Adriana Barraza

Adriana Barraza is the kind of actress whose face does the heavy lifting before a single line lands. I first really registered her through Babel, where her Oscar-nominated supporting turn carried a quiet devastation that lingered long after the credits. Born in Toluca, she built a career across Mexican television and film before crossing over, and to me that grounding is exactly why her work reads as so lived-in rather than performed. She has also stepped behind the camera as a director, which tells me she thinks about the whole frame, not just her place in it. I find her one of the most reliably moving character actors working.

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Name (English)

Adriana Barraza

Name (Japanese)

アドリアナ・バラッザ

Reading

あどりあな・ばらっざ

Born

March 5, 1956 (age 70)

Origin

Toluca de Lerdo, State of Mexico, Mexico

Occupation

television actor / actor / film actor / film director

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Monkey

University

Autonomous University of Chihuahua

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/adrianabarrazaoficial/
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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriana%20Barraza
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%89%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%82%B6
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q235233

Tags

• State of Mexico
• television actor
• actor
• film actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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