Evita Muñoz 'Chachita'
Birthday: Born in 1936-11-26 in Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico
Deathday: 2016-08-23
Eva María Muñoz Ruíz[a] (November 26, 1936 – August 23, 2016), known professionally as Evita Muñoz "Chachita", was a Mexican actress and comedian. Her professional career began in 1941, when she was only four years old, and she continued performing through, and contributing to, the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Muñoz was still four years old when she played the character Chachita in her second film, ¡Ay, Jalisco, no te rajes! (Ay! Jalisco, don't back down) (1941), and went on to play Chachita in eight more films and numerous television roles over the subsequent decades, and would be credited as Eva Muñoz "Chachita" in other appearances. For more than 75 years, "Chachita" was recognized as a successful artist in cinema, television, theater, radio, nightclub and circus shows.
TV Credits
La Hora Marcada
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La Hora Marcada was a 1986 Mexican television anthology series famous for its horror and science fiction themes in the vein of the Twilight Zone. Although virtually unknown outside the country, it achieved a popular and critical success in Mexico. It had a series of rotating writers and directors, among them Emmanuel Lubezki, Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón....
Columbo
Character: Chambermaid
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline....
NUNCA TE OLVIDARE
Character: Benita
Nunca te olvidaré is a Mexican telenovela produced by Juan Osorio for Televisa in 1999. It is based on a novel by Caridad Bravo Adams and starring Edith González, Fernando Colunga and antagonistic interests of Alma Muriel, Eugenia Cauduro and Humberto Elizondo....
Ángeles sin paraíso
Character: Asunción "Mamá Chonita"
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Cuidado con el Ángel
Character: Candelaria Martínez
Cuidado Con El Ángel is a Telenovela distributed by Televisa starring Maite Perroni and William Levy. The telenovela, a production of Nathalie Lartilleux, premiered on June 9, 2008 and finished its broadcast March 6, 2009. It had millions of viewers worldwide, and broke records in America....
Alma Rebelde
Character: Berenice
Alma Rebelde is a 1999 Mexican telenovela, starring Lisette Morelos, Eduardo Verástegui and the late Edgar Ponce. It was produced by Televisa. This telenovela contained 90 episodes....
Contra viento y marea
Character: Doña Cruz Cárdenas
Contra viento y marea is a Mexican telenovela aired from April 25 until November 4, 2005. This was also the last acting role of Beatriz Sheridan, who died in 2006 of a heart attack....
Gotita de Amor
Character: Dolores "Lolita" Lomeli de Centella
Gotita de amor is a Mexican drama broadcast by Canal de las Estrellas, starring Laura Flores and Álex Ibarra. The novela also stars Andrea Lagunes in her first lead role as the protagonist Chabelita....
Las Lunas del Auditorio
Character: Self
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Mundo de Juguete
Character: Hermana Carmela
Mundo de Juguete is a telenovela produced in Mexico by Televisa in 1974. It is a remake of telenovela Papá Corazón. This telenovela holds the record for having the second longest run ever for a Latin American telenovela, with a total of 605 episodes. Most telenovelas run for an average of six to eight months; the shortest ones run about four months, and the longest up to a year. Many "Mundo de Juguete" fans believe that either all or some of the tapes and film from the telenovela were lost when...
Gutierritos
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Movie Credits
Pepe El Toro
Character: Chachita
The simple life and the values of loyalty and solidarity of the poor people in the environment of professional boxing, is the plot of this film, where Pepe el Toro shows the effort and tragedies that are experienced in this profession....
Mimí Derba
Character: Self
Mimí Derba is a documentary about one of the pioneers in acting and film production in México. In 1917, along with photographer Enrique Rosas, she founded one of the first film production companies: Azteca Films. Alejandra Moya captures a brief glimpse into the first Mexican female director....
¡Qué verde era mi padre!
Character: Chachita
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Las musiqueras
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Chachita appears as wealthy spinster lady who surprised a burglar in his house. Instead of denouncing it, uses it as a driver and then fall in love....
El secreto del sacerdote
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Three boys grow up to be a priest, a military commander and the town mayor....
Ay, Jalisco, Don't Give Up!
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An orphan boy is left in the care of his godfather, a bartender who teaches him to play cards and shoot weapons....
You the Rich
Character: Chachita
Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children....
We the Poor
Character: Chachita
Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty Celia, but tragedy comes knocking on his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony....
La hija del payaso
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Circus clown and society matron compete for custody of their daughter....
How Beautiful is Michoacan!
Character: Chachita
When her father dies, a young woman must go to Michoacán to take charge of her lands, where she meets a young man and they both fall in love....
¡El que no corre... vuela!
Character: Doña Chona
After mistakenly going to jail, Maria makes friends with a woman whose kids live in the streets and Maria gets the idea to help them....
Agente 0013: Hermelinda linda II
Character: Hermelinda Linda
A sophisticated device falls into Hermelinda's hands and when the Soviets and Arabs try to retrieve it, an international witchcraft war breaks out....
Las dos huerfanitas
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Two young girls escape from an orphanage to go look for their mommies....
La Hija De La Otra
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Husband and wife raise hubby's extra-marital child when the birth mother rejects it....
La locura del rock and roll
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Two rival colleges prepare for a Battle Of The Bands. Also malt-shoppes and football games....
En cada feria un amor
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Two cowboy bon vivants on the shady side of the law travel from county fair to county fair......
Death Arrives on Time
Character: Creolina
Several lives intertwine: those of a group of vandals, a drug addict, and a girl who works as a waitress in a restaurant where her mother cooks....
Cayó de la gloria el diablo
Character: Nachita
Subsistence-economy slum guy who sells used newsprint for a living breaks into showbiz with an inadvertantly-comical fire-eater act. The novelty of him wears off very quickly, and then......
Los pobres van al cielo
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When their parents die, brother and sister run away rather than go to an orphanage. Childless elderly couple adopts them, the neighborhood priest takes an interest in their sad story, and it goes on from there......
Serafín: La Película
Character: Cocó (voice)
In this blockbuster film from Mexico, live action, animation, fast-paced thrills and humor all combine in an irresistible tale the entire family will enjoy. The story revolves around lovable guardian angel Serafin who leads a group of youngsters in search of a magic star that will save a friend. Along the way, the young heroes learn that courage, loyalty and kindness can overpower even the darkest enemies. Join the quest and share each glorious moment!...
Cambiando el destino
Character: Hermana Margarita
A musical band of teens travel by plane to a scheduled event where they will perform in scenario have an accident and get lost in the middle of the desert....
Padre nuestro
Character: Elisa Molina
Pops is dismissed from his banking job for embezzlement, and his family have to adjust to a more modest lifestyle....
Morenita clara
Character: Chachita
Priest nags a crusty old man into reconciling with his daughter-in-law and granddaughter after the death of his son....
Los hijos de la calle
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Romancing the Stone
Character: Hefty Woman
Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle....
Planetary Giants
Character: Frijol
Daniel Wolf, scientist with a brand new rocket ship and a girlfriend/secretary is sent to 'the planet of the eternal night' to fight the guy who has threatened earth. He is supposed to go alone, but his assistant sneaks in the ship somehow, along with two other guys....
El Barrendero
Character: Pachita
A cheerful sweeper collects garbage dancing, and the maids of the neighborhood get jealous because he invites another woman out....
En el camino andamos
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Practical-joking bromance between two motorcycle cops, designed as a next-gen sequel to A Toda Maquina (1953)....
Hermelinda Linda
Character: Hermelinda Linda
Live action feature based on the Mexican comic about the exploits of a witch living in the outskirts of 'Bondojia', when a ruthless small time politician tries to steal their land in order to build a luxurious condo....
La pequeña madrecita
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Little girl develops her maternal instincts with dolls and with an infant cousin while family tragedies erupt over and over again around her....
La casa prohibida
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Three sex workers and three pimps, wacky complications....
Peluquero de señoras
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Beauty-products czar can't attend an important industry function, so he hires a look-alike as a stand-in. The body double will have to learn to behave like a massive queen for the imposture to work......
La palomilla al rescate
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Cute elementary-school kids get mixed up with black-marketeers....
El hombre que me gusta
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A man facing bankruptcy and ruin rehearses a couple of scenarios relating to suicide, until his family convinces him he's worth more alive than dead....
Yo vendo unos ojos negros
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When her father dies, the young protagonist must endure the injustices of her stepmother. Her life changes when Uncle Carlos appears, a generous man who suffers from blindness and who falls in love with the village teacher, who ardently corresponds to him....
El Cristo de mi Cabecera
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1830s, guerrillas in the hills resisting the French occupation. Meanwhile, their leader has a French officer and another guy chasing after his fiancé, and......
Guardián, el perro salvador
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Poor woman and her daughter hire on to rich family as servants. Husband/Daddy comes back from his foreign travels and crazy stuff happens! Death! Jail sentences! Inheritances!...
Dos machos que ladran no muerden
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Constancio has to leave his wife and son because they're making him crazy. He leaves his fortune behind and falls in love with another woman....
Mi niño, mi caballo y yo
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Nun tries to heal the relationship between a six-year-old boy and his estranged father....
Vividores de mujeres
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Mexican feature film...
This was Pedro Infante
Character: Evita Muñoz
The life of Pedro Infante, with scenes from his best films and the chaos that his tragic death caused in the public....
Una calle entre tú y yo
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When the national league coach selects Luis, a football star, to participate in a match against the US team, his father forces him to leave his girlfriend and his nemesis....
Dia de Madres
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De lengua, me como un plato
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Mexican Christian comedy about gossip and mundane situations....
El Cristo de mi Cabecera
Character: Marcela
1830s, guerrillas in the hills resisting the French occupation. Meanwhile, their leader has a French officer and another guy chasing after his fiancé, and......
Unethical Behaviour
Character: Doña Cata "La pulques"
A family in extreme poverty is forced to make a series of sacrifices in order to survive....
La hermana Trinquete
Character: Fat tourist
Career-thief hides from the police by joining a convent....