Prudencia Grifell
Acting
Born: 1879-12-27 in Lugo, Galicia, Spain
Biography
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.
Known For
El señor doctor
Señora Martínez
Little Red Riding Hood
Abuelita
Why Was I Born a Woman?
Doña Rosa
The Third Word
Angelina
The Shadow of the Tyrant
Dueña de burdel
The Smile of the Virgin
Over the Waves
Calixta Gutiérrez de Alfaro
Pensión de artistas
Nosotros los rateros
Madre de Mercedes
The Force of Desire
Juana
Apartment house
Doña Leonor
Soledad
Roberto's mother
X Murderer
Señora Encinas
La dama del alba
Ladronzuela
México nunca duerme
Mujeres que trabajan
Srita. Benavides
Adultery
Doña Lupita
Cuando me vaya
Doña Generosa
La ladrona
Two Faces Have the Destiny
Doña Remedios, mamá de Anita
Una mujer en la calle
Tía Nena (María de Jesús)
The Vivanco Ladies
Teresa Vivanco
Póker de ases
Las infieles
Mamá de Constanzia
La hermana blanca
Madame Bernard
The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris
María Cristina
Nuestras vidas
Prisionera del pasado
Sublime melodía
Internado para señoritas
Caperucita y sus tres amigos
Red Riding Hood's Grandmother
El genial Detective Peter Pérez
Al diablo las mujeres
Doña Juanita
The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman
Sra. Llopis
Mi desconocida esposa
Abuela
Senda prohibida
Federico's Mother