Adriana Barraza

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Toluca, Estado de Mexico, Mexico, 1956-03-05

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1998	The First Night		58
2	2000	Amores Perros	Mama Octavio	76
3	2006	Babel	Amelia	72
4	2007	Common Ground: Under Construction Notes	Self	100
5	2008	Henry Poole Is Here	Esperanza	59
6	2009	Drag Me to Hell	Shaun San Dena	64
7	2009	Rage	Anita de Los Angeles	34
8	2010	Sucedió en un día		40
9	2010	Love on a Weekend	Sofía	41
10	2010	And Soon the Darkness	Rosamaria	52
11	2010	Burning Palms	Louisa Alvarez	52
12	2010	Revolución	Chayo	51
13	2010	Te Presento a Laura	Conchita	68
14	2011	From Prada to Nada	Aurelia Jimenez	54
15	2011	Thor	Isabela Alvarez	68
16	2011	Cerro Bayo	Marta	56
17	2011	The Snitch Cartel	La Abuela	71
18	2012	The Secret of the Jade Medallion	Cornelia	44
19	2012	Mariachi Gringo	Magdalena	65
20	2013	Good Day, Ramon	Esperanza	79
21	2014	Night Has Settled	Aida	53
22	2014	Cake	Silvana	63
23	2015	Yefon	Jillian Parkman	30
24	2015	Wild Horses	Mrs. Davis	49
25	2015	The 33	Marta	64
26	2015	Training Dad		52
27	2016	Perros	Abogada	37
28	2016	Everything Else	Doña Flor	52
29	2017	Ley primera		10
30	2018	Crazy About Work	Mercedes	77
31	2019	Bibi	Licha Mendoza	0
32	2019	Coyote Lake	Teresa	59
33	2019	Dora and the Lost City of Gold	Abuela Valerie	66
34	2019	Rambo: Last Blood	María Beltrán	65
35	2020	We Can Be Heroes	Grandma Moreno	60
36	2021	Dark Blood	Gloria Vera	48
37	2021	Bingo Hell	Lupita	46
38	2021	Koati	Amaya (voice)	71
39	2023	Monica	Leticia	57
40	2023	Where the Tracks End	Georgina	81
41	2023	Blue Beetle	Nana Reyes	67
42		Hágase tu voluntad		0
43	2023	Dark Obsession		10
44	2023	The Treasure	Clemencia Ríos	0
45	2024	My Penguin Friend	Maria	75
46		Runner	Donna	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1994	Crystal Empire	Flora	60
2	1994	ER	Dolores Salazar	78
3	1995	La paloma	Madre Clara	0
4	1997	Alguna Vez Tendremos Alas	Clara Domínguez	80
5	1997	Conversando con Cristina Pacheco	Self	55
6	1997	Conversando con Cristina Pacheco	Adriana Barraza	55
7	2002	CSI: Miami		77
8	2008	Capadocia	Silvia	81
9	2014	The Strain	Guadalupe Elizalde	75
10	2015	Duenos Del Paraiso	Irene Medrano	55
11	2016	Silvana Sin Lana	Trini	77
12	2016	Estocolmo		40
13	2018	Al otro Lado del Muro	Carmen Rosales	28
14	2022	Diary of a Gigolo	Minou	79
15		El Gato	Alma	0
16	2020	Penny Dreadful: City of Angels	Maria Vega	68

Adriana Barraza

Film

Television