Prudencia Grifell
Known for: Acting
Born: December 26, 1879 in Lugo, Galicia, Spain - Died: June 6, 1970
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
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Over the Waves
Calixta Gutiérrez de Alfaro
La sexta carrera
Why Was I Born a Woman?
Doña Rosa
Apartment house
Doña Leonor
El amor abrió los ojos
Soledad
Roberto's mother
Nosotros los rateros
Madre de Mercedes
Pepito and the Monster
Abuelita
Los nietos de Don Venancio
Tale of a Heart
Internado para señoritas
X Murderer
Señora Encinas
Caperucita y sus tres amigos
Red Riding Hood's Grandmother
Angel Face
Those Green Eyes
El monstruo en la sombra
The Third Word
Angelina
El genial Detective Peter Pérez
Cuando me vaya
La ladrona
Two Faces Have the Destiny
Doña Remedios, mamá de Anita
El plagiario
Al Diablo Las Mujeres
Doña Juanita
The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman
Sra. Llopis