Actors - Antonio Serrano

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José Antonio Serrano Argüelles (May 17 1955, Mexico City) is a Mexican film director, actor and screenwriter as well as director and writer of theater and television.

He graduated with a degree in Communications from the Universidad Iberoamericana. He also attended the Royal Weber Academy of Dramatic Art in England and the Odin Teatre of Denmark. He studied with the following directors: Polish Jerzy Grotowsky, French Phillipe Gaullier and Italian Carlos Bosso. Back in Mexico he worked in the telenovela (soap opera) industry for Televisa and TV Azteca, directing actors such as Gael García Bernal, Salma Hayek, Chayanne and Angélica Aragón.

He directed ten plays as well including Sexo, pudor y lágrimas, which he also wrote. He made this play into a movie in 1999 which became the highest grossing at the time (118 million Mexican pesos or 12 million US dollars at the ). The movie was seen exhibited for six months by millions and earned several Ariels awarded by the Mexican Academy of Film. His following films were Lucia, Lucia with All About My Mother
Argentine actress Cecilia Roth and the segment El Torzón of the series of short-films about violence in Mexico City titled Cero y van cuatro. Serrano was nominated for the Ariel Award in 2004 for his adaptation of the script of Lucía, Lucía.

Telenovelas (as a director)

Cara o cruz (2002)
La vida en el espejo (1999)
Mirada de mujer (1997)
Nada personal (1996)
Mágica juventud (1992)
Teresa (1989)

Theater

Café americano (1992)
Sexo, pudor y lágrimas (1990)
Doble cara (1988)
A destiempo (1986)

Films

As a director

Cero y van cuatro (segment "El Torzón") (2004)
La hija del canibal (Lucía, Lucía
) (2003)
Sexo, pudor y lágrimas
(Sex, Shame & Tears) (1999)

As a screenwriter

La hija del canibal (Lucía, Lucía) (2003, adaptation)
Sexo, pudor y lágrimas (Sex, Shame & Tears) (1999, origina; script)

As an actor

Un hombre ejemplar (2005)
Un hilito de sangre (1995)
La dedicatoria (1992)
The comfort of strangers (1990)
La última luna (1990)
Romero
(1989)
Tranquille donne di compagna (1980)

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