Stella Inda
Mexican actress
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| Intro | Mexican actress | |
| Places | Mexico | |
| was | Actor Film actor | |
| Work field | Film, TV, Stage & Radio | |
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| Birth | 28 June 1917, Pátzcuaro, Pátzcuaro Municipality, Michoacán, Mexico | |
| Death | 7 December 1995Mexico City, Mexico (aged 78 years) |
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Stella (or Estela) Inda (June 28, 1917 – December 7, 1995) was a Mexican film actress. She was the star of notable Mexican films, including Los olvidados by Luis Buñuel in 1949.
She started her career as extra in the successful film La Mujer del Puerto, starred by Andrea Palma. Also, she participated in Mexican films such as La Noche de los Mayas (1939), Santa (second souns version, 1943), Bugambilia (1944, with Dolores del Río), Amok (1945, with María Félix), and the success films Los olvidados (1949, directed by Luis Buñuel and El Rebozo de Soledad (1955). In the later years, she was an acting teacher in the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico, and directed a folkloric dance group called "Stella Inda y su Conjunto".
In 1947 she had a prominent but uncredited role as the historical personage La Malinche in the Hollywood epic Captain from Castile, opposite Cesar Romero as Hernán Cortés.
Filmography (Selected)
- La Mujer del Puerto (1934)
- Mujeres sin Alma (1934)
- The Blood Stain (1937)
- La Noche de los Mayas (1939)
- Santa (1943)
- The Escape (1944)
- Bugambilia (1944)
- Amok (1945)
- Tragic Wedding (1946)
- Los olvidados (1949)
- El Rebozo de Soledad (1952)
- The Aztec Mummy (1957)
- Fé, Esperanza y Caridad (1973)