María Félix
Acting • Born 1914-04-08 – Died 2002-04-08
Biography
María de los Ángeles Félix Güereña (8 April 1914 – 8 April 2002) was a Mexican film actress. She is considered one of the most important female figures of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She was also considered one of the most beautiful film actresses of her time, and one of the greatest erotic myths of Spanish-language cinema. Along with Pedro Armendáriz and Dolores del Río, she is one of the most important figures of Mexican cinema of the 1940s and 1950s. She is known by the nickname La Doña, a name derived from her character in the film Doña Bárbara (1943). She is also known as María Bonita, thanks to the anthem composed exclusively for her, as a wedding gift by the composer Agustín Lara. She completed a film career that included 47 films made in Mexico, Spain, France, Italy and Argentina.
Filmography
55 credits
El cine mexicano de fiesta
Movie • 1958
Self
María: La Diva Eterna
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)
Fever Mounts at El Pao
Movie • 1959
Inés Rojas
The Abduction
Movie • 1954
Aurora Campos
La Bandida
Movie • 1963
María Mendoza 'La Bandida'
La Cucaracha
Movie • 1959
Refugio / La cucaracha
Tizoc
Movie • 1957
María
María Eugenia
Movie • 1943
María Eugenia
Sonatas
Movie • 1959
La Niña Chole
La noche del sábado
Movie • 1950
Donina
Enamorada
Movie • 1946
Beatriz Peñafiel
Doña Bárbara
Movie • 1943
Doña Bárbara
Hidden River
Movie • 1948
Rosaura Salazar
The Kneeling Goddess
Movie • 1947
Raquel
The Rock of Souls
Movie • 1943
María Ángela Valdivia
Faustina
Movie • 1957
Faustina
Maclovia
Movie • 1948
Maclovia
The White Monk
Movie • 1945
Galata Orsina
Black Crown
Movie • 1951
Mara Russell
Basket of Mexican Tales
Movie • 1956
Luisa Bravo
La Devoradora
Movie • 1946
Diana de Arellano
May God Forgive Me
Movie • 1948
Sofía / Lena Kovach
Amok
Movie • 1944
Madame Travis / Sra. Belmont
Heroes and Sinners
Movie • 1955
Manuella
Everybody's Woman
Movie • 1946
María Romano
An Ordinary Woman
Movie • 1949
Nieves Blanco
Reportaje
Movie • 1953
Movie star
Camelia
Movie • 1954
Camelia
Si yo fuera millonario
Movie • 1962
Woman Without a Soul
Movie • 1944
Teresa López
La monja alférez
Movie • 1944
Catalina de Erauso
Love & Sex (Sappho 1963)
Movie • 1964
Diana
La Valentina
Movie • 1966
Valentina Zúñiga
Café Colón
Movie • 1959
La estrella vacía
Movie • 1960
Olga Lang
French Cancan
Movie • 1955
Lola
Vertigo
Movie • 1945
Doña Diabla
Movie • 1950
Angela
La Generala
Movie • 1971
Mariana Sampedro, La Generala
Mare nostrum
Movie • 1948
Freyra
The Beautiful Otero
Movie • 1954
Carolina Otero
The Hidden One
Movie • 1956
Gabriela
The Affairs of Messalina
Movie • 1951
Messalina
Juana Gallo
Movie • 1961
Ángela Ramos (Juana Gallo)
Incantesimo tragico
Movie • 1951
Oliva
Beyond All Limits
Movie • 1959
Magdalena Gamboa
Il falso bugiardo
Movie • 2008
Self (archive footage)
Quand Jean devint Renoir
Movie • 2017
Lola de Castro (archive footage)
Inasible María Félix
Movie • 2001
Himself
Naked Passion
Movie • 1953
Ash Wednesday
Movie • 1958
Victoria
The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
Movie • 2002
Acuérdate de Acapulco
Movie • 2013
Self (archive footage)
México de mis amores
Movie • 1979
Juan Gabriel: I Must, I Can, I Will
TV • 2025
Self (archive footage)