Ofelia Medina

Ofelia Medina

Рождение : 1950-04-04, Mérida - Yucatán - Mexico

История

Ofelia Medina (born April 4, 1950) is a Mexican actress, singer and screenwriter of Mexican films. She made her film debut in Mexico in 1968 with the film La paz and in Hollywood with The Big Fix ten years later. In 1977 she played a hunchback in the telenovela Rina. She portrayed Frida Kahlo in Paul Leduc's film about the artist in 1984. In Canada, Medina was nominated for the Genie Award for her work in Diplomatic Immunity in 1991. Ofelia Madine has also played in various theatres worldwide. Since 2000 Ofelia played Frida Kahlo in the play Cada quien su Frida. In 2007 she came to Denmark, playing in Århus, Copenhagen and Odense at the gallery of Jens Galschiøt.

Профиль

Ofelia Medina
Ofelia Medina

Фильмы

1938: When the Oil was Ours
grown up Amalia Solórzano
A chronicle of the Mexican oil expropriation in 1938 through the eyes of President Lazaro Cardenas and journalist Alberto Miranda.
Mambo Dreams
Dámaso Pérez Prado, known as "el rey del mambo", came back from the dead to look for the love of his life.
Ведьма: Реинкарнация
Josefa
13-летняя Нала приезжает из города в сельскую местность. Её бабуля живет в большом доме и слывет эксцентричной особой. Девочка пытается выяснить, чем таким загадочным больна её младшая сестра, и вскоре узнает, что их заботливая бабушка на самом деле не такая заботливая, как кажется...
La llevada y la traída
Screenplay
La llevada y la traída
Editor
La llevada y la traída
Director
Пограничный патруль
Находясь в пограничном патруле, Джексон случайно убивает мексиканского мальчика-иммигранта. Когда отец Джексона пытается взять вину на себя, Джексон бежит на юг, становясь гринго — нелегальным иностранцем в Мексике. Преследуемый техасскими рейнджерами и мексиканскими федералами, Джексон совершает путешествие по Мексике, чтобы попросить прощения у отца мертвого мальчика. В процессе он влюбляется в страну, которую его учили ненавидеть.
Deadly Embroidered Memories
Señora Z
A woman with a degree in biology and a particular taste for arachnids gets involved with some unfinished business left by her dead mother, leading her to face unlikely events that revolve around the banana mafia in a South American country, such as an etheric eminence that anticipates tragedies, a cryptozoological being that is mentioned with skepticism and a terrorist society that seeks to dismantle the fraudulent and sinister structure of land concessions.
Not A Minute To Lose
Elisa del futuro
Elisa is an old-fashioned girl who receives the visit of her future self, who advises her to take the risk and invite Carlos, his best friend, on a date. She has always been attracted to him.
Guadalupe-Kings
Two longtime friends decide to attempt the Guadalupe Reyes challenge, which consist of drinking everyday from December the 12th (Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe) until January the 6th (Epiphany Day, the Feast of The Three Kings).
No One Will Ever Know
Fidela
"No One Will Ever Know" - An anodyne environment and a perennial lack of affection, push Lucia and Braulio to turn in the fiction world; to materialize their dreams. Neither inclement reality can stop them.
Мачо
Mamá Evaristo
A fashion designer pretends to be gay in order to be closer to female models.
The Blue Eyes
Yaxte
In this supernatural suspense film, Karen Fisher and Paul Henderson, a young American couple, travel to Chiapas, Mexico on holiday. While there they have an encounter with a witch that changes their lives forever.
Panorama
Ofelia
In recent years it has become the handiest character of Mexican cinema: the Chilango fleeing the capital to the province in search of something. But this case is different because the trip is used as an excuse to illustrate, through documentary techniques, the deep contrasts of Mexican society. Tired of the city, Javier goes to visit his aunt, an eccentric woman with quite radical ideas, who lives isolated from the world in a ranch in Querétaro. Javier works as a laborer for an Argentinean foreman, with whom he shares a few passions. His life begins to change.
Коломбиана
Mama
Кат было всего десять, когда на ее глазах неизвестные жестоко убили ее родителей. Девочка сумела убежать от бандитов и найти убежище в Чикаго у своего дяди. Теперь Кат профессиональный убийца. Во что бы то ни стало она должна распутать клубок давнего преступления и отомстить за смерть родителей. Все следы ведут к колумбийскому наркобарону Дону Лусиа. Единственная нить, соединяющая девушку-убийцу с миром обычных людей — это ее возлюбленный, который не догадывается, чем на самом деле занимается его подружка
The Good Herbs
Lala
A young woman has to deal with her mother's degradation due to Alzheimer's disease.
The Legend of the Nahuala
Nahuala (voice)
Leo San Juan, an insecure child of nine years old, lives eternally frightened by horror stories that Nando tells his older brother. Within these stories it is 'The Legend of Nahuala', according to which, an old abandoned Casona is possessed by the spirit of an evil witch known as the Nahuala.
Juarez: The City Where Women Are Disposable
Herself
Femicide is a growing phenomenon in Mexico. Since 1993, more than 450 women have been brutally murdered in Ciudad Juarez.
Salted Water
A young Cuban named Olga arrives in Spain with a scholarship convinced that she has landed the chance of a lifetime. Deciding to stay, she eventually becomes an illegal immigrant, suffering the brunt of marginalization and, unable to return home, having to get by as she can. Mari Jo is a young girl from a poor Valencian suburb, born into a family with nothing but problems. Fate has marked her life as she too becomes an outcast. Both end up working illegally in a furniture factory where they earn three times less than the minimum legal salary.
Club eutanasia
Невинные голоса
Mama Toya
Одиннадцатилетний Чава живет с мамой, сестрой и братом. А вокруг — война. Самая страшная, гражданская. По ночам гремят взрывы, трещат автоматные очереди, погибают друзья, с которыми ты еще днем играл на улице. А других, когда им исполняется двенадцать лет, забирают в армию. И через пару месяцев лучший друг готов уже разрядить в тебя всю обойму за неверно сказанное слово. Но жизнь продолжается. Дети остаются детьми. Ходят в школу, запускают в небо фонарики, играют, влюбляются…
Las cenizas del volcán
On January 1, 1994, a revolt led by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation broke out in Chiapas. A Spanish director documents the pain of the indigenous population. Six years later, he intends to go further and visit the refugees and the guerrillas. However, the siege of silence is protected by more than sixty thousand soldiers who prevent access to indigenous communities.
A Wall of Silence
Silvia
A woman would rather forget her husband's forced disappearance at the hands of the government.
Хертрудис
Gertrudis Bocanegra
В далеком 1785-м году три друга-офицера соперничали за сердце красавицы Хертрудис Боканегра. Спустя тридцать лет их судьбы разошлись: Мигель Альсате, некогда надеявшийся на руку и сердце девушки, остался на военной службе; ветреный красавец Эстебан Диас, который на недолгое время покорил ее сердце, стал вольнодумцем и инсургентом; Педро Адвинкула, в которого была безнадежно влюблена лучшая подруга Хертрудис Пилар, стал ее мужем и отцом ее детей. Но в Мексике начинается гражданская война. Муж и старший сын женщины не могут остаться в стороне и присоединяются к сторонникам независимости. Вскоре в дом Хертрудис приходит известие об их гибели...
Nocturno a Rosario
Camino largo a Tijuana
Juan (Armendariz) lives in a trash depository in Mexico City. He knows Lila (Pereyra), a drug addict rich girl who reminds him of his long lost daughter. Lila is kidnapped by drug dealers and Juan feels responsible for her. He takes the long way to Tijuana to rescue Lila. (Written by Maximiliano Maza mmaza@campus.mty.itesm.mx)
Frida Still Life
Frida Kahlo
This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a result of polio, operations and amputations, she faces and traces some of the most colorful and controversial aspects of Mexican history, during the dominant time of Mexican muralism.
Pueblo de Boquilla
Mexican feature film
The Oil Conspiracy
While Mexico swims in the oil veins that were deeded to him by the Devil, a bureaucrat is thrown into a whirlwind of intrigue and international espionage where he discovers that the guts of the beast in charge are one and the same, and the evacuation conduit itself. : We are the shit of that monster. At the same time, a man and a woman discover that behind their passion there is a dark reality that drives them to disguise as action what is only hunger, suffering, desire.
Большой сговор
Alora
В 1960-е Мозес Вайн был, как и все нормальные люди вокруг, студентом-радикалом, надеющимся изменить мир. Теперь, двадцать лет спустя, он частный детектив. Однажды в его дверь постучали, и Мозес увидел на пороге Лилу - свою подружку юности. Лила предлагает Мозесу взяться за расследование одного дела. Мозес соглашается не только из-за предложенного высокого гонорара, но и потому, что это возможность общения с бывшей возлюбленной. Расследование началось...
Vacaciones misteriosas
La palomilla al rescate
Cute elementary-school kids get mixed up with black-marketeers.
Грибной человек
Lucila / daughter
Однажды дон Эверадо приводит в дом мальчика-негритенка. Он называет его Гаспаром и дарит младшей дочери Эмме. Дети подружились, а позже и полюбили друг друга… Спустя много лет дон Эверадо и его жена Эльвира возвращаются из далекого путешествия. Эльвиру поражает красота молодого Гаспара. Не подозревая того, что его сердце уже принадлежит Эмме, Эльвира предпринимает попытку соблазнить прекрасного юношу.
Uno y medio contra el mundo
Small-time crook teams up with a street urchin for mutual support on the margins of society.
De Que Color Es El Viento
Two blind children have bonded deeply in their special-ed classroom. The sight of one of them is restored with an operation.
Queen Doll
Amilamia
A man becomes more and more infatuated with his childhood sweetheart leading to a haunting encounter with horror.
Apolinar
Tancredo, a poor man, is in love with a rich girl, who does not return his feelings. One day when she is bathing in a river, a flood sweeps her away and Tancredo is unable to save her. Mad with grief, he steals the sun. The gods call Apolinar to restore light to the earth, but he is obstructed by the magician of darkness, until by means of a telescope he is able to send a bag of light to Tancredo, now grown old. Tancredo goes to the seashore and opens the bag of light as an offering to his beloved, whereupon the sun returns to the earth.
El águila descalza
Chona
Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local Mexican businesses.
The Gates of Paradise
Lucia
Due to betting problems, Andrés and his lover, Blanca, flee the city and travel through several states of the country; During their journey they get involved with a couple of hippies with whom they live for a time until the tragedy is complete.
El Cambio
Tania
Two young people leave city life for the simplicity of life in the province. Unfortunately, the beach they are going to live next to is being polluted by a local factory.
Paradise
Magaly
Problems arise between the divers Román and Lauro when the former falls in love with a prostitute on the beaches of Acapulco.
La rebelion de las hijas
Three young women are ready to marry, but their father inserts himself into the decision-making process.
Las figuras de arena
Separated Mom, Dad and son all come into conflict with each other during a brief reunion visit. Everyone learns and grows.
Las impuras
Patsy My Love
Patsy
Written by future Nobel-prize winner Gabriel García Márquez, this is the story of Patsy, a wealthy debutante with an acute sense of living and boundless curiosity. She falls in love with an older man (Julio Alemán) whom is married and mediocre, and thus learns the hard way about unhappiness, marring her rose colored world.
Piranhas Love in Lent
Milta / Daughter
Backwards fishing village is home to a widow and her teenaged daughter. Neighbors suspect the mother of having murdered her husband. A tourist in town gets it into his head to put the smooth big city moves on both women. And the-e-en...
Pax?
Mexican experimental feature film, made for the 1968 olympics.
Barefoot Woman
A pregnant woman travels through the desert in order to sell shoes in the nearest city.