Ofelia Medina
Birthday: 1950-04-04
Place of Birth: Mérida - Yucatán - Mexico
Biography: Ofelia Medina (born April 4, 1950) is a Mexican actress, singer and screenwriter of Mexican films. She made her film debut in Mexico in 1968 with the film La paz and in Hollywood with The Big Fix ten years later. In 1977 she played a hunchback in the telenovela Rina. She portrayed Frida Kahlo in Paul Leduc's film about the artist in 1984. In Canada, Medina was nominated for the Genie Award for her work in Diplomatic Immunity in 1991. Ofelia Madine has also played in various theatres worldwide. Since 2000 Ofelia played Frida Kahlo in the play Cada quien su Frida. In 2007 she came to Denmark, playing in Århus, Copenhagen and Odense at the gallery of Jens Galschiøt.
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El Cambio
Two young people leave city life for the simplicity of life in the province. Unfortunately, the beac...
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Complot Petróleo: La cabeza de la hidra
While Mexico swims in the oil veins that were deeded to him by the Devil, a bureaucrat is thrown int...
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The Legend of the Nahuala
Leo San Juan, an insecure child of nine years old, lives eternally frightened by horror stories that...
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La casa de Bernarda Alba
Bernarda, a domineering, reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town, keeps su...
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María: La Diva Eterna
Twenty years after her death, María Félix, a figure of Mexican cinema, is a model for free and indep...
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Colombiana
After witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, Cataleya Restrepo grows up to be a stone-...
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Evil Eye
Nala, a thirteen-year-old girl from the city, travels with her family to her grandmother's home in t...
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Nocturno a Rosario
A tragic romance follows Mexican poet Manuel Acuña's passionate life and his deep love for Rosario d...
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Frida Still Life
This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her tim...
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The Good Herbs
A young woman has to deal with her mother's degradation due to Alzheimer's disease....
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Juarez: The City Where Women Are Disposable
Femicide is a growing phenomenon in Mexico. Since 1993, more than 450 women have been brutally murde...
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Patsy My Love
Written by future Nobel-prize winner Gabriel García Márquez, this is the story of Patsy, a wealthy d...
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Panorama
In recent years it has become the handiest character of Mexican cinema: the Chilango fleeing the cap...
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Camino largo a Tijuana
Juan (Armendariz) lives in a trash depository in Mexico City. He knows Lila (Pereyra), a drug addict...
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Queen Doll
A man becomes more and more infatuated with his childhood sweetheart leading to a haunting encounter...
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The Beast
Pipo, Pau and Mau, three youngsters who spend their time shooting video pranks, visit a distant town...
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The Blue Eyes
In this supernatural suspense film, Karen Fisher and Paul Henderson, a young American couple, travel...
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Íntimo terror
A woman survived the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, but she still lives with fear about a new earthqua...
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Dante y Soledad
When her first daughter is born, Inés, an independent and successful woman, discovers that her previ...
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What Color is the Wind?
Two blind children have bonded deeply in their special-ed classroom. The sight of one of them is res...
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The Big Fix
Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political sm...
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Follow
Sebastián, a charismatic con artist who seduces women to steal their money, puts his retirement plan...
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Mambo Dreams
Dámaso Pérez Prado, known as "el rey del mambo", came back from the dead to look for the love of his...
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Before Night Falls
Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet an...
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El águila descalza
Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something bi...
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Uno y medio contra el mundo
Small-time crook teams up with a street urchin for mutual support on the margins of society....
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Piranhas Love in Lent
Backwards fishing village is home to a widow and her teenaged daughter. Neighbors suspect the mother...
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The Fungi Man
Racial conflicts, love triangles and the awakening of passion will lead to disaster for a decadent a...
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A Wall of Silence
A woman would rather forget her husband's forced disappearance at the hands of the government....
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Salted Water
A young Cuban named Olga arrives in Spain with a scholarship convinced that she has landed the chanc...
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Sara: Love and Revolution
The politically active Sara Pérez Romero from Queretaro fights, together with her husband, President...
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Paradise
Problems arise between the divers Román and Lauro when the former falls in love with a prostitute on...
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Las cenizas del volcán
On January 1, 1994, a revolt led by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation broke out in Chiapas. ...
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I Love Miami
Cuban leader Fidel Castro is humbled when he arrives in Miami and experiences America from the uniqu...
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Innocent Voices
A young boy, attempting to have a normal childhood in 1980s El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic ...
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Gertrudis
The life and execution of Gertrudis Bocanegra, a sympathizer of the libertarian cause and a prominen...
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Apolinar
Tancredo, a poor man, is in love with a rich girl, who does not return his feelings. One day when sh...
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La rebelion de las hijas
Three young women are ready to marry, but their father inserts himself into the decision-making proc...
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Not A Minute To Lose
Elisa is an old-fashioned girl who receives the visit of her future self, who advises her to take th...
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Las figuras de arena
Separated Mom, Dad and son all come into conflict with each other during a brief reunion visit. Ever...
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La palomilla al rescate
Cute elementary-school kids get mixed up with black-marketeers....
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No One Will Ever Know
An anodyne environment and a perennial lack of affection, push Lucia and Braulio to turn in the fict...
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Barefoot Woman
A pregnant woman travels through the desert in order to sell shoes in the nearest city....
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The Gates of Paradise
Due to betting problems, Andrés and his lover, Blanca, flee the city and travel through several stat...
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Guadalupe-Kings
Two longtime friends decide to attempt the Guadalupe Reyes challenge, which consist of drinking ever...
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1938: When Mexico Recovered Its Oil
A chronicle of the Mexican oil expropriation in 1938 through the eyes of President Lazaro Cardenas a...
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Deadly Embroidered Memories
A woman with a degree in biology and a particular taste for arachnids gets involved with some unfini...
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No Man's Land
Late one night, Bill Greer and his son Jackson patrol their ranch when Jackson accidentally kills an...
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Diplomatic Immunity
A female Canadian diplomat goes on a mission to El Salvador to try smooth relations between their go...
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Our Times
Husband and wife Nora and Héctor's scientific breakthrough lets them time travel from 1966 to 2025. ...
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Memoria de Los Olvidados
Javier Espada's documentary about the making of Bunuel's masterpiece "Los Olvidados"....
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Spicy Will
Will “Partyforever” Harris' wild lifestyle comes to a sudden stop when his millionaire father dies, ...
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Mónica y el Profesor
Monica is a rich swiss girl who is kidnapped with a university teacher. Together they discuss their ...
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