Adriana Barraza

Adriana Barraza

Acting March 5, 1956 Toluca, Estado de Mexico, Mexico
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.

Movies

Thor
6.8
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Isabela Alvarez
Thor
2011
Blue Beetle
6.6
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Nana Reyes
Blue Beetle
2023
Dora and the Lost City of Gold
6.6
Abuela Valerie
Dora and the Lost City of Gold
2019
Drag Me to Hell
6.5
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Shaun San Dena
Drag Me to Hell
2009
Rambo: Last Blood
6.5
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María Beltrán
Rambo: Last Blood
2019
We Can Be Heroes
5.9
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Grandma Moreno
We Can Be Heroes
2020

TV Shows

Diary of a Gigolo
7.8
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Minou
Diary of a Gigolo
2022
Al otro Lado del Muro
2.8
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Carmen Rosales
Al otro Lado del Muro
2018

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