Ana Ofelia Murguía, the Mexican actress who voiced great-grandmother Mama Coco in the Oscar-winning Disney Pixar animation Coco, has died aged 90.

According to the information shared and circulating online, the late Ana played a key role in the film about a Mexican boy who crosses to the Land of the Dead, uncovering family secrets while trying to become a musician.

The movie highlights the Day of the Dead and celebrates Mexico’s culture.

The above-mentioned film is actually kind of an animated one because most of its things have been created for entertainment purposes and relevancy; they are not entirely real, but trust me, it takes a genius to come up with such fictions. And they for sure drive the point home. For starters, animation is a method of photographing successive drawings, models, or even puppets to create an illusion of movement in a sequence.

It is this very animation that has allowed storytellers to tell stories in unique ways. The visceral fantastical worlds in animated films can reignite inspiration and the magic of stories no matter what age.

The heartbreaking news of the demise of leading actress Ana Ofelia Murguia was broken by the National Instutute of Fine Arts and Literature, hinting that they have lost a gem.

“With deep sadness, we regret the sensitive death of the leading actress Ana Ofelia Murguía, who was part of the stable cast of the National Theater Company of Mexico and whose artistic career was vital for the performing arts of Mexico,” the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature added.

Born in Mexico in 1933, Murguía won a special lifetime achievement Golden Ariel award in 2011 at a ceremony recognizing the best of the Mexican cinema industry.

She shared the prize for her career spanning more than 40 years in stage, film, and television with director and writer Jorge Fons.