María Félix
Biography
María de los Ángeles Félix Güereña (8 April 1914 – 8 April 2002) was a Mexican film actress. She is considered one of the most important female figures of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She was also considered one of the most beautiful film actresses of her time, and one of the greatest erotic myths of Spanish-language cinema. Along with Pedro Armendáriz and Dolores del Río, she is one of the most important figures of Mexican cinema of the 1940s and 1950s. She is known by the nickname La Doña, a name derived from her character in the film Doña Bárbara (1943). She is also known as María Bonita, thanks to the anthem composed exclusively for her, as a wedding gift by the composer Agustín Lara. She completed a film career that included 47 films made in Mexico, Spain, France, Italy and Argentina.
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Full filmography
- Juan Gabriel: I Must, I Can, I Will (2025) as Self (archive footage)
- La Valentina (1966) as Valentina Zúñiga
- French Cancan (1955) as Lola
- Tizoc (1957) as María
- La Cucaracha (1959) as Refugio / La cucaracha
- Café Colón (1959)
- Fever Mounts at El Pao (1959) as Inés Rojas
- Doña Diabla (1950) as Angela
- Sonatas (1959) as La Niña Chole
- The Hidden One (1956) as Gabriela
- La Generala (1971) as Mariana Sampedro, La Generala
- Enamorada (1946) as Beatriz Peñafiel
- La Bandida (1963) as María Mendoza 'La Bandida'
- The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema (2002)
- Camelia (1954) as Camelia
- México de mis amores (1979)
- Doña Bárbara (1943) as Doña Bárbara
- The Abduction (1954) as Aurora Campos
- Juana Gallo (1961) as Ángela Ramos (Juana Gallo)
- La noche del sábado (1950) as Donina
- Beyond All Limits (1959) as Magdalena Gamboa
- Il falso bugiardo (2008) as Self (archive footage)
- Black Crown (1951) as Mara Russell
- The Affairs of Messalina (1951) as Messalina