Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1956-03-05 (Age: 70)
Place of Birth
Toluca, Estado de Mexico, Mexico
Adriana Barraza
Biography
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.
Filmography (46)
Runner
2026
The Follies
2025
My Penguin Friend
2024
The Treasure
2023
Dark Obsession
2023
Blue Beetle
2023
Where the Tracks End
2023
Monica
2023
Koati
2021
Bingo Hell
2021
Dark Blood
2021
We Can Be Heroes
2020
Rambo: Last Blood
2019
Dora and the Lost City of Gold
2019
