China Zorrilla

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

0.8716

Gender

Female

Birthday

14-Mar-1922

Age

(104 years old)

Place of Birth

Montevideo - Uruguay

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China Zorrilla

Biography

China Zorrilla (born Concepción Matilde Zorrilla de San Martín Muñoz; Montevideo, 14 March 1922 –Montevideo, 17 September 2014) was an emblematic Uruguayan theater, film, and television actress, also director, producer and writer. An immensely popular star in the Rioplatense area is often regarded as a Grand Dame of the South American theater stage. After a long career in the Uruguayan theater, Zorrilla made over 50 appearances in Argentina's film, theater and TV. Her distinguished career took off in Uruguay in the 50-60s, later she settled in Argentina where she lived for over 35 years and was popular on TV, theater, and cinema. At 90, she retired and went back to Uruguay where she died in 2014. In 2008, Zorrilla was invested Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government and in 2011, the Correo Uruguayo (the national postal service in Uruguay) released a print run of 500 commemorative postage stamps dedicated to her.


Credits

Besos en la frente Besos en la frente (1996) Character: Mercedes
Mercedes, a widow of eighty and fearful of loneliness, falls in love with Sebastian, a writer sixty years younger than her. Mercedes will feel trapped in her wrinkled and slow body that which prevents her from living their love as it should be lived.
Dios Los Cría Dios Los Cría (1991) Character: N/A
Angel lives with his mother and has homosexual inclinations. One day he meets Mirna, a prostitute who has a son. The three try to form a strange family.
Tocar el cielo Tocar el cielo (2007) Character: Imperio
A family divided between two continents put their differences aside when one of them is diagnosed with cancer.
Pubis angelical Pubis angelical (1982) Character: N/A
It's about three women, three stories, or perhaps a single story in different projections of time and space. The Mistress wishes to unravel the meaning of being a woman is the victim of Hollywood. Ana is the product of a society ruled or dominated by men.
La nave de los locos La nave de los locos (1995) Character: Dra. Marta Caminos
In a small town in Patagonia (Southern Argentina), a Mapuche Indian chief sets a tourist complex under construction on fire. He denies all attempts to defend himself. Locked up, he waits for the arrival of "Caleuche," the Ship (Nave) of Fools (de los locos), a mythical figure of his ancestral strength which "made" him start the fire. An appointed lawyer (a white woman) comes to the chief's defence, alleging the chief had acted in self-defense as the white man was building commercial structures on the sacred burial grounds of his ancestors, and continued doing so even after heated protests.
Sangre del pacífico Sangre del pacífico (2009) Character: Carmen
Jorge is an old artist, actor and director, who says he wants to direct a film about the Latin American wars of independence. Charito is a young woman who comes from the Peruvian jungle to work as a maid in Buenos Aires. The unconscious of the protagonists bursts in the form of dreams, visions and fantasies amid horses, fencing sessions, fragments of lost films and anthropological videos.
Nunca estuve en Viena Nunca estuve en Viena (1989) Character: N/A
About an upper-class family during the Centenary of the May Revolution, which coincides with the decline of the aristocratic classes in those years.
Pobre mariposa Pobre mariposa (1986) Character: N/A
A turbulent era in Argentine politics is highlighted in this well-wrought drama, set in Buenos Aires at the end of 1945, about Clara (Graciela Borges), a young, half-Jewish woman awakening to the reasons behind the political conflicts of her time and place. Clara's father was a Communist who fought the Nazis in Argentina and possessed a list of the top Nazi exiles and their contacts. Through a former lover, Clara -- a successful broadcast journalist -- begins to see her Jewish roots (and the leftists) in a whole new light. Meanwhile, the political storms sweeping through Argentina are setting the stage for the Peronist government to come.
Las sorpresas Las sorpresas (1975) Character: N/A
"The Surprises" is an episode film. In the episode Five Years of Life an unknown man and woman spend a night locked in a subway station. In Corazonada, a domestic employee takes revenge on her employer by making her son fall in love and in The Wells there is a love triangle in which the deceived husband is blind.
El último viaje a China El último viaje a China (2024) Character: Ella misma (material de archivo)
Years passed, and China Zorrilla's artistic children never met again. Her death closed an era. What remains in our memory is the jazz of her inventions and the legacy of an artist who forged new paths, amidst both delusions and prohibitions.
Contar hasta diez Contar hasta diez (1985) Character: N/A
Argentina's turbulent political history is an uncredited but clearly present protagonist in this rather slow-paced story about Ramon (Oscar Martinez) and his search for his brother Pedro in the capital city of Buenos Aires. Pedro has disappeared at a time of upheaval, after a military junta takes over Argentina in 1976, killing thousands of leftists and dissidents. Unlike many others, Ramon's father has political ties that matter, but that may not change Pedro's fate, which could be death -- or like some who have been tortured, worse than death. This film was nominated for a Golden Bear award at the 1985 Berlin Film Festival.
Esperando la carroza Esperando la carroza (1985) Character: Elvira
Mama Cora, who is almost eighty years old, has three sons and a daughter. She lives with one of them, who has serious financial problems. The family meets one day to celebrate an anniversary meal, and that is when the problem arises: which of them will take care of her?
Últimos días de la víctima Últimos días de la víctima (1982) Character: Beba (arrendataria)
Mendizábal, a hit man, its ordered by his anonymous clients to murder a man. But in the precise and obsessive persecution, he will discover that he is only part of a game that doesn't belong to him, a web at the service of greater interests.
Elsa y Fred Elsa y Fred (2005) Character: Elsa
When the retired seventy-seven years old hypochondriac widower Fred moves to an apartment in Madrid, his temperamental daughter Cuca has an incident with his next door neighbor, the elder Argentinean Elsa. Later, they meet each other and Elsa seduces Fred with her reckless behavior and view of life and they have a romance.
Darse cuenta Darse cuenta (1984) Character: Ágada
After a brutal car accident, a young man falls into a coma and is left to be looked after by a doctor who suffers in his personal life and commits himself fully to save his patient.
Heroína Heroína (1972) Character: N/A
A woman who has been traumatized by her brother's accidental death from electrocution in the subways of Buenos Aires learns to readjust.
Tres de corazones Tres de corazones (2007) Character: N/A
Angel decides to return to his hometown. In an inn on the route meets Dora, and they engage in conversation, but their relationship did not end there. Once installed in the same city, Angel gets a job as a taxi driver will take you to reconnect with Dora. The attraction they both feel continues, even though Angel discovers that Dora is the wife of his boss, a former police officer made ​​in the street, given to sudden outbursts of violence. .
Conversaciones con mamá Conversaciones con mamá (2004) Character: Mamá
Jaime has lost his job and has to provide for his wife, son and daughter. Pressured by this circumstances, he visits his mom, who lives in an apartment he owns, to ask her to move with him so he can sell the apartment. But she is not going to cooperate. And, to Jaime's surprise, she also has a boyfriend!
Los gauchos judíos Los gauchos judíos (1975) Character: N/A
The film recreates the arrival of a group of Jewish immigrants fleeing persecution in Czarist Russia, establishing the first Hebrew colonies in the province of Entre Rios, Argentina.
Guerriers et Captives Guerriers et Captives (1990) Character: Sergeant
Patagonia, Argentina, 1880s. During the Conquest of the Desert, Marguerite, the French wife of Colonel Garay, in charge of protecting a new railway, discovers that a French woman is being held captive by the local natives.
Las venganzas de Beto Sánchez Las venganzas de Beto Sánchez (1973) Character: Maestra de primaria
When his father dies in a hospital, Beto decides to take revenge on all the people he blames for his bad luck in life.
Lola Mora Lola Mora (1996) Character: Reina de Italia
The life story of Argentine sculptress Lola Mora.
El verano del potro El verano del potro (1991) Character: Ana
This award-winning film by André Melançon -- set on a ranch on the pampas of Argentina -- tells the story of three children spending a summer with their grandfather. The youngest, Felipe, makes friends with a puppy; his older brother, Daniel, breaks and train his first horse; their 13-year-old sister, Laura, struggles with the transition between childhood and growing up. The kids find it difficult to adapt to their proud and stubborn grandfather, and he learns that he has to change his ways and try to understand them as they all experience the joys and sorrows of growing up and growing old. ~ Alice Duncan, Rovi
La tregua La tregua (1974) Character: Rosa, esposa de Vignale
A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future.
Mercedes Mercedes (2010) Character: Mercedes
Mercedes is a woman who has 212 years. She is also an unusual biological phenomenon in the human race, the only living witness of the entire history of Argentina.
Un guapo del 900 Un guapo del 900 (1971) Character: N/A
The moral conflicts of a conservative politician, his wife and a bully, in the Buenos Aires of the early twentieth century.
La maffia La maffia (1972) Character: Assunta Donato
The business of the Donato family, an Italian-Argentine criminal organization, is a success. They have bought judges, lawyers and even politicians, but after a kidnapping goes wrong, a civil war starts in the Donato crime family. Based on a real event of the Galiffi crime family, a real Italian pro-Fascism mafia that conquered in the 1920's and 1930's the city of Rosario, the Chicago of Latin America.
Señora de nadie Señora de nadie (1982) Character: Zulema
It is the story of Eleanor, a good housewife who lives with her husband, Fernando, and their two children. Deeply loves her husband and does not question the reciprocity of love and fidelity. One day, circumstantially, discovers her husband is cheating. Leonor emotionally feels betrayed and realizes that his world, based on a lie, has collapsed like a house of cards. With more fear than conviction, leaving the house, leaving little signs with instructions for their march and trust their children to the care of her husband.
Triángulo de cuatro Triángulo de cuatro (1975) Character: N/A
In a boring marriage a model-photographer attracts the husband and a young man to the woman.
Los vampiros los prefieren gorditos Los vampiros los prefieren gorditos (1974) Character: N/A
Count Dracula travels to Buenos Aires with his secretary and stays in a very special hotel, where several mobsters are also staying.



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