Personal Info
Birth date
1922-03-14 (103 Years)
Day of death
2014-09-17
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Montevideo - Uruguay
Also known as
-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.
Filmography
Gasoleros
NYR
Overview:
The plot is based on the daily life of the Panigasi family, an impoverished middle-class family.Killer Women
5.6
Overview:
Anthology series, in which every episode introduces fictionalized versions of real cases about women who, for different reasons, ended up committing murder.Los Roldán
NYR
Overview:
Los Roldán is a Spanish language telenovela produced by Argentina's Telefe from 2004 to 2005. The drama, which is also described by many as a comedy, actually ended up winning an award in 2004 as Argentina's Comedy of the Year. RCN Colombian network recently bought the soap opera, making a Colombian version called Los Reyes, while the Mexican version of Los Roldán is Los Sánchez, produced by TV Azteca. In 2008, ANT1 Cyprus, produced the series in a Cypriot version called Η ζωή είναι ωραία. In 2012, Mega Channel, produced the series in a Greek version called Οι Βασιλιάδες.Waiting for the Hearse
8.046
Overview:
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?Elsa & Fred
7.8
Overview:
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.Nobody's Wife
6.6
Overview:
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.Darse cuenta
7.417
Overview:
The relationship between a doctor and a depressed young patient in a public hospital.The Mafia
5.9
Overview:
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.Last Days of the Victim
7.18
Overview:
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.Jewish Gauchos
6.6
Overview:
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.The Truce
7.25
Overview:
A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future.Ship of Fools
6.5
Overview:
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.Summer of the Colt
8
Overview:
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, RoviPoor Butterfly
6
Overview:
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.Heroína
6
Overview:
A woman who has been traumatized by her brother's accidental death from electrocution in the subways of Buenos Aires learns to readjust.Las venganzas de Beto Sánchez
3.8
Overview:
When his father dies in a hospital, Beto decides to take revenge on all the people he blames for his bad luck in life.Las sorpresas
NYR
Overview:
"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.Tres de corazones
4
Overview:
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. .Contar hasta diez
NYR
Overview:
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.Blood Pacific
NYR
Overview:
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.Acting
2010Mercedes as Mercedes
2009Blood Pacific as Carmen
2008Vidas robadas (1 Episode) as Nun
2007Touch the Sky as Imperio
2007Tres de corazones as Unknown
2005Elsa & Fred as Elsa
2005Killer Women (1 Episode) as Unknown
2004Conversations with Mother as Mamá
2004Los Roldán (7 Episodes) as Mercedes Lozada
1998Gasoleros (204 Episodes) as Matilde Arévalo de Presutti
1997R.R.D.T. (55 Episodes) as Cristina
1997Ricos y Famosos (180 Episodes) as Catalina
1996Besos en la frente as Mercedes
1996Lola Mora as Reina de Italia
1995Ship of Fools as Dra. Marta Caminos
1992Cuatro caras para Victoria as Victoria IV
1991God Raises Them as Unknown
1991Summer of the Colt as Ana
1990Warriors and Prisoners as Sergeant
1990Atreverse (1, 1 Episode) as Amanda, Edelmira Santucho Barrionuevo
1989Nunca estuve en Viena as Unknown
1986Poor Butterfly as Unknown
1985Waiting for the Hearse as Elvira
1985Contar hasta diez as Unknown
1984Darse cuenta as Ágada
1982La Invitación as Dolores Ortega de Zubarán
1982Pubis angelical as Unknown
1982Last Days of the Victim as Beba (arrendataria)
1982Nobody's Wife as Zulema
1975Las sorpresas as Unknown
1975Jewish Gauchos as Unknown
1975Piel naranja (1 Episode) as Elena
1975Triangle of Four as Unknown
1974The Truce as Unknown
1973Las venganzas de Beto Sánchez as Maestra de primaria
1973Pobre diabla (1 Episode) as Aída Morelli
1972Heroína as Unknown
1972The Mafia as Assunta Donato
1971Un guapo del 900 as Unknown
1970Alta comedia (4, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Rosa
Writing
1984Darse cuenta ... Story