Ana Ofelia Murguía
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).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 3.052 |
| Birthday | 1933-12-08 |
| Place of Birth | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Also Known As | Ana Ofelia Murgía, |
1976
Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
5.3/9
Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother a...
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Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
1986
What Do You Think?
4.7/9
Award-Winning filmmaker Paul Leduc (Frida, Naturaleza Viva, Reed: Insurgent Mexico, Barroco) directed this gritty musical drama about life in the ghet...
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What Do You Think?
2002
La maceta
0/0
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La maceta
1986
The Humiliated
5.2/8
Four nuns are raped by a group of lepers. Although they all turn out to be pregnant, their status is hidden from them in the convent.
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The Humiliated
1984
The Heart of the Night
4.8/6
A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably attracts a shy driving instructor a strange, hallucin...
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The Heart of the Night
2007
Blue Eyelids
7.2/26
Marina wins a paradise vacation for two, but when she realizes that she has no one to bring along, she decides to invite a stranger named Victor. The...
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Blue Eyelids
1980
Constelaciones
5/3
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Constelaciones
2010
The Good Herbs
6/7
A young woman has to deal with her mother's degradation due to Alzheimer's disease.
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The Good Herbs
2002
Otilia Rauda
5.3/7
Otilia is both blessed with a body that is the epitome of feminine perfection and cursed by an ugly mole that mars her beautiful face.
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Otilia Rauda
1991
One Man’s War
6.8/4
Anthony Hopkins plays an English medical doctor living with his family in Paraguay and treating the poor people from the surroundings, who has his lif...
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One Man’s War
1994
The Queen of the Night
4.5/8
The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary b...
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The Queen of the Night
2011
The Compass Is Carried by the Dead Man
5.5/4
A Mexican boy bound for Chicago tries to cross the border, but is the crowded wagon he rides in going the right way? An offbeat, allegorical odyssey t...
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The Compass Is Carried by the Dead Man
1978
Naufragio
5.2/10
One woman lives waiting for her son who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he writes to her a lot. The woman shares the letters and h...
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Naufragio
1986
Chido Guan, el tacos de oro
4.7/3
Street-punk drafted to soccer team, rises to stardom. Cuz he plays so good.
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Chido Guan, el tacos de oro
1979
Life Sentence
6.615/26
After being released from jail, "Tarzan" Lira seeks to rebuild his life as a bank employee. Unfortunately, it might not be as easy as he thinks.
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Life Sentence
1996
El Anzuelo
5/7
Filmmaker Ernesto Rimoch looks at the potent combination of love and ambition in this film about a couple who's so happy their daughter is marrying in...
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El Anzuelo
1987
Gaby: A True Story
6/10
The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.
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Gaby: A True Story
1987
Los confines
4.8/6
Mix magical universe of Juan Rulfo, in which Juan Preciado, "Pedro Paramo", located incestuous siblings "Talpa" while Juvencio Nava, of "Diles que no...
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Los confines
2012
Expiration Date
6.5/4
Ramona's compulsive life becomes a wreck when she finds out, after a long search that Osvaldo, her only son, has died.
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Expiration Date
1985
Mexicano ¡Tú puedes!
6/4
Vicente and Carmen, are spouses, he works in a factory, although he is a womanizer and irresponsible; she sells cosmetics or fayuca. Both dream of own...
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Mexicano ¡Tú puedes!
1975
Esa mi Irene
0/0
A 43 minutes short film filmed in Mexico in 1975
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Esa mi Irene
1998
Luces de la noche
5/2
On a whim, a retired gentleman decides to track down an old girlfriend from decades back.
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Luces de la noche
2001
Written on the Body of Night
4.5/6
A look back at a director's life with his neurotic mother.
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Written on the Body of Night
2008
El Viaje de la Nonna
5.8/5
A Mexican family, wanting to grant their Grandmother her last wish, embarks on a make believe trip to a small town in Italy ... in Mexico!
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El Viaje de la Nonna
1985
Luz's Motives
5.1/8
Luz is in jail, accused of murdering her own children. Her husband and her mother-in-law say she killed them in cold blood. Dr. Rebollar tries to help...
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Luz's Motives
2013
El mar muerto
5/2
There is a blackout in Mexico City. In the darkness some people are abandoned by God (their conscience) and commit a transgression (murder and infidel...
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El mar muerto
2013
The Last Call
5.4/7
Turmoil becomes the order of the day when a Mexican theatrical company begins its rehearsals of absurdist philosopher Albert Camus's “Caligula” for an...
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The Last Call
2001
Pachito Rex: I'm Leaving but Not for Good
7.6/6
The attack on a popular singer known as Pachito -who becomes the favorite candidate to win the presidential election in an imaginary Latin American co...
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Pachito Rex: I'm Leaving but Not for Good
1989
Las asesinas del panadero
5/2
Mexican feature film
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Las asesinas del panadero
2006
Bandidas
6/1076
Set in the late 19th century. When a ruthless robber baron takes away everything they cherish, a rough-and-tumble, idealistic peasant and a sophistica...
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Bandidas
2013
The Waterwheel
6/1
In a small town, time stops for a father who has lost his son.
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The Waterwheel
1991
The Rider of Divine Providence
5.6/5
The bishop of Culiacan and three priests are dedicated to investigate the alleged miracles of Jesus Malverde, a bandit deceased at the end of XIX cent...
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The Rider of Divine Providence
1995
Morena
5/2
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Morena
1989
Goitia: A God for Himself
3.6/9
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Goitia: A God for Himself
2000
Compassionate Sex
5.7/17
Dolores is a mature and kind woman whose husband abandons her because he can't stand her uncanny generosity. Desperate to get her husband back, she de...
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Compassionate Sex
2008
Walking Vengeance
5.3/33
Frantic to be free of Felix, her wealthy but drunken and violent drug-lord husband, Ana tricks her fresh-from-prison sister, Aurora, and two other ex-...
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Walking Vengeance
2004
El edén
3.5/4
A conservative businesswoman promises her dying husband to bring their son, long-absent and whose whereabouts, is unknown back home. The clues lead to...
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El edén
2006
A Good Death Beats a Dull Life
5.4/8
The women of a prosperous provincial family hide unsuspected secrets which range from the entanglements of love to murder for mercy or for greed. The...
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A Good Death Beats a Dull Life
2010
I Miss You
6/4
This is the story of Javier, a 15 year old Argentinean who left for Mexico carrying the drama of his missing brother, prematurely deprived of his pare...
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I Miss You
1970
Zuzanka's Game
5/2
Mexican feature film
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Zuzanka's Game
1995
Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead
7/31
A hit man searches for an alcoholic prostitute who has witnessed a crime and fled to Madrid.
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Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead
1976
The Heist
6.6/21
In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out an...
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The Heist
2000
His Most Serene Highness
6.2/6
This historical drama depicts the waning days of the life of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who waged a war against the United States that ultimately co...
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His Most Serene Highness
1996
De muerte natural
5/2
Four women get mad at a bakery while they recall their lives at their neighborhood.
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De muerte natural
1992
My dear Tom Mix
5/6
Joaquina is aging in a small Mexican village in the 1920s. Her life is boring and she spends her days dreaming of her hero, cowboy Tom Mix. Everything...
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My dear Tom Mix
1994
Amber
4.8/6
Old Max remembers the time as a child when he was taken to the jungle where he met a prophet, a circus man and other weird characters.
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Amber
1999
Ave María
4.6/5
In the colonial New Spain Ana is a missionary who decides to support the indigenous people.
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Ave María
1971
El águila descalza
5.5/4
Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local Mexic...
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El águila descalza
1973
The Prophet Mimi
6.3/7
Childhood trauma and religious repression causes little boy to grow up and murder
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The Prophet Mimi
1997
A Middle Class Married Couple Afternoon
0/0
An elderly couple spends together the afternoon in their living room. Suddenly she breaks the silence.
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A Middle Class Married Couple Afternoon
2017
Coco
8.209/19459
Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desp...
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Coco
1977
The Black Widow
7/22
Intrigues and secrets come together because of a woman, who has the protection of the parish priest.
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The Black Widow
1982
The Eve
5.3/3
Aging politicians who have faded from the public eye hold a cocktail party to celebrate one friend's appointment to the President's Cabinet. Illusions...
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The Eve
1971
Para servir a usted
4.2/4
Working-class dude gets a gig as a waiter doing banquet service, and loses his moral compass through his contacts with decadent rich folk.
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Para servir a usted
1984
Dune
6.194/3019
In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spi...
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Dune
1992
Lost Objects
7/2
Juan and Pilar return to Mexico City on the same train. Destiny cross their paths in a taxi stop, off the train station. A cab arrives and they take e...
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Lost Objects
1976
Las Poquianchis
6.9/35
During the mid-1970s, in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities discover a clandestine burial ground. The corpses are from murdered prostitutes....
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Las Poquianchis
1979
Maria of My Heart
6.1/8
Héctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician in cabarets and he robs houses. María convinces Héctor...
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Maria of My Heart
1997
Esmeralda Comes by Night
5.2/9
The husbands of a charismatic nurse devise a plan to free her from prison when she is arrested for being a polygamist.
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Esmeralda Comes by Night
1989
Intimacy
4/3
A Mexican romance by Dana Rotberg.
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Intimacy
2008
Tear This Heart Out
8/111
A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new fem...
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Tear This Heart Out
1978
Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna
5.5/8
Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister town, inhabited by...
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Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna
1990
Dying in the Gulf
6/4
The story of the oil leader Lázaro Pizarro, of his political and personal wars, the use of crime to settle conflicts and the course of his power betwe...
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Dying in the Gulf
1981
'Ora sí ¡tenemos que ganar!
6.2/14
Subjugated by power, the workers of a mining town organize clandestinely.
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'Ora sí ¡tenemos que ganar!
1994
The Garden of Eden
5/2
Tijuana is a mystical city and the scene of different stories, where the characters search for meaning in their lives.
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The Garden of Eden
1977
Maten al León
5.7/6
A pilot is called back to his homeland, the Latin American republic of Arepa, by the rich islanders to participate in a complot to kill the dictator k...
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Maten al León
1978
Free Love
4.2/8
Two single women share an apartment, work together, and sometimes swap boyfriends. None of their romantic attachments seem quite as stable or enduring...
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Free Love
2003
La caja
0/0
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