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Years active
  
1977–2010

Siblings
  
Ramiro Carrillo

Height
  
1.70 m

Role
  
Actress

Name
  
Elpidia Carrillo


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Born
  
August 16, 1961 (age 62) (
1961-08-16
)
Paracuaro, Michoacan, Mexico

Awards
  
ALMA Award for Favorite Movie Actress - Supporting Role

Movies
  
Predator, Predator 2, Seven Pounds, Salvador, Nine Lives

Similar People
  
Bill Duke, Richard Chaves, Kevin Peter Hall, Carl Weathers, John McTiernan

Elpidia Carrillo


Elpidia Carrillo (born August 16, 1961) is a Mexican and American actress and director. Her career includes roles in both Latin American and US film and television. She is best known in the United States for her supporting role in the iconic action film Predator, Bread and Roses and Nine Lives.

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She was also nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead for her performance in Salvador. She also known for the role Tecuichpo in the independent film The Other Conquest.

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Early life

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Carrillo was born in Santa Elena, Michoacán, Mexico, a rural mountain town. One of eight children in a family of farm laborers, her childhood was marked by violence and poverty. At the age of three, her father was murdered, forcing her eldest brother to assume control of the family. Wanting Carrillo to get an education, he forged a birth certificate so she could begin first grade at age four.

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When she was six, her brother was also gunned down outside a theater and the family faced constant threats to their lives. When she was ten, Carrillo moved to the town of Uruapan with an older sister where she dropped out of school as she began working alongside her sister at a Chinese restaurant.

Early career

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Carrillo was discovered by a local photographer in Uruapan, Mexico and soon received a modeling contract. At 12 years old, director Rafael Corkidi cast Elpidia as Malinche in the surrealist Mexican feature film Pafnucio Santo. The film was Mexico's official submission to the Academy Awards that year, but with its many esoteric elements, it failed to garner a nomination. Due to the role involving nudity and her being under age, Carrillo was credited under the fake name Piya. Corkidi cast Carrillo again for a larger role in his film Deseos.

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By age 16, she shot her first lead role in the controversial Mexican feature Nuevo Mundo, directed by [Gabriel Retes]. Having worked numerous films, she decided to enroll in the Bellas Arts School in Mexico City.

Hollywood career

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After numerous Mexican and International film and television credits, Carrillo's US film career quickly emerged as she did a series of critically acclaimed roles in award nominated US projects. Her first US film came when Academy Award winning director Tony Richardson cast her in a co-starring role in the film The Border opposite Jack Nicholson and Harvey Keitel. That was soon followed by a co-starring role in the British drama Beyond the Limit opposite Richard Gere, Michael Caine, and Bob Hoskins, with the latter two British actors receiving BAFTA Nominations for their performances.

For her third US film, Carrillo performed a small supporting role in another successful Academy Award nominated art film Under Fire for which Gene Hackman's performance received a Golden Globe nomination.

Next she made her US television debut in the role of Coana in the Primetime Emmy nominated mini-series Christopher Columbus.

Her first award nomination came when Oliver Stone cast her as the female lead of Maria in Salvador which earned Carrillo an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Female Lead, earned her co-star James Woods an Academy Award Nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and earned Oliver Stone an Academy Award nomination with co-writer Rick Boyle for Best Original Screenplay, which they would both lose to Stone's other nominated screenplay that year, Platoon.

With awards and critical recognition all by the age of 25, Carrillo then accepted what would be one of the most recognizable and commercially successful roles of her career as the female lead and only actress appearing in the iconic 20th Century Fox action film Predator opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Shane Black, and Jesse Ventura. Her character of Anna is also the only character to recur in more than a single film during the Predator franchise as she would also briefly appears in Predator 2.

Predator is widely considered the most commercially successful film of Carrillo's career and her most recognizable role. Though initially weakly received by critics, the film has subsequently gone on to become an action film classic making numerous "best of" lists in later years. At the time of its release, the film received an Oscar nomination for Best Visual Effects.

Post Commercial Success

Following the massive commercial success of Predator, and performances in television guest starring roles on commercially successful shows like Miami Vice and 21 Jump Street, Carrillo increasingly focused her career once again on US critical appealing roles in film and television, as well as returning to Mexican independent cinema with roles in a number of international award winning films including Guldbagge Award winning La Hija del Puma, Una Cita con el Destino, Ariel Award winning City of the Blind, and the Guillermo del Toro produced Un Embrujo, a winner of 9 Ariel Awards.

Carrillo appeared in Gregory Nava's critically acclaimed Mexican-American film My Family playing Isabel Magaña, the El Salvadorean refugee wife of Jimmy Smits, who won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead for the role. The film also won the Casting Society of America's Artios Award for Best Casting for a Drama Feature.

Johnny Depp cast her as the female lead of his only directorial effort, the controversial The Brave, which he also starred in along with Marlon Brando. Despite the highly acclaimed cast and Palme d'Or nomination at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, the dark subject and mixed reception resulted in the film only receiving an international theatrical release.

Despite the critical recognition and various nominations throughout her career, Carrillo's first US acting award win was for her performance as Rosa in the drama Bread and Roses, which was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. Carrillo would go on to win the 2002 ALMA Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, but in an improbable twist, she tied with Elizabeth Peña for the award. During the telecast, both women came to the podium together and shared time in giving their acceptance speeches.

Later Carrillo would win the same award four years later, this time as sole recipient of the 2006 ALMA Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for her performance as Sandra in Nine Lives written and directed by Rodrigo García. This was soon followed by a co-starring role in the commercially successful film Seven Pounds which starred Will Smith and went on to earn $165M at the box office.

Rodrigo García would then once again cast Carrillo, this time to co-star in the ensemble drama Mother and Child, this time sharing the screen and not the podium with Elizabeth Peña as well as Annette Bening, with whom she shares the majority of her scenes. The ensemble film also featured her former My Family co-star Jimmy Smits and actors [Naomi Watts], [Kerry Washington], and [Samuel L. Jackson]. The film premiered at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival and Sundance Film Festival.

Recent career

She returned to star in the Mexican family comedy Familia Gang and the independent features Relentless and Foreign Land.

She made her return to television with a major recurring arc as Linda Brenner on the highly decorated ABC series Nashville.

Personal life

Active in social justice issues, Carrillo staged a number of public demonstrations protesting the massacre of 43 innocent students in Ayozinapa, Mexico in 2014. She also plays an active role in teaching young actors and filmmakers, including lecturing in her native Mexico and worldwide.

She currently lives in Santa Monica, California.

Filmography

Actress
-
Solidarity (filming) as
Inés
2023
Blue Beetle (completed) as
Rocio Reyes
2022
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities (TV Series) as
Amelia
- Lot 36 (2022) - Amelia
2022
Magnum P.I. (TV Series) as
Donna Jensen
- The Long Sleep (2022) - Donna Jensen
2021
Madres as
Anita
2021
Green Ghost and the Masters of the Stone as
Lechusa
2018
Mayans M.C. (TV Series) as
Vicki
- Our Gang's Dark Oath (2021) - Vicki
- Overreaching Don't Pay (2021) - Vicki
- Pap Struggles with the Death Angel (2021) - Vicki
- Hunahpu (2019) - Vicki
- Xaman-Ek (2019) - Vicki
- Murciélago/Zotz (2018) - Vicki
2020
Songbird as
Grammy / Lita
2020
Aztech as
Yunuen
2020
The Tax Collector as
Janet
2020
Chateau Vato as
Lupe
2019
Euphoria (TV Series) as
Sonia
- And Salt the Earth Behind You (2019) - Sonia
- '03 Bonnie and Clyde (2019) - Sonia
2018
Madam Secretary (TV Series) as
President Daphne Tejeda
- The Friendship Game (2018) - President Daphne Tejeda
2018
Relentless as
Milagro
2016
Foreign Land as
Rosa
2014
Nashville (TV Series) as
Linda Brenner
- I've Got Reasons to Hate You (2015) - Linda Brenner
- I'm Not That Good at Goodbye (2015) - Linda Brenner
- First to Have a Second Chance (2014) - Linda Brenner
2014
Familia Gang as
Dalia
2013
Solidarity (Short) as
Inés
2009
Mother and Child as
Sofia
2008
Seven Pounds as
Connie
2008
The Mentalist (TV Series) as
Mercedes O'Keefe
- Red Hair and Silver Tape (2008) - Mercedes O'Keefe
2007
Tortilla Heaven as
Hermenegilda
2006
Thieves and Liars as
Isabel
2005
Nine Lives as
Sandra
2004
Killer Snake (Short) as
Coco
2004
A Day Without a Mexican as
Cata
2003
Kingpin (TV Mini Series) as
Lupita
- Black Magic Woman (2003) - Lupita
- El Velorio (2003) - Lupita
2002
Solaris as
Friend #2
2002
The Other Woman (TV Series)
- Ansias de venganza (2002)
2002
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series) as
Maria Ramos
- Protection (2002) - Maria Ramos
2001
Resurrection Blvd. (TV Series) as
Lupe Baca
- Bruja (2001) - Lupe Baca
2000
Bread and Roses as
Rosa
2000
ER (TV Series) as
Pilar
- Under Control (2000) - Pilar
2000
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her as
Carmen Alba
1998
The Other Conquest as
Tecuichpo / Doña Isabel
1998
They Come at Night as
Maria Velasquez
1998
Un embrujo as
Esposa del Brujo / Sorcerer's Wife
1997
Cracker: Mind Over Murder (TV Series) as
Anna
- Hell Hath No Fury (1997) - Anna
1997
The Brave as
Rita
1997
The Pretender (TV Series) as
Nia
- Ranger Jarod (1997) - Nia
1996
De tripas, corazón (Short) as
Meifer / prostitute
1996
The Lazarus Man (TV Series) as
Mrs. Henry
- The Hold-Up (1996) - Mrs. Henry
1995
La casa del abuelo (Short)
1995
Charlie Grace (TV Series) as
Maria
- The Kid (1995) - Maria
1995
My Family as
Isabel Magaña
1994
La hija del Puma as
María
1991
Reasonable Doubts (TV Series) as
Anita Torres
- Pilot (1991) - Anita Torres
1991
Lightning Field (TV Movie) as
Dolores
1991
Ciudad de ciegos as
Fabiola
1991
Against the Law (TV Series) as
Linda
- Damages (1991) - Linda
1990
Predator 2 as
Anna
1990
Dangerous Passion (TV Movie) as
Angela
1990
21 Jump Street (TV Series) as
Amalia Cabarrus
- La Bizca (1990) - Amalia Cabarrus
1990
The Assassin as
Elena
1990
Midnight Caller (TV Series) as
Evangelina Contreras
- Kid Salinas (1990) - Evangelina Contreras
1989
Miami Vice (TV Series) as
Sister Felicia / Maria Pedroza (formerly Guerrero)
- Freefall (1989) - Sister Felicia
- To Have and to Hold (1989) - Maria Pedroza (formerly Guerrero)
1988
Una cita con el destino
1987
Predator as
Anna
1986
Let's Get Harry as
Veronica
1986
Salvador as
María (as Elpedia Carrillo)
1985
Christopher Columbus (TV Mini Series) as
Coana
- Episode #1.4 (1985) - Coana
- Episode #1.3 (1985) - Coana
- Episode #1.2 (1985) - Coana
- Episode #1.1 (1985) - Coana
1985
Bartolome oder Die Rückkehr der weißen Götter (TV Movie) as
Indiomädchen / Sr. Anna
1983
Beyond the Limit as
Clara
1983
Under Fire as
Sandinista (Leon)
1982
The Border as
Maria
1981
La virgen robada (Short)
1981
Histoires extraordinaires (TV Series)
- Le joueur d'échecs de Maelzel (1981)
1980
Chicoasén
1980
Winnetou le mescalero (TV Series) as
Wetatoni
1979
Bandera rota as
Verónica Rodríguez
1978
Nuevo mundo as
Mujer de Don Diego de Alba
1977
Deseos (as Piya)
1977
Pafnucio Santo as
Malinche (as Piya)
1977
Pedro Páramo as
Isabel
Producer
-
Solidarity (co-producer) (filming)
2020
Amaraica (co-producer)
2013
Solidarity (Short) (co-producer)
Director
2004
Killer Snake (Short)
Writer
2004
Killer Snake (Short)
Editor
2004
Killer Snake (Short)
Thanks
1984
Mujeres salvajes (thanks)
Self
2001
If It Bleeds We Can Kill It: The Making of 'Predator' (Video documentary short) as
Self
Archive Footage
2017
Demented Pictures (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Predator (2017) - Self
1984
Video Rewind: The Rolling Stones' Great Video Hits (Video documentary) as
Mexican girl

References

Elpidia Carrillo Wikipedia