Actor
Adriana Barraza
March 5, 1956 · 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.
Notable work
6.8Thor (2011)
as Isabela Alvarez
6.5Rambo: Last Blood (2019)
as María Beltrán
6.5Drag Me to Hell (2009)
as Shaun San Dena
7.2Babel (2006)
as Amelia
6.6Blue Beetle (2023)
as Nana Reyes
7.6Amores Perros (2000)
as Mama Octavio
7.5The Strain (2014)
as Guadalupe Elizalde
6.6Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019)
as Abuela Valerie
7.7CSI: Miami (2002)
as Carmen Delko
6.4The 33 (2015)
as Marta
6.3Cake (2014)
as Silvana
7.8ER (1994)
as Dolores Salazar
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