María Félix
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1914-04-08
Day of Death
2002-04-08 (88 years old)
Place of Birth
Alamos, Sonora, Mexico
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.
Acting
(2023)
María: La Diva Eterna
as Self (archive footage)
(2017)
Quand Jean devint Renoir
as Lola de Castro (archive footage)
(2008)
Il falso bugiardo
as Self (archive footage)
(2001)
Inasible María Félix
as Himself
(1971)
La Generala
as Mariana Sampedro, La Generala
(1966)
(1964)
Love & Sex (Sappho 1963)
as Diana
(1963)
La Bandida
as María Mendoza 'La Bandida'
(1962)
(1961)
Juana Gallo
as Ángela Ramos (Juana Gallo)
(1960)
La estrella vacía
as Olga Lang
(1959)
Sonatas
as La Niña Chole
(1959)
La Cucaracha
as Refugio / La cucaracha
(1959)
Fever Mounts at El Pao
as Inés Rojas
(1959)
(1959)
Beyond All Limits
as Magdalena Gamboa
(1958)
Ash Wednesday
as Victoria
(1958)
El cine mexicano de fiesta
as Self
(1957)
Tizoc
as María
(1957)
Faustina
as Faustina
(1956)
The Hidden One
as Gabriela
(1956)
Basket of Mexican Tales
as Luisa Bravo
(1955)
French Cancan
as Lola
(1955)
Heroes and Sinners
as Manuella
(1954)
Camelia
as Camelia
(1954)
The Abduction
as Aurora Campos
(1954)
The Beautiful Otero
as Carolina Otero
(1953)
Reportaje
as Movie star
(1953)
(1951)
The Affairs of Messalina
as Messalina
(1951)
Black Crown
as Mara Russell
(1951)
Incantesimo tragico
as Oliva
(1950)
The Devil Is a Woman
as Angela
(1950)
La noche del sábado
as Imperia (Donina)
(1949)
An Ordinary Woman
as Nieves Blanco
(1948)
Maclovia
as Maclovia
(1948)
Mare nostrum
as Freyra
(1948)
Rio Escondido
as Rosaura Salazar
(1948)
May God Forgive Me
as Sofía / Lena Kovach
(1947)
The Kneeling Goddess
as Raquel Serrano
(1946)
Enamorada
as Beatriz Peñafiel
(1946)
La Devoradora
as Diana de Arellano
(1946)
Every Man’s Woman
as María Romano
(1945)
(1945)
The White Monk
as Galata Orsina
(1944)
Amok
as Mme Travis / Sra Belmont
(1944)
Woman Without a Soul
as Teresa López
(1944)
La monja alférez
as Catalina de Erauso
(1943)
Doña Bárbara
as Doña Bárbara
(1943)
María Eugenia
as María Eugenia
(1943)
The Spirit's Canyon
as María Ángela Valdivia