Ana Ofelia Murguía
Date of birth: 1933-12-08
Place of birth: Mexico City, Mexico
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Ana Ofelia Murgía
Biography
Ana Ofelia Murguía was a Mexican actress with a long career in theater, film and television for more than 40 years. She is a graduate of the Theater School of the National Institute of Fine Arts and a student of the “father of Mexican theater” Seki Sano, which forged her for a fruitful career on stage. She received the Ariel Award for Best Female Co-Acting on four occasions for "Cadena Perpetua" (1979), "Los Motivos de Luz" (1986), "La Reina de la Noche" (1996), and the Ariel de Oro for lifetime achievement in 2011. She also won three times the Silver Goddess award for The Motifs of Light (1986), Written in the Body of the Night (2002), The Good Herbs (2011). In 2004 he received the silver Mayahuel for his career at the Guadalajara Film Festival, and in 2007 he obtained special recognition at the Lunas del Auditorio. Ana Ofelia Murguía voiced Miguel's great-grandmother in the Oscar-winning animated film Coco (2017).
Movie Credits
Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
1976-02-04
Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is
What Do You Think?
1986-08-01
A gritty musical drama about life in the ghettos of Mexico City during the 1980s. With a soundtrack
La maceta
2002-01-01
The Humiliated
1986-01-01
Four nuns are raped by a group of lepers. Although they all turn out to be pregnant, their status is
The Heart of the Night
1984-03-15
A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably att
Blue Eyelids
2007-04-02
Marina wins a paradise vacation for two, but when she realizes that she has no one to bring along, s
Constelaciones
1980-06-28
The lives of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the astronomer Carlos de Singüenza y Góngora intersect wi
The Good Herbs
2010-03-13
A young woman has to deal with her mother's degradation due to Alzheimer's disease.
Otilia Rauda
2002-08-02
Otilia is both blessed with a body that is the epitome of feminine perfection and cursed by an ugly
One Man’s War
1991-04-20
Anthony Hopkins plays an English medical doctor living with his family in Paraguay and treating the
The Queen of the Night
1994-09-07
The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or a
The Compass Is Carried by the Dead Man
2011-10-22
A Mexican boy bound for Chicago tries to cross the border, but is the crowded wagon he rides in goin
Naufragio
1978-11-02
One woman lives waiting for her son who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he write
Chido Guan, el tacos de oro
1986-05-15
Street-punk drafted to soccer team, rises to stardom. Cuz he plays so good.
Life Sentence
1979-08-09
After being released from jail, "Tarzan" Lira seeks to rebuild his life as a bank employee. Unfortun
El Anzuelo
1996-06-01
Filmmaker Ernesto Rimoch looks at the potent combination of love and ambition in this film about a c
Gaby: A True Story
1987-10-30
The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and tri
Los confines
1987-05-17
Mix magical universe of Juan Rulfo, in which Juan Preciado, "Pedro Paramo", located incestuous sibli
Expiration Date
2012-01-11
Ramona's compulsive life becomes a wreck when she finds out, after a long search that Osvaldo, her o
Mexicano ¡Tú puedes!
1985-09-12
Vicente and Carmen, are spouses, he works in a factory, although he is a womanizer and irresponsible
Esa mi Irene
1975-01-01
A 43 minutes short film filmed in Mexico in 1975
Luces de la noche
1998-05-29
On a whim, a retired gentleman decides to track down an old girlfriend from decades back.
Written on the Body of Night
2001-05-26
A look back at a director's life with his neurotic mother.
El Viaje de la Nonna
2008-02-07
A Mexican family, wanting to grant their Grandmother her last wish, embarks on a make believe trip t
Luz's Motives
1986-02-06
Luz is in jail, accused of murdering her own children. Her husband and her mother-in-law say she kil
El mar muerto
2013-11-29
There is a blackout in Mexico City. In the darkness some people are abandoned by God (their conscien
The Last Call
2013-03-03
Turmoil becomes the order of the day when a Mexican theatrical company begins its rehearsals of absu
Pachito Rex: I'm Leaving but Not for Good
2001-11-09
The attack on a popular singer known as Pachito -who becomes the favorite candidate to win the presi
Las asesinas del panadero
1989-01-01
Mexican feature film
El edén
2004-03-24
A conservative businesswoman promises her dying husband to bring their son, long-absent and whose wh
A Good Death Beats a Dull Life
2006-04-07
The women of a prosperous provincial family hide unsuspected secrets which range from the entangleme
Goitia: A God for Himself
1989-01-01
The Mexican painter Francisco Goitia, feeling his death approaching, manages to make a memory of his
The Rider of Divine Providence
1991-09-18
The bishop of Culiacan and three priests are dedicated to investigate the alleged miracles of Jesus
I Miss You
2010-09-24
This is the story of Javier, a 15 year old Argentinean who left for Mexico carrying the drama of his
Compassionate Sex
2000-06-30
Dolores is a mature and kind woman whose husband abandons her because he can't stand her uncanny gen
Walking Vengeance
2008-10-31
A woman and her three partners-in-crime plan a revenge heist against her violent narco husband in or
Bandidas
2006-01-18
When a ruthless robber baron takes away everything they cherish, a rough-and-tumble, idealistic peas
The Waterwheel
2013-04-25
In a small town, time stops for a father who has lost his son.
Zuzanka's Game
1970-01-01
Mexican feature film
Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead
1995-10-05
Alcoholic prostitute Gloria is in the middle of a business deal with gangsters when a fatal confront
The Heist
1976-08-05
In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs fr
His Most Serene Highness
2000-08-17
This historical drama depicts the waning days of the life of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who waged
De muerte natural
1996-08-09
Four women get mad at a bakery while they recall their lives at their neighborhood.
My dear Tom Mix
1992-12-25
Joaquina is aging in a small Mexican village in the 1920s. Her life is boring and she spends her day
Amber
1994-08-28
Old Max remembers the time as a child when he was taken to the jungle where he met a prophet, a circ
Ave María
1999-11-20
In the colonial New Spain Ana is a missionary who decides to support the indigenous people.
El águila descalza
1971-12-08
Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something bi
The Prophet Mimi
1973-12-27
Childhood trauma and religious repression causes little boy to grow up and murder .
A Middle Class Married Couple Afternoon
1997-10-01
An elderly couple spends together the afternoon in their living room. Suddenly she breaks the silenc
Coco
2017-10-27
Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplishe
The Black Widow
1983-08-17
Intrigues and secrets come together because of a woman, who has the protection of the parish priest.
The Eve
1982-10-07
Aging politicians who have faded from the public eye hold a cocktail party to celebrate one friend's
Para servir a usted
1971-03-11
Working-class dude gets a gig as a waiter doing banquet service, and loses his moral compass through
Dune
1984-12-14
In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice exte
Lost Objects
1992-07-11
Juan and Pilar return to Mexico City on the same train. Destiny cross their paths in a taxi stop, of
Las Poquianchis
1976-11-17
During the mid-1970s, in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities discover a clandestine burial
Maria of My Heart
1979-05-17
Héctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician in c
Esmeralda Comes by Night
1997-09-05
The husbands of a charismatic nurse devise a plan to free her from prison when she is arrested for b
Intimidad
1989-01-01
A hen-pecked husband, so timid that he doesn’t even dare to drive a car, embarks on an affair with a
Tear This Heart Out
2008-09-12
A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by
Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna
1978-08-10
Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he
Dying in the Gulf
1990-03-08
The story of the oil leader Lázaro Pizarro, of his political and personal wars, the use of crime to
Maten al León
1977-01-27
A pilot is called back to his homeland, the Latin American republic of Arepa, by the rich islanders
'Ora sí ¡tenemos que ganar!
1981-10-22
Subjugated by power, the workers of a mining town organize clandestinely.
The Garden of Eden
1994-03-01
Tijuana is a mystical city and the scene of different stories, where the characters search for meani
Free Love
1978-08-09
Two single women share an apartment, work together, and sometimes swap boyfriends. None of their rom
La caja
2003-03-21
Morena
1995-01-01