China Zorrilla
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.3655 |
| Birthday | 1922-03-14 |
| Place of Birth | Montevideo - Uruguay |
| Also Known As |
2005
Elsa & Fred
7.726/93
When the retired seventy-seven years old hypochondriac widower Fred moves to an apartment in Madrid, his temperamental daughter Cuca has an incident w...
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Elsa & Fred
1985
Waiting for the Hearse
8.061/157
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 m...
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Waiting for the Hearse
2004
Conversations with Mother
5.933/15
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 apartmen...
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Conversations with Mother
1982
Nobody's Wife
7/11
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 quest...
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Nobody's Wife
1982
Pubis angelical
5.143/7
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 meanin...
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Pubis angelical
1985
Contar hasta diez
8/1
Argentina's turbulent political history is an uncredited but clearly present protagonist in this rather slow-paced story about Ramon (Oscar Martinez)...
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Contar hasta diez
1984
To Realize
7.185/27
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 him...
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To Realize
1996
Besos en la frente
7.25/4
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...
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Besos en la frente
2007
Touch the Sky
6.2/6
A family divided between two continents put their differences aside when one of them is diagnosed with cancer.
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Touch the Sky
2007
Tres de corazones
4/1
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....
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Tres de corazones
1972
The Mafia
6.313/8
The business of the Donato family, an Italian-Argentine criminal organization, is a success. They have bought judges, lawyers and even politicians, bu...
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The Mafia
1991
God Raises Them
4/3
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 famil...
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God Raises Them
1991
Summer of the Colt
8.5/2
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 the...
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Summer of the Colt
1982
Last Days of the Victim
7.383/30
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...
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Last Days of the Victim
2009
Blood Pacific
0/0
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...
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Blood Pacific
1995
Ship of Fools
7.167/6
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...
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Ship of Fools
1989
Nunca estuve en Viena
10/2
About an upper-class family during the Centenary of the May Revolution, which coincides with the decline of the aristocratic classes in those years.
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Nunca estuve en Viena
2010
Mercedes
4/1
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 o...
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Mercedes
1973
Las venganzas de Beto Sánchez
3.875/4
When his father dies in a hospital, Beto decides to take revenge on all the people he blames for his bad luck in life.
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Las venganzas de Beto Sánchez
1986
Poor Butterfly
6.7/3
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)...
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Poor Butterfly
1971
Un guapo del 900
6.8/5
The moral conflicts of a conservative politician, his wife and a bully, in the Buenos Aires of the early twentieth century.
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Un guapo del 900
1972
Heroína
6.25/4
A woman who has been traumatized by her brother's accidental death from electrocution in the subways of Buenos Aires learns to readjust.
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Heroína
1975
Las sorpresas
9/1
"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...
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Las sorpresas
1982
La Invitación
6.5/2
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La Invitación
1975
Triangle of Four
8/1
In a boring marriage a model-photographer attracts the husband and a young man to the woman.
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Triangle of Four
1990
Warriors and Prisoners
3.667/3
Patagonia, Argentina, 1880s. During the Conquest of the Desert, Marguerite, the French wife of Colonel Garay, in charge of protecting a new railway, d...
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Warriors and Prisoners
1996
Lola Mora
10/1
The life story of Argentine sculptress Lola Mora.
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Lola Mora
1974
The Truce
7.5/21
A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future.
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The Truce
1992
Cuatro caras para Victoria
9/1
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Cuatro caras para Victoria
1975
Jewish Gauchos
7.143/7
The film recreates the arrival of a group of Jewish immigrants fleeing persecution in Czarist Russia, establishing the first Hebrew colonies in the pr...
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Jewish Gauchos
2024
El último viaje a China
7/2
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 invention...
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El último viaje a China
1974
Los vampiros los prefieren gorditos
6.5/23
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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