
Estela Inda
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1917-06-28
Day of Death
1995-12-07 (78 years old)
Place of Birth
Patzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico
Estela Inda
Biography
Stella (or Estela) Inda (June 28, 1917 – December 7, 1995) was a Mexican film actress. She was the star of notable Mexican films, including Los olvidados by Luis Buñuel in 1949. She started her career as extra in the successful film La Mujer del Puerto, starred by Andrea Palma. Also, she participated in Mexican films such as La Noche de los Mayas (1939), Santa (second souns version, 1943), Bugambilia (1944, with Dolores del Río), Amok (1945, with María Félix), and the success films Los olvidados (1949, directed by Luis Buñuel and El Rebozo de Soledad (1955). In the later years, she was an acting teacher in the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico, and directed a folkloric dance group called "Stella Inda y su Conjunto". In 1947 she had a prominent but uncredited role as the historical personage La Malinche in the Hollywood epic Captain from Castile, opposite Cesar Romero as Hernán Cortés.
Known For
Acting
(1988)
(1988)
(1987)
(1987)
(1983)
(1983)
(1977)
Lo mejor de Teresa
as Madre de Teresa
(1974)
Faith, Hope and Charity
as Cuca (segment "Caridad")
(1974)
Charity
as Cuca
(1973)
One Way
as Rosa
(1970)
(1964)
Attack of the Mayan Mummy
as The High Priestess
(1957)
The Aztec Mummy
as Aztec Chanteuse
(1957)
The Curse of the Aztec Mummy
as Aztec Chanteuse
(1953)
Näskara (Awakening)
as María
(1952)
Soledad's Shawl
as Soledad
(1950)
The Young and the Damned
as Mother
(1947)
Captain from Castile
as Doña Marina (uncredited)
(1946)
Tragic Weddings
as Laura
(1945)
Bugambilia
as Zarca
(1944)
Amok
as Tara
(1944)
La Fuga
as Condesa de la Cadena
(1943)
Santa
as Raquel
(1943)
La feria de las flores
as Virginia
(1943)
(1940)
La canción del milagro
as Margarita (as Stella Inda)
(1940)
Mala yerba
as Mariana Bermúdez
(1939)
The Night of the Mayans
as Lol
(1937)
(1934)
The Woman of the Port
as Mujer de cabaret
Crew
(1952)
Soledad's Shawl
Screenplay
(1948)
The Cockfighter
Screenplay