Adriana Barraza
Actor
Biography
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.
Filmography
Rambo: Last Blood
as María Beltrán 2019
Babel
as Amelia 2006
Drag Me to Hell
as Shaun San Dena 2009
Blue Beetle
as Nana Reyes 2023
Amores Perros
as Mama Octavio 2000
Dora and the Lost City of Gold
as Abuela Valerie 2019
The 33
as Marta 2015
Cake
as Silvana 2014
We Can Be Heroes
as Grandma Moreno 2020
And Soon the Darkness
as Rosamaria 2010
From Prada to Nada
as Aurelia Jimenez 2011
Henry Poole Is Here
as Esperanza 2008
My Penguin Friend
as Maria 2024
Good Day, Ramon
as Esperanza 2013
Crazy About Work
as Mercedes 2018
Bingo Hell
as Lupita 2021