Ofelia Guilmáin
Birthday: Born in 1921-11-18 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Deathday: 2005-01-14
Ofelia Guilmáin (November 17, 1921 – January 14, 2005) was an actress of telenovelas, stage and the cinema of Mexico. She is also the mother of actors Juan Ferrara and Lucía Guilmáin.
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La antorcha encendida
Character: Doña Macaria de Soto
A Mexican telenovela produced in 1996. It was the last historical telenovela produced by Televisa. The plot tells the Independence of Mexico, with an emphasis on historical accuracy....
Yesenia
Character: Magenta
Yesenia is a beautiful Roma woman who lives different situations in an aimlessly fixed way with the company of her caravan. In one of her many trips she meets a military man, Osvaldo Moncada, and falls in love with him. They will have to prove that their love is stronger than their differences and social prejudice that separate them. One of the opponents of their relationship is Rashay, the patriarch of the Roma people, who opposes the relationship because the military youth does not belong to ...
Días sin luna
Character: Doña Carlota Parlange
Días sin luna is a 1990 Mexican telenovela produced by Juan Osorio and directed by Rafael Banquells based on an original script by Eric Vonn. It was aired in Canal de las Estrellas Monday to Friday at 17:00 between May 14 and August 31, 1990....
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La Casa de Bernarda Alba
Character: Bernarda
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The Business of Hate
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An ambitious businessman searches for the perfect candidate to train and turn into a great boxing champion....
Why Was I Born a Woman?
Character: Carmela
A family gathers to celebrate Mother's Day, that day a woman discuss many problems about her woman condition; husband, children and grandchildren will hear she tired and overwhelmed silenced by submission and obedience. Analysis of the family and gender roles....
Aquella Rosita Alvírez
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Traveling cowboy gets involved in political issues in a town he passes through. Also a romance....
Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb vs. the Monsters
Character: La reina bruja
The film follows adventures of Little Red Riding Hood (Maria Gracia) and Tom Thumb (Cesaro Quezadas) and their friends, fighting against the wicked Witch Queen (Ofelia Guilmáin) and her band of monsters. The film starts at the meeting of the evil monsters in the castle in the Haunted Forest, heart of the Devil's dominion, during which the Vampire (Quintín Bulnes) accuses the Wolf (Manuel Valdés) and the Ogre (José Elías Moreno) of betraying the Witch Queen (La Reina Bruja, renamed Queen of Badn...
The Man and the Monster
Character: Cornelia Magno
A failed pianist sells his soul to the devil in return for his becoming the greatest musician in the world. The catch: every time he plays he turns into a horrible monster....
Panic
Character: Witch (segment "Pánico")
Three tales of horror, isolation and insanity set in Mexico....
The Brainiac
Character: Señora Meneses
In 1661 Mexico, the Baron Vitelius of Astara is sentenced to be burned alive by the Holy Inquisition of Mexico for witchcraft, necromancy, and other crimes. As he dies, the Baron swears vengeance against the descendants of the Inquisitors. 300 years later, a comet that was passing overhead on the night of the Baron's execution returns to earth, bringing with it the Baron in the form of a horrible, brain-eating monster that terrorizes the Inquisitor's descendants...
The Prophet Mimi
Character: Doña Eulalia, madre de Mimi
Childhood trauma and religious repression causes little boy to grow up and murder ....
The Scapular
Character: Maria Pérez viuda de Fernández
A woman who is about to die calls the town's priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not believe in them will end up dead....
Mi desconocida esposa
Character: María Linz
After moving from Guadalajara to Mexico City, a young woman gets embroiled in a series of puzzling mistaken-identity misadventures....
The Exterminating Angel
Character: Juana Ávila
A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find themselves unable to leave....
The Happy Musketeers
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The Big Bad Wolf and the Stinky Little Skunk from the Caperucita Roja movies in their final adventure, as swashbuckling 17th century swordsmen in a king's service....
Flor marchita
Character: Eugenia Almada
Adult seduces and abandons a teenaged girl, she has a baby. Fifteen years later......
El juicio de los hijos
Character: Doña Rosa
Widow with teenaged children faces hostility from her dead husband's mother, who seems to know a family secret she wants to use against her....
Those Years
Character: Madre de Comonfort
President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico...
The Long Awaited Desperate Love
Character: Aminta
A thirty-something woman fears that life is passing her by and that she's going to end up as the family's 'maiden aunt'. She imagines that somebody in her circle is courting her, and he's too polite to disillusion her. And then......
Perverse Doll
Character: Abuela
A troubled woman commits a series of murders that exposes some dark family secrets....
Para servir a usted
Character: Doñ Pepa
Working-class dude gets a gig as a waiter doing banquet service, and loses his moral compass through his contacts with decadent rich folk....
Quinceañera
Character: Carmen, Leonor's mother
María Antonia, Beatriz and Leonor are three classmates who are anxiously awaiting the celebration of their 15th birthday. However, each of them will have to cope with their complicated personal situation....
Violence in Cold Blood
Character:
Compilation tape of Hora Marcada episodes....
Aunt Isabel's Garden
Character: Xeneta
A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle....
El patrullero 777
Character: Esposa violenta
Follows Diogenes as he goes about his day as a police officer. He's prone to do things the right way, surrounded by a pretty much corrupt & citizen distant police department, & always resolves his duties with a personal method....
Nazarin
Character: Chanfa
After hiding a murderer, a Catholic priest is forced into self-exile and decides to embark on a pilgrimage through the Mexican countryside....
El primer amor
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Seminary students interrupts his studies for a final vacation in the real world and finds it difficult to break his worldly bonds in preparation for the pristhood....
The Crazy Virgins
Character: Teresa Guardiola
Handsome young swindler throws himself into the clutches of three rich spinsters who live in their own little fantasy world on their crumbling estate....
El jinete justiciero en retando a la muerte
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Guy gets mugged on horseback and left for dead; farmgal nurses him back to health and when he's on his feet again, he puts a domino on and swings into J J action....
Flor de fango
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Wicked man seduces virtuous young woman; she leaves home in disgrace. Etc....
Las Troyanas
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Adaptation of Euripides: lamentations of the women of Troy after their defeat in war....
Mi Verdad
Character: Catalina Ortiz
Film about the scandal of TV producer Juan Osorio with Cuban dancer Niurka Marcos....
Sor Ye-yé
Character: Sor Emilia
Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night with them. One of his friends, Ernesto, is in love with her, though she does not seem to feel the same about him. In fact, multiple existential doubts and feel a strange emptiness in his life suddenly drive to enter a convent as a novice, breaking Ernestos' heart. However, with her cheerlul character, open and rebellious, not appear to conform to life...
Sangre en Rio Bravo
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Foreign mining concern resorts to illegal tactics to buy up land; two brothers are orphaned and dispossessed and they become outlaws in revenge....
Misión cumplida
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There's Always a First Time
Character: Josefina (segment "Gloria")
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El caso de una adolescente
Character: Tía Laura
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