Ana Ofelia Murguía
Born: 1933-12-08 in Mexico City, Mexico
Died: 2023-12-31
Known For: Acting
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).
Filmography
2017
- Coco as Mamá Coco (voice)
2014
- Mozart in the Jungle as Nana Graciela
2013
- The Last Call
- El mar muerto
- The Waterwheel as Wife
2012
- Expiration Date as Ramona
2011
- The Compass Is Carried by the Dead Man as Doña Chelo
2010
- I Miss You
- The Good Herbs as Blanquita
2008
- Tear This Heart Out as Clarita
- Walking Vengeance as Doña Amelia
- El Viaje de la Nonna as Nonna
2007
- Mientras haya vida as Toto
- Blue Eyelids as Lulita
2006
- Bandidas as Consuelo
- A Good Death Beats a Dull Life as Doña Tere
2004
2003
- La Hija del Jardinero as Rigoberta Rondón
- La caja as Anciana
2002
- Las Lunas del Auditorio as Self
- Otilia Rauda as Maid
- La maceta
2001
- Pachito Rex: I'm Leaving but Not for Good as Rosa María
- Written on the Body of Night as Nicolás' gandmother
2000
- Compassionate Sex as Vendedora de Colmado
- His Most Serene Highness as La Salamandra
1999
- Ave María as Úrsula
1998
- Luces de la noche as Doña Mary
1997
- Esmeralda Comes by Night as Doña Beatriz, Jorge Luis' mother
- A Middle Class Married Couple Afternoon as Wife
1996
- El Anzuelo as Doña Rosa
- De muerte natural
1995
- Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead as Doña Amelia
- Morena as Vecina
1994
- The Queen of the Night as Doña Victoria
- Amber as Frau Buschberger
- The Garden of Eden as Juana
1992
- Lost Objects as Neighbor woma
- My dear Tom Mix as Joaquina
1991
- One Man’s War as Doña Teresa
- The Rider of Divine Providence
1990
- Dying in the Gulf as Chiara
1989
- Goitia: A God for Himself as Juana
- Intimidad
- Las asesinas del panadero as Jovita
1988
1987
- Gaby: A True Story as Nurse at Brimmer House
- Los confines as Madre de Natalia
1986
- Chido Guan, el tacos de oro as Doña Meche
- Luz's Motives as Luz's mother in law
- The Humiliated as Chief Nun
- What Do You Think? as Mother
1985
- Mexicano ¡Tú puedes! as Burócrata
1984
- Dune as Palace Maid (uncredited)
- La pasión de Isabela as Cristina
- The Heart of the Night as La Alumna
1983
1982
- The Eve as Irma
1980
- Constelaciones as Juana Inés de la Cruz
1979
- Life Sentence as Mrs. Romero
- Maria of My Heart as Doctora Murguía
1978
- Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna as Damiana Cisneros
- Naufragio as Amparo
- Free Love as Esposa de Ernesto
1977
- Maten al León as Esperanza de Pereira
1976
- Las Poquianchis as Eva
- The Heist as Celadora
- Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
1975
1973
- The Prophet Mimi as Catita
1971
- Para servir a usted
- El águila descalza as Trabajadora factoria
1970
- Zuzanka's Game as Voz de Zuzanka (voice)