Ofelia Guilmáin

Ofelia Guilmáin

Birth : 1921-11-18, Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Death : 2005-01-14

History

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.

Profile

Ofelia Guilmáin

Movies

Mi Verdad
Catalina Ortiz
Film about the scandal of TV producer Juan Osorio with Cuban dancer Niurka Marcos.
Violence in Cold Blood
Compilation tape of Hora Marcada episodes.
El patrullero 777
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.
The Long Awaited Desperate Love
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...
Celestina
Celestina
Those Years
Madre de Comonfort
President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico
El primer amor
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 Prophet Mimi
Doña Eulalia, madre de Mimi
Childhood trauma and religious repression causes little boy to grow up and murder .
Panic
Witch (segment "Pánico")
Three tales of horror, isolation and insanity set in Mexico.
The Crazy Virgins
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.
Aunt Isabel's Garden
Xeneta
A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle.
The Business of Hate
An ambitious businessman searches for the perfect candidate to train and turn into a great boxing champion.
El juicio de los hijos
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.
Para servir a usted
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.
Siempre hay una primera vez
Josefina (segment "Gloria")
Why Was I Born Woman?
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.
Confesiones de una adolescente
Orphan girl has a secret benefactor. When she's old enough to leave the orphanage and enter the real world, she's determined to track him down. Also: having a first boyfriend, yippee!
Misión cumplida
Perverse Doll
Abuela
A troubled woman commits a series of murders that exposes some dark family secrets.
Flor marchita
Eugenia Almada
Adult seduces and abandons a teenaged girl, she has a baby. Fifteen years later...
Sor Ye-yé
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 in the cloister, and especially have problems with the novices director , who often punished for trying to take the right path. In the convent, which also functions as children's hospital, she meets a doctor with which it takes quite right for the contrast between his two characters, but his way with love and mutual respect.
The Scapular
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.
Sangre en Rio Bravo
Foreign mining concern resorts to illegal tactics to buy up land; two brothers are orphaned and dispossessed and they become outlaws in revenge.
El jinete justiciero en retando a la muerte
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.
Aquella Rosita Alvírez
Traveling cowboy gets involved in political issues in a town he passes through. Also a romance.
Las Troyanas
Adaptation of Euripides: lamentations of the women of Troy after their defeat in war.
Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb vs. the Monsters
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 Badness in the English dub), who orders them to ber executed. Their friend Stinky the Skunk (Santanón) however escapes and informs Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb, who promise to help. Meanwhile, the Queen and her sister the Old Witch cast a terrible curse, turning villagers into monkeys and mice for trying to defy her magic. The rest of the story details the heroes' quest to conquer evil.
The Exterminating Angel
Juana Ávila
After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves mysteriously unable to leave the room.
Los espadachines de la reina
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.
Quinceañera
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.
The Man and the Monster
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.
Nazarin
Chanfa
Nazarín is the priest who leaves his order and decides to go on a pilgrimage. As he goes along subsisting on alms, he shelters a prostitute wanted by the police for murder. He is released from suspicion and she eventually catches up with him when she escapes imprisonment. Another woman joins the duo and soon the ex-priest is learning more about the human heart and suffering than when he wore robes.
El caso de una adolescente
Tía Laura
Mi desconocida esposa
María Linz
After moving from Guadalajara to Mexico City, a young woman gets embroiled in a series of puzzling mistaken-identity misadventures.
Flor de fango
Wicked man seduces virtuous young woman; she leaves home in disgrace. Etc.