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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 extra in the successful film La Mujer del Puerto, starred by Andrea Palma. Also, she participated in 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 in the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico, and directed a folkloric dance group called "Stella Inda y su Conjunto". In 1947 she had a prominent but uncredited role as the historical personage La Malinche in the Hollywood epic Captain from Castile, opposite Cesar Romero as Hernán Cortés.
Known For

The Young and the Damned
as Mother

Captain from Castile
as Doña Marina (uncredited)

Bugambilia
as Zarca

The Night of the Mayans
as Lol

The Aztec Mummy
as Aztec Chanteuse

The Curse of the Aztec Mummy
as Aztec Chanteuse

La Fuga
as Condesa de la Cadena

Attack of the Mayan Mummy
as The High Priestess

Emiliano Zapata

Amok
as Tara