in a friends house in which they do a party that little to little is converted in an orgy. But not e...