Coco Rivera

### Personality

Familial, kind, gentle, decrepit, forgetful (formerly), warm-hearted, fragile, loving, sweet, selfless, lovable (as a child), adorable (as a child), beautiful, supportive, motherly (towards her daughters), grandmotherly

### Loves/Likes

Music, her family, her father, her great-grandson, Julio, her daughters, telling stories

### Hates/Dislikes

Her family's ban on music, family tension, not being able to remember her father, her mother's strictness, stubbornness and wrath, Elena's overbearness and temper, being separated from her father, her family's mistreatment towards her or Miguel

### Home

Santa Cecilia (formerly)
Land of the Dead

### Fate

Passes away and reunites with her family in the Land of the Dead

### Relatives

Héctor † (father)
Imelda † (mother)
Julio † (husband)
Elena Rivera (daughter)
Franco (son-in-law)
Enrique Rivera (grandson)
Berto Rivera (grandson)
Gloria Rivera (granddaughter)
Luisa Rivera (granddaughter-in-law)
Carmen Rivera (granddaughter-in-law)
Miguel Rivera (great-grandson)
Abel Rivera (great-grandson)
Rosa Rivera (great-granddaughter)
Benny and Manny Rivera (twin great-grandsons)
Socorro Rivera (great-granddaughter)
Rosita † (sister-in-law)
Felipe and Óscar † (twin maternal uncles)

### Qoute

"Papa! Papa!"
"I kept... his letters... poems he wrote me... and... Papá was a musician… when I was a little girl; He and Mamá would sing such beautiful songs..."

**Socorro Rivera**, better known as **Mamá Coco**, is the overarching protagonist and is also the titular character of the 2017 Disney/Pixar animated feature film, *Coco*. She is a warm-hearted, supportive, and kind woman who is Miguel's great-grandmother. She suffers from a degenerating memory, but doesn't let that interfere with her happiness.

## Trivia

* Coco is Pixar’s fourth titular character, the others being Nemo, WALL-E, and Dory, as well as the second female titular character, the first one being Dory.
* Mamá Coco was born in 1918.
	+ As the film takes place in present day, Coco was 99 years old at the time of *Coco*. This is confirmed by Lee Unkrich, who revealed Coco passed away at 100 years of age.
* Miguel's younger sister Socorro is named after Mamá Coco.
* During the "Remember Me" lullaby flashback, Mamá Coco's singing voice is performed by Libertad García Fonzi, who is Héctor's voice actor Gael García Bernal's daughter in real life.
* In the Brazilian Portuguese version of the movie, her name is Inês.
* In Spanish and Portuguese, her real name (Socorro) means "help" or "aid".
	+ Also, her nickname "Coco" means "coconut" in Spanish and Portuguese.
	+ Furthermore, her nickname "Coco" also means "cocoa" in French.
* She outlived her older daughter Victoria.
* In the novelization (which depicts her backstory in four chapters), the music ban by her mother did not stop Coco from dancing secretly. Music is also how she and Julio met and fell in love at the Mariachi Plaza (the same one their great-grandson would often sneak off to). Julio loved her so much to willingly give up music. Coco also hid her musical passion in the same hidden attic as Miguel. When she suffered a dancing-related injury which scared her daughters, she fully lived through the music ban from then on. She is also responsible for Miguel's love of music by humming a song to him when he was an infant.
* Miguel's resemblance to Héctor probably helped Coco maintain her memory of her father in her autumn years.
* Though it is never explicitly stated, Coco's failing memory is likely attributed to her having Alzheimer's disease, as evidenced by her inability to recognize her daughter at the beginning of the film and mistaking Miguel for her late husband, as well as her limited mobility.
* Being 100 at the time of her death, Mamá Coco is the oldest Rivera to be deceased.
	+ She was also the last surviving member of the first generation of the Riveras.