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Adriana Barraza

Acting Born Mar 5, 1956 Toluca, Estado de Mexico, Mexico 24 credits

Biography

Adriana Barraza González (born 5 March 1956) is a Mexican actress, acting teacher, and director.

In 1999 director Alejandro González Iñárritu cast her as the mother of Gael García Bernal's character in Amores perros, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 2006, she collaborated with Iñárritu again in Babel, for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Barraza is known in Mexico as Master Barraza from her partnership with Mexican director Sergio Jiménez, known as El Profe. They created the Actors Workshop in Mexico City, teaching and developing their own version of Method acting. Barraza began her career directing telenovela episodes, the actors in which she would also coach. In the 1990s she decided to step in front of the camera.

She currently operates her own acting school located in Miami, Florida titled Adriana Barraza's Black Box. Instructors at the school include her husband Arnaldo and daughter Carolina.

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Known for

CSI: Miami

as Carmen Delko
Film

Lust, Caution

as Dolores Salazar
Film

Blue Beetle

as Nana Reyes
Film

Rambo: Last Blood

as María Beltrán
Film

We Can Be Heroes

as Grandma Moreno
Film

Amores Perros

as Mama Octavio
Film

Dora and the Lost City of Gold

as Abuela Valerie

Full filmography

  • CSI: Miami (2002) as Carmen Delko
  • ER (1994) as Dolores Salazar
  • The Strain (2014) as Guadalupe Elizalde
  • Thor (2011) as Isabela Alvarez
  • Blue Beetle (2023) as Nana Reyes
  • Rambo: Last Blood (2019) as María Beltrán
  • Diary of a Gigolo (2022) as Minou
  • Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (2020) as Maria Vega
  • We Can Be Heroes (2020) as Grandma Moreno
  • Amores Perros (2000) as Mama Octavio
  • Babel (2006) as Amelia
  • Drag Me to Hell (2009) as Shaun San Dena
  • Alguna Vez Tendremos Alas (1997) as Clara Domínguez
  • Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019) as Abuela Valerie
  • Conversando con Cristina Pacheco (1997) as Self
  • Conversando con Cristina Pacheco (1997) as Adriana Barraza
  • Silvana Sin Lana (2016) as Trini
  • The 33 (2015) as Marta
  • Capadocia (2008) as Silvia
  • Vivo Por Elena (1998) as Hilda
  • My Penguin Friend (2024) as Maria
  • Crystal Empire (1994) as Flora
  • Duenos Del Paraiso (2015) as Irene Medrano
  • Al otro Lado del Muro (2018) as Carmen Rosales