Estela Inda
Acting · Writing
Born June 28, 1917, Patzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico
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
- 1991El secuestro de un policía
- 1988Con el odio en la piel
- 1988Durazo
- 1987Arriba Michoacán
- 1987El Aduanal
- 1984Tierra de valientes — Writer
- 1983Mundo mágico
- 1983Preparatoria
- 1977Lo mejor de Teresa — Madre de Teresa
- 1974Charity — Cuca
- 1974Faith, Hope and Charity — Cuca (segment "Caridad")
- 1973One Way — Rosa
- 1970Emiliano Zapata
- 1964Attack of the Mayan Mummy — The High Priestess
- 1957The Aztec Mummy — Aztec Chanteuse
- 1957The Curse of the Aztec Mummy — Aztec Chanteuse
- 1953Näskara (Awakening) — María
- 1952Soledad's Shawl — Soledad, Screenplay
- 1950The Young and the Damned — Mother
- 1948The Cockfighter — Screenplay
- 1947Captain from Castile — Doña Marina (uncredited)
- 1946Tragic Weddings — Laura
- 1945Bugambilia — Zarca
- 1944Amok — Tara
- 1944La fuga — Condesa de la Cadena
- 1943El rayo del sur
- 1943La feria de las flores — Virginia
- 1943Santa — Raquel
- 1943The Blood Stain
- 1940La canción del milagro — Margarita (as Stella Inda)
- 1940Mala yerba — Mariana Bermúdez
- 1939The Night of the Mayans — Lol
- 1939Una luz en mi camino
- 1934The Woman of the Port — Mujer de cabaret
- 1934Venganza suprema — Clienta cabaret (uncredited)