Acclaimed Mexican actor Ana Ofelia Murguía, voice of Mama Coco, dead at 90

British actor Alex Cox, Mexican actress Blanca Guerra and Ana Ofelia Murguía (center), Mexican film director Arturo Ripstein and Mexican actress Patricia Reyes Spíndola pose as part of the 47th Cannes Film Festival in 1994. Murguía died Sunday. (Georges Bendrihem/AFP via Getty Images)

Acclaimed Mexican actor Ana Ofelia Murguía has died. She was best known in the U.S. for voicing the elderly matriarch, Mama Coco, in the 2017 Disney Pixar film Coco. She was 90 years old.

The Mexican National Institute of Fine Arts announced her death on social media over the weekend.