Adriana Barraza

Adriana Barraza

Born: March 5, 1956
in 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 for Adriana Barraza...

The Treasure
Title: The Treasure
Character: Clemencia Ríos
Released: September 1, 2023
Type: Movie
After learning the last will of her son, Clemencia poses as a clairvoyant capable of tracking down and finding hidden treasures. In order to redeem the life of her son, she will have to convince Karime, a desperate and ambitious widow, that there is a treasure buried in her garden, a space that actually hides a dark secret. With the help of Don Felipe, a humble farmer, Clemencia digs hard and with each shovel he gets closer and closer to the sinister truth that ties his life to that of KARIME and Don Felipe: a truth that has been woven by the ruthless hands of organized crime.
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Dark Obsession
Title: Dark Obsession
Character: Camila
Released: August 28, 2023
Type: Movie
A painter struggles with inner demons after being forced into a life of solitude when her husband leaves mysteriously.
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Blue Beetle
Title: Blue Beetle
Character: Nana Reyes
Released: August 16, 2023
Type: Movie
Recent college grad Jaime Reyes returns home full of aspirations for his future, only to find that home is not quite as he left it. As he searches to find his purpose in the world, fate intervenes when Jaime unexpectedly finds himself in possession of an ancient relic of alien biotechnology: the Scarab.
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Where the Tracks End
Title: Where the Tracks End
Character: Georgina
Released: May 26, 2023
Type: Movie
Georgina is a teacher determined to make a difference in the lives of the children she educates in the classroom of a wagon school in rural Mexico.
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Monica
Title: Monica
Character: Leticia
Released: May 12, 2023
Type: Movie
After years of estrangement, a trans woman returns home to help care for her dying mother.
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Title: Diary of a Gigolo
Character: Minou
Released: September 7, 2022
Type: TV
A male escort's life begins to unravel when he gets involved in a client's family affairs and breaks the cardinal rule of his work: Don't fall in love.
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Koati
Title: Koati
Character: Amaya (voice)
Released: October 22, 2021
Type: Movie
Three unlikely heroes - Nachi, a free-spirited coati; Xochi, a fearless monarch butterfly and Pako, a hyperactive glass frog - embark on an adventure to stop wicked coral snake Zaina from destroying their rain forest homeland.
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Bingo Hell
Title: Bingo Hell
Character: Lupita
Released: October 1, 2021
Type: Movie
In the barrio of Oak Springs live a strong and stubborn group of elderly friends who refuse to be gentrified. Their leader, Lupita, keeps them together as a community, a family. But little did they know, their beloved bingo hall is about to be sold to a much more powerful force than money itself.
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Dark Blood
Title: Dark Blood
Character: Gloria Vera
Released: September 5, 2021
Type: Movie
A father is imprisoned after committing a brutal revenge crime. During his confinement he must adapt to a new life of abuse, including injury and humiliation by guards and other prisoners.
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We Can Be Heroes
Title: We Can Be Heroes
Character: Grandma Moreno
Released: December 25, 2020
Type: Movie
When alien invaders capture Earth's superheroes, their kids must learn to work together to save their parents - and the planet.
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Title: Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
Character: Maria Vega
Released: April 26, 2020
Type: TV
Rooted in the conflict between characters connected to the deity Santa Muerte and others allied with the Devil, this saga explores an exciting mix of the supernatural and the combustible reality of 1938 Los Angeles, a time and place deeply infused with Mexican-American folklore and social tension.
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Rambo: Last Blood
Title: Rambo: Last Blood
Character: María Beltrán
Released: September 19, 2019
Type: Movie
After fighting his demons for decades, John Rambo now lives in peace on his family ranch in Arizona, but his rest is interrupted when Gabriela, the granddaughter of his housekeeper María, disappears after crossing the border into Mexico to meet her biological father. Rambo, who has become a true father figure for Gabriela over the years, undertakes a desperate and dangerous journey to find her.
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Dora and the Lost City of Gold
Title: Dora and the Lost City of Gold
Character: Abuela Valerie
Released: August 8, 2019
Type: Movie
Dora, a girl who has spent most of her life exploring the jungle with her parents, now must navigate her most dangerous adventure yet: high school. Always the explorer, Dora quickly finds herself leading Boots (her best friend, a monkey), Diego, and a rag tag group of teens on an adventure to save her parents and solve the impossible mystery behind a lost Inca civilization.
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Coyote Lake
Title: Coyote Lake
Character: Teresa
Released: August 2, 2019
Type: Movie
Two dangerous and unwanted guests threaten a young woman and her overbearing mother at a small bed-and-breakfast near the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Bibi
Title: Bibi
Character: Licha Mendoza
Released: July 20, 2019
Type: Movie
After receiving the unexpected news of his father Ernesto’s death, Ben Solis is forced to return to the Texas countryside he used to call home.
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Crazy About Work
Title: Crazy About Work
Character: Mercedes
Released: November 16, 2018
Type: Movie
Alicia is a workaholic executive who suddenly loses her job and her family. In her process of rebuilding, she associates with a neighbor and helps her in her business. This is how she manages to be the most successful businesswoman in the country. During this process, she tries to reconquer her husband, only to realize that in order to return with him, she will have to learn to balance work and family life.
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Title: Al otro Lado del Muro
Character: Carmen Rosales
Released: February 21, 2018
Type: TV
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Ley primera
Title: Ley primera
Released: March 9, 2017
Type: Movie
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Title: Estocolmo
Released: November 11, 2016
Type: TV
"Stockholm: Lost Identity" narrates over 13 chapters with almost surgical detail the criminal, judicial and media research about the disappearance of a young woman by a network of trafficking. An attorney general, an undercover agent and a journalist will be immersed in a police plot that mixes suspense, drama and action where law and justice are two different sides of the same coin.
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Everything Else
Title: Everything Else
Character: Doña Flor
Released: October 21, 2016
Type: Movie
After 35 years working as a clerk in a government office, Doña Flor has become such a cog, invisible to herself. Cloaked in solitude and routine, she has even suppressed the loss of her daughter who drowned years ago. As her retirement approaches the walls of bureaucracy that have sheltered her from her pain begin to crumble. Doña Flor’s sense of self begins to awaken in parallel with the country beginning to erupt from excessive violence and corruption.
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Perros
Title: Perros
Character: Abogada
Released: July 24, 2016
Type: Movie
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Title: Silvana Sin Lana
Character: Trini
Released: July 19, 2016
Type: TV
A high society woman loses everything and has to move with her three daughters, and her mom to a middle-class neighborhood.
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Training Dad
Title: Training Dad
Released: September 25, 2015
Type: Movie
Widowed and in a professional decline, the legendary soccer player "Spider Salazar" lives lost in his own depression. His only inspiration is his daughter Tania, who can not stand to see her father in this state. With a lot of ingenuity and perseverance, Tania will help his father return to the field in order to restore his life.
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The 33
Title: The 33
Character: Marta
Released: August 6, 2015
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of the collapse of a mine in San Jose, Chile—that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.
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Wild Horses
Title: Wild Horses
Character: Mrs. Davis
Released: June 5, 2015
Type: Movie
Texas Ranger Samantha Payne reopens a 15-year-old missing person case, and uncovers evidence that suggests that the boy was likely murdered on a ranch belonging to wealthy family man, Scott Briggs. When Scott’s estranged son unexpectedly returns home during the investigation, Samantha becomes even more convinced that the Briggs family was involved, and will stop at nothing to discover the truth about the boy’s death - even putting her own life in jeopardy.
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Title: Duenos Del Paraiso
Character: Irene Medrano
Released: January 19, 2015
Type: TV
After Anastasia Cardona's drug lord husband is murdered she inherits his cocaine empire, and finds a life of wealth, power, violence, and betrayal.
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Yefon
Title: Yefon
Character: Jillian Parkman
Released: January 16, 2015
Type: Movie
An illiterate village girl defies the customs of her tribe, discriminatory to women, only to become the spark of a Literary Revolution.
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Cake
Title: Cake
Character: Silvana
Released: September 7, 2014
Type: Movie
After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also suffers with chronic pain seeks out the widower of the suicide.
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Title: The Strain
Character: Guadalupe Elizalde
Released: July 13, 2014
Type: TV
A high concept thriller that tells the story of Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, the head of the Center for Disease Control Canary Team in New York City. He and his team are called upon to investigate a mysterious viral outbreak with hallmarks of an ancient and evil strain of vampirism. As the strain spreads, Eph, his team, and an assembly of everyday New Yorkers, wage war for the fate of humanity itself.
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Night Has Settled
Title: Night Has Settled
Character: Aida
Released: February 1, 2014
Type: Movie
In 1983, Oliver Nicholas, at thirteen, is well-poised to enter the precocious teenage world of first-sex, vodka and possible-love in New York City when he is traumatized by the stroke of his housekeeper (and only true maternal figure), a sixty-five-year-old Chilean woman named Aida. What was supposed to be an exhilarating and somewhat fearful rite of passage - diving into the exciting, fast-paced world of first experiences - quickly becomes skewed by an incomprehensible depression, and a house of interior horrors. Surrounded by women - his untraditional, Spanish, photographer mother (more interested in the role of confidante than mother) his sister, a comedic, door-slamming tormentor, marked by her parent's divorce; and Aida, his silver-haired emotional focal point on the verge of death in Lenox Hill Hospital - Oliver struggles to maintain his role as "man of the house" and his sanity.
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Good Day, Ramon
Title: Good Day, Ramon
Character: Esperanza
Released: October 21, 2013
Type: Movie
After five failed attempts to go to the United States, 18-year-old Ramón decides to look for a friend’s aunt in Germany, but never finds her. With no papers or money, and without knowing the language, he barely survives living on the street until he meets Ruth, an old retired nurse who doesn’t speak Spanish. Beyond language barriers and prejudices, they discover that solidarity and humanity make life bearable.
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Mariachi Gringo
Title: Mariachi Gringo
Character: Magdalena
Released: October 3, 2012
Type: Movie
A stifled, small-town man stuck in a dead end life, runs away to Mexico to be a mariachi singer. MARIACHI GRINGO is a musical tour-de-force exploring the reality of "following your dreams" across cultural, personal, social and geographical borders.
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The Secret of the Jade Medallion
Title: The Secret of the Jade Medallion
Character: Cornelia
Released: March 2, 2012
Type: Movie
It all begins when Grandpa Yólotl disappears. Matías, Claudio, Pato, Katy and loyal dog Duke uncover signs that will lead them to a great adventure, facing unimaginable creatures, astonishing characters – that once belonged to an ancient civilization, and a couple of rogue treasure hunters. The promise of their grandfather is the force that will guide these heroes, ready for anything, provided they always stay together and discover the secret of the jade medallion.
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The Snitch Cartel
Title: The Snitch Cartel
Character: La Abuela
Released: November 11, 2011
Type: Movie
The real life story of Andres Lopez Lopez aka "Frecita" during his years involved with the Colombian Cartel aka "Cartel Norte del Valle"
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Cerro Bayo
Title: Cerro Bayo
Character: Marta
Released: August 17, 2011
Type: Movie
In a small town near the mountains of Argentina, Juana tries to commit suicide but ends up in a coma instead, to the great pain of her daughter Marta. Her other daughter Mercedes comes from Buenos Aires but is less interested in her mother's condition than in possibly getting her money. Marta's husband has a great offer for a piece of land owned by Juana, but can't do anything while she is in a coma.
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Thor
Title: Thor
Character: Isabela Alvarez
Released: April 21, 2011
Type: Movie
Against his father Odin's will, The Mighty Thor - a powerful but arrogant warrior god - recklessly reignites an ancient war. Thor is cast down to Earth and forced to live among humans as punishment. Once here, Thor learns what it takes to be a true hero when the most dangerous villain of his world sends the darkest forces of Asgard to invade Earth.
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From Prada to Nada
Title: From Prada to Nada
Character: Aurelia Jimenez
Released: January 28, 2011
Type: Movie
Two spoiled Beverly Hills sisters who have been left penniless after their father's sudden death are forced to move in with their estranged aunt in East Los Angeles.
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Te presento a Laura
Title: Te presento a Laura
Character: Conchita
Released: October 29, 2010
Type: Movie
This is the story of 23-year-old Laura who lives in the largest city in the world and yet feels alone. She also knows the exact date in which she'll die: April 30. What Laura doesn't know is what she'll do from now till then, and thus she enrolls in a group of optimists, which she finds pathetic but fun. In that group she writes a list of 10 things she wants to do before she dies, some that mean a lot and some that are a lot of fun. The first thing on her list is to save a life.
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Revolución
Title: Revolución
Character: Chayo
Released: July 16, 2010
Type: Movie
Made up of 10 short films, 'Revolucion' analyzes through the eyes of the directors what is the revolution today and what it means to the young minds of Mexico.
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Burning Palms
Title: Burning Palms
Character: Louisa Alvarez
Released: April 23, 2010
Type: Movie
A subversive tale that interlaces five stories set in Los Angeles, where no taboo is left unexplored as each character careens toward a dark and often comic fate
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And Soon the Darkness
Title: And Soon the Darkness
Character: Rosamaria
Released: February 25, 2010
Type: Movie
When two American girls on a bike trip in a remote part of Argentina split up and one of them goes missing, the other must find her before her worst fears are realized.
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Love on a Weekend
Title: Love on a Weekend
Character: Sofía
Released: January 22, 2010
Type: Movie
One city. Three days, three social classes, three love songs, human beings who coexist without touching one another, joined by mirages and hopes. Their struggles to survive are individual and secret; there are no winners or losers. The seeming order is maintained and a weekend begins.
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Sucedió en un día
Title: Sucedió en un día
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
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Rage
Title: Rage
Character: Anita de Los Angeles
Released: September 24, 2009
Type: Movie
A schoolboy uses his cellphone camera to shoot intimate interviews with people working at a New York fashion house and secretly posts them on the internet. Result: a bitterly funny expose of an industry in crisis, during a week in which an accident on the runway becomes a murder investigation, and denial leads to devastation.
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Drag Me to Hell
Title: Drag Me to Hell
Character: Shaun San Dena
Released: May 27, 2009
Type: Movie
After denying a woman the extension she needs to keep her home, loan officer Christine Brown sees her once-promising life take a startling turn for the worse. Christine is convinced she's been cursed by a Gypsy, but her boyfriend is skeptical. Her only hope seems to lie in a psychic who claims he can help her lift the curse and keep her soul from being dragged straight to hell.
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Henry Poole Is Here
Title: Henry Poole Is Here
Character: Esperanza
Released: August 15, 2008
Type: Movie
Henry Poole abandons his fiancée and family business to spend what he believes are his remaining days alone. The discovery of a 'miracle' by a nosy neighbor ruptures his solitude and restores his faith in life.
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Babel
Title: Babel
Character: Amelia
Released: October 26, 2006
Type: Movie
In Babel, a tragic incident involving an American couple in Morocco sparks a chain of events for four families in different countries throughout the world.
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21 Grams
Title: 21 Grams
Character: Heart Transplant Nurse (uncredited)
Released: September 6, 2003
Type: Movie
Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of two girls; and Jack Jordan, a born-again ex-con, are brought together by a terrible accident that changes their lives.
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Title: CSI: Miami
Released: September 23, 2002
Type: TV
CSI: Miami follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas counterparts, to solve grisly murders. The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter, and character-driven drama in the same vein as the original series in the CSI franchise, except that the Miami CSIs are cops first, scientists second.
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Amores Perros
Title: Amores Perros
Character: Mama Octavio
Released: June 16, 2000
Type: Movie
A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless man. Their lives are catapulted into unforeseen situations instigated by the seemingly inconsequential destiny of a dog.
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The First Night
Title: The First Night
Released: March 27, 1998
Type: Movie
In the middle of a city facing a new century, a group of friends between the ages of 15 and 18 live out the adventures, deceptions and anxiety of "The First Night."
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Title: Conversando con Cristina Pacheco
Character: Adriana Barraza
Released: September 26, 1997
Type: TV
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Title: Conversando con Cristina Pacheco
Character: Self
Released: September 26, 1997
Type: TV
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Title: Alguna Vez Tendremos Alas
Character: Clara Domínguez
Released: January 6, 1997
Type: TV
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Title: La paloma
Character: Madre Clara
Released: August 14, 1995
Type: TV
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Title: ER
Character: Dolores Salazar
Released: September 19, 1994
Type: TV
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
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Title: Crystal Empire
Character: Flora
Released: August 29, 1994
Type: TV
Imperio de Cristal is a Mexican telenovela that aired on Televisa in 1994 with 124-episode from the plot to the main cast it was officially first launched on Monday, 29 August 1994 & ceased transmission on Friday, 17 February 1995 was aired runtime of 45-minutes with commercial on weekday at 21:00 to 22:00 CST/22:00 to 23:00 MST/23:00 to 00:00 PST.
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Hágase tu voluntad
Title: Hágase tu voluntad
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A woman has been diagnosed with breast cancer, so she decides to follow the trace of her father, who abandoned her when she was a child. His traces lead her to the mexican caribbean.