Biography
Delia Casanova (born November 4, 1948) is a Mexican film, theater and television actress, winner of a Silver Ariel. He completed his acting studies at the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA), in Mexico City. She began her artistic career in the theater, to later venture into the cinema and a decade later into television, as an actress in soap operas, in productions made by Televisa.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Pole Dance
2023
as Clienta María
Magda is getting divorced from an alcoholic mariachi in rehab. While she tries to find her inner strength by practicing pole dance she meets Jaime, wh...
Todo lo invisible
2020
as Socorro
When a car accident causes Jonás to completely lose his vision, he finds himself unable to live the life he used to know. Despite his refusal to accep...
Nahuí - the woman behind the legend
2020
as Nahuí Olín
The woman behind the legend. Biographical film about Nahuí Olín, painter, model and poet born in the late nineteenth century and died in 1978, who liv...
Lady Rancho
2019
as Doña Chona
A spoiled girl is sent to her family's ranch to work during summer vacations.
Todos hemos pecado
2011
as Doña Chayo
No one could ever imagine that one day La Chingada Vieja would fall in love. Because she is always alone, because no one has ever turn to see her, bec...
Así es la Suerte
2011
as Lidia
Ramiro is a theater actor who lives estranged from his father and half brother. One morning, he runs into a suicide, who says he is an evil omen. Desp...
Tear This Heart Out
2008
as Julia
A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new fem...
Como tú me has deseado
2006
Non-conformist advertising executive pressured to toe the line and behave.
Herod's Law
1999
as Rosa
In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor is recruited to become the new may...
In the Shadow of the Moon
1999
as Doña Rafaela / Ana's mother
Ana starts falling in love with an ecologist engineer that comes with her father who is from Russia.
All of Them Witches
1996
as Madame Endor
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 1ra esposa de Adrián
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...
Bésame en la boca
1995
as Consuelo
Popstar dies by accident, and Heaven's bureaucrats send her back to earth to inhabit a different body.
Midaq Alley
1995
as Eusebia
Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose lives cross paths in Mexico City. There is the bar-own...
Autumn
1993
as Friend
A woman, who lives alone with her mother, invents a fantasy life to escape her reality.
El Bulto
1992
as Alba
After being in a comma for 20 year, Lauro (Retes) wakes up in a very different Mexico than the one he lived on. Ideas, hopes, ways-of-life and customs...
Love Lies
1989
as Clara Zamudio
Set in Mexico City, Mentiras Piadosas is the doomed love story of Clara and Israel. She is a health inspector and he is an herb merchant, who is obses...
Hope
1988
as Catalina
At only 19 years old, Vladimir Olhosvky, fleeing the Russian Revolution and going into exile in Mexico City, will have to make his way in a new countr...
Luz's Motives
1986
as Dra. Maricarmen Rebollar
Luz is in jail, accused of murdering her own children. Her husband and her mother-in-law say she killed them in cold blood. Dr. Rebollar tries to help...
Violent Stories
1985
Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.
Brigada de la Muerte
1985
Death Squad
1985
as Ruth, la Peregrina
Mario Balbuena, a honest cop, becomes the victim of an ambush by drug dealers and dirty cops, after that, he recruits a group of sleazy criminals in o...
Erendira
1983
as Narrator (voice)
While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her grandmot...
Alsino and the Condor
1982
as Rosaria
Alsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops whe...
Los gemelos alborotados
1982
Gumaro and his buddy Chon are among the First Citizens locally. One day, unexpectedly, twin brothers of both of them turn up in town. Adaptation of A ...
El día que murió Pedro Infante
1982
as Laura
Mexican feature film
Everyone's Hell So Feared
1981
as Mariana
The inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and drugs, lead him to his self-destruction under the guise of...
Long live Tepito!
1981
as Mariana
Slice of life covering four or five days in a badly run-down neighborhood. Matriarch of a slum family dies unexpectedly; relatives from neighboring bl...
Algo sobre Jaime Sabines
1980
Drizzle
1978
as Luisa
Returning from a business trip, a man meets some peasants who arouse fears in him.
El viaje
1977
After the death of his mother, a man agrees to travel to Europe as a tourist guide falls in love with the head of the agency.
Cuartelazo
1977
as Soldadera
Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill Pres...
The Long Awaited Desperate Love
1976
as Girl's mother
A thirty-something woman fears that life is passing her by and that she's going to end up as the family's 'maiden aunt'. She imagines that somebody in...
The Heist
1976
as La Chata
In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out an...
The Birthday of the Dog
1975
as Secretaria
Two couples. One of the husbands kills his wife. He is temporarily helped by the other couple. The husband wants to help him, but his wife wants to tu...