Ofelia Salazar

Ofelia Salazar
Personal Details
Status	Alive
Age	Mid to late 20's
Gender	Female
Actor	Mercedes Mason
Appearances
Seasons	1
First Seen	"So Close, Yet So Far]"
Physical Attributes
Ethnicity	Salvadorian-American
Hair	dark brown
Family
Griselda Salazar - mother Daniel Salazar - father

Ofelia Salazar is a character AMC's Fear the Walking Dead. She is portrayed by Mercedes Mason. She appears in five episodes of Season 1 and in at least one episode of Season 2.

Biography

Background

She is described by Kirkman before filiming had started, like this

“	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 Olfelia) describes her with a slightly different emphasis

“	... 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

Season 1

"Pilot"

Ofelia does not appear in this episode.

"So Close, Yet So Far"

Ofelia appears towards the end of this episode. The Manawa family have taken refuge in the shop and building where the Salazar family live. Travis is agitated and starting to argue with Daniel, Ofelia's father. Ofelia enters from the back of the room and her calm presence is enough to smooth things over between her father and the strange man. She invites the Manawas to take a seat in the shop at the front and they do so without any fuss - despite Travis having argued with Daniel about the same thing a few moments earlier. Once they have left the room Ofelia asks her father what has happened and he explains. Ofelia remains visible in the living area but isn't seen to speak again.

"The Dog"

Ofelia Salazar appears in this episode

Appearances

Season 1 appearances
Pilot	So Close, Yet So Far	The Dog	Not Fade Away	Cobalt	The Good Man

Relationships

• Griselda Salazar - Her mother
• Daniel Salazar - Her father

Image Gallery

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