Estela Inda
Acting • Born 1917-06-28 – Died 1995-12-07
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
31 credits
The Young and the Damned
Movie • 1950
Mother
Emiliano Zapata
Movie • 1970
Captain from Castile
Movie • 1947
Doña Marina (uncredited)
Preparatoria
Movie • 1983
Con el odio en la piel
Movie • 1988
The Blood Stain
Movie • 1943
Durazo
Movie • 1988
Amok
Movie • 1944
Tara
La feria de las flores
Movie • 1943
Virginia
Näskara (Awakening)
Movie • 1953
María
Tragic Weddings
Movie • 1946
Laura
Faith, Hope and Charity
Movie • 1974
Cuca (segment "Caridad")
La Fuga
Movie • 1944
Condesa de la Cadena
El Aduanal
Movie • 1987
One Way
Movie • 1973
Rosa
The Night of the Mayans
Movie • 1939
Lol
Soledad's Shawl
Movie • 1952
Soledad
Santa
Movie • 1943
Raquel
The Woman of the Port
Movie • 1934
Mujer de cabaret
Lo mejor de Teresa
Movie • 1977
Madre de Teresa
Mala yerba
Movie • 1940
Mariana Bermúdez
Bugambilia
Movie • 1945
Zarca
La canción del milagro
Movie • 1940
Margarita (as Stella Inda)
Arriba Michoacán
Movie • 1987
El rayo del sur
Movie • 1943
Mundo mágico
Movie • 1983
The Aztec Mummy
Movie • 1957
Aztec Chanteuse
The Curse of the Aztec Mummy
Movie • 1957
Aztec Chanteuse
Attack of the Mayan Mummy
Movie • 1964
The High Priestess
El secuestro de un policía
Movie • 1991
Charity
Movie • 1974
Cuca