Ofelia Medina
Birthday: Born in 1950-04-04 in Mérida - Yucatán - Mexico
Deathday: Alive
Ofelia Medina (born April 4, 1950) is a Mexican actress, singer and screenwriter of Mexican films. She made her film debut in Mexico in 1968 with the film La paz and in Hollywood with The Big Fix ten years later. In 1977 she played a hunchback in the telenovela Rina. She portrayed Frida Kahlo in Paul Leduc's film about the artist in 1984. In Canada, Medina was nominated for the Genie Award for her work in Diplomatic Immunity in 1991. Ofelia Madine has also played in various theatres worldwide. Since 2000 Ofelia played Frida Kahlo in the play Cada quien su Frida. In 2007 she came to Denmark, playing in Århus, Copenhagen and Odense at the gallery of Jens Galschiøt.
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The Mosquito Coast
Character: Lucrecia
Allie Fox—a brilliant inventor and stubborn idealist—uproots his family for a dangerous quest through Mexico to flee the U.S. government and find safety....
Mujeres asesinas
Character: Beatriz Fernández
Mujeres Asesinas is a series that shows the dark side of women who have been mistreated or abused and become cruel murderers. The series shows how violence and death can overcome the feminine mind....
Conversando con Cristina Pacheco
Character: Self
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Los Rey
Character: Manuela San Vicente de Rey
Los Rey is a Mexican telenovela produced by Elisa Salinas for Azteca. It stars Leonardo Garcia, with Michel Brown and Rossana Najera as the protagonists, both dubbed as "La pareja" in the face card, alongside Juan Alfonso Baptista, Ana Belena, Fernando Alonso, Cecilia Ponce, Jose Alonso, Ofelia Medina, Fernando Lujan, Ariel Lopez Padilla, Victor Huggo Martin and Elizabeth Cervantes. Rafael Gutiérrez and Rodrigo Cachero serve as the directors. Los Rey is written by Luis Felipe Ybarra who is also ...
La hora marcada
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The Marked Hour is an anthology series of horror, suspense, and mystery. Each episode tells a story where the macabre, the uncertain and the terrible invade the lives of different characters in completely different scenarios....
Tanto Amor
Character: Silvia Lombardo
In this novel we will see how love struggles to survive and overcome all obstacles. The Lombardo family is very wealthy and is one of the most recognized, everything in it is perfection, they maintain a quiet life. But from one moment to another everything starts to be chaos. The Lombard brothers will face each other, Alberto is the good brother, a man of honor, but his brother Bruno is full of envy and ambition. The trigger for everything is the love that Alberto and Mia have for each other, ...
Paloma
Character: Paloma Romero
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Para toda la vida
Character: Elena
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Tríada
Character: Pilar Mancera de Trujano
After learning she was separated at birth from her two identical sisters, Rebecca embarks on a perilous journey to uncover the truth about her origins....
El Candidato
Character: María Teresa de Velasco
Rookie CIA field operative Isabel Alfaro works alongside infamous CIA legend Wayne Addison to bring down Rafael Bautista, Mexico's most vicious and brilliant narco. Her mission brings her into conflict with Eduardo Yzaguirre, her former boyfriend and the current Mayor of Mexico City, the cleanest and most inspirational politician in the country....
La liberación
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Three women try to persuade an actress to drop an accusation of sexual harassment against a famous film director....
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El Cambio
Character: Tania
Two young people leave city life for the simplicity of life in the province. Unfortunately, the beach they are going to live next to is being polluted by a local factory....
The Oil Conspiracy
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While Mexico swims in the oil veins that were deeded to him by the Devil, a bureaucrat is thrown into a whirlwind of intrigue and international espionage where he discovers that the guts of the beast in charge are one and the same, and the evacuation conduit itself. : We are the shit of that monster. At the same time, a man and a woman discover that behind their passion there is a dark reality that drives them to disguise as action what is only hunger, suffering, desire....
The Legend of the Nahuala
Character: Nahuala (voice)
Leo San Juan, an insecure child of nine years old, lives eternally frightened by horror stories that Nando tells his older brother. Within these stories it is 'The Legend of Nahuala', according to which, an old abandoned Casona is possessed by the spirit of an evil witch known as the Nahuala....
La Casa de Bernarda Alba
Character: Adela
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María: La Diva Eterna
Character: Self
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Colombiana
Character: Mama
After witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, Cataleya Restrepo grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she hopes will lead her to her ultimate target: the mobster responsible for her parents' death....
Evil Eye
Character: Josefa
Nala, a thirteen-year-old girl from the city, travels with her family to her grandmother's home in the countryside, to try to find a cure for her little sister's mysterious illness - But she'll soon find her granny is not exactly what she seems......
Nocturno a Rosario
Character: Rosario De La Peña
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Frida Still Life
Character: Frida Kahlo
This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a result of polio, operations and amputations, she faces and traces some of the most colorful and controversial aspects of Mexican history, during the dominant time of Mexican muralism....
Pueblo de Boquilla
Character:
Mexican feature film...
The Good Herbs
Character: Lala
A young woman has to deal with her mother's degradation due to Alzheimer's disease....
Juarez: The City Where Women Are Disposable
Character: Self
Femicide is a growing phenomenon in Mexico. Since 1993, more than 450 women have been brutally murdered in Ciudad Juarez....
Patsy My Love
Character: Patsy
Written by future Nobel-prize winner Gabriel García Márquez, this is the story of Patsy, a wealthy debutante with an acute sense of living and boundless curiosity. She falls in love with an older man (Julio Alemán) whom is married and mediocre, and thus learns the hard way about unhappiness, marring her rose colored world....
Panorama
Character: Ofelia
In recent years it has become the handiest character of Mexican cinema: the Chilango fleeing the capital to the province in search of something. But this case is different because the trip is used as an excuse to illustrate, through documentary techniques, the deep contrasts of Mexican society. Tired of the city, Javier goes to visit his aunt, an eccentric woman with quite radical ideas, who lives isolated from the world in a ranch in Querétaro. Javier works as a laborer for an Argentinean forem...
Camino largo a Tijuana
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Juan (Armendariz) lives in a trash depository in Mexico City. He knows Lila (Pereyra), a drug addict rich girl who reminds him of his long lost daughter. Lila is kidnapped by drug dealers and Juan feels responsible for her. He takes the long way to Tijuana to rescue Lila. (Written by Maximiliano Maza mmaza@campus.mty.itesm.mx)...
Orgy of Terror
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Queen Doll
Character: Amilamia
A man becomes more and more infatuated with his childhood sweetheart leading to a haunting encounter with horror....
The Beast
Character: Doña Tomasa
Pipo, Pau and Mau, three youngsters who spend their time shooting video pranks, visit a distant town where a beast is attacking its residents. Upon arrival, the pranksters will discover that the beast is very different than they thought....
The Blue Eyes
Character: Yaxte
In this supernatural suspense film, Karen Fisher and Paul Henderson, a young American couple, travel to Chiapas, Mexico on holiday. While there they have an encounter with a witch that changes their lives forever....
Íntimo terror
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A woman survived the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, but she still lives with fear about a new earthquake....
Dante y Soledad
Character: Madre
When her first daughter is born, Inés, an independent and successful woman, discovers that her previous life is slipping away from her without it being clear if what awaits her in the future is better. Dante and Soledad, a couple of saltwater fish, will be both mirrors and witnesses of her transformation. It is through her reflection that Inés will realize what she must do to face her new life....
De Que Color Es El Viento
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Two blind children have bonded deeply in their special-ed classroom. The sight of one of them is restored with an operation....
The Big Fix
Character: Alora
Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political smear campaign and he sets out to find out who is responsible, with deadly results....
Mambo Dreams
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Dámaso Pérez Prado, known as "el rey del mambo", came back from the dead to look for the love of his life....
Before Night Falls
Character: Landlady
Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba....
El águila descalza
Character: Chona
Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local Mexican businesses....
Uno y medio contra el mundo
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Small-time crook teams up with a street urchin for mutual support on the margins of society....
Piranhas Love in Lent
Character: Milta / Daughter
Backwards fishing village is home to a widow and her teenaged daughter. Neighbors suspect the mother of having murdered her husband. A tourist in town gets it into his head to put the smooth big city moves on both women. And the-e-en......
The Fungi Man
Character: Lucila / daughter
Racial conflicts, love triangles and the awakening of passion will lead to disaster for a decadent aristocratic family in the newly independent Mexico....
Macho
Character: Mamá Evaristo
A fashion designer pretends to be gay in order to be closer to female models....
A Wall of Silence
Character: Silvia
A woman would rather forget her husband's forced disappearance at the hands of the government....
Salted Water
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A young Cuban named Olga arrives in Spain with a scholarship convinced that she has landed the chance of a lifetime. Deciding to stay, she eventually becomes an illegal immigrant, suffering the brunt of marginalization and, unable to return home, having to get by as she can. Mari Jo is a young girl from a poor Valencian suburb, born into a family with nothing but problems. Fate has marked her life as she too becomes an outcast. Both end up working illegally in a furniture factory where they earn...
Sara: Love And Revolution
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The politically active Sara Pérez Romero from Queretaro fights, together with her husband, President Francisco I Madero, for the restoration of democracy in Mexico. Sara, strong-willed since she was a child, lived with the workers on her father's farm, which made her reflect on the social differences in Mexico. She later studied in California, embracing liberal and democratic ideals that would accompany her throughout her life....
Club eutanasia
Character: The Director
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Paradise
Character: Magaly
Problems arise between the divers Román and Lauro when the former falls in love with a prostitute on the beaches of Acapulco....
I Love Miami
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro is humbled when he arrives in Miami and experiences America from the unique perspective of a typical Cuban-American in producer-turned-director Alejandro Gonzalez Padilla's clever culture shock drama....
Innocent Voices
Character: Mama Toya
A young boy, attempting to have a normal childhood in 1980s El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life when he desperately tries to avoid the war that is raging all around him....
Gertrudis Bocanegra
Character: Gertrudis Bocanegra
Biopic about a woman who played a courageous role in the resistance against French occupation of Mexico in the early 1800s....
Apolinar
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Tancredo, a poor man, is in love with a rich girl, who does not return his feelings. One day when she is bathing in a river, a flood sweeps her away and Tancredo is unable to save her. Mad with grief, he steals the sun. The gods call Apolinar to restore light to the earth, but he is obstructed by the magician of darkness, until by means of a telescope he is able to send a bag of light to Tancredo, now grown old. Tancredo goes to the seashore and opens the bag of light as an offering to his belov...
La rebelion de las hijas
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Three young women are ready to marry, but their father inserts himself into the decision-making process....
Not A Minute To Lose
Character: Elisa del futuro
Elisa is an old-fashioned girl who receives the visit of her future self, who advises her to take the risk and invite Carlos, his best friend, on a date. She has always been attracted to him....
Las figuras de arena
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Separated Mom, Dad and son all come into conflict with each other during a brief reunion visit. Everyone learns and grows....
La palomilla al rescate
Character:
Cute elementary-school kids get mixed up with black-marketeers....
No One Will Ever Know
Character: Fidela
An anodyne environment and a perennial lack of affection, push Lucia and Braulio to turn in the fiction world; to materialize their dreams. Neither inclement reality can stop them....
Barefoot Woman
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A pregnant woman travels through the desert in order to sell shoes in the nearest city....
The Gates of Paradise
Character: Lucia
Due to betting problems, Andrés and his lover, Blanca, flee the city and travel through several states of the country; During their journey they get involved with a couple of hippies with whom they live for a time until the tragedy is complete....
Guadalupe-Kings
Character: Doña Ceci
Two longtime friends decide to attempt the Guadalupe Reyes challenge, which consist of drinking everyday from December the 12th (Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe) until January the 6th (Epiphany Day, the Feast of The Three Kings)....
1938: When the Oil was Ours
Character: grown up Amalia Solórzano
A chronicle of the Mexican oil expropriation in 1938 through the eyes of President Lazaro Cardenas and journalist Alberto Miranda....
Deadly Embroidered Memories
Character: Señora Z
A woman with a degree in biology and a particular taste for arachnids gets involved with some unfinished business left by her dead mother, leading her to face unlikely events that revolve around the banana mafia in a South American country, such as an etheric eminence that anticipates tragedies, a cryptozoological being that is mentioned with skepticism and a terrorist society that seeks to dismantle the fraudulent and sinister structure of land concessions....
No Man's Land
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Late one night, Bill Greer and his son Jackson patrol their ranch when Jackson accidentally kills an immigrant Mexican boy. When Bill tries to take the blame for his son, Jackson flees south on horseback, becoming a gringo "illegal alien" in Mexico. Chased by Texas Rangers and Mexican federales, Jackson journeys across Mexico to seek forgiveness from the dead boy's father only to fall in love with the land he was taught to hate....
Diplomatic Immunity
Character: Sara
A female Canadian diplomat goes on a mission to El Salvador to try smooth relations between their government and the people of a small town who risk the loss of their home....