Assumpta Serna
Birthday: 1957-09-16
Place of Birth: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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 2003 ITV television drama on King Henry VIII as Catherine of Aragon, and the Spanish TV series Aquí no hay quien viva. She has written two books on acting technique, Screenacting and Monologues in VO, and currently teaches courses Acting for Camera, Directing Actors and The Script and the Actor at various acting schools and workshops. She has also served as president of AISGE (Actores e Intérpretes - Sociedad de Gestión de España), Spain's principal actors' union. She is fluent in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan and Spanish.
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Wild Orchid
A woman lawyer becomes mesmerized by a self-made millionaire during an encounter in Rio setting off ...
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Matador
A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death becom...
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The Craft
A Catholic school newcomer falls in with a clique of teen witches who wield their powers against all...
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Uncertainty
Every choice has a consequence. But what if the flip of a coin could trigger two separate but parall...
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The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
Dark fairytale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transform...
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Why Not Me?
Four gay French expatriots share a business in Barcelona. When they and their parents are thrown tog...
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Bullfighter
Jack is a wanderer whose aimless roaming leads him to a number of interesting locations and into the...
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I Vicerè
In late 19th-century Sicily, the noble Uzeda family—whose lineage dates back to the ancient viceroys...
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The Fencing Master
A fencing master in pre-revolution Spain is hired to teach fencing to a beautiful young woman. Altho...
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The Servant
Domestic service worker Lera is accused of a crime. In a cell in the premises of a Civil Guard barra...
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Nostradamus
A dramatic retelling of the life of Michel de Nostredame, from his early work as a plague doctor to ...
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Sharpe's Eagle
Sharpe is a Captain saddled with the South Essex, a battalion run by incompetents and filled with so...
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Sharpe's Rifles
During the Peninsular War in Spain against the French, Sergeant Richard Sharpe saves the life of Art...
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The Shooter
A CIA agent gets caught up in political intrigue after he gets brought in to solve the murder of a C...
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Sharpe's Company
Spain 1812 The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz. A murderous figure from Sharpe's pa...
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Managua
When a fellow Vietnam veteran is alleged to have thrown his lot in with the cocaine cartels, special...
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Sharpe's Enemy
Portugal 1813. A band of deserters, including Sharpe's old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have captured t...
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Belle al bar
During a marriage crisis, unhappy Leo has to go to another town for work. There he meets his long-lo...
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Lola
Lola is a young woman who works in a factory. She lives a violent and tormented love with Mario. To ...
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I, the Worst of All
Assumpta Serna stars as the brilliant and beautiful poet Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz in this magnif...
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Lulú de noche
German, a young theater director, tries to organize a theater play about Lulu, a prostitute that was...
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Germanes de sang
Marga, a well-known television presenter, organizes a dinner with old friends from boarding school t...
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Rossini! Rossini!
An funny, witty and bright biopic by the master of italian comedy Mario Monicelli about the famed it...
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Bajo en nicotina
A film buff can't watch his videos in peace as he is disturbed by his clingy girlfriend and noisy ne...
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Like a Bolt of Lightning
Miguel Hermoso's Like Lightning offers a fresh take on a familiar scenario, the teenaged boy searchi...
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Shortcut to Paradise
Quinn shows up at an apartment building in Paradise, a small backwoods community in Puerto Rico, pur...
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Vecinos
Luis and Aurora live in the outskirts of Madrid, his life is quiet and peaceful until it reaches Ant...
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The Secret Garden
A few days ago, Lucia (Assumpta Serna) receives anonymous letters in which he is forced to perform c...
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Henry's Romance
It is carnival time in Munich and participants are overindulging in alcohol and sensual pleasures. "...
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Crónica sentimental en rojo
Veteran Inspector Méndez investigates the death of a woman found on a tourist beach....
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Soldados de plomo
Andrew returns to his hometown after a long absence. His father was a military high society who aban...
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The Wrath of a God
On the beach lies the body of Claudio O'Riley, heir to a monopoly shrimp, and his voice recounts his...
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Beyond the Walls
This 1985 Spanish film reveals one of the many terrible aspects of 16th century Spain, still plagued...
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Ballad of Dog Beach
In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the...
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Hunting Ground
A female lawyer passionately defends criminals, believing that everyone deserves a second chance. Bu...
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Day of Reckoning
Action-adventure following a onetime Special Forces Captain in Vietnam turned tour guide in remote p...
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El método
An aspiring actor, Juan Luis, suffers an incalculable pain by becoming the laughing stock of his cla...
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Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel
This follow-up to "Drug Wars: The Camarena Story" chronicles the fact-based fight by the U.S. Drug E...
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La Brute
Jacques Vauthier, a blind, deaf and mute writer is accused of a crime he quickly confesses to having...
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Sweet Hours
Juan Sahagún, since childhood, feels passion for his mother. One day in the street he sees a woman i...
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The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the ...
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The Young Girl and Hell
Erotic drama from France featuring beautiful Florence Guerin as a teenager who is switched in by a w...
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Sharpe: The Legend
Several years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London inn r...
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L’orgia
A group of boys and girls are locked up a weekend in a friends house in which they do a party that l...
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Magic Powder
Arturo and Paco arrives at a castle where Paco is going to marry Sulfurina, who turns out to be a wi...
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The Fresco Fiasco
Documentary about Cecilia Gimenez, the Spanish lady who ruined a fresco of Jesus but in turn restore...
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Catalan Cuckold
Comedy about a marriage guidance counselor whose own marriage is on the rocks....
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The Neon Man
A poor man who scrapes by installing neon advertisements gets a better-paying offer from a pair of j...
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The Hidden Truth
After a long and turbulent time in America at the beginning of the century, Adrian Massaguer returns...
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Love Crisis
During one night at the end of the summer, in a random plaza in the centre of Madrid there is room f...
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The Network of Freedom
France, beginning of World War II. Hélène Studler is a nun who has been dedicated to the care of orp...
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Un si beau voyage
Mohamed is a retired factory worker. He lives alone in a nursing home. However, due to illness, he m...
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Stolen Moments
1947, in Patagonia, in a little village on the seaside. An abandoned house on the beach shelters Let...
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Behold the Monkey
A modern fairytale based on the true story of an elderly Spanish cleaner's infamous attempt to resto...
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La nuit de l'océan
After the disappearance at sea of a young fisherman, his childhood friend and his mother begin an am...
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Chain of Desire
A series of unrelated amorous lovers are connected by a chain of desire....
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Bernarda
Bernarda is a loose adaptation of the play La casa de Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca . Five ...
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¡He matado a mi marido!
A desperate woman accidentally murders her unfaithful husband the morning of a big party honoring hi...
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Valentina
Italian erotic thriller television series that originally aired on Italia 1 from September 29 to Dec...
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Circle of Passions
An aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with his ny...
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Slaves and Kings
The compelling story of Saint Anthony Mary Claret, a Spanish Roman Catholic Archbishop, writer and p...
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Expansivas
Two sisters marked by their mother’s murder years before find the murder weapon and the clues that l...
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Les Derniers Jours de la victime
Mendizábal, a reputed hitman, is commissioned to eliminate Rodolfo Kulpe, a small-time criminal....
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El Cepa Returns
Forty years later, Guillermo Montesinos, the actor who played José María el Cepa in The Cuenca Crime...
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Havanera 1820
The year is 1820, and trade between Cuba and Catalonia is a booming business, although the goods tha...
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Revolver
Nick Suster, a secret intelligence agent paralyzed by an assassin's bullet, sets out to track down h...
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The Crime of Cuenca
Osa de la Vega, Cuenca, Spain, 1913. Gregorio and León, employees on the estate of the village's may...
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Pepi, Luci, Bom
After a young heiress is assaulted by a policeman, she seeks revenge by befriending the policeman’s ...
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National Heritage
After the death of General Franco, the Leguineche family leaves their estate of Los Tejadillos, wher...
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Pájaros de ciudad
After committing a murder, an ordinary man escapes from the police with the help of his ex-wife. A v...
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La cripta
A patient is released from a mental hospital to help the police find a student who disappeared a few...
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La rebelión de los pájaros
One day, without knowing how or why, the birds of a big city leave, disappear. It is believed to be ...
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La vieja música
The new coach of the basketball team of Lugo arrives from Uruguay. He really knows nothing about tra...
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À quoi tu penses-tu ?
Because he only thinks about Karine, the wife of his best friend André, Pierre, a writer, can no lon...
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One Hundred and One Nights
Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he en...
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Kiss & Tell
A performance artist turns up dead with a carrot up her butt by LAX. Three detectives interview her ...
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Puro veneno
Victor finds his wife, Virginia, in bed with another man. Virginia is dead, and the two men decide t...
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The Journeyman
In the Wild West at the turn of the century, two young brothers watch as their Grandpa is gunned dow...
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Nadia Coupeau, dite Nana
Victim of a rape, Nadia Coupeau decides to keep the child despite her precarious personal situation....
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The Day of Reckoning
A young man begins to have terrifying nightmares after visiting his obsessive uncle's automated chic...
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Trash
Trash tells the story of several characters that transport us to a social reality that is reflected ...
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The Collector
In the border town of Reino del Duero, Fátima, known as "The Collector," gives a seemingly mundane o...
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