EBN- Ana Ofelia Murguía, film star and voice actor in the 2017 Pixar film Coco, has died at 90, Mexico’s National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature announced.
“With deep sadness, we regret the sensitive death of the leading actress Ana Ofelia Murguía,” the company wrote in a statement on X (formerly known as Twitter). They added that Murguía “was part of the stable cast” of the National Theater Company, whose career “was vital for the performing arts of Mexico.”
“We send condolences and warmly hug his family and friends,” the statement concluded.
Born in Mexico City in 1933, Murguía’s career spanned several decades with over 100 acting credits to her name, beginning with her first television appearance in 1967.
Mama Coco Charachter
The acting veteran gained a new generation of fans in 2017 after voicing the character Mama Coco in Pixar’s hit animated film, Coco. The film follows aspiring singer Miguel (Anthony Gonzalez), who goes on a quest to find his great-great-grandfather in the Land of the Dead after being faced with an ancestral ban on music.
Coco won two Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature and Original Song for “Remember Me,” which Murguía performed as Mama Coco in the film with Miguel.
Murguía’s other famous roles are included in such films as Life Sentence (1979), Mi Querido Tom Mix (1992) and The Queen of the Night (1994), which she earned a Best Supporting Actress Ariel Award for, per BBC News.
The revered actress won the same award twice previously in 1979 and 1986, reported the outlet.
Murguía also received the special lifetime achievement Golden Ariel Award, which she shared with director and writer Jorge Fons, in 2011. In April 2023, she was also honored with the Ingmar Bergman Chair Medal for her contribution to film in one of her final public appearances in Mexico City.
