María Félix
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 withPedro Armendáriz and Dolores del Río, she is one of the most important figures of Latin American 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.
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Movies (49)
María: La Diva Eterna
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Quand Jean devint Renoir
as Lola de Castro (archive footage)
2017
Acuérdate de Acapulco
as Self (archive footage)
2013
Il falso bugiardo
as Self (archive footage)
2008
The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
2002
Inasible María Félix
as Himself
2001
La Generala
as Mariana Sampedro, La Generala
1971
La Valentina
1966
Love & Sex (Sappho 1963)
as Diana
1964
La Bandida
as María Mendoza 'La Bandida'
1963
Si yo fuera millonario
1962
Juana Gallo
as Ángela Ramos (Juana Gallo)
1961
La estrella vacía
as Olga Lang
1960
Fever Mounts at El Pao
as Inés Rojas
1959
La Cucaracha
as Refugio / La cucaracha
1959
Sonatas
as La Niña Chole
1959
Beyond All Limits
as Magdalena Gamboa
1959
Café Colón
1959
Ash Wednesday
as Victoria
1958
El cine mexicano de fiesta
as Self
1958
Tizoc
as María
1957
Faustina
as Faustina
1957
The Hidden One
as Gabriela
1956
Basket of Mexican Tales
as Luisa Bravo
1956
Heroes and Sinners
as Manuella
1955
French Cancan
as Lola
1955
The Beautiful Otero
as Carolina Otero
1954
The Abduction
as Aurora Campos
1954
Camelia
as Camelia
1954
Reportaje
as Movie star
1953
Naked Passion
1953
The Affairs of Messalina
as Messalina
1951
Incantesimo tragico
as Oliva
1951
Black Crown
as Mara Russell
1951
La noche del sábado
as Donina
1950
Doña Diabla
as Angela
1950
An Ordinary Woman
as Nieves Blanco
1949
Mare nostrum
as Freyra
1948
Maclovia
as Maclovia
1948
May God Forgive Me
as Sofía / Lena Kovach
1948
Hidden River
as Rosaura Salazar
1948
The Kneeling Goddess
as Raquel
1947
Enamorada
as Beatriz Peñafiel
1946
La Devoradora
as Diana de Arellano
1946
Everybody's Woman
as María Romano
1946
The White Monk
as Galata Orsina
1945
Vertigo
1945
Amok
as Mme Travis / Sra Belmont
1944
Woman Without a Soul
as Teresa López
1944
