{"id":22142,"date":"2024-01-02T01:03:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T07:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=22142"},"modified":"2024-01-02T01:03:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T07:03:49","slug":"mexican-actor-ana-ofelia-murguia-who-voiced-mama-coco-in-coco-dies-at-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=22142","title":{"rendered":"Mexican actor Ana Ofelia Murgu\u00eda, who voiced Mama Coco in \u2018Coco,\u2019 dies at 90"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Mexican actor Ana Ofelia Murgu\u00eda, who gave voice to the character of \u201cMama Coco\u201d in the popular&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/general-news-movies-1df8cd75c55d4a1abc8dbffa039a6a14\">Pixar film \u201cCoco,\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;has died, Mexican officials said. She was 90.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Mexico\u2019s National Fine Arts Institute announced Murgu\u00eda\u2019s death Sunday without providing a cause of death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cShe leaves an enormous void on our country\u2019s sets,\u201d Culture Secretary Alejandra Frausto Guerrero said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCoco,\u201d which was released in 2017, brought Murgu\u00eda to an international audience late in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">But the actor had a long acting career in Mexican film and television, and on the stage. She appeared in some 70 plays and 90 movies, including \u2018Life Sentence\u2019 (1979) and \u2019The Queen of the Night\u2019 (1994).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In the animated \u201c\u2018Coco,\u201d she voiced the soft-spoken great-grandmother of a boy discovering his family\u2019s musical history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In April, the National Autonomous University of Mexico awarded Murgu\u00eda its Ingmar Bergman Medal for leaving \u201can indelible mark\u201d on Mexican film and theater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In her acceptance speech, Murgu\u00eda displayed her typical humility, asking \u201cWhy me?\u201d She said she was exhausted by all of the recognition and plaudits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis career has been my life,\u201d Murgu\u00eda said. \u201cIt has been the passion of my life. I\u2019ve loved it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/mexican-actor-ana-ofelia-murgui-voiced-mama-coco-coco-dies-90-rcna131810\">Nbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexican actor Ana Ofelia Murgu\u00eda, who gave voice to the character of \u201cMama Coco\u201d in the popular&nbsp;Pixar film \u201cCoco,\u201d&nbsp;has died, Mexican officials said. She was 90. Mexico\u2019s National Fine Arts Institute announced Murgu\u00eda\u2019s death Sunday without providing a cause of death. \u201cShe leaves an enormous void on our country\u2019s sets,\u201d Culture Secretary Alejandra Frausto Guerrero [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5782],"tags":[25542,25543,25540,1247,25544,25541],"class_list":["post-22142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ep","tag-coco-mama","tag-coco","tag-90-years-old","tag-death","tag-popular-movies","tag-voice-actor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22144,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22142\/revisions\/22144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}