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Estela Inda

Estela Inda

Birthday: 1913-06-28 | Place of Birth: 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1977
Lo mejor de Teresa

as    Madre de Teresa

1974
Charity

as    Cuca

1964
Attack of the Mayan Mummy

as    The High Priestess

1957
The Curse of the Aztec Mummy

as    Aztec Chanteuse

1957
The Aztec Mummy

as    Aztec Chanteuse

1953
Näskara (Awakening)

as    María

1952
The Young and the Damned

as    Mother

1952
Soledad's Shawl

as    Soledad

1946
Tragic Weddings

as    Laura

1945
Bugambilia

as    Zarca

1944
Amok

as    Tara

1943
Santa

as    Raquel

1940
La canción del milagro

as    Margarita (as Stella Inda)

1940
Mala yerba

as    Mariana Bermúdez

1939
The Night of the Mayans

as    Lol

1934
The Woman of the Port

as    Mujer de cabaret