Ofelia Medina

Ofelia Medina, a Mexican actress, singer and screenwriter, was born in Mérida and moved to Mexico City as a child, where she studied dance. At eleven she was part of a children's pantomime group led by Alejandro Jodorowski, and made her film debut in 1968 with La paz. Her first television role came in 1971 on Landrú, followed by the melodrama Lucía Sombra, where she played the lead and became known as a romantic heroine. She earned critical praise for playing a hunchback in the telenovela Rina in 1977, and worked in Hollywood on The Big Fix (1978). In Paul Leduc's award-winning Frida, naturaleza viva (1983), she portrayed Frida Kahlo. She was nominated for a Genie Award for Diplomatic Immunity (1991), won an Ariel for best supporting actress for Voces inocentes (2005), and received the Golden Ariel in 2021 for her career. She also directed and acted in the Humberto Robles play The night that never existed.