QUICK FACTS
Real name Maria Elena Velasco Fragoso
Nickname The Indian Maria
Nationality Mexico
Birth December 17, 1939 (Puebla – Mexico)
Death May 1, 2015
BIOGRAPHY
María Elena Velasco Fragoso, known by her stage name La Inda María , was a Mexican actress, comedian, singer-songwriter, dancer and filmmaker, born on December 17, 1939, in Puebla, Mexico. Talented dancer, she began her career as a star, known and celebrated for her dancing, in different plays presented at the Blanquita Theater in Mexico City, combining activities such as voiceover and radio dubbing actress, alongside the renowned Jóse Jasso. . The Spanish director Miguel Morayta was the one who offered her her first film roles, in brief participations, until the Puerto Rican director Fernando Cortés trusted her and gave her a role as an indigenous woman named Elena María, in the film El bastardo (1968 ) . ), a western where she adopted the name “La India María”. Famous for being a poor woman but happy with what she had, as well as noble and carefree, the character gained enormous popularity in various comedies, most of them entanglements, where she got involved in issues that she could solve in one way or another, in films such as El fear no anda en burro (1976), Sor Tequila (1977), Neither Chana, nor Juana (1984), Neither from here nor from there (1988), among others. Velasco passed away on May 1, 2015, after a long battle against stomach cancer.
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