
Estela Inda
Acting
🎂 1917-06-28
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.
Cast credits(30)

Mother
1950

Doña Marina (uncredited)
1947

Zarca
1945

Aztec Chanteuse
1957

Lol
1939

1970

Condesa de la Cadena
1944

Cuca (segment "Caridad")
1974

Rosa
1973

Soledad
1952

Tara
1944

Laura
1946

1987

Aztec Chanteuse
1957

Cuca
1974

Raquel
1943

1983

The High Priestess
1964

1988

1987

Virginia
1943

Margarita (as Stella Inda)
1940

Madre de Teresa
1977

1988

Mujer de cabaret
1934

1943

1983

Mariana Bermúdez
1940

1937

María
1953