Ana Ofelia Murguía

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1933-12-08

Place of Birth

Mexico City, Mexico

Ana Ofelia Murguía

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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Acting History

2017
Coco as Mamá Coco (voice)
2014
Mozart in the Jungle as Nana Graciela
2013
El mar muerto
2013
The Waterwheel as Wife
2013
The Last Call
2012
Expiration Date as Ramona
2011
The Compass Is Carried by the Dead Man as Doña Chelo
2010
I Miss You
2010
The Good Herbs as Blanquita
2008
Walking Vengeance as Doña Amelia
2008
Tear This Heart Out as Clarita
2008
El Viaje de la Nonna as Nonna
2007
Mientras haya vida as Toto
2007
Blue Eyelids as Lulita
2006
A Good Death Beats a Dull Life as Doña Tere
2006
Bandidas as Consuelo
2004
El edén
2003
La Hija del Jardinero as Rigoberta Rondón
2003
La caja as Anciana
2002
Las Lunas del Auditorio as Self
2002
Otilia Rauda as Maid
2002
La maceta
2001
Pachito Rex: I'm Leaving but Not for Good as Rosa María
2001
Written on the Body of Night as Nicolás' gandmother
2000
His Most Serene Highness as La Salamandra
2000
Compassionate Sex as Vendedora de Colmado
1999
Ave María as Úrsula
1998
Luces de la noche as Doña Mary
1997
A Middle Class Married Couple Afternoon as Wife
1997
Esmeralda Comes by Night as Doña Beatriz, Jorge Luis' mother
1996
De muerte natural
1996
El Anzuelo as Doña Rosa
1995
Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead as Doña Amelia
1995
Morena
1994
The Queen of the Night as Doña Victoria
1994
Amber as Frau Buschberger
1994
The Garden of Eden as Juana
1992
My dear Tom Mix as Joaquina
1992
Lost Objects as Neighbor woma
1991
The Rider of Divine Providence
1991
One Man’s War as Doña Teresa
1990
Dying in the Gulf as Chiara
1989
Las asesinas del panadero as Jovita
1989
Goitia: A God for Himself as Juana
1989
Intimidad
1988
The Marked Hour
1987
Gaby: A True Story as Nurse at Brimmer House
1987
Los confines as Madre de Natalia
1986
What Do You Think? as Mother
1986
Chido Guan, el tacos de oro as Doña Meche
1986
Luz's Motives as Luz's mother in law
1986
The Humiliated as Chief Nun
1985
Mexicano ¡Tú puedes! as Burócrata
1984
Dune as Palace Maid (uncredited)
1984
La pasión de Isabela as Cristina
1984
The Heart of the Night as La Alumna
1982
The Eve as Irma
1981
'Ora sí ¡tenemos que ganar!
1980
Constelaciones as Juana Inés de la Cruz
1979
Life Sentence as Mrs. Romero
1979
Maria of My Heart as Doctora Murguía
1978
Naufragio as Amparo
1978
Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna as Damiana Cisneros
1978
Free Love as Esposa de Ernesto
1977
The Black Widow
1977
Maten al León as Esperanza de Pereira
1976
Las Poquianchis as Eva
1976
The Heist as Celadora
1976
Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
1975
Esa mi Irene
1973
The Prophet Mimi as Catita
1971
El águila descalza as Trabajadora factoria
1971
Para servir a usted
1970
Zuzanka's Game as Voz de Zuzanka (voice)