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Adriana Barraza
Born: 5th Mar 1956 Toluca, Estado de Mexico, Mexico
Dept: Acting
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.
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.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 65
Film: 48 (74%)
Television: 17 (26%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Kids, Documentary, Talk
Filmography
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Two wealthy siblings suddenly find themselves cut off from their parents’ financial support, forced for the first time to navigate adult life on the ... view
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A woman has been diagnosed with breast cancer, so she decides to follow the trace of her father, who abandoned her when she was a child. His traces le ... view
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Frank Guerrero returns home to Mexico after the death of his father and finds himself neck deep in a nest of vipers – his estranged family – who a ... view
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Alma (1 ep.)
2026
A former soldier is thrown into a brutal race against time when a critical medical delivery makes him the target of a ruthless cartel. With betrayal c ... view
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Donna
Nov 2025 (first aired)
Four adorable rainforest animals and their fearless friends go on adventures, learn about nature and discover the power of friendship together. ... view
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Amaya (voice) (13 ep.)
Original title: Las Locuras
2025
Six women share a common 'friend': madness. It visits us all, pushes us to decide reality, to make daring decisions and to transform our lives. ... view
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Irene
2024
A lost penguin rescued from an oil spill transforms the life of a heartbroken fisherman. They become unlikely friends, so bonded that even the vast oc ... view
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Maria
Original title: El Tesoro
2023
After learning the last will of her son, Clemencia poses as a clairvoyant capable of tracking down and finding hidden treasures. In order to redeem th ... view
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Clemencia Ríos
2023
The story follows Anne, a painter who struggles with inner demons after being forced into a life of solitude when her husband leaves mysteriously. ... view
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2023
Recent college grad Jaime Reyes returns home full of aspirations for his future, only to find that home is not quite as he left it. As he searches to ... view
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Nana Reyes
Original title: El último vagón
2023
Georgina is a teacher determined to make a difference in the lives of the children she educates in the classroom of a wagon school in rural Mexico. ... view
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Georgina
2023
After years of estrangement, a trans woman returns home to help care for her dying mother. ... view
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Leticia
Sep 2022 (first aired)
A male escort's life begins to unravel when he gets involved in a client's family affairs and breaks the cardinal rule of his work: Don't fall in love ... view
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Minou (10 ep.)
2021
Three unlikely heroes - Nachi, a free-spirited coati; Xochi, a fearless monarch butterfly and Pako, a hyperactive glass frog - embark on an adventure ... view
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Amaya (voice)
2021
In the barrio of Oak Springs lives a strong and stubborn group of elderly friends who refuse to be gentrified. Their leader, Lupita, keeps them togeth ... view
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Lupita
2021
A father is imprisoned after committing a brutal revenge crime. During his confinement he must adapt to a new life of abuse, including injury and humi ... view
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Gloria Vera
2020
When alien invaders capture Earth's superheroes, their kids must learn to work together to save their parents - and the planet. ... view
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Grandma Moreno
Apr 2020 (first aired)
Rooted in the conflict between characters connected to the deity Santa Muerte and others allied with the Devil, this saga explores an exciting mix of ... view
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Maria Vega (10 ep.)
2019
After fighting his demons for decades, John Rambo now lives in peace on his family ranch in Arizona, but his rest is interrupted when Gabriela, the gr ... view
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María Beltrán
2019
Dora, a girl who has spent most of her life exploring the jungle with her parents, now must navigate her most dangerous adventure yet: high school. Al ... view
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Abuela Valerie
2019
Two dangerous and unwanted guests threaten a young woman and her overbearing mother at a small bed-and-breakfast near the U.S.-Mexico border. ... view
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Teresa
2019
After receiving the unexpected news of his father Ernesto’s death, Ben Solis is forced to return to the Texas countryside he used to call home. ... view
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Licha Mendoza
Original title: Loca por el trabajo
2018
Alicia is a workaholic executive who suddenly loses her job and her family. In her process of rebuilding, she associates with a neighbor and helps her ... view
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Mercedes
Nov 2016 (first aired)
"Stockholm: Lost Identity" narrates over 13 chapters with almost surgical detail the criminal, judicial and media research about the disappearance of ... view
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Unknown/various (2 ep.)
Original title: Todo lo demás
2016
After 35 years working as a clerk in a government office, Doña Flor has become such a cog, invisible to herself. Cloaked in solitude and routine, she ... view
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Doña Flor
Jul 2016 (first aired)
A high society woman loses everything and has to move with her three daughters, and her mom to a middle-class neighborhood. ... view
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Trini (121 ep.)
Original title: Entrenando a mi papá
2015
Widowed and in a professional decline, the legendary soccer player "Spider Salazar" lives lost in his own depression. His only inspiration is his daug ... view
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2015
Based on the true story of the collapse of a mine in San Jose, Chile—that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days. ... view
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Marta
2015
Texas Ranger Samantha Payne reopens a 15-year-old missing person case, and uncovers evidence that suggests that the boy was likely murdered on a ranch ... view
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Mrs. Davis
Jan 2015 (first aired)
After Anastasia Cardona's drug lord husband is murdered she inherits his cocaine empire, and finds a life of wealth, power, violence, and betrayal. ... view
Character:
Irene Medrano (69 ep.)
2015
An illiterate village girl defies the customs of her tribe, discriminatory to women, only to become the spark of a Literary Revolution. ... view
Character:
Jillian Parkman
2014
After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also suffers with chronic pain seeks out the widower of the suic ... view
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Silvana
Jul 2014 (first aired)
A high concept thriller that tells the story of Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, the head of the Center for Disease Control Canary Team in New York City. He a ... view
Character:
Guadalupe Elizalde (8 ep.)
2014
In 1983, Oliver Nicholas, at thirteen, is well-poised to enter the precocious teenage world of first-sex, vodka and possible-love in New York City whe ... view
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Aida
Original title: Guten Tag, Ramón
2013
After five failed attempts to go to the United States, 18-year-old Ramón decides to look for a friend’s aunt in Germany, but never finds her. With ... view
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Esperanza
2012
A stifled, small-town man stuck in a dead end life, runs away to Mexico to be a mariachi singer. MARIACHI GRINGO is a musical tour-de-force exploring ... view
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Magdalena
Original title: El secreto del medallón de jade
2012
It all begins when Grandpa Yólotl disappears. Matías, Claudio, Pato, Katy and loyal dog Duke uncover signs that will lead them to a great adventure, ... view
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Cornelia
Original title: El cártel de los sapos
2011
The real life story of Andres Lopez Lopez aka "Frecita" during his years involved with the Colombian Cartel aka "Cartel Norte del Valle" ... view
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La Abuela
2011
In a small town near the mountains of Argentina, Juana tries to commit suicide but ends up in a coma instead, to the great pain of her daughter Marta. ... view
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Marta
2011
Against his father Odin's will, The Mighty Thor - a powerful but arrogant warrior god - recklessly reignites an ancient war. Thor is cast down to Eart ... view
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Isabela Alvarez
2011
Two spoiled Beverly Hills sisters who have been left penniless after their father's sudden death are forced to move in with their estranged aunt in Ea ... view
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Aurelia Jimenez
2010
This is the story of 23-year-old Laura who lives in the largest city in the world and yet feels alone. She also knows the exact date in which she'll d ... view
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Conchita
2010
Made up of 10 short films, 'Revolucion' analyzes through the eyes of the directors what is the revolution today and what it means to the young minds o ... view
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Chayo
2010
A subversive tale that interlaces five stories set in Los Angeles, where no taboo is left unexplored as each character careens toward a dark and often ... view
Character:
Louisa Alvarez
2010
When two American girls on a bike trip in a remote part of Argentina split up and one of them goes missing, the other must find her before her worst f ... view
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Rosamaria
Original title: Amor en fin
2010
One city. Three days, three social classes, three love songs, human beings who coexist without touching one another, joined by mirages and hopes. Thei ... view
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Sofía
2009
A schoolboy uses his cellphone camera to shoot intimate interviews with people working at a New York fashion house and secretly posts them on the inte ... view
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Anita de Los Angeles
2009
After denying a woman the extension she needs to keep her home, loan officer Christine Brown sees her once-promising life take a startling turn for th ... view
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Shaun San Dena
2008
Henry Poole abandons his fiancée and family business to spend what he believes are his remaining days alone. The discovery of a 'miracle' by a nosy n ... view
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Esperanza
Mar 2008 (first aired)
Capadocia is a Mexican HBO Latin America television series. It started on March 2, 2008 and its second season was planned for 2010. ... view
Character:
Silvia (1 ep.)
2007
The making of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel is chronicled through an observational approach that captures the creative and logistical chall ... view
Character:
Self
2006
Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families. ... view
Character:
Amelia
Sep 2002 (first aired)
The show follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas coun ... view
Character:
Carmen Delko (1 ep.)
Original title: Amores perros
2000
A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his s ... view
Character:
Mama Octavio
Apr 1998 (first aired)
Vivo Por Elena is a Mexican telenovela starring Victoria Ruffo and Saul Lisazo with the antagonic roles of Ana Patricia Rojo and Sebastian Ligarde. Th ... view
Character:
Hilda (115 ep.)
Original title: La primera noche
1998
In the middle of a city facing a new century, a group of friends between the ages of 15 and 18 live out the adventures, deceptions and anxiety of "The ... view
Character:
Mamá Bruno
Sep 1994 (first aired)
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened e ... view
Character:
Dolores Salazar (1 ep.)
Aug 1994 (first aired)
Imperio de Cristal is a Mexican telenovela that aired on Televisa in 1994 with 124-episode from the plot to the main cast it was officially first laun ... view
Character:
Flora (120 ep.)