María Félix

She has an entry in Jean Tulard's Dictionnaire du Cinéma/Les Acteurs published in Paris in 2007 (pages 416, 417).

Retrospective at the Ajijic Festival Internacional de Cine. [2002]

Festival tribute at the Créteil International Women's Film Festival, France. [1996]

In 1949, she told a reporter that she would like to play La Malinche on film.

First actress to win three Ariel Awards for Best Actress (1947, 1949, 1951). She also received nominations for Best Actress on two other occasions (1946, 1955), making her a five-time nominee. In 1986, she won an Golden Ariel Award for lifetime achievement.

Doubtlessly the most famous Mexican movie star, María Félix created a larger-than-life character: herself. La Doña, as the star was known after the character of her 1943 movie Doña Bárbara, starred in 47 movies, most of them forgettable except for her presence in them. More a star than an actress, she constructed an image of a tough woman, a sort of one-liner she-male that went beyond the traditional role of Latin American women. Her marriage to Agustín Lara the most popular Latin composer from the 30s to the 60s, was a great event itself. Her fame went beyond Mexico to Latin America, Spain, France and Italy. She always refused to learn English, so she never acted in any English language movie. That's the main reason why her fame was related almost exclusively to Latin countries. After her last film, she was linked to a number of film projects, but never came back to the screen.

Her legacy extends to 21th-century artists, as she has been cited as an inspirational figure by actress Eva Mendes and musician Zayra among many others.

Great-aunt of actor Kuno Becker. Becker is the grandson of María Félix's younger sister, María Eugenia Félix Guereña (1916-2017).