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

• Una Familia Complicada — Telma Orozco de Navarro
• Koati — Amaya (voice)
• 2025The Follies — Irene
• 2024My Penguin Friend — Maria
• 2023Blue Beetle — Nana Reyes
• 2023Dark Obsession
• 2023Monica — Leticia
• 2023The Treasure — Clemencia Ríos
• 2023Where the Tracks End — Georgina
• Diary of a Gigolo — Minou
• 2021Bingo Hell — Lupita
• 2021Dark Blood — Gloria Vera
• 2021Koati — Amaya (voice)
• Penny Dreadful: City of Angels — Maria Vega, Action Director
• 2020We Can Be Heroes — Grandma Moreno
• 2019Bibi — Licha Mendoza
• 2019Coyote Lake — Teresa
• 2019Dora and the Lost City of Gold — Abuela Valerie
• 2019Rambo: Last Blood — María Beltrán
• Al otro Lado del Muro — Carmen Rosales
• 2018Crazy About Work — Mercedes
• 2017Ley primera
• Estocolmo
• 2016Everything Else — Doña Flor
• 2016Perros — Abogada
• Silvana Sin Lana — Trini
• Duenos Del Paraiso — Irene Medrano
• 2015The 33 — Marta
• 2015Training Dad
• 2015Wild Horses — Mrs. Davis
• 2015Yefon — Jillian Parkman
• 2014Cake — Silvana
• 2014Night Has Settled — Aida
• The Strain — Guadalupe Elizalde
• 2013Good Day, Ramon — Esperanza
• 2012Mariachi Gringo — Magdalena
• 2012The Secret of the Jade Medallion — Cornelia
• 2011Cerro Bayo — Marta
• 2011From Prada to Nada — Aurelia Jimenez
• 2011The Snitch Cartel — La Abuela
• 2011Thor — Isabela Alvarez
• 2010And Soon the Darkness — Rosamaria
• 2010Burning Palms — Louisa Alvarez
• 2010Love on a Weekend — Sofía
• 2010Revolución — Chayo
• 2010Sucedió en un día
• 2010Te Presento a Laura — Conchita
• 2009Drag Me to Hell — Shaun San Dena
• 2009Rage — Anita de Los Angeles
• Capadocia — Silvia
• 2008Henry Poole Is Here — Esperanza
• 2006Babel — Amelia
• CSI: Miami — Carmen Delko
• Cómplices Al Rescate — Director
• Adventures in Time — Director
• 2000Amores Perros — Mama Octavio
• Locura de Amor — Director
• Unforgettable — Director
• 1998The First Night — Mamá Bruno
• Vivo Por Elena — Hilda
• Alguna Vez Tendremos Alas — Clara Domínguez
• Conversando con Cristina Pacheco — Self, Adriana Barraza
• La paloma — Madre Clara
• Crystal Empire — Flora
• ER — Dolores Salazar
• Cut Off
• El Gato — Alma
• Hágase tu voluntad

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2007Common Ground: Under Construction Notes — Self