Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1917-06-28
Day of Death
1995-12-07
Place of Birth
Patzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico
Estela Inda
Biography
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.
Filmography (32)
El secuestro de un policía
1991
Con el odio en la piel
1988
Durazo
1988
El Aduanal
1987
Arriba Michoacán
1987
Mundo mágico
1983
Preparatoria
1983
Lo mejor de Teresa
1977
Faith, Hope and Charity
1974Charity
1974
One Way
1973
Emiliano Zapata
1970
Attack of the Mayan Mummy
1964
The Curse of the Aztec Mummy
1957
