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