2010
Año bisiesto
Her performance won the Ariel for Best Actress in 2011.
FLM.REDMÓNICA
DEL CARMEN
โมนิกา เดล การ์เมน
From the stage to stories on screen
Mónica del Carmen is a Mexican actor whose screen work includes Leap Year, A Cop Movie and Surviving Hurricane Otis.
Oaxaca, Mexico
A career across theatre and film
Mónica del Carmen is a Mexican actor from Oaxaca who trained at the National School of Theatre Arts. Her work encompasses theatre as well as film.
Her performance in Michael Rowe’s Año bisiesto (Leap Year) earned her the Ariel Award for Best Actress in 2011. The film places her character Laura at the centre of an intimate drama.
In Alonso Ruizpalacios’s A Cop Movie, she participates in a film that combines documentary and performance. She later plays Chayo in Surviving Hurricane Otis (2026), according to Netflix’s cast information.
The films below are those available on FLM.RED, not her complete filmography.
Selected performances
2021
A Cop Movie
She appears in Alonso Ruizpalacios’s documentary-fiction film.
2026
Surviving Hurricane Otis
She plays Chayo.
Performance readings are FLM.RED editorial interpretation.
Films in FLM.RED
Titles in this collection; not a complete filmography.
Sources & image notes
Portrait illustration: FLM.RED.