Adriana Barraza
46 movies · 21 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Mar 5, 1956 (age 70)
- Place of birth
- Toluca, Estado de Mexico, Mexico
- Also known as
- Adriana Barraza González
Biography
Adriana Barraza González (born 5 March 1956) is a Mexican actress, acting teacher, and director.
In 1999 director Alejandro González Iñárritu cast her as the mother of Gael García Bernal's character in Amores perros, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 2006, she collaborated with Iñárritu again in Babel, for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Barraza is known in Mexico as Master Barraza from her partnership with Mexican director Sergio Jiménez, known as El Profe. They created the Actors Workshop in Mexico City, teaching and developing their own version of Method acting. Barraza began her career directing telenovela episodes, the actors in which she would also coach. In the 1990s she decided to step in front of the camera.
She currently operates her own acting school located in Miami, Florida titled Adriana Barraza's Black Box. Instructors at the school include her husband Arnaldo and daughter Carolina.
Known for
Adriana Barraza: movies and TV shows
Acting (63)
- Upcoming
- Upcoming
- Upcoming
- 2026
- 2025 The Follies
as Irene
- 2025
- 2024 My Penguin Friend
as Maria
- 2023 The Treasure
as Clemencia Ríos
- 2023
- 2023 Blue Beetle
as Nana Reyes
- 2023 Where the Tracks End
as Georgina
- 2023 Monica
as Leticia
- 2022
- 2021 Koati
as Amaya (voice)
- 2021 Bingo Hell
as Lupita
- 2021 Dark Blood
as Gloria Vera
- 2020 We Can Be Heroes
as Grandma Moreno
- 2020
- 2019 Rambo: Last Blood
as María Beltrán
- 2019 Dora and the Lost City of Gold
as Abuela Valerie
- 2019 Coyote Lake
as Teresa
- 2019 Bibi
as Licha Mendoza
- 2018 Crazy About Work
as Mercedes
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
- 2016 Everything Else
as Doña Flor
- 2016 Perros
as Abogada
- 2016
- 2015
- 2015 The 33
as Marta
- 2015 Wild Horses
as Mrs. Davis
- 2015
- 2015 Yefon
as Jillian Parkman
- 2014 Cake
as Silvana
- 2014
- 2014 Night Has Settled
as Aida
- 2013 Good Day, Ramon
as Esperanza
- 2012 Mariachi Gringo
as Magdalena
- 2012 The Secret of the Jade Medallion
as Cornelia
- 2011 The Snitch Cartel
as La Abuela
- 2011 Cerro Bayo
as Marta
- 2011 Thor
as Isabela Alvarez
- 2011 From Prada to Nada
as Aurelia Jimenez
- 2010 Te Presento a Laura
as Conchita
- 2010 Revolución
as Chayo
- 2010 Burning Palms
as Louisa Alvarez
- 2010 And Soon the Darkness
as Rosamaria
- 2010 Love on a Weekend
as Sofía
- 2010
- 2009 Rage
as Anita de Los Angeles
- 2009 Drag Me to Hell
as Shaun San Dena
- 2008 Henry Poole Is Here
as Esperanza
- 2008
- 2006 Babel
as Amelia
- 2002
- 2000 Amores Perros
as Mama Octavio
- 1998
- 1998 The First Night
as Mamá Bruno
- 1997
- 1995
- 1994
- 1994
Behind the camera (5)
- 2020
- 2002
- 2001
- 2000
- 1999
Talk shows and appearances (2)
- 2007
- 1997 Conversando con Cristina Pacheco
3 episodes