Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Elpidia Carrillo (born August 16, 1961) is a Mexican actress who has appeared in various acclaimed Latin-American films and television shows, in addition to some Hollywood films. She is also credited as Elpedia Carrillo on some of her films. Carrillo was born in Parácuaro, Michoacán, Mexico. Perhaps her best acted role in Hollywood to date has been that of "Maria" in the 1986 movie Salvador, where she acted alongside James Woods. Arguably, though, her b...
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Complete Filmography
Aguadilla
2025
as Maria
A modern noir starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Rene Moran, and Alina Robert. As passions surge and secrets unravel, a lethal triangle emerges between a ...
The Friendly
2024
as Emilia
Military medic Curtis is injured in the line of duty and sent home with the dog who saved him. Both Curtis and his dog, named Friendly, must adjust to...
Blue Beetle
2023
as Rocío Reyes
Recent college grad Jaime Reyes returns home full of aspirations for his future, only to find that home is not quite as he left it. As he searches to ...
Tzurumútaro
2022
Director
A day in the life of Martin, a transgender artist from a small indigenous village in Michoacán, Mexico. As a queer up and coming artist, everyday Mart...
Green Ghost and the Masters of the Stone
2022
as Lechusa
In a Texas border town, car salesman Charlie moonlights as a masked Lucha libre wrestler going by the name “Green Ghost.” When unknown assailants arri...
Madres
2021
as Anita
A Mexican-American couple expecting their first child relocate to a migrant farming community in 1970's California. When the wife begins to experience...
Songbird
2020
as Grammy / Lita
During a pandemic lockdown, Nico, a young man with rare immunity, must overcome martial law, murderous vigilantes and a powerful family to reunite wit...
Chateau Vato
2020
as Lupe
A working class family moves into a mansion after discovering the death of its wealthy owner. Mistaken identity and a rags to riches comedy of errors ...
Aztech
2020
as Yunuen
Fragments of a meteor crash in Mexico and United States. Thirteen stories in different spaces and times happen in places of collisions .
Amaraica
2020
Co-Producer
An undocumented immigrant, Roberto, seeks a way to become lawful, but all efforts are put on hold when he becomes a new father at the onset of the US ...
The Tax Collector
2020
as Janet
David Cuevas is a family man who works as a gangland tax collector for high ranking Los Angeles gang members. He makes collections across the city wit...
Relentless
2018
as Milagro
An American mother searches for her daughter who was kidnapped by human traffickers in Central America.
Foreign Land
2016
as Rosa
Life changed for Alejandro Reis - Alex - in just a few brief moments when he discovers that he is not an American citizen. His parents brought him acr...
Familia Gang
2014
as Dalia
A senior official of the Mexican political system decides to fake the capture and death of The Coyote, public enemy number one in Mexico, to make this...
Mother and Child
2009
as Sofia
The lives of three women have a commonality: adoption. Karen is a physical therapist who regrets that, as a teenager, she gave up her daughter for ado...
Seven Pounds
2008
as Connie
An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
Tortilla Heaven
2008
as Hermenegilda
Isidor's Tortilla Heaven is the best restaurant in New Mexico maybe even the world. But though his tortillas are scrumptious, his enchiladas divine, I...
Ladrones y mentirosos
2006
as Isabel
The film is set in the island of Puerto Rico. Because of its central location in the Caribbean, the island has become one of the main ports of drug en...
Nine Lives
2005
as Sandra
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
Killer Snake
2004
as Coco
Four actresses struggling with racism and limited opportunities in Hollywood find themselves up for the same role
Killer Snake
2004
Director, Writer
Four actresses struggling with racism and limited opportunities in Hollywood find themselves up for the same role
A Day Without a Mexican
2004
as Cata
When a mysterious fog surrounds the boundaries of California, there is a communication breakdown and all the Mexicans disappear, affecting the economy...
Solaris
2002
as Friend
A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.
Bread and Roses
2000
as Rosa
Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa ge...
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
2000
as Carmen Alba
In California, a group of women struggle with personal problems as their paths intertwine in unexpected ways. Dr. Elaine Keener, the sole caretaker fo...
The Other Conquest
1999
as Tecuichpo / Doña Isabel
The film is a drama about the aftermath of the 1520s Spanish Conquest of Mexico told from the perspective of the indigenous Aztec people. It explores ...
Under a Spell
1999
as Esposa del brujo - Sorcerer's wife
In the Yucatan coast of the thirties , Elisha, a boy of 13, is initiated into the art of love by Felipa , his schoolteacher. After discovering the rel...
The Brave
1997
as Rita
A down-on-his-luck American Indian recently released from jail is offered the chance to "star" as the victim of a snuff film, the resulting pay of whi...
De Tripas, Corazón
1996
The coming-of-age story of young milkboy Martín (García Bernal). While his friends Jesús (Altomaro) and Roberto (Mora) are cocky and apparently they h...
My Family
1995
as Isabel Magaña
Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los A...
The Daughter of the Puma
1994
as María
A novel by Monica Zak, based on a true story, inspired this 1994 Danish-Guatemalan coproduction, a political thriller about Guatemala.
City of the Blind
1991
as Fabiola
Over more than thirty years, a department of the Condesa in Mexico City, is the setting in which they are carried out ten stories, mixed, form one who...
The Lightning Incident
1991
as Dolores
McKeon's baby is kidnapped by a devil-worshipping cult and she uses her new-found psychic abilities to track them down.
Predator 2
1990
as Anna
A police chief in the war-torn streets of Los Angeles discovers that an extraterrestrial creature is hunting down residents - and that he is the next ...
Dangerous Passion
1990
as Angela
A security man goes to work for a sadistic gangster with an alluring wife.
The Assassin
1990
as Elena
The basic plot of this film concerns a secret service-esque man in Mexico battling personal demons who discovers a conspiracy behind an assassination ...
Miami Vice: Freefall
1989
as Sister Felicia
Crockett and Tubbs, figuring they're on their way out, are recruited by the government to help a dictator escape from his war-torn country - with doub...
Predator
1987
as Anna Gonsalves
A team of elite commandos on a secret mission in a Central American jungle come to find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
Let's Get Harry
1986
as Veronica
Harry Burck has been kidnapped by South American terrorists, and when the US Government refuses to intervene, Harry's friends decide to take matters i...
Salvador
1986
as Maria
In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing military...
Bartolome oder Die Rückkehr der weißen Götter
1985
as Sr. Anna
Under Fire
1983
as Sandinista
Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.
The Honorary Consul
1983
as Clara
Set in a small politically unstable Latin American country, the story follows the half English and half Latino Dr. Eduardo Plarr, who left his home to...
The Border
1982
as Maria
A corrupted border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.
Chicoasén
1980
To prevent the Grijalva river from overflowing, during the construction of the Chicoasén dam, "el ratón" and some engineers die. Two archaeologists de...
Broken Flag
1979
as Verónica Rodríguez
When a group of young filmmakers witness and film a crime of passion, the most outrageous blackmail of the century begins. By means of a fantastic pla...
New World
1978
as Mujer de Don Diego de Alba
Towards the end of the 16th century, the Spanish conquerors living in the New World faced a serious problem: the evangelization of the indigenous peop...
Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna
1978
as Isabel
Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister town, inhabited by...
Holy Pafnucio
1977
as Malinche
Controversial, sexy and surreal tale of a messenger, his journey and encounters with many historical events and people such as Auschwitz, the Ku Klux ...
Desires
1977
Snippets of a family drama involving a rebellious son coming to his depressing home village, his father, and a jaded ex-lover, mixed with various surr...
Solidarity
N/A
as Inés
A cross-cultural look at the immigrant experience in Los Angeles, through the parallel lives of a Mexican seamstress and a Lithuanian butcher.
Solidarity
N/A
Co-Producer
A cross-cultural look at the immigrant experience in Los Angeles, through the parallel lives of a Mexican seamstress and a Lithuanian butcher.