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Ana Ofelia Murguía

Acting Born Dec 8, 1933 Mexico City, Mexico 24 credits

Biography

Ana Ofelia Murguía was a Mexican actress with a long career in theater, film and television for more than 40 years. She is a graduate of the Theater School of the National Institute of Fine Arts and a student of the “father of Mexican theater” Seki Sano, which forged her for a fruitful career on stage. She received the Ariel Award for Best Female Co-Acting on four occasions for "Cadena Perpetua" (1979), "Los Motivos de Luz" (1986), "La Reina de la Noche" (1996), and the Ariel de Oro for lifetime achievement in 2011. She also won three times the Silver Goddess award for The Motifs of Light (1986), Written in the Body of the Night (2002), The Good Herbs (2011). In 2004 he received the silver Mayahuel for his career at the Guadalajara Film Festival, and in 2007 he obtained special recognition at the Lunas del Auditorio. Ana Ofelia Murguía voiced Miguel's great-grandmother in the Oscar-winning animated film Coco (2017).

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Known for

Film

Coco

as Mamá Coco (voice)

Full filmography

  • Mozart in the Jungle (2014) as Nana Graciela
  • Coco (2017) as Mamá Coco (voice)
  • Dune (1984) as Palace Maid (uncredited)
  • Mientras haya vida (2007) as Toto
  • The Marked Hour (1988)
  • Bandidas (2006) as Consuelo
  • Las Lunas del Auditorio (2002) as Self
  • La pasión de Isabela (1984) as Cristina
  • La Hija del Jardinero (2003) as Rigoberta Rondón
  • Tear This Heart Out (2008) as Clarita
  • One Man’s War (1991) as Doña Teresa
  • Ave María (1999) as Úrsula
  • Life Sentence (1979) as Mrs. Romero
  • Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna (1978) as Damiana Cisneros
  • Las Poquianchis (1976) as Eva
  • The Queen of the Night (1994) as Doña Victoria
  • Walking Vengeance (2008) as Doña Amelia
  • The Black Widow (1983)
  • Esmeralda Comes by Night (1997) as Doña Beatriz, Jorge Luis' mother
  • Gaby: A True Story (1987) as Nurse at Brimmer House
  • Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead (1995) as Doña Amelia
  • Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra! (1976)
  • Amber (1994) as Frau Buschberger
  • Compassionate Sex (2000) as Vendedora de Colmado