Two of her grandchildren, sons of Ferrara, Mauricio and Juan Carlos Bonet, are also actors.
[citation needed] She was part of the Guerrillas of Theater groups in Spain set up by the republican government.
She arrived with her family in Mexico in 1939 and debuted in theater the following year in the play Mujeres.
In 1940, she made her first film El capitán estrella and married Lucilo Gutiérrez next year.
Ofelia Guilmáin died in Mexico City at the age of 83 from respiratory failure caused by pneumonia.