Estela Inda

Stella (or Estela) Inda (June 28, 1917 – December 7, 1995) was a Mexican film actress. She was the star of notable Mexican films, including Los olvidados by Luis Buñuel in 1949. She started her career as an extra in the successful film La Mujer del Puerto, starred by Andrea Palma. Also, she participated in the Mexican films such as La Noche de los Mayas (1939), Santa (second souns version, 1943), Bugambilia (1944, with Dolores del Río), Amok (1945, with María Félix), and the success films Los olvidados (1949, directed by Luis Buñuel and El Rebozo de Soledad (1955). In the later years, she was an acting teacher at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico city, and directed a folkloric dance group, called "Stella Inda y su Conjunto". In 1947, she had the prominent but uncredited rolls as the historical personage La Malinche in the Hollywood epic, Captain from Castile, opposite Cesar Romero as Hernan Cortes.