- Born
- Died
- Birth nameOfelia Puerta Guilmáin
- Height1.70 m
- Ofelia Guilmáin was born in Madrid. She was one of a number of Spanish artists and intellectuals who fled to Mexico during the Spanish Civil War, during which Ms. Guilmaín lost a brother and sister. She married Lucilo Gutiérrez in 1941 and bore four children. Following divorce, she married Eduardo Flores de Meza, but this ended in divorce. She was a close friend of the actor José Gálvez and the painter David Alfaro Siqueiros. She worked in Mexican films from 1941 and became a Mexican citizen in 1952. During the last decades of her life she acted in several television series, including the epic series La Antorcha Encendida, in which she played her real son's mother-in-law. Ms. Guilmaín had four children, three of whom became actors: Juan Ferrara, Luiía Guilmaín, and Esther Guilmáin. One grandson, Juan Carlos Bonet, son of Juan Ferrara, is also an actor.- IMDb mini biography by: jojo.acapulco
- Children
- ParentsPedro PuertaAurora Guilmain Guerrero
- RelativesMauricio Bonet(Grandchild)Juan Carlos Bonet(Grandchild)
- She appeared in at least 100 stage plays and about 50 films, from classics to comedy.
- Took part in the Guerrillas of Theater groups set up by the Spanish Republican government. When Franco's fascist regime came to power, she fled to Mexico.
- In the epic TV series La antorcha encendida (1996), she took the role of Doña Macaria, mother-in-law of Don Pedro de Soto, played by her real-life son, actor Juan Ferrara.
- Her maternal grandfather, don Ernesto Guilmain Serantes, was a colonel in the General Staff of His Majesty, King Alfonso XIII of Spain. Her maternal grandmother, doña María Guerrero, was the daughter of a magistrate.
- Her maternal surname, Guilmain, is of French origin. In her memoirs, she stated that it is actually spelled without an accented "a" (á).
- [explaining why she did not use her paternal surname, Puerta, which means "door" in Spanish] Well, because being called Puerta in the theatre would sound strange.
- [when told that, if she had worked under her paternal surname, she would have been known as La Puerta, which means "The Door" in Spanish] And you still ask me why I dropped my surname! You are such a bastard!
- I have never been into movies, but I had fun making them, from Buñuel to Cantinflas.
- In this profession, as in all others, you never stop learning. If you think you know everything, you become a fool and you get screwed.
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