Antonio Serrano

José Antonio Serrano Argüelles (May 17, 1955, Mexico City) is a Mexican film director, actor, playwright and screenwriter. 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 Grotowski, French Philippe Gaulier 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 exchange rate of 1999). 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)
• Hidalgo: La historia jamás contada (2010)

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 mundo maravilloso (2006)
• Un hilito de sangre (1995)
• La dedicatoria (1992)
• The Comfort of Strangers (1990)
• La última luna (1990)
• Romero (1989)
• Tranquille donne di compagna (1980)

External links

• (Spanish) Profile on the Mexican cinema site of the ITESM.
• (Spanish) Cero y van cuatro review at the Morelia Film Festival.
• Antonio Serrano at the Internet Movie Database

Spain in the Eurovision Young Musicians   Representation 1980s 1988: José Ramon Mendez 1990s 1990: Fernado Alvarez Goicoechea 1992: Antonio Serrano 1994: Dolores Rodríguez Paredes 1996 1998 2000s 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010s 2010 2012 2014 (Note: Entries scored out are when Spain did not compete)