Adriana Barraza

Known for ActingBorn 1956-03-05 (age 70)Toluca, Estado de Mexico, Mexico

Adriana Barraza González (born 5 March 1956) is a Mexican actress, acting teacher, and director. In 1999 director Alejandro González Iñárritu cast her as the mother of Gael García Bernal's character in Amores perros, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 2006, she collaborated with Iñárritu again in Babel, for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Barraza is known in Mexico as Master Barraza from her partnership with Mexican director Sergio Jiménez, known as El Profe. They created the Actors Workshop in Mexico City, teaching and developing their own version of Method acting. Barraza began her career directing telenovela episodes, the actors in which she would also coach. In the 1990s she decided to step in front of the camera. She currently operates her own acting school located in Miami, Florida titled Adriana Barraza's Black Box. Instructors at the school include her husband Arnaldo and daughter Carolina.Read more

Movies & web series

Common Ground: Under Construction Notes

La paloma

Where the Tracks End

Capadocia

Good Day, Ramon

Diary of a Gigolo

Silvana Sin Lana

Crazy About Work

ER

CSI: Miami

Alguna Vez Tendremos Alas

My Penguin Friend

Cómplices Al Rescate

The Strain

Amores Perros

Adventures in Time

Koati

The Snitch Cartel

Babel

Unforgettable

Duenos Del Paraiso

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels

Te Presento a Laura

Thor

Blue Beetle

Dora and the Lost City of Gold

Rambo: Last Blood

The Follies

Vivo Por Elena

Mariachi Gringo

Locura de Amor

Drag Me to Hell

The 33

Cake

Coyote Lake

We Can Be Heroes

The First Night

Henry Poole Is Here

Training Dad

Crystal Empire

Monica

Cerro Bayo

From Prada to Nada

Conversando con Cristina Pacheco

Everything Else

And Soon the Darkness

Burning Palms

Revolución