THE woman who reportedly inspired the character Mama Coco in Disney Pixar film Coco has died.
María Salud Ramírez Caballero passed away in Mexico at the age of 109.
Who was the real life Mama Coco?
María Salud Ramírez Caballero, who was born on September 16, 1913, was a Mexican grandmother.
She was 109 years old when she sadly passed away on Sunday, October 16, 2022.
María was a clay craftswoman who made items which she sold to locals.
According to the New York Times, film director and co-write Lee Unkrich spent two years visiting Oaxaca and Guanajuato in Mexico where he hoped to find inspiration for the family in Coco.
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And María's family have claimed since the Disney film came out, that the production team took a picture of the grandma which they believed the character was based off.
However in 2018, Unkrich tweeted that Mamá Coco was not based upon a real person.
He added: "She sprang solely from our imagination."
What happened to Mama Coco in the movie?
The animated children's movie follows the life of a 12-year-old boy, Miguel, who dreams of becoming a musician.
But his great-great-grandmother Imelda banished music in the family after her husband, Hector, left her and daughter Coco to pursue a career in the industry.
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Coco is Miguel's great-grandma.
Coco's father, Hector, would write and play music for her when she was growing up - but the songs were stolen by a famous musician named Ernesto.
When Miguel accidentally ends up in the land of the dead, he meets Hector who explains everything and helps him return to the land of the living and lift the ban on music.
Coco then helps reveal the plagiarism carried out by Ernesto which means her father can visit the living during the Day of the Dead festival.
At the end of the film Coco dies of old age but is reunited with her parents and family in the land of the dead.
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