China Zorrilla

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.

  • Title : China Zorrilla
  • Popularity : 2.552
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1922-03-14
  • Place of Birth : Montevideo - Uruguay
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China Zorrilla Movies

  • 2005
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    Elsa & Fred

    Elsa & Fred

    7.7 2005 HD

    When the retired seventy-seven years old hypochondriac widower Fred moves to an apartment in Madrid, his temperamental daughter Cuca has an incident...

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  • 1985
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    Waiting for the Hearse

    Waiting for the Hearse

    8.1 1985 HD

    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...

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  • 2004
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    Conversations with Mother

    Conversations with Mother

    5.1 2004 HD

    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...

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  • 1982
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    Nobody's Wife

    Nobody's Wife

    6.6 1982 HD

    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...

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  • 1982
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    Pubis angelical

    Pubis angelical

    3.7 1982 HD

    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...

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  • 1985
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    Contar hasta diez

    Contar hasta diez

    1 1985 HD

    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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  • 1984
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    Darse cuenta

    Darse cuenta

    7.3 1984 HD

    The relationship between a doctor and a depressed young patient in a public hospital.

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  • 1996
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    Besos en la frente

    Besos en la frente

    6.7 1996 HD

    Mercedes, a lady of eighty, widow and with fear of loneliness falls in love Sebastian, a writer sixty years less than her. Mercedes will feel trapped...

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  • 2007
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    Touch the Sky

    Touch the Sky

    5.4 2007 HD

    A family divided between two continents put their differences aside when one of them is diagnosed with cancer.

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  • 2007
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    Tres de corazones

    Tres de corazones

    4 2007 HD

    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...

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  • 1972
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    The Mafia

    The Mafia

    5.9 1972 HD

    The business of the Donato family, an Italian-Argentine criminal organization, is a success. They have bought judges, lawyers and even politicians,...

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  • 1991
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    God Raises Them

    God Raises Them

    1 1991 HD

    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...

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  • 1991
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    Summer of the Colt

    Summer of the Colt

    8 1991 HD

    This award-winning film by André Melançon -- set on a ranch on the pampas of Argentina -- tells the story of three children spending a...

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  • 1982
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    Last Days of the Victim

    Last Days of the Victim

    7.1 1982 HD

    Mendizábal, a hit man, its ordered by his anonymous clients to murder a man. But in the precise and obsessive persecution, he will discover...

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  • 2009
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    Blood Pacific

    Blood Pacific

    1 2009 HD

    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...

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  • 1995
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    Ship of Fools

    Ship of Fools

    6.5 1995 HD

    In a small town in Patagonia (Southern Argentina), a Mapuche Indian chief sets a tourist complex under construction on fire. He denies all attempts...

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  • 1989
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    Nunca estuve en Viena

    Nunca estuve en Viena

    10 1989 HD

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  • 2010
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    Mercedes

    Mercedes

    4 2010 HD

    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...

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  • 1973
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    Las venganzas de Beto Sánchez

    Las venganzas de Beto Sánchez

    3.8 1973 HD

    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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  • 1986
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    Poor Butterfly

    Poor Butterfly

    6 1986 HD

    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...

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  • 1971
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    Un guapo del 900

    Un guapo del 900

    6 1971 HD

    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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  • 1972
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    Heroína

    Heroína

    6 1972 HD

    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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  • 1975
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    Las sorpresas

    Las sorpresas

    1 1975 HD

    "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...

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  • 1982
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    La Invitación

    La Invitación

    5 1982 HD

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  • 1975
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    Triangle of Four

    Triangle of Four

    1 1975 HD

    In a boring marriage a model-photographer attracts the husband and a young man to the woman.

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  • 1990
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    Warriors and Prisoners

    Warriors and Prisoners

    1 1990 HD

    Patagonia, Argentina, 1880s. During the Conquest of the Desert, Marguerite, the French wife of Colonel Garay, in charge of protecting a new railway,...

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  • 1996
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    Lola Mora

    Lola Mora

    1 1996 HD

    The life story of Argentine sculptress Lola Mora.

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  • 1974
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    The Truce

    The Truce

    7.1 1974 HD

    A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future.

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  • 1992
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    Cuatro caras para Victoria

    Cuatro caras para Victoria

    1 1992 HD

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  • 1975
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    Jewish Gauchos

    Jewish Gauchos

    6.6 1975 HD

    The film recreates the arrival of a group of Jewish immigrants fleeing persecution in Czarist Russia, establishing the first Hebrew colonies in the...

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  • 1984
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    Darse cuenta

    Darse cuenta

    7.3 1984 HD

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  • 1998
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    Gasoleros

    Gasoleros

    1 1998 HD

    The plot is based on the daily life of the Panigasi family, an impoverished middle-class family.

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  • 1970
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    Alta comedia

    Alta comedia

    2 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Alta comedia

    Alta comedia

    2 1970 HD

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  • 2005
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    Killer Women

    Killer Women

    5.6 2005 HD

    Anthology series, in which every episode introduces fictionalized versions of real cases about women who, for different reasons, ended up committing...

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  • 1990
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    Atreverse

    Atreverse

    3 1990 HD

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  • 1990
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    Atreverse

    Atreverse

    3 1990 HD

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  • 2008
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    Vidas robadas

    Vidas robadas

    2 2008 HD

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  • 1997
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    Ricos y Famosos

    Ricos y Famosos

    1 1997 HD

    Ricos y Famosos is an Argentine telenovela.

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  • 1975
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    Piel naranja

    Piel naranja

    1 1975 HD

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  • 2004
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    Los Roldán

    Los Roldán

    1 2004 HD

    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...

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  • 1997
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    R.R.D.T.

    R.R.D.T.

    5.8 1997 HD

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  • 1973
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    Pobre diabla

    Pobre diabla

    1 1973 HD

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