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
Angel Face
La ladrona
Little Red Riding Hood
Abuelita
El plagiario
Mujeres que trabajan
Srita. Benavides
Pensión de artistas
Sublime melodía
The Shadow of the Tyrant
Dueña de burdel
The Third Word
Angelina
Mi desconocida esposa
Abuela
Prisionera del pasado
Póker de ases
Siete mujeres
Melodías de amor
Tía Amelia
Las infieles
Mamá de Constanzia
Lodo y Armiño
Esposa o amante
Recién casados... no molestar
Horas de agonía
Apartment house
Doña Leonor
Raffles
Doña Constancia
Cuando me vaya
Doña Generosa
School for Mothers-in-Law
Inmaculada
Doña Rosa
México nunca duerme
Over the Waves
Calixta Gutiérrez de Alfaro
Al diablo las mujeres
Doña Juanita
Mi adorado salvaje
Internado para señoritas
The Vivanco Ladies
Teresa Vivanco
Después de la tormenta
Mis abuelitas... no más!
Entre tu amor y el cielo
Doña Francisca
The Devil's Money
Sra. Olea, madre de Manuel
The Force of Desire
Juana
Una mujer en la calle
Tía Nena (María de Jesús)
Why Was I Born a Woman?
Doña Rosa