Ofelia Salazar

Ofelia Salazar
Personal Details
Status	Dead
Age	Mid to late 20's
Gender	Female
Actor	Mercedes Mason
Appearances
Seasons	1, 2, 3
First Seen	So Close, Yet So Far
Last Seen	El Matadero
Death Episode	El Matadero
Biography
Occupation	Unknown
Cause of Death	Bitten on the shoulder by an Infected and dies of infection, later shot in the head by Daniel Salazar before reanimation.
Physical Attributes
Ethnicity	Salvadorian-American
Hair	Dark brown
Family
Miguel Salazar (Paternal Grandfather) Daniel Salazar (Father) Griselda Salazar (Mother) William (Ex-Fiancé)

Ofelia Salazar was a major character in the first, second, and third seasons. She was portrayed by Mercedes Mason.

Ofelia was the daughter of Daniel Salazar and Griselda Salazar. She was born and raised in the US after her parents moved to Los Angeles, California. This means she doesn't know as much about her parents background before moving from El Salvador. Ofelia's most notorious trait is her fierce protectiveness over her parents whose English isn't as good as hers. Unlike her parents, Ofelia isn't fluent in Spanish but, to the ears of English speakers at least, she can speak it fairly well.

Biography

Background

Ofelia was the child of Daniel Salazar and Griselda Salazar, Salvadoran immigrants to the US and lived a fairly sheltered life with her parents up to her mid twenties.

She was engaged, before the fall, to a man called "William", the engagement was called off because he needed to to relocate and Ofelia wouldn't leave her parents, believing that she had to look after them. This was revealed by Ofelia to Alicia Clark in the episode "Los Muertos".

Episodes

• Season 1
• Season 2
• Season 3

Appearances

Season 1
Episode	Appearance Status
Pilot	Credit Only
So Close, Yet So Far	Appears
The Dog	Appears
Not Fade Away	Appears
Cobalt	Appears
The Good Man	Appears

Season 2
Episode	Appearance Status
Monster	Appears
We All Fall Down	Appears
Ouroboros	Appears
Blood in the Streets	Appears
Captive	Appears
Sicut Cervus	Appears
Shiva	Appears
Grotesque	Credit Only
Los Muertos	Appears
Do Not Disturb	Credit Only
Pablo & Jessica	Credit Only
Pillar of Salt	Appears
Date of Death	Credit Only
Wrath	Appears
North	Credit Only

Season 3
Episode	Appearance Status
Eye of the Beholder	Absent
The New Frontier	Absent
Teotwawki	Mentioned
100	Flashback
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame	Mentioned
Red Dirt	Absent
The Unveiling	Appears
Children of Wrath	Appears
Minotaur	Appears
The Diviner	Appears
La Serpiente	Credit Only
Brother's Keeper	Appears
This Land Is Your Land	Appears
El Matadero	Appears
Things Bad Begun	Mentioned
Sleigh Ride	Dream

Relationships

• Griselda Salazar - Her mother
• Daniel Salazar - Her father
• Madison
• Alicia
• Liza
• Andrew Adams

Pre-Production Information

Ofelia Salazar is an original, Season 1, character. Before Season 1 filming started, she was described by Kirkman as:

“	as being born in the States, but of Salvadoran parents. Strong, independent, beautiful. Professional but fierce, protective of her parents whom she feels are backwards because of their poor English -- after the outbreak however, she begins to see her parents in a different light.	”
	— Kirkman, Pre-Production publicity release

First view of Ofelia in Episode 2, "So Close, Yet So Far"

In contrast, Mercedes Mason (the actress who plays Ofelia) describes her differently and talks about how the character changed in pre-production.

“	... they purposely put me in this sort of baby-doll dress. I mean, it's very young and I think it was to reflect how naïve Ofelia is. She's post-college, but still very much…I don't want to say immature but maybe that is the best word to use. She's very much a daddy's girl. She relies on her parents to sort of tell her the ins and outs of the world, even though she thinks she's protecting them, because they're the immigrants and she speaks the language better. So, I think they really wanted to start her very innocent and then, at some point, you'll see, there ends up being a change of clothes…it's a lot tougher but it's still very sort of young ... When we first got together, they [the writers] were very good about sitting down with each of us, individually, and sort of fleshing out the character, what do you think, what do we think, you know? There were some sort of instincts that I had that they were completely on board with and some things that they told me, ‘well, we really see her as this.’ Initially, when we started, she was written as kind of a blow hard, like a woman in the work industry, and she's got her s**t together. And then, as it progressed, they started seeing her a lot younger, and, again, very naïve. So it really changed the wardrobe. I think they really wanted to show each of the characters and how they would survive something like this from ground zero, at very different levels of their lives, because the original show, you have the adults and you have the very young kids. And for us, we now have the teenagers, we have the young adults, myself, we have all different sort of cultures. But I think they really want to tap into every aspect of how people would react, so that everybody has somebody to relate to.	”
	— Mercedes Mason, Jim Halterman Interview

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