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Arcelia Ramírez

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Arcelia Ramírez

Born December 7, 1967 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico73 films

Arcelia Ramírez (born 7 December 1967) is a Mexican actress who appeared in over 50 films and television shows since 1985. At a young age she became interested in acting. She studied acting at the Centro Universitario de Teatro (CUT), from where she was prepared for several plays produced by the same institution, including La pasión de Pentesilea, La séptima morada, La noche de Hernán Cortés, Las mujeres sabias, Freda y otras griegas and Relaciones peligrosas. She lived in France from 2007 to 2011, a period in which she kept up her work pace, coming to Mexico to film movies as diverse as Arturo Ripstein's "Las razones del corazón" and Victor Avelar's "Cómo no te voy a querer". Meanwhile, her life in Paris was like that of a nameless woman who was beginning to raise a family.

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Throughout her career, which began in 1985 with the film "El centro del laberinto", she has been nominated for important awards, such as the Ariel, at the Cannes Festival, at the Havana Festival, at the Latin American Film Festival in Lérida, among others. She has been nominated four times for the Ariel Award, twice for Best Actress (1997, 2000) and twice for Best Supporting Actress (2001 and 2003).

The first actress attended the Cannes Film Festival 2021 for her performance in the film "La civil", first fiction of the Belgian-Romanian director Teodora Mihai. In the film she plays Cielo, a mother searching for her daughter kidnapped by organized crime in northern Mexico. After the screening on July 10 at the Debussy Hall, Ramirez received an eight-minute standing ovation from the audience. An unprecedented and almost unbelievable experience for Arcelia Ramírez, she explained, so much so that it marked her life and brought tears to her eyes.

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Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You posterFirst watchViolet Perfume: Nobody Hears You20017.9as Alicia, madre de MiriamYessica is a rebellious girl who forms an unlikely friendship with quiet schoolmate Miriam. Yessica's home life is ruled by her brutal stepfather and her amoral stepbrother, Jorge, while…View film

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Filmography

73 films as actor
  1. TBADEDCarla
  2. TBACancuncitoReyna
  3. 2026JourneyPetra
  4. 2026CrocodilesElena
  5. 2025(No sé) Cómo serVivián
  6. 2025RainSofia
  7. 2024Un susurro comienza un incendioOlivia
  8. 2024Aquí estoyLaura
  9. 2024A Circus Tale & A Love Song
  10. 2023Pole DanceLupe
  11. 2023All the SilenceClaudia
  12. 2023Volveré
  13. 2022Ojos que no venElena
  14. 2022Mambo Dreams
  15. 2022Tell Me About YourselfLaura
  16. 2021Julia And The Portal To The Abyss
  17. 2021La CivilCielo
  18. 2021I Carry You with MeMagda
  19. 2021Yo Fausto
  20. 2020ReinaMother
  21. 2020La Boca Del Diablo
  22. 2019Some RuinsOfelia
  23. 2019Meat Stew, Original Recipe
  24. 2018No One Will Ever KnowBerta
  25. 2017VeronicaThe Psychologist
  26. 2017About FamilyMadre
  27. 2016FisurasLety
  28. 2015Leaf Blower
  29. 2015Bleak StreetZema
  30. 2015Las Horas ContigoIsabel
  31. 2014A Shred Of MistIrasema
  32. 2014Open Cage
  33. 2013Los Fabulosos 7
  34. 2013Good Day, RamonRosa
  35. 2013PotosíEstela
  36. 2013Instructions Not IncludedJudeisy
  37. 2013The SearchesElvira
  38. 2013Between Night and DayGaby
  39. 2011The Reasons of the HeartEmilia
  40. 2010Rock Marí
  41. 2009El que habita las alturasMaría
  42. 2008Teo's Journey
  43. 2008How Could I Not Love You?
  44. 2007CieloJulia
  45. 2007Nadie te ve: La niña en la piedraAlicia
  46. 2007El brassier de EmmaAmparo
  47. 2006La caja de Yamasaki
  48. 2006The Last GazeHermana Irma
  49. 2006Sex, Love, and Other PerversionsMercedes (Segment "La Llamada")
  50. 2005Malos Presagios
  51. 2003LeftieMartina
  52. 2002¿De qué lado estás?
  53. 2001Written on the Body of NightIn-movie mother
  54. 2001Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears YouAlicia, madre de Miriam
  55. 2001Such is LifeJulia
  56. 2000Playing Under The MoonCarmen Luisa
  57. 2000A Breakfast ChronicleYolanda
  58. 2000Sofía
  59. 1999Amor de mis amores
  60. 1999In the Shadow of the MoonAna Petrovna
  61. 1999RizoLucía / Sandra
  62. 1999El Cometa
  63. 1999Reclusorio III
  64. 1996Recipes to Stay TogetherSusana Limón
  65. 1996Ultima llamada
  66. 1994El tesoro de ClotildeLupita
  67. 1992Serpientes y escalerasValentina
  68. 1992Like Water for ChocolateBisnieta
  69. 1991City of the BlindMara
  70. 1991Benjamín's WifeNatividad
  71. 1991Con el amor no se juega
  72. 1988Romelia's SecretYoung Romelia
  73. 1985El centro del laberinto