Adriana Barraza
Actor
- Born
- March 5, 1956 (age 70) · 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.
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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
Thor
April 27, 2011
Rambo: Last Blood
September 18, 2019
Drag Me to Hell
May 27, 2009
Babel
October 26, 2006
Blue Beetle
August 16, 2023
Amores Perros
June 16, 2000
Dora and the Lost City of Gold
August 8, 2019
The 33
August 6, 2015
Cake
December 31, 2014
We Can Be Heroes
December 25, 2020
And Soon the Darkness
February 25, 2010
From Prada to Nada
January 28, 2011
Acting47
- 2025The Follies as Irene
- 2024My Penguin Friend as Maria
- 2023The Treasure as Clemencia Ríos
- 2023Dark Obsession
- 2023Blue Beetle as Nana Reyes
- 2023Where the Tracks End as Georgina
- 2023Monica as Leticia
- 2021Koati as Amaya (voice)
- 2021Bingo Hell as Lupita
- 2021Dark Blood as Gloria Vera