María Félix
Born: 1914-04-08 in Alamos, Sonora, Mexico
Died: 2002-04-08
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2025
- Juan Gabriel: I Must, I Can, I Will as Self (archive footage)
2023
- María: La Diva Eterna as Self (archive footage)
2017
- Quand Jean devint Renoir as Lola de Castro (archive footage)
2013
- Acuérdate de Acapulco as Self (archive footage)
2008
- Il falso bugiardo as Self (archive footage)
2001
- Inasible María Félix as Himself
1979
1971
- La Generala as Mariana Sampedro, La Generala
1966
- La Valentina as Valentina Zúñiga
1964
- Love & Sex (Sappho 1963) as Diana
1963
- La Bandida as María Mendoza 'La Bandida'
1961
- Juana Gallo as Ángela Ramos (Juana Gallo)
1960
- La estrella vacía as Olga Lang
1959
- Fever Mounts at El Pao as Inés Rojas
- Café Colón
- Beyond All Limits as Magdalena Gamboa
- La Cucaracha as Refugio / La cucaracha
- Sonatas as La Niña Chole
1958
- El cine mexicano de fiesta as Self
- Ash Wednesday as Victoria
1956
- The Hidden One as Gabriela
- Basket of Mexican Tales as Luisa Bravo
1955
- French Cancan as Lola
- Heroes and Sinners as Manuella
1954
- Camelia as Camelia
- The Beautiful Otero as Carolina Otero
- The Abduction as Aurora Campos
1953
- Reportaje as Movie star
- Naked Passion
1951
- The Affairs of Messalina as Messalina
- Black Crown as Mara Russell
- Tragic Spell as Oliva
1950
- La noche del sábado as Donina
- Doña Diabla as Angela
1949
- An Ordinary Woman as Nieves Blanco
1948
- May God Forgive Me as Sofía / Lena Kovach
- Maclovia as Maclovia
- Mare nostrum as Freyra
- Hidden River as Rosaura Salazar
1947
- The Kneeling Goddess as Raquel
1946
- Enamorada as Beatriz Peñafiel
- Everybody's Woman as María Romano
- La Devoradora as Diana de Arellano
1945
- Vertigo
- The White Monk as Galata Orsina
1944
- Woman Without a Soul as Teresa López
- La monja alférez as Catalina de Erauso
- China poblana
- Amok as Madame Travis / Sra. Belmont
1943
- The Rock of Souls as María Ángela Valdivia
- Doña Bárbara as Doña Bárbara
- María Eugenia as María Eugenia