Estela Inda
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.
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Credits
- 1988 · Con el odio en la piel as
- 1988 · Durazo: The True Story as
- 1987 · El Aduanal as
- 1987 · Arriba Michoacán as
- 1983 · Mundo mágico as
- 1983 · Preparatoria as
- 1977 · Lo mejor de Teresa as Madre de Teresa
- 1974 · Faith, Hope and Charity as Cuca (segment "Caridad")
- 1973 · One Way as Rosa
- 1970 · Emiliano Zapata as
- 1964 · Attack of the Mayan Mummy as The High Priestess
- 1957 · The Curse of the Aztec Mummy as Aztec Chanteuse
- 1957 · The Aztec Mummy as Aztec Chanteuse
- 1953 · Näskara (Awakening) as María
- 1952 · Soledad's Shawl as Soledad
- 1950 · The Young and the Damned as Mother
- 1947 · Captain from Castile as Doña Marina (uncredited)
- 1946 · Tragic Weddings as Laura
- 1945 · Bugambilia as Zarca
- 1944 · Amok as Tara
- 1944 · La Fuga as Condesa de la Cadena
- 1943 · El rayo del sur as
- 1943 · Santa as Raquel
- 1943 · La feria de las flores as Virginia
- 1940 · Mala yerba as Mariana Bermúdez
- 1940 · The Miracle Song as Margarita (as Stella Inda)
- 1939 · The Night of the Mayans as Lol
- 1937 · The Blood Stain as
- 1934 · The Woman of the Port as Mujer de cabaret