Ana Ofelia Murguía, Actress Who Voiced ‘Coco’ Grandmother, Dies at 90

January 1, 2024 @ 2:08 PM

Ana Ofelia Murguía, a popular Mexican actress who voiced Mother Coco in the 2017 Pixar movie “Coco,” passed away Sunday at the age of90

The information of her passing away was shared on social media sites by Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura ( National Institute of Penalty Arts and Literary works, also known as INBAL).

“With deep sadness we regret the death of actress Ana Ofelia Murguía, who was part of the stable cast of the @CNTeatromx (National Theater Company) of Inbal and whose artistic career was vital for the performing arts of Mexico,” reviewed the homage on X.

Murguía’s 40-year profession in cinema, movie and tv consists of functions in Prime Video clip’s Gael García Bernal-led “Mozart in the Jungle,” in addition to movies “Tear This Heart Out,” “The Queen of the Night” and “No One Will Speak of Us When We’re Dead” with Victoria Abril. She starred in in 70 plays and greater than 90 movies.

“Her great acting quality will remain in the artistic memory of Mexico,” the Ministry of Society of Mexico City stated on X.

“She leaves an enormous void on our country’s sets,” Society Assistant Alejandra Frausto Guerrero stated in a declaration.

Murguía won Mexico’s Ariel Honor, the country’s matching of the Oscar, 3 times. In 2011, she existed with a Golden Ariel for profession accomplishment.

She additionally won a private and a set Behind the Voice Cast honor for articulating the senior grandmother in “Coco,” whose memories verify to be the trick to the major personality’s mission to discover his late dad in the immortality.

Murguía was birthed in Mexico in 1933 and finished from INBAL. She obtained her begin in an episode of the Mexican telenovela “La Tormenta” in 1967.

Her last duty remained in a 2018 episode of the Telemundo collection “José José: El Príncipe de la Canción.”