Estela Inda

Estela Inda

  • Birthday: 1917-06-28
  • Deathday: 1995-12-07
  • Place of birth: Patzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico
  • Also know as: Stella Inda

Biography

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

Soledad's Shawl

1952

As Soledad

Santa

1943

As Raquel

Amok

1944

As

La feria de las flores

1943

As Virginia

El aduanal

1990

As

La Fuga

1944

As Condesa de la Cadena

One Way

1973

As Rosa

The Woman of the Port

1934

As Mujer de cabaret

Lo mejor de Teresa

1977

As Madre de Teresa

Bugambilia

1945

As Zarca

The Miracle Song

1940

As Margarita (as Stella Inda)

Mala yerba

1940

As Mariana Bermúdez

The Aztec Mummy

1957

As Aztec Chanteuse

The Curse of the Aztec Mummy

1957

As Aztec Chanteuse

Attack of the Mayan Mummy

1964

As The High Priestess

Preparatoria

1983

As

Faith, Hope and Charity

1974

As Cuca (segment "Caridad")

Captain from Castile

1947

As Doña Marina (uncredited)

Näskara (Awakening)

1953

As María

Production

Soledad's Shawl

1952

As Screenplay

The Cockfighter

1948

As Screenplay

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