Prudencia Grifell (December 27, 1879 – June 7, 1970), born Prudencia Grifell Masipon, was a prolific actress of the Golden Era of the Cinema of Mexico. Grifell was born to Spanish stage actors and started her acting career herself at the age of ten in theater in Venezuela and touring Spain and Latin America. By the 1900s she had become very popular and moved to Mexico to continue her career in stage, after the Spanish Civil War she decided not to go back to that country but instead to relocate in Mexico permanently after 1940. Three years later, already at the age of 61, she appeared in her first film Internado para señoritas ("Girls Boarding School") with the stars Mapy Cortés, Emilio Tuero and Katy Jurado. Just as Sara García, her co-star as the Vivanco sisters in two films, she mostly played feisty but lovable granny roles.
Over the Waves
El señor doctor
The Shadow of the Tyrant
Why Was I Born a Woman?
Soledad
Pepito and the Monster
Nosotros los rateros
Los nietos de Don Venancio
Little Red Riding Hood
Internado para señoritas
X Murderer
Caperucita y sus tres amigos
Después de la tormenta
Those Green Eyes
Angel Face
Apartment house
The Monster of the Shadow
Cuando me vaya
The Third Word
El genial Detective Peter Pérez
