Arcelia Ramírez
Acting • Born 1967-12-07
Biography
Arcelia Ramírez (born 7 December 1967) is a Mexican actress who appeared in over 50 films and television shows since 1985. At a young age she became interested in acting. She studied acting at the Centro Universitario de Teatro (CUT), from where she was prepared for several plays produced by the same institution, including La pasión de Pentesilea, La séptima morada, La noche de Hernán Cortés, Las mujeres sabias, Freda y otras griegas and Relaciones peligrosas. She lived in France from 2007 to 2011, a period in which she kept up her work pace, coming to Mexico to film movies as diverse as Arturo Ripstein's "Las razones del corazón" and Victor Avelar's "Cómo no te voy a querer". Meanwhile, her life in Paris was like that of a nameless woman who was beginning to raise a family. Throughout her career, which began in 1985 with the film "El centro del laberinto", she has been nominated for important awards, such as the Ariel, at the Cannes Festival, at the Havana Festival, at the Latin American Film Festival in Lérida, among others. She has been nominated four times for the Ariel Award, twice for Best Actress (1997, 2000) and twice for Best Supporting Actress (2001 and 2003). The first actress attended the Cannes Film Festival 2021 for her performance in the film "La civil", first fiction of the Belgian-Romanian director Teodora Mihai. In the film she plays Cielo, a mother searching for her daughter kidnapped by organized crime in northern Mexico. After the screening on July 10 at the Debussy Hall, Ramirez received an eight-minute standing ovation from the audience. An unprecedented and almost unbelievable experience for Arcelia Ramírez, she explained, so much so that it marked her life and brought tears to her eyes.
Filmography
97 credits
Written on the Body of Night
Movie • 2001
In-movie mother
Malos Presagios
Movie • 2005
La Boca Del Diablo
Movie • 2020
Tell Me About Yourself
Movie • 2022
Laura
María: La Diva Eterna
Movie • 2023
Self
El que habita las alturas
Movie • 2009
María
The Last Gaze
Movie • 2006
Hermana Irma
El brassier de Emma
Movie • 2007
Amparo
Amor de mis amores
Movie • 1999
Recipes to Stay Together
Movie • 1996
Susana Limón
Pole Dance
Movie • 2023
Lupe
The Reasons of the Heart
Movie • 2011
Emilia
Nadie te ve: La niña en la piedra
Movie • 2007
Alicia
Such is Life
Movie • 2001
Julia
Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You
Movie • 2001
Alicia, madre de Miriam
Volveré
Movie • 2023
Leftie
Movie • 2003
Martina
The Searches
Movie • 2013
Elvira
La caja de Yamasaki
Movie • 2006
Between Night and Day
Movie • 2013
Gaby
Instructions Not Included
Movie • 2013
Judeisy
All the Silence
Movie • 2023
Claudia
Potosí
Movie • 2013
Estela
Good Day, Ramon
Movie • 2013
Rosa
Rain
Movie • 2025
Sofia
A Shred Of Mist
Movie • 2014
Irasema
El centro del laberinto
Movie • 1985
Crocodiles
Movie • 2024
Elena
Mambo Dreams
Movie • 2022
Rizo
Movie • 1999
Lucía / Sandra
A Circus Tale & A Love Song
Movie • 2024
Benjamín's Wife
Movie • 1991
Natividad
Sex, Love, and Other Perversions
Movie • 2006
Mercedes (Segment "La Llamada")
Rock Marí
Movie • 2010
Los Fabulosos 7
Movie • 2013
Las Horas Contigo
Movie • 2015
Isabel
Open Cage
Movie • 2014
City of the Blind
Movie • 1991
Mara
Ojos que no ven
Movie • 2022
Elena
In the Shadow of the Moon
Movie • 1999
Ana Petrovna
Sofía
Movie • 2000
Teo's Journey
Movie • 2008
How Could I Not Love You?
Movie • 2008
Bleak Street
Movie • 2015
Zema
¿De qué lado estás?
Movie • 2002
Romelia's Secret
Movie • 1988
Young Romelia
A Breakfast Chronicle
Movie • 2000
Yolanda
Leaf Blower
Movie • 2015
Ultima llamada
Movie • 1996
Meat Stew, Original Recipe
Movie • 2019
Veronica
Movie • 2017
The Psychologist
El Cometa
Movie • 1999
Like Water for Chocolate
Movie • 1992
Bisnieta
El tesoro de Clotilde
Movie • 1994
Lupita
Playing Under The Moon
Movie • 2000
Carmen Luisa
Serpientes y escaleras
Movie • 1992
Valentina
No One Will Ever Know
Movie • 2018
Berta
Julia And The Portal To The Abyss
Movie • 2021
Yo Fausto
Movie • 2021
Reclusorio III
Movie • 1999
Some Ruins
Movie • 2019
Ofelia
I Carry You with Me
Movie • 2021
Magda
About Family
Movie • 2017
Madre
Con el amor no se juega
Movie • 1991
Reina
Movie • 2020
Mother
La Civil
Movie • 2021
Cielo
Journey
Movie • 2023
Petra
Fisuras
Movie • 2016
Lety
Un susurro comienza un incendio
Movie • 2024
Olivia
Aquí estoy
Movie • 2024
Laura
DED
Movie
Carla
Cielo
Movie • 2007
Julia
(No sé) Cómo ser
Movie • 2025
Vivián
Cancuncito
Movie
Reyna
Offside
Movie • 2026
Soccer mom
The Marked Hour
TV • 1988
(Varios)
Por siempre Joan Sebastián
TV • 2016
Leticia 'Lety' González
Bride's Avenue
TV • 2000
Emilia Mendoza
Camelia la Texana
TV • 2014
Ignacia "La Nacha"
El Chema
TV • 2016
Elvira Mendivil
Ellas son... la alegría del hogar
TV • 2009
Pueblo chico, infierno grande
TV • 1997
Ignacia Rentería
La jaula de oro
TV • 1997
Martha
An Unknown Enemy
TV • 2018
Adela
The Dead Girls
TV • 2025
Arcangela Baladro
Camelia La Texana
TV • 2014
Ignacia "La Nacha"
Road to Destiny
TV • 2016
Maribel
The Color of Passion
TV • 2014
Sara Ezquerra
The Club
TV • 2019
María
Juana Inés
TV • 2016
Juana Inés
Vencer el miedo
TV • 2020
Inés Bracho de Durán
Dos Lunas
TV • 2014
Elisa Cabrera
El amor invencible
TV • 2023
Consuelo Domínguez
Mujeres Asesinas
TV • 2022
Tere
Regalo De Amor
TV • 2025
Emma
Doménica Montero
TV • 2025
Nicolasa González
El Mochaorejas
TV • 2026
Emilia Bermejo