--- name: "Yalitza Aparicio" canonical: "https://film.one/person/yalitza-aparicio" fi1m_id: "yalitza-aparicio" imdb_id: "nm8611957" tmdb_id: 1775557 wikidata_id: "Q58902990" roles: ["Actor"] born: "11 December 1993" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-18T00:00:25.060881+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Yalitza Aparicio ## Identity Yalitza Aparicio - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/yalitza-aparicio - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** yalitza-aparicio - **IMDb ID:** nm8611957 - **TMDB ID:** 1775557 - **Wikidata ID:** Q58902990 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalitza_Aparicio, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58902990, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8611957/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1775557 Actor. Born 11 December 1993 in Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, México. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 11 December 1993, Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, México - **Also known as:** Yalitza Aparicio Martínez, Yalitza Aparicio Martinez - **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalitza_Aparicio, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58902990, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8611957/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1775557 ## Streaming the US now - **Netflix:** [*Roma*](https://film.one/film/roma.md) (86) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Yalitza Aparicio > Yalitza Aparicio makes quiet work absorbing in *Roma*, suggesting feelings the household around her cannot claim to understand. It is a moving performance, even when the film seems too grateful to let Cleo be difficult. In *Roma* (2018), Cleo Gutiérrez keeps working while the people around her are at home. Yalitza Aparicio makes that distinction felt even when the affection between the housekeeper and the family is clear. She holds our attention without making each look a plea for sympathy, and without needing a confrontation to show that Cleo has feelings of her own. We were moved by the long takes of her household work because Aparicio made us attend to hours the family could take for granted. Her restraint gives us something to watch throughout those stretches. Alfonso Cuarón gives her the time, though his careful compositions sometimes keep us too far away. Our reservation about the film is that its gratitude towards Cleo can make her seem too agreeable: we want more room for her to be difficult. Aparicio helps by suggesting feelings that the family cannot assume it understands. She does not need an explanatory speech, but the film could afford to regard her with a little less reverence. Aparicio made her debut in *Roma* and has since taken selective film and television roles. Luis Mandoki’s horror film *Presencias* (2022) casts her as Paulina, while the television anthology *Mujeres Asesinas* (2022) gives her the role of Rocío. The comedy *The Great Seduction* (2023), in which she plays Ana, takes her into another genre. These credits suggest a willingness to try different kinds of storytelling, though *Roma* remains the basis of our enthusiasm. Some have questioned whether Aparicio was acting in *Roma*, rather than simply playing herself. We find that a poor way of judging a performance that keeps us watching through so much ordinary work. The more useful question is what a director allows her to reveal, and there are moments when Cuarón’s reverence feels limiting. Start with *Roma*, and pay attention to Aparicio in those unhurried stretches of household work; there is more happening than the family notices. ## Biography Yalitza Aparicio Martínez is a Mexican actress. She made her film debut as Cleo Gutiérrez in Alfonso Cuarón's *Roma* (2018). The performance earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress, making her the first Indigenous Mexican woman nominated in that category. Aparicio was born on 11 December 1993 in Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca. Prior to acting she studied early childhood education and worked towards qualifying as a preschool teacher. She has appeared in *Presencias* (2022), *Mujeres Asesinas* (2022), *The Great Seduction* (2023) and *Midnight Family* (2024). In 2019 she was appointed UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Indigenous Peoples. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Roma* (2018), Fi1m 86, as Cleo Gutiérrez — [page](https://film.one/film/roma.md) ## Complete filmography (14) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Uprising* (2026), as Narrator - *The Long Haul* (2026), Actor - *Unburied* (2025), series, Actor - *In the Still of the Night* (2025), as Frida (Jesus' Mother) - *Midnight Family* (2024), series, as Nayelly - *City of Dreams* (2024), Executive Producer - *The Great Seduction* (2023), as Ana - *Sweatshop Girl* (2023), as Inés - *Mujeres Asesinas* (2022), series, as Rocío - *Presencias* (2022), as Paulina - *Peace Peace Now Now* (2021), series, Actor - *Los Espookys* (2019), series, as The Moon - *Let's Dance* (2018), as Segment: "The Daisy" - *Roma* (2018), as Cleo Gutiérrez — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/roma.md) ## Gallery - ![Jueves 13 de diciembre de 2018. En el Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris, se proyectó la película Roma, del director Alfonso Cuarón, que contó con la presencia ](https://film.one/media/person/126336/gallery-9f07b4e675ed.jpg) Jueves 13 de diciembre de 2018. 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En el Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris, se proyectó la película Roma, del director Alfonso Cuarón, que contó con la presencia ](https://film.one/media/person/126336/gallery-2166e4b3e512.jpg) Jueves 13 de diciembre de 2018. En el Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris, se proyectó la película Roma, del director Alfonso Cuarón, que contó con la presencia — Milton Martínez / Secretaría de Cultura de la Ciudad de México, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Yalitza_Aparicio_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) ## Awards ### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated - 2019: Best Actress (nominated), for *Roma* ### Other awards — 1 won - BBC 100 Women 2019: BBC 100 Women (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. 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