
Lugo, Galicia, Spain
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. 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.

as Roberto's mother

as Abuelita
1959

as Doña Lupita
1945

as Roberto's mother
1947

1955

as Doña Rosa
1950

as Doña Constancia
1958

as Federico's Mother
1961

as Señora Martínez
1965

as Sra. Olea, madre de Manuel
1953

1956

as Angelina
1956

as Juana
1955
as Señora Martínez
1965

as Doña Rosa
1970

1966

as Señora Martínez
1965

as Red Riding Hood's Grandmother
1961

as Federico's Mother
1961

1961
as Doña Teresa Vivanco y de la Vega
1961

as Madame Bernard
1960

as Dueña de burdel
1960

as Abuelita
1959

as Teresa Vivanco
1959

1959

1958

1958

1958

as Simplicia
1958

as Abuela
1958

1958

as Doña Constancia
1958
as Abuelita
1957

1956

1956

as Angelina
1956

1956