Estela Inda
Born: 1917-06-28, Patzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico
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
- Arriba Michoacán (1987)
- Los olvidados (1950)
- La maldición de la momia azteca (1957)
- Venganza suprema (1934)
- Mala yerba (1940)
- Captain from Castile (1947)
- Mundo mágico (1983)
- La Momia Azteca (1957)
- Fe, esperanza y caridad (1974)
- Tierra de valientes (1984)
- Una luz en mi camino (1939)
- Näskara (1953)
- El rayo del sur (1943)
- Durazo: La verdadera historia (1988)
- La mujer del puerto (1934)
- Attack of the Mayan Mummy (1964)
- Preparatoria (1983)
- El Aduanal (1987)
- Con el odio en la piel (1988)
- El rebozo de Soledad (1952)
- Bugambilia (1945)
- La noche de los mayas (1939)
- Bodas trágicas (1946)
- Lo mejor de Teresa (1977)
- El secuestro de un policía (1991)
- La mancha de sangre (1943)
- La feria de las flores (1943)
- La canción del milagro (1940)