Adriana Barraza
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.
Acting
Movie
Thor
as Isabela Alvarez
2011
Movie
Rambo: Last Blood
as María Beltrán
2019
Movie
Drag Me to Hell
as Shaun San Dena
2009
Movie
Babel
as Amelia
2006
Movie
Blue Beetle
as Nana Reyes
2023
Movie
Amores Perros
as Mama Octavio
2000
TV
The Strain
as Guadalupe Elizalde
2014
Movie
Dora and the Lost City of Gold
as Abuela Valerie
2019
TV
CSI: Miami
as Carmen Delko
2002
Movie
The 33
as Marta
2015
Movie
Cake
as Silvana
2014
TV
ER
as Dolores Salazar
1994
Movie
We Can Be Heroes
as Grandma Moreno
2020
Movie
And Soon the Darkness
as Rosamaria
2010
TV
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
as Maria Vega
2020
Movie
From Prada to Nada
as Aurelia Jimenez
2011
TV
Silvana Sin Lana
as Trini
2016
Movie
Henry Poole Is Here
as Esperanza
2008
Movie
My Penguin Friend
as Maria
2024
Movie
Good Day, Ramon
as Esperanza
2013
Movie
Crazy About Work
as Mercedes
2018
Movie
Bingo Hell
as Lupita
2021
TV
Capadocia
as Silvia
2008
Movie
Where the Tracks End
as Georgina
2023
