
Patzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico
Stella (or Estela) Inda (June 28, 1917 – December 7, 1995) was a Mexican film actress. She was the star of notable Mexican films, including Los olvidados by Luis Buñuel in 1949. She started her career as extra in the successful film La Mujer del Puerto, starred by Andrea Palma. Also, she participated in Mexican films such as La Noche de los Mayas (1939), Santa (second souns version, 1943), Bugambilia (1944, with Dolores del Río), Amok (1945, with María Félix), and the success films Los olvidados (1949, directed by Luis Buñuel and El Rebozo de Soledad (1955). In the later years, she was an acting teacher in the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico, and directed a folkloric dance group called "Stella Inda y su Conjunto". In 1947 she had a prominent but uncredited role as the historical personage La Malinche in the Hollywood epic Captain from Castile, opposite Cesar Romero as Hernán Cortés.

as Tara

as Raquel
1943

as Mother
1950

as Tara
1944

as Zarca
1945

as Laura
1946

as Mariana Bermúdez
1940

as Aztec Chanteuse
1957

as Doña Marina (uncredited)
1947

as Condesa de la Cadena
1944

as Cuca (segment "Caridad")
1974

1970

1988
1988

1991

1988

1988

1987

1987

1983

1983

as Madre de Teresa
1977

as Cuca (segment "Caridad")
1974
as Cuca
1974

as Rosa
1973

1970

as The High Priestess
1964

as Aztec Chanteuse
1957

as Aztec Chanteuse
1957

as María
1953

as Soledad
1952

as Mother
1950

as Doña Marina (uncredited)
1947

as Laura
1946

as Zarca
1945

as Tara
1944

as Condesa de la Cadena
1944

1943
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