Estela Inda

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1917-06-28

Deathday 1995-12-07 (78 years old)

Place of Birth Patzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico

Also Known As Stella Inda, María de la Soledad García Corona

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.

Known For

Actor

1977
Lo mejor de Teresa

as Madre de Teresa

1974
Faith, Hope and Charity

as Cuca (segment "Caridad")

1973
One Way

as Rosa

1964
Attack of the Mayan Mummy

as The High Priestess

1957
The Curse of the Aztec Mummy

as Aztec Chanteuse

1957
The Aztec Mummy

as Aztec Chanteuse

1953
1952
Soledad's Shawl

as Soledad

1947
Captain from Castile

as Doña Marina (uncredited)

1946
1945
Bugambilia

as Zarca

1944
Amok

as Tara

1944
La Fuga

as Condesa de la Cadena

1943
Santa

as Raquel

1943
1940
Mala yerba

as Mariana Bermúdez

1940
The Miracle Song

as Margarita (as Stella Inda)

1934
The Woman of the Port

as Mujer de cabaret

Writer

1952
Soledad's Shawl

as Screenplay

1948
The Cockfighter

as Screenplay