Evita Muñoz "Chachita"

Infobox actor
name = Evita Muñoz "Chachita"


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caption = Evita Muñoz "Chachita" in 2002
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birthname = Eva María Muñoz Ruíz
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occupation = Actress
notable role = Chachita, in "Nosotros los pobres"
Hermana Carmela, in "Mundo de Juguete"
Hermelinda Linda, in "Hermelinda Linda"
imdb= 0616307

Eva María Muñoz Ruiz, was born in (Orizaba, Veracruz; on November 26 1936). She is a Mexican actress. Her career began during the golden age of Mexican cinema. During 67 continuous years, 'Chachita' has been recognized as a a successful artist in cinema, TV, theatre, radio, night club and circus.

Even though she was a little under four years old she was already filming her first motion picture, starting a career of big hits with her in the starring role as a child actress beginning with a role in "El secreto del sacerdote" in 1941, and after her second movie: "¡Ay Jalisco, no te rajes!" (1941), she received the nickname of: "Chachita" (Short for: 'Muchachita' (Young girl)), Evita Muñoz "Chachita" has been able to become a popular icon and has managed to stay present in her audiences´ mind during a life-long career as a child, teenager, adult and senior actress.

Round 1944 her popularity in the movies made her start her radio career in the radio show "La legión de madrugadrores" in the XEQ radio station. In 1947 she signed a contract with CBS in New York to star in the radio serial: "Aventuras de una niña" transmitted to all Central and South America and produced by Carlos Montalbán. At the end of the fifties she starred in the show: "El Risámetro".

To promote her movie "La Hija del Payaso" (1946), in which she performed along with elephants and trained dogs, she learned to play the marimba and the xylophone. She made personal appearances with the Atayde Circus when she was only eight years old.

During her teenage years, she costarred with Pedro Infante in the trilogy: "Nosotros los pobres" (1948), "Ustedes los ricos" (1948) and "Pepe el Toro" (1952), which jumpstarted a new cycle for the Mexican cinema.

A privileged voice allows her to sing not only as herself; she does impressions of female singers from the era like: Celia Cruz, Olga Guillot and Mona Bell.

During the Korean War she visited and performed shows for the Hispanic-American troops of soldiers. She was invited by Dámaso Pérez Prado as a mambo dancer for a tour all over the Philipine islands and Japan where she became a sensation.

Pioneer of Mexican Tv, in soap operas such as "Gutierritos" with Rafael Banquels, in comedy programs with Chespirito and variety shows like "Siempre en Domingo" with Raúl Velasco, she quickly became a favorite of the Mexican audience.

In the seventies she played the role of Sister Carmela, a novice nun in the convent where ‘Cristina’ (Graciela Mauri) went to elementary school in the Mexican versión of the soap opera "Mundo de Juguete". In 1975 she starred in the varieties show "Un hombre y una mujer" with Fernando Allende.

In theatre, she has performed during lengthy seasons of dramas, comedies and musicals, receiving different award and recognition in Mexico and abroad.

During the eighties she played the role of the witch Hermelinda Linda in a couple of films. In TV she starred along with Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo and Macaria in the sit-com "Dos mujeres en mi casa", and in 1986 she worked again with Freddy Fernández "El Pichi" in the sit-com "Nosotros los Gómez".

In the nineties she continued working in a series of Soap operas for Televisa up to nowadays, besides making films like "De lengua me como un plato" with Alberto Rojas "El Caballo" and Maribel Fernández "La Pelangocha" and she played a nun from northern Mexico in "Cambiando el destino" with the band Magneto.

In the new millennium she has starred in several episodes of "Mujer: Casos de la vida real" produced and presented by Silvia Pinal and she has lent her voice to CGI animated characters such as 'Cocó' the lamp in "Serafín: La Película" and 'Dr. Lucille Krunklehorn' in the latinamerican Spanish versión of Disney´s "Meet the Robinsons".

She has made ad campaings for Roach Motel (product) and Ziploc.

Currently she is working in the Televisa soap opera "Cuidado con el ángel" and in the 2008 season of "Sesame Street" - Mexico.

Filmography

*El secreto del sacerdote (1941)
*¡Ay Jalisco, no te rajes! (1941)
*¡Qué lindo es Michoacán! (El paraíso de México) (1943)
*Morenita clara (1943)
*La pequeña madrecita (1944)
*La hija del payaso (1946)
*¡Qué verde era mi padre! (1947)
*Chachita la de Triana (1947)
*Yo vendo unos ojos negros (1947)
*Nosotros los pobres (1948)
*Ustedes los ricos (1948)
*Guardián, el perro salvador (1948)
*Las dos huerfanitas (1950)
*El Cristo de mi cabecera (1951)
*Los hijos de la calle (1951)
*Los pobres siempre van al Cielo (1951)
*La hija de la otra (1951)
*Una calle entre tú y yo (1952)
*Pepe el Toro (1952)
*Padre Nuestro (1953)
*La locura del Rock ´n Roll (1956)
*El hombre que me gusta (1958)
*Bajo el cielo de México (1958)
*Mis padres se divorcian (1959)
*Mi niño, mi caballo y yo (1959)
*En cada feria un amor (1961)
*Dos tontos y un loco (1961)
*Gigantes planetarios (1965)
*El dengue del amor (1965)
*Cuando el diablo sopla (1966)
*La muerte es puntual (1967)
*La hermana Trinquete (1969)
*Faltas a la moral (1970)
*Cayó de la gloria el diablo (1972)
*Peluquero de señoras (1973)
*El padrino... es mi compadre (1974)
*La palomilla al rescate (1977)
*Las musiqueras (1981)
*La casa prohibida (1981)
*Vividores de mujeres (1981)
*El barrendero (1981)
*Los fayuqueros de Tepito (1982)
*El que no Corre... Vuela (1982)
*En el camino andamos (1983)
*Máscara contra bikini (1984)
*Los humillados (1984)
*Romancing the Stone (1984)
*Hermelinda Linda (film) (1984)
*El sinaloense (1985)
* (1986)
*Día de madres (1988)
*Dos machos que ladran no muerden (1988)
*De lengua, me como un plato (1990)
*Cambiando el destino (1992)
* (2001)
*Meet the Robinsons (2007) (voice)

oap operas

*Gutierritos (1958)
*Corona de lágrimas (1964)
*El amor tiene cara de mujer (1971)
*Mundo de Juguete (1974)
*Ángeles sin paraíso (1992)
*Bendita mentira (1996)
*Gotita de amor (1998)
*Serafìn (1999)
*Nunca te olvidaré (1999)
*Alma rebelde (1999)
*Siempre te amaré (2000)
*Contra viento y marea (2005)
*Cuidado con el ángel (2008)

Theatre

*(1957) "Fin de semana" ("Hay fever"), by Noël Coward
*(1957) "La casa de la primavera", de Fernand Millaud - "Yolanda Lambert"
*(1958) "Mujercitas" ("Little Women", by Louisa May Alcott - "Jo March"
*(1959) "Las cosas simples", by Héctor Mendoza
*(1962) "Despedida de soltera", by Alfonso Anaya B.
*(1964) "El segundo aire de mama y papa", by Alfonso Paso
*(1966) "Le pondremos talco al niño", by Jean de Letraz
*(1967) "Baby shower. Una fiesta embarazosa" - "Eugenia"
*(1972) "Doce mil pesos por mi mujer" - "Carmen"
*(1974) "Dos naufragos tras el pescado" ("La pequeña choza"), by André Roussin
*(1976) "Travesuras de medianoche", by Anthony Marriot - "Mónica Johnson"
*(1977) "Se armó la gorda" ("Melocotón en almíbar"), by Miguel Mihura
*(1979) "Espíritu travieso" ("Blithe Spirit"), by Noël Coward
*(1980) "Vidas privadas" ("Private Lives"), by Noël Coward
*(1981) "El médico a palos" ("Le médecin malgré lui"), by Jean Baptiste Poquelin "Moliere"
*(1982) "Cueros y pieles", by Ray Cooney
*(1983) "Los amores criminales de las vampiras Morales", by Hugo Argüelles - "Rosa Fulvia"
*(1984) "Las modelos de Chachita"
*(1986) "Vengan corriendo que les tengo un muerto", by Varelita
*(2001) "Máscara contra cabellera", by Victor Hugo Rascón Banda

External links

* [http://mx.geocities.com/evitamunozchachita/ Personal page in Internet]
* [http://imdb.com/name/nm0616307/ Profile at IMDb]
* In [http://cinemexicano.mty.itesm.mx/estrellas/chachita.html Cine Mexicano] Page by ITESM
* [http://video.esmas.com/espectaculos/chachita-festeja-su-cumpleanos/2/13923 Video at esmas.com]