María Félix
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
53
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.
Known For
Fever Mounts at El Pao
The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
El cine mexicano de fiesta
Everybody's Woman
Vertigo
Amok
La Bandida
Hidden River
The Hidden One
María Eugenia
Enamorada
The Affairs of Messalina
Juana Gallo
Mare nostrum
La Cucaracha
The Abduction
Camelia
French Cancan
La Generala
Doña Diabla
The Rock of Souls
Reportaje
Black Crown
Tizoc
Faustina
Naked Passion
Heroes and Sinners
Ash Wednesday
The Kneeling Goddess
La estrella vacía
The Beautiful Otero
La monja alférez
Woman Without a Soul
Basket of Mexican Tales
Incantesimo tragico
Beyond All Limits
Il falso bugiardo
La Valentina
Love & Sex (Sappho 1963)
An Ordinary Woman
La noche del sábado
Si yo fuera millonario
May God Forgive Me
The White Monk
Doña Bárbara
Quand Jean devint Renoir
Maclovia
La Devoradora
Café Colón
María: La Diva Eterna
Sonatas
Inasible María Félix
Acuérdate de Acapulco
