Arcelia Ramírez
Dec 7, 1967 (58)
Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
48 Movies
12 Series
Arcelia Ramírez is an actress from Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. They are widely recognised for their role in El Chema playing Elvira Mendivil. Other notable titles in their filmography include Instructions Not Included and Like Water for Chocolate. Over more than 41 years they have gathered close to 48 films and 12 TV productions, working mainly across genres like drama, crime, comedy.
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Arcelia Ramírez
48 Movies
12 Series
Arcelia Ramírez is an actress from Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. They are widely recognised for their role in El Chema playing Elvira Mendivil. Other notable titles in their filmography include Instructions Not Included and Like Water for Chocolate. Over more than 41 years they have gathered close to 48 films and 12 TV productions, working mainly across genres like drama, crime, comedy.
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Reina
2020
Aquí estoy
2024
Cielo
2007
Rizo
1999
Veronica
2017
Potosí
2013
No One Will Ever Know
2018
About Family
2017
A Shred Of Mist
2014
(No sé) Cómo ser
2025
Offside
2026
Instructions Not Included
2013
Like Water for Chocolate
1992
Good Day, Ramon
2013
City of the Blind
1991
Recipes to Stay Together
1996
Sex, Love, and Other Perversions
2006
All the Silence
2023
Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You
2001
A Breakfast Chronicle
2000
I Carry You with Me
2021
Such is Life
2001
Las Horas Contigo
2015
El brassier de Emma
2007
The Reasons of the Heart
2011
La Civil
2021
El tesoro de Clotilde
1994
Between Night and Day
2013
Benjamín's Wife
1991
Nadie te ve: La niña en la piedra
2007
Romelia's Secret
1988
Leftie
2003
Written on the Body of Night
2001
Ojos que no ven
2022
Playing Under The Moon
2000
Tell Me About Yourself
2022
The Last Gaze
2006
Bleak Street
2015
Serpientes y escaleras
1992
The Searches
2013
Some Ruins
2019
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Frequently Asked Questions
How old is Arcelia Ramírez and where are they from?
Arcelia Ramírez is 58 years old, born on December 7, 1967 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
What are the most famous roles of Arcelia Ramírez?
Arcelia Ramírez is best known for roles in Instructions Not Included, Like Water for Chocolate, Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You.
How many movies has Arcelia Ramírez been in?
Over a 41-year career (since 1985), Arcelia Ramírez has appeared in 73 movies and 23 TV shows.
What was Arcelia Ramírez's first movie?
The career of Arcelia Ramírez began with El centro del laberinto (1985).
What is Arcelia Ramírez's most recent movie or series?
Arcelia Ramírez's most recent release is El Mochaorejas, which premiered on January 23, 2026.
What TV shows has Arcelia Ramírez appeared in?
On television, Arcelia Ramírez has appeared in El Chema, Doménica Montero, The Club, The Color of Passion.
Arcelia Ramírez
1967-12-07 · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Arcelia Ramírez (born 7 December 1967) is a Mexican actress who appeared in over 50 films and television shows since 1985. At a young age she became interested in acting. She studied acting at the Centro Universitario de Teatro (CUT), from where she was prepared for several plays produced by the same institution, including La pasión de Pentesilea, La séptima morada, La noche de Hernán Cortés, Las mujeres sabias, Freda y otras griegas and Relaciones peligrosas. She lived in France from 2007 to 2011, a period in which she kept up her work pace, coming to Mexico to film movies as diverse as Arturo Ripstein's "Las razones del corazón" and Victor Avelar's "Cómo no te voy a querer". Meanwhile, her life in Paris was like that of a nameless woman who was beginning to raise a family.
Throughout her career, which began in 1985 with the film "El centro del laberinto", she has been nominated for important awards, such as the Ariel, at the Cannes Festival, at the Havana Festival, at the Latin American Film Festival in Lérida, among others. She has been nominated four times for the Ariel Award, twice for Best Actress (1997, 2000) and twice for Best Supporting Actress (2001 and 2003).
The first actress attended the Cannes Film Festival 2021 for her performance in the film "La civil", first fiction of the Belgian-Romanian director Teodora Mihai. In the film she plays Cielo, a mother searching for her daughter kidnapped by organized crime in northern Mexico. After the screening on July 10 at the Debussy Hall, Ramirez received an eight-minute standing ovation from the audience. An unprecedented and almost unbelievable experience for Arcelia Ramírez, she explained, so much so that it marked her life and brought tears to her eyes.