Elpidia Carrillo (born August 16, 1961) is a Mexican and American actress and director. She portrays Sonia in Euphoria.
She is known for her roles in Predator as Anna, Salvador as María and Nine Lives as Sandra.
Biography[]
Carrillo was born in Santa Elena, Michoacán, Mexico, a rural mountain town. One of eight children in a family of farm laborers, her childhood was marked by violence and poverty. At the age of three, her father was murdered, forcing her eldest brother to assume control of the family. Wanting Carrillo to get an education, he forged a birth certificate so she could begin first grade at age four.
When she was six, her brother was also gunned down outside a theater and the family faced constant threats to their lives. When she was ten, Carrillo moved to the town of Uruapan with an older sister where she dropped out of school as she began working alongside her sister at a Chinese restaurant.
