
Arcelia Ramírez
Department: Acting
Biography
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.
Known For

Written on the Body of Night
2001

Malos Presagios
2005

La Boca Del Diablo
2020

Tell Me About Yourself
2022

María: La Diva Eterna
2023

El que habita las alturas
2009

The Last Gaze
2006

El brassier de Emma
2007

Amor de mis amores
1999

Recipes to Stay Together
1996

Pole Dance
2023

The Reasons of the Heart
2011

Nadie te ve: La niña en la piedra
2007

Such is Life
2001

Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You
2001

Volveré
2023

Leftie
2003

The Searches
2013

La caja de Yamasaki
2006

Between Night and Day
2013

Instructions Not Included
2013

All the Silence
2023

Potosí
2013

Good Day, Ramon
2013

Rain
2025

A Shred Of Mist
2014

El centro del laberinto
1985

Crocodiles
2024

Mambo Dreams
2022

Rizo
1999

A Circus Tale & A Love Song
2024

Benjamín's Wife
1991

Sex, Love, and Other Perversions
2006

Rock Marí
2010

Los Fabulosos 7
2013

Las Horas Contigo
2015

Open Cage
2014

City of the Blind
1991

Ojos que no ven
2022

In the Shadow of the Moon
1999

Sofía
2000

Teo's Journey
2008

How Could I Not Love You?
2008

Bleak Street
2015

¿De qué lado estás?
2002

Romelia's Secret
1988

A Breakfast Chronicle
2000

Leaf Blower
2015

Ultima llamada
1996

Meat Stew, Original Recipe
2019

Veronica
2017

El Cometa
1999

Like Water for Chocolate
1992

El tesoro de Clotilde
1994

Playing Under The Moon
2000

Serpientes y escaleras
1992

No One Will Ever Know
2018

Julia And The Portal To The Abyss
2021

Yo Fausto
2021

Reclusorio III
1999

Some Ruins
2019

I Carry You with Me
2021

About Family
2017

Con el amor no se juega
1991

Reina
2020

La Civil
2021

Journey
2023

Fisuras
2016

Un susurro comienza un incendio
2024

Aquí estoy
2024

DED
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Cielo
2007

(No sé) Cómo ser
2025

Cancuncito
—

Offside
2026

The Marked Hour
1988

Por siempre Joan Sebastián
2016

Bride's Avenue
2000

Camelia la Texana
2014

El Chema
2016

Ellas son... la alegría del hogar
2009

Pueblo chico, infierno grande
1997

La jaula de oro
1997

An Unknown Enemy
2018

The Dead Girls
2025

Camelia La Texana
2014

Road to Destiny
2016

The Color of Passion
2014

The Club
2019

Juana Inés
2016

Vencer el miedo
2020

Dos Lunas
2014

El amor invencible
2023

Mujeres Asesinas
2022

Regalo De Amor
2025

Doménica Montero
2025

El Mochaorejas
2026