Ana Ofelia Murguía

Born: 1933-12-08

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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as Palace Maid (uncredited)
Released: 1984-12-14

In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice...

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Coco

as Mamá Socorro "Coco" Rivera (voice)
Released: 2017-10-27

Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an...

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Bandidas

as Consuelo
Released: 2006-01-18

Set in the late 19th century. When a ruthless robber baron takes away everything they cherish, a...

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Tear This Heart Out

as Clarita
Released: 2008-09-12

A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution....

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Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead

as Doña Amelia
Released: 1995-10-05

Escaping gangsters trying to kill her because of being witness to a crime, Gloria (Victoria...

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Las Poquianchis

as Eva
Released: 1976-11-17

During the mid-1970s, in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities discover a clandestine...

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Compassionate Sex

as Vendedora de Colmado
Released: 2000-06-30

Dolores is a mature and kind woman whose husband abandons her because he can't stand her uncanny...

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Life Sentence

as Mrs. Romero
Released: 1979-08-09

After being released from jail, "Tarzan" Lira seeks to rebuild his life as a bank employee....

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Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna

as Damiana Cisneros
Released: 1978-08-10

Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives...

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Dying in the Gulf

as Chiara
Released: 1990-03-08

The story of the oil leader Lázaro Pizarro, of his political and personal wars, the use of crime...

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Walking Vengeance

as Doña Amelia
Released: 2008-10-31

Frantic to be free of Felix, her wealthy but drunken and violent drug-lord husband, Ana tricks...

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I Miss You

as uncredited
Released: 2010-09-24

This is the story of Javier, a 15 year old Argentinean who left for Mexico carrying the drama of...

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Gaby: A True Story

as Nurse at Brimmer House
Released: 1987-10-30

The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and...

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The Last Call

as uncredited
Released: 2013-03-03

Turmoil becomes the order of the day when a Mexican theatrical company begins its rehearsals of...

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The Heist

as Celadora
Released: 1976-08-05

In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting...

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Naufragio

as Amparo
Released: 1978-11-02

One woman lives waiting for her son who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he...

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Pachito Rex: I'm Leaving but Not for Good

as Rosa María
Released: 2001-11-09

The attack on a popular singer known as Pachito -who becomes the favorite candidate to win the...

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Luces de la noche

as Doña Mary
Released: 1998-05-29

On a whim, a retired gentleman decides to track down an old girlfriend from decades back.

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Blue Eyelids

as Lulita
Released: 2007-04-02

Marina wins a paradise vacation for two, but when she realizes that she has no one to bring...

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Goitia: A God for Himself

as Juana
Released: 1989-01-01

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The Black Widow

as uncredited
Released: 1977-08-17

Intrigues and secrets come together because of a woman, who has the protection of the parish priest.

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Otilia Rauda

as Maid
Released: 2002-08-02

Otilia is both blessed with a body that is the epitome of feminine perfection and cursed by an...

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One Man’s War

as Doña Teresa
Released: 1991-04-20

Anthony Hopkins plays an English medical doctor living with his family in Paraguay and treating...

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El Anzuelo

as Doña Rosa
Released: 1996-06-01

Filmmaker Ernesto Rimoch looks at the potent combination of love and ambition in this film about...

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Ave María

as Úrsula
Released: 1999-11-20

In the colonial New Spain Ana is a missionary who decides to support the indigenous people.

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The Humiliated

as Chief Nun
Released: 1986-01-01

Four nuns are raped by a group of lepers. Although they all turn out to be pregnant, their...

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As You See?

as Mother
Released: 1986-08-01

Award-Winning filmmaker Paul Leduc (Frida, Naturaleza Viva, Reed: Insurgent Mexico, Barroco)...

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Maten al León

as Esperanza de Pereira
Released: 1977-01-27

A pilot is called back to his homeland, the Latin American republic of Arepa, by the rich...

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The Heart of the Night

as La Alumna
Released: 1984-03-15

A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably...

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Maria of My Heart

as Doctora Murguía
Released: 1979-05-17

Héctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician...

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Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!

as uncredited
Released: 1976-02-04

Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives,...

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El Viaje de la Nonna

as Nonna
Released: 2008-02-07

A Mexican family, wanting to grant their Grandmother her last wish, embarks on a make believe...

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Morena

as uncredited
Released: 1995-01-01

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Amber

as Frau Buschberger
Released: 1994-08-28

Old Max remembers the time as a child when he was taken to the jungle where he met a prophet, a...

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La maceta

as uncredited
Released: 2002-01-01

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My dear Tom Mix

as Joaquina
Released: 1992-12-25

Joaquina is aging in a small Mexican village in the 1920s. Her life is boring and she spends her...

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El águila descalza

as Trabajadora factoria
Released: 1971-12-08

Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with...

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Intimacy

as uncredited
Released: 1989-01-01

A Mexican romance by Dana Rotberg.

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Los confines

as Madre de Natalia
Released: 1987-05-17

Mix magical universe of Juan Rulfo, in which Juan Preciado, "Pedro Paramo", located incestuous...

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La víspera

as uncredited
Released: 1982-10-07

Aging politicians who have faded from the public eye hold a cocktail party to celebrate one...

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The Garden of Eden

as Juana
Released: 1994-03-01

Tijuana is a mystical city and the scene of different stories, where the characters search for...

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Chido Guan, el tacos de oro

as Doña Meche
Released: 1986-05-15

Street-punk drafted to soccer team, rises to stardom. Cuz he plays so good.

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'Ora Sí ¡Tenemos Que Ganar!

as uncredited
Released: 1981-10-22

The abuse of authority and the employer of a mining town make workers, influenced by reading...

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The Prophet Mimi

as Catita
Released: 1973-12-27

Childhood trauma and religious repression causes little boy to grow up and murder .

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Esmeralda Comes by Night

as Doña Beatriz, Jorge Luis' mother
Released: 1997-09-05

Esmeralda is married with 5 husbands at the same time, so she has to explain to the judge why...

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Written on the Body of Night

as uncredited
Released: 2001-05-26

A look back at a director's life with his neurotic mother.

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Free Love

as Esposa de Ernesto
Released: 1978-08-09

Two single women share an apartment, work together, and sometimes swap boyfriends. None of their...

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El edén

as uncredited
Released: 2004-03-24

A conservative businesswoman promises her dying husband to bring their son, long-absent and...

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Luz's Motives

as Luz's mother in law
Released: 1985-01-02

Luz is in jail, accused of murdering her own children. Her husband and her mother-in-law say she...

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The Queen of the Night

as Doña Victoria
Released: 1994-09-07

The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography (...

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A Good Death Beats a Dull Life

as Doña Tere
Released: 2006-04-07

The women of a prosperous provincial family hide unsuspected secrets which range from the...

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Para servir a usted

as uncredited
Released: 1971-03-11

Working-class dude gets a gig as a waiter doing banquet service, and loses his moral compass...

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Expiration Date

as Ramona
Released: 2012-01-11

Ramona's compulsive life becomes a wreck when she finds out, after a long search that Osvaldo,...

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The Waterwheel

as Wife
Released: 2013-04-25

In a small town, time stops for a father who has lost his son.

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Mexicano ¡Tú puedes!

as Burócrata
Released: 1985-09-11

Vicente and Carmen, are spouses, he works in a factory, although he is a womanizer and...

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Lost Objects

as Neighbor woma
Released: 1992-07-11

Juan and Pilar return to Mexico City on the same train. Destiny cross their paths in a taxi...

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The Good Herbs

as Blanquita
Released: 2010-08-20

A young woman has to deal with her mother's degradation due to Alzheimer's disease.

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El mar muerto

as uncredited
Released: 2013-11-29

There is a blackout in Mexico City. In the darkness some people are abandoned by God (their...

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The Rider of Divine Providence

as uncredited
Released: 1991-09-18

The bishop of Culiacan and three priests are dedicated to investigate the alleged miracles of...

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The Compass Is Carried by the Dead Man

as Doña Chelo
Released: 2011-10-22

A Mexican boy bound for Chicago tries to cross the border, but is the crowded wagon he rides in...

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Mozart in the Jungle

as Nana Graciela
First aired: 2014-02-06

In the tradition of Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential" and Gelsey Kirkland's "Dancing on...

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Las Lunas del Auditorio

as Herself
First aired: 2002-09-04

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Mientras haya vida

as Toto
First aired: 2007-05-02

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La Hija del Jardinero

as Rigoberta Rondón
First aired: 2003-08-18

La Hija Del Jardinero is a Mexican telenovela directed by Luis Alberto Lamata. It aired from...

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La pasión de Isabela

as Cristina
First aired: 1984-04-30

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