Personal Info
Birth date
1980-01-13 (45 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Mexico City, Mexico
Also known as
-Adriana Paz
Biography
Adriana Paz (born January 13, 1980) is a Mexican actress and dancer. She began her artistic career in Spain, shooting commercials and acting in a play. She was recognized for her role as Toña in the Mexican film Rudo y Cursi(2009) with a nomination for the Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actress. She garnered critical praise starring as Miranda in Las Horas Muertas (2013), for which she was awarded Best Actress at the Morelia International Film Festival. She subsequently starred in the TV series Sucedió en Un Día (2010), Capadocia (2010), El Encanto del Aguila (2011), Dios, Inc. (2016), and Vis a vis (2018–2019). Paz is also featured in other films, including Todos los Besos (2007), Backyard: El Traspatio (2009), Not Forgotten (2009), Un Mexicano Más (2009), El Mar Muerto (2010), 4 Maras (2012), Morelos (2012), Elysium (2013), Spectre, and Las Aparicio (2015). For her lead performance in the drama La Tirisia (2014), she received the Ariel Award for Best Actress and for the films Hilda (2015) and La Caridad (2016), she won two consecutive Ariel Awards for Best Supporting Actress. In 2017, her performance in El Autor earned her a nomination for the Goya Award for Best New Actress. For her role in Emilia Pérez, Paz was recognized with the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress in 2024. Description above from the Wikipedia article Adriana Paz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Golden Globe Awards
7.2
Overview:
An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.Locked Up
8.011
Overview:
Set up to take the blame for corporate fraud, young Macarena Ferreiro is locked up in a high-security women's prison surrounded by tough, ruthless criminals in this tense, provocative Spanish thriller.Spectre
6.559
Overview:
A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.Emilia Pérez
6.571
Overview:
Rita, an underrated lawyer working for a large law firm more interested in getting criminals out of jail than bringing them to justice, is hired by the leader of a criminal organization.Stolen Away
7
Overview:
Searching for his kidnapped daughter, Antonio sets off a series of events affecting scores of people when he maneuvers to be sent to prison in Colombia.Rudo & Cursi
7
Overview:
Two brothers living a hard life of manual labor in rural Mexico have a simple dream: saving enough money to build their mother her dream house. But fate has other plans. A friendly game of soccer leads to first Rudo, then to Cursi being taken on by the nation’s top talent scout. Suddenly, they find themselves living the high life of star athletes: fame, fortune, fast cars and beautiful women.Chupa
6.357
Overview:
While visiting family in Mexico, a lonely boy befriends a mythical creature hiding on his grandfather's ranch and embarks on the adventure of a lifetime.Coyote
7.8
Overview:
After 32 years as a Border Patrol agent, Ben Clemens is forced to work for the very people he spent his career trying to keep out of the United States. Now exposed to life on the other side of the wall, Ben starts to question his black and white views of the world, challenging his ideology and his loyalties.The ABCs of Death
4.946
Overview:
An ambitious anthology film featuring segments directed by over two dozen of the world's leading talents in contemporary genre film. Inspired by children's educational ABC books, the film comprises 26 individual chapters, each helmed by a different director assigned a letter of the alphabet. The directors were then given free reign in choosing a word to create a story involving death.Not Forgotten
5.08
Overview:
Set in a Tex-Mex border town, Not Forgotten is a classic psychological thriller about Jack and Amaya Bishop, a couple who must come to terms with their tortured pasts in order to save their kidnapped daughter. It is a tale taut with intrigue and steeped in Latino mysticism, where the line between what's real and what's imagined becomes hopelessly blurred.El colapso
7.3
Overview:
An exploration of the societal consequences when a nation's financial, technological, political, and environmental systems collapse. Told in eight stand-alone episodes filmed in one continuous shot.The Empty Hours
6.929
Overview:
Stuck managing his uncle's deserted motel on Veracruz's lonely coast, 17-year-old Sebastian finds solace in unexpected company. Miranda, a beautiful yet seemingly forlorn guest, whiles away the hours waiting for her perpetually late lover. As conversations between them blossom into a connection neither anticipated, a forbidden spark ignites. Will they succumb to the fiery temptation of a fleeting passion, or will they cage their desires for a life dictated by circumstance?The Motive
6.231
Overview:
Álvaro, a man obsessed with the idea of writing what he brands as “high literature,” manipulates the lives and feelings of the people around him to write about the consequences caused by his devious acts.Death's Roulette
6.4
Overview:
Seven strangers wake up in a mansion in the middle of nowhere to discover they are part of a twisted game. They will have 60 minutes to choose one person to die; otherwise, all of them will be murdered. As the clock ticks down, the most lurid secrets will come to light, and they’ll discover they are all connected by a dark past.Animals
NYR
Overview:
When the son of an L.A. mayoral candidate is kidnapped, he and his wife have a few hours to come up with the ransom payment. With most of their money spent on his political campaign, they have to get their hands dirty and expose a side of their lives they never intended to see the light of day.City of Dreams
6
Overview:
A Mexican teenager whose dreams of becoming a soccer star are disrupted when his mother dies. He's smuggled across the border with the promise of a better life but is instead sold to a sweatshop in downtown LA.Las Aparicio
5.8
Overview:
Three generations of women who share a strange family tradition: all widowed in extraordinary circumstances; all give birth only to girls. This is the film based on the television series.Perpetual Sadness
7
Overview:
Cheba and Ángeles became pregnant by the same man, Silvestre. Silvestre was Cheba's lover while Cheba's husband was working abroad. He is also Ángeles' stepfather. Now Cheba's husband has returned and, on the other hand, Ángeles' mother does not want her to raise the child that Silvestre has fathered. The two women have to decide what to do with the children and face their own desires and needs.This Is Not a Comedy
6.119
Overview:
A comedian finds new meaning in his life when his best friend asks him to be her sperm donor, and he meets a girl who connects with the cosmos.Charity
6.2
Overview:
Angélica and José Luis have been married for thirty years and they have always lived at the same house; first with their son, Daniel, and now, by themselves. Their daily routine is threatened when José Luis loses a leg in a car accident. When they try to restructure their life, they realize their relation was already fractured and opt for silence. However, they begin a passionate search for all they have lost. José Luis takes refuge in a sexual fantasy about his young nurse, while Angélica tries to remain just as contained as she always has for so many years.Making Emilia Pérez
3
Overview:
Go behind the scenes of this Oscar-nominated, genre-defying film with director Jacques Audiard and stars Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez.No One Will Ever Know
5.3
Overview:
An anodyne environment and a perennial lack of affection, push Lucia and Braulio to turn in the fiction world; to materialize their dreams. Neither inclement reality can stop them.I've Never Had A Hilda
4.7
Overview:
Hilda, the new housemaid, brings about an awakening in the life of wealthy Mrs. Le Marchand, who recalls her revolutionary past, questions her frivolous present and experiences an identity crisis.A World for Raúl
5.2
Overview:
When thirteen-year-old Raúl is asked to entertain the local landowner's son, a game of power and pride starts between the two boys.Morelos
4.6
Overview:
The final years of Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon (1812-1815), leader in the Mexican war for independence who, after outsmarting Calleja´s blocade in Cuautla, reorganized his troops and took the city of Oaxaca. However, with more than half the territory of Mexico in his hands, Morelos was determined to take the port of Acapulco while the royalist troops gained ground. It shows the relationship of Morelos with his lieutenants, his efforts to create institutions of his own and a disciplined army to confront the royalist troops. The film captures the two inseparable facets of the life of this Mexican hero: his contradictions and his passions.Backyard
6.4
Overview:
Officer Blanca Bravo arrives in Juarez, Mexico — a grim nexus of corporate colonialism and sexual tourism — to investigate a rash of killings targeting female migrant workers. But with no help from the locals, bringing the responsible parties to justice becomes a frustrating exercise. As Bravo rails against indifference and local corruption, she finds herself on a collision course with Mickey Santos, a Mexican mogul with a taste for young prostitutes.El mar muerto
5
Overview:
There is a blackout in Mexico City. In the darkness some people are abandoned by God (their conscience) and commit a transgression (murder and infidelity). When the lights come on, conscious of what they have done, they must atone for their sin.The Voice of a Dream
5.1
Overview:
At a pivotal moment in her singing career, Rocío discovers that her mother is ill and that her final wish is to meet with her again before she dies. After evading the past for 10 years, Rocío returns to her hometown from where she was once expelled. When confronting her family, she comes to understand that forgiveness is the key that will allow her to realize her full potential.Acting
TBAAnimals as Unknown
2025Dead Man's Switch as Dalia
2025Making Emilia Pérez as Self
2024City of Dreams as Prostitute
2024Emilia Pérez as Epifanía
2023Death's Roulette as Teresa
2023Chupa as Julia
2023El colapso (1 Episode) as Soledad
2022La Rebelión (6 Episodes) as Ivonne
2021This Is Not a Comedy as Melissa
2021Coyote (6 Episodes) as Silvia
2020Tijuana Bible as Ana
2020Stolen Away (11 Episodes) as Angelita
2018The Voice of a Dream as Unknown
2018No One Will Ever Know as Lucia
2017The Motive as Irene
2017Casi una gran estafa as Unknown
2016Shine a Light as Eva
2016Las Aparicio as Madre de migrante desaparecida
2016Charity as Eva
2015Spectre as Mexican Woman in Lift
2015Locked Up (16 Episodes) as Altagracia Guerrero
2014I've Never Had A Hilda as Unknown
2014Perpetual Sadness as Cheba
2013El mar muerto as Unknown
2013The Empty Hours as Miranda
2013Statues as Unknown
2013The ABCs of Death as (segment "I is for Ingrown")
2012Two Out of Three as Mamá de MAteo
2012Bautizo as Unknown
2012Morelos as Unknown
2012A World for Raúl as Raúl's Mother
20124 Maras as Unknown
2011Burros as Unknown
2011Vacant Spaces as Adela
2011Qué importa corazón as Unknown
2010Another Mexican as Chiquis
2010Sucedió en un día as Unknown
2009Not Forgotten as Pregnant Maid
2009Backyard as Hilda
2008Rudo & Cursi as Toña
2007Todos los besos as Unknown
1944Golden Globe Awards (1 Episode) as Self - Audience Member