Ofelia Guilmain

Ofelia Puerta Guilmáin (Madrid, November 17, 1921 - Mexico City, January 14, 2005), better known artistically as Ofelia Guilmáin was a Spanish actress.

Biography and career

He was born on November 17, 1921 in Madrid, Spain. He is part of a large group of Spanish artists and intellectuals who went into exile in Mexico after the Spanish Civil War where he lost a brother and sister.

She married Lucilo Gutiérrez in 1941 and had four children. After her divorce, she married Eduardo Flores de Meza, but this relationship ended in divorce. She was a friend of the actor José Manuel Gálvez Velandia and the muralist painter David Alfaro Siqueiros.

Since 1941, he worked for many years in Mexican cinema, under the direction of Luis Buñuel, among other directors.

In 1952 he obtained Mexican citizenship.^{[citation required]}

During the last decades of his life he dedicated himself to the theater. On television she participated in a variety of epic soap operas such as the "Lit Torch".

He had four children, three of whom are actors Juan Ferrara, Lucía and Esther Guilmáin. His grandchildren, Juan Carlos Bonet and Mauricio Bonet, sons of Juan Ferrara, as well as Oscar Ortiz de Pinedo and Pedro Ortiz de Pinedo sons of Esther Guilmáin and the producer and actor Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo and Raúl Orvañanos son of Lucía Guilmain and the sports commentator Raúl Orvananos.

Death

The actress lost her life on January 14, 2005 in Mexico City at the age of 83, a victim of pneumonia and respiratory failure.

Plays

• While I'm dying... but laughing (2004)
• Monologues of the vagina (2002)
• The House of Bernarda Alba (2002) by Federico García Lorca.
• The trees die standing (2000) of Alejandro Casona.
• The girls at the club (1999), Iván Menchell.
• The teacher drinks a little (1989-1990) by Paul Zindel.
• The Celestine (1989) by Fernando de Rojas.
• Dear Lion Philip (1985), by Leon Felipe. Poetic revival.
• Electra (1984), Euripides.
• The Celestine (1982) by Fernando de Rojas.
• Elizabeth of England (1979), Ferdinand Bruckner.
• Lisistrata (1978) of Aristophanes.
• Electra (1976) of Sophocles.
• Heroic (1976) of Osvaldo Dragún.
• Hippolyte (1974), Euripides.
• Home (1971), David Storey.
• Companion (1969), by Vicente Leñero.
• The round of the hechized (1967) by Hugo Argüelles.
• Macbeth (1967) by William Shakespeare.
• Doña Diabla (1965), by Luis Fernandez Ardavín.
• Yerma (1965), by Federico García Lorca.
• Medea (1964), Euripides
• The Trojans (1963), Euripides.
• Electra (1963), Sófocles.
• Sourceovejuna (1963), from Lope de Vega.
• The Knights of the Round Table (1962) by Jean Cocteau.
• Game of queens (1962) by Hermann Gressieker.
• Yocasta, or almost (1961) by Salvador Novo.
• Eight columns (1960), Salvador Novo.
• Electra (1960), Sófocles.
• Madrugada (1960) by Antonio Buero Vallejo.
• The Daughter of God (1959), by Jose Bergamín
• The Kings of the World (1959), by Luis G. Basurto.
• The maidens (1959) by Jean Genet.
• Maria Tudor (1958), Victor Hugo.
• The misunderstanding (1958), Albert Camus.
• Blood balls (1957), by Federico Garcia Lorca.
• Ash Wednesday (1956) by Luis G. Basurto.
• The luminous wound (1956), by Josep María de Sagarra.
• One such Judas (1955), Claude-André Puget and Pierre Bost.
• Tovarich (1955), Jaques Deval.
• The righteous (1955), Albert Camus.
• The fiddle of the valley (1954) by Pedro Calderón de la Barca.
• The discreet in love (1954), Lope de Vega.
• Thirteen at the table (1954), by Marc Gilbert Sauvajon.
• Don Juan Tenorio (1953), by Jose Zorrilla.
• The Mocedades of the Cid (1953) by Guillén de Castro.
• The Celestine (1953), Fernando de Rojas.
• There should be obispas.
• Women (1940)

Filmography

• My truth (2004) (TV special)
• Cold-blooded violence (1989)
• Patrolman 777 (1978)
• The hopeless love (1976)
• Celestine (1976)
• Those years (1973)
• The Prophet Mimi (1973)
• 'Crazy virgins (1972)
• The hate business (1972)
• The first love (1972)
• Aunt Isabel's garden (1971)
• Once, a man (1971)
• The judgment of the children (1971)
• There's always a first time. (1971)
• Confessions of a teenager (1970)
• Mission accomplished (1970)
• To serve you (1970)
• Crazy virgins (1970)
• Why was I born a woman? (1970)
• The perverse wrist (1969)
• Withered flower (1969)
• Sor ye-ye (1968)
• Blood in Rio Bravo (1966)
• The Justicier Rider in challenging death (1966)
• Marine (1966)
• The Scapular (1966)
• That Rosita Alvírez (1965)
• The Trojans (1963)
• Little Riding and Thumbing Against Monsters (1962)
• The exterminating angel (1962)
• The Baron of Terror (1962)
• The swordsmen of the queen (1961)
• Quincean (1960)
• Nazareth (1959)
• The man and the monster (1959)
• The case of a teenager (1958)
• My unknown wife (1958)
• Fango Flower (1942)
• Captain Centellas (1941)

Soap Operas

• To love you is my sin (2004)... Doña Covadonga Linares de Almazán
• The other (2002)... Sabina Herrera vda. de Ocampo
• I will always love you (2000)... Doña Úrsula Grajales Vda. de Castellanos
• I live by Elena (1998)... Light
• Find out. (1997-1998)... Jovita
• The soul has no color (1997)... Alina vda. of the Alamo
• The torch lit (1996)... Doña Macaria de Soto
• Marisol (1996)... Zamira
• Rose-colored sharpeners (1994-1995)... Barbara
• Valentina (1993-1994)... Doña Federica Alcántara
• Miracle and magic (1991)... Rufina
• Days without moon (1990)... Carlota Parlange
• Yesenia (1987)... Magenta
• Eclipse (1984)... Virginia
• Tomorrow is spring (1982-1983)... Doctor
• The divine Sarah (1980)... Sarah.
• Bridal march (1977-1978)... Luisa
• The bandits of the cold river (1976)... Calavera Catrina
• The Spring of the Miracle (1974)... Light
• My first love (1973)... Doña Julia
• Sublime redemption (1971)... Lorraine
• The cat (1970-1971)... Lorenza de Martínez Negrete
• Yesenia (1970-1971)... Trifenia
• The Caudillos (1968-1969)... Felipa
• Obsession (1967)
• Sour tears (1967)... Carola Baida
• The mirage shone (1966)
• Grandma. (1965)
• Guest house (1965)
• Urgent appeal (1965).... Mercedes
• The shelter (1965)
• The neighborhood (1964).... Amalia
• Judgment of souls (1964)... Andrea
• Doña Macabra (1963)... Demetria
• Chained (1962)
• The mummies of Guanajuato (1962-1963)
• Divorced (1961)
• Shadow mirror (1960)
• Watch the angel (1959)
• Chains of love (1959)

TV Series

• XHDRBZ (2002)
• Designer both sexes Chapter 47: Love Apache (2001)... Mrs. Josefina
• Chespirito (1989).... Doña Trapos
• The time marked Chapter: For your sake (1989).... Doña Emma
• Word in freedom (1986)
• Bartolo (1968-1974).... Mother of Bartolo

Awards

TVyNovelas Awards