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Doña Prudencia Grifell
Prudencia María Victoria Grifell Masip
Prudencia Grifell
Acting
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 …
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Why Was I Born a Woman?
as Doña Rosa
The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris
El señor doctor
as Señora Martínez
Senda prohibida
as Federico's Mother
Mis abuelitas... no más!
The Trial of the Vivanco Ladies
as Doña Teresa Vivanco y de la Vega
Caperucita y sus tres amigos
as Red Riding Hood's Grandmother
The Shadow of the Tyrant
as Dueña de burdel
La hermana blanca
as Madame Bernard
Little Red Riding Hood
as Abuelita