Ariel Award for Best Actress, Ariel Award for Best Actress in a Minor Role
Similar People
Sara Garcia, Maruja Grifell, Miguel M Delgado, Alfredo B Crevenna, Tito Davison
Escena telenovela la constitucion 1970 prudencia grifell
Prudencia Grifell (December 27, 1879 – June 7, 1970), born Prudencia Grifell Masipon, was a prolific actress of the Golden Era of the Cinema of Mexico.
Grifell was born to Spanish stage actors and started her acting career herself at the age of ten in theater in Venezuela and touring Spain and Latin America. By the 1900s she had become very popular and moved to Mexico to continue her career in stage, after the Spanish Civil War she decided not to go back to that country but instead to relocate in Mexico permanently after 1940.
Career
Three years later, already at the age of 61, she appeared in her first film Internado para señoritas ("Girls Boarding School") with the stars Mapy Cortés, Emilio Tuero and Katy Jurado. Just as Sara García, her co-star as the Vivanco sisters in two films, she mostly played feisty but lovable granny roles.
She was married to actor Paco Martínez until his death and with whom she had five children,(Maruja,Amparo,Enrique,Dolores,Pepe) all of who are actors including Maruja Grifell, Amparo Grifell and Pepe Martinez.
She is considered one of the most notable people from Lugo, Spain and many have honored her life. A book in the Galician language was written about her life Prudencia Grifell, unha lucense no cine de ouro mexicano in 2005.
Filmography
Actress
1970
Why Was I Born a Woman? as
Doña Rosa
1969
Una plegaria en el camino (TV Series) as
Mama Lola
- Episode #1.3 (1969) - Mama Lola
- Episode #1.2 (1969) - Mama Lola
- Episode #1.1 (1969) - Mama Lola
1968
Estafa de amor (TV Series) as
Doña Rosita
- Episode #1.3 (1968) - Doña Rosita
- Episode #1.2 (1968) - Doña Rosita
- Episode #1.1 (1968) - Doña Rosita
1965
Corona de lágrimas (TV Series)
1966
El despertar (TV Series) as
Doña Remedios
- Episode #1.3 (1966) - Doña Remedios
- Episode #1.2 (1966) - Doña Remedios
- Episode #1.1 (1966) - Doña Remedios
1966
Sonata de otoño (TV Series)
1966
Los valses venían de Viena y los niños de París
1965
Las abuelas (TV Series)
1965
El señor doctor as
Abuela de Isidro
1963
Tres caras de mujer (TV Series) as
Doña Remedios
1962
Borrasca (TV Series)
- Episode #1.3 (1962)
- Episode #1.2 (1962)
- Episode #1.1 (1962)
1962
La cobarde (TV Series)
1962
La madrastra (TV Series)
- Episode #1.3 (1962)
- Episode #1.2 (1962)
- Episode #1.1 (1962)
1961
Estafa de amor (TV Series)
1961
La leona (TV Series)
1961
Niebla (TV Series)
1961
Caperucita y sus tres amigos as
Red Riding Hood's Grandmother
1961
Senda prohibida as
Mamá de Federico
1961
¡Mis abuelitas... no más! as
Doña Paz
1961
El proceso de las señoritas Vivanco as
Doña Teresa Vivanco y de la Vega (as Doña Prudencia Grifell)
1960
Pensión de mujeres (TV Series)
1960
La hermana blanca as
Madame Bernard
1960
La sombra del Caudillo as
Dueña de burdel
1960
La caperucita roja as
Abuelita (Granny) (as Doña Prudencia Griffel)
1959
Las señoritas Vivanco as
Teresa Vivanco (as Doña Prudencia Grifell)
1959
México nunca duerme as
Abuela
1958
La sonrisa de la Virgen as
Doña María, Marita's Grandmother
1958
El hombre que me gusta as
Dona Rosa
1958
Raffles as
Doña Constancia
1958
Préstame tu cuerpo as
Simplicia (as Doña Prudencia Grifell)
1958
Escuela para suegras as
Doña Placida (as Prudencia Griffel)
1958
Mi desconocida esposa as
Abuela
1958
Horas de agonía (as Dña. Prudencia Griffell)
1957
Pepito y el monstruo as
Abuelita
1957
Pies de gato
1957
El organillero
1956
Sublime melodía as
Doña Irene Angustias García Medina de López Mendía
