Evita Muñoz 'Chachita'

Acting

Evita Muñoz 'Chachita'

Born — Died

1936-11-26 — 2016-08-23

Place of birth

Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

68 titles

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 …

Known for

Columbo poster
8.1

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.

Columbo

1971

Don't Mess with the Angel poster
7.5

When Marichuy was born, her mother—believing she was on the verge of death—handed her over to a priest, who took her to an orphanage. At the age of fourteen, Marichuy ran away from the institution and began wandering from place to place, scraping together a living however she could. Years later, she was attacked by a drunkard; the incident left her harboring resentment toward men and plagued by harrowing nightmares.

Don't Mess with the Angel

2008

Mundo de Juguete poster
9.0

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 Televisa collapsed during the 1985 earthquake. Televisa has been secretive regarding which tapes were lost during that earthquake, so there is no way of confirming this. However, such claims can be disputed, considering that the Telenovela has been repeated on television several times after 1985. During the nineties, it was repeated on Mexico City Canal 9. For a period of time, it was also shown on Unicable or on Telenovelas Televisa remade the telenovela in 2000, and called it "Carita de Angel".

Mundo de Juguete

1974

Gotita de Amor poster
7.6

Isabel is abandoned at the door of an orphanage a few days after birth. There she grows between the jokes of the other girls and the mistreatment of the harsh director called "Justa." One day her classmates show her a false birth certificate where it says that her father's name is Jesús García, that he is alive and resides in Mexico City, so she, with the hope of having a family, escapes from the orphanage towards Mexico City to look for her supposed father.

Gotita de Amor

1998

Romancing the Stone poster
6.8

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.

Romancing the Stone

1984

Contra viento y marea poster
7.2

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.

Contra viento y marea

2005

Film credits

1980s · 13 titles

Romancing the Stone poster
6.8

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.

Romancing the Stone

1984

Agente 0013 - Hermelinda Linda 2 poster
4.0

A sophisticated device falls into Hermelinda's hands and when the Soviets and Arabs try to retrieve it, an international witchcraft war breaks out.

Agente 0013 - Hermelinda Linda 2

1986

El Barrendero poster
7.8

A cheerful sweeper collects garbage dancing, and the maids of the neighborhood get jealous because he invites another woman out.

El Barrendero

1982

¡El que no corre... vuela! poster
8.1

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.

¡El que no corre... vuela!

1982

En el camino andamos poster
4.8

Practical-joking bromance between two motorcycle cops, designed as a next-gen sequel to A Toda Maquina (1953).

En el camino andamos

1983

Dos machos que ladran no muerden poster
4.7

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.

Dos machos que ladran no muerden

1988

La casa prohibida poster
5.2

Three sex workers and three pimps, wacky complications.

La casa prohibida

1981

Hermelinda Linda poster
6.9

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.

Hermelinda Linda

1984

No artwork available
3.8

A man who married a very rich woman wishes to help his brother-in-law who is having financial problems, and for that he starts a business as women wrestling promoter - a business in which you suffer, but that has an enjoyable side to it. Eventually there is a side business that goes well, too: selling oxygen pumps for use by the older men spectators, who can't stand so much emotions without the help of a breathing apparatus. To enhance the popularity of the matches, the masked vs bikini wrestler matches are announced as no time limit, best 2 of 3 falls, the loser to dispose either of her mask, or her bikini, in the center ring. With so much at stake, the crowds do grow at the ticket office.

Se Sufre pero se Goza

1986

Los humillados poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Los humillados

1984

Las musiqueras poster
6.3

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.

Las musiqueras

1981

Vividores de mujeres poster
4.4

Mexican feature film

Vividores de mujeres

1982

Dia de Madres poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Dia de Madres

1988

1960s · 7 titles

1950s · 16 titles

Los hijos de la calle poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Los hijos de la calle

1951

Padre nuestro poster
6.5

Pops is dismissed from his banking job for embezzlement, and his family have to adjust to a more modest lifestyle.

Padre nuestro

1953

Pepe El Toro poster
6.5

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.

Pepe El Toro

1953

Mi niño, mi caballo y yo poster
6.0

Nun tries to heal the relationship between a six-year-old boy and his estranged father.

Mi niño, mi caballo y yo

1959

Los pobres van al cielo poster
5.8

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...

Los pobres van al cielo

1951

Las dos huerfanitas poster
6.3

Two young girls escape from an orphanage to go look for their mommies.

Las dos huerfanitas

1950

El Cristo de mi Cabecera poster
6.3

1830s, guerrillas in the hills resisting the French occupation. Meanwhile, their leader has a French officer and another guy chasing after his fiancé, and...

El Cristo de mi Cabecera

1951

El Cristo de mi Cabecera poster
6.3

1830s, guerrillas in the hills resisting the French occupation. Meanwhile, their leader has a French officer and another guy chasing after his fiancé, and...

El Cristo de mi Cabecera

1951

This Was Pancho Villa: First chapter poster
7.2

The disembodied head of Pancho Villa, kept in a glass jar in a research institute, is the narrator of several short stories from his own life, stories that might or might not have happened but are the stuff of legend.

This Was Pancho Villa: First chapter

1957

Una calle entre tú y yo poster
6.0

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.

Una calle entre tú y yo

1952

The Man That Pleases Me poster
5.8

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.

The Man That Pleases Me

1958

La Hija De La Otra poster
5.7

Husband and wife raise hubby's extra-marital child when the birth mother rejects it.

La Hija De La Otra

1951

No artwork available
5.4

Romantic triangle. One of the guys is a very bad man.

Beneath the Sky of Mexico

1958

Guardián, el perro salvador poster
5.6

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!

Guardián, el perro salvador

1950

La locura del rock and roll poster
5.6

Two rival colleges prepare for a Battle Of The Bands. Also malt-shoppes and football games.

La locura del rock and roll

1957

My Parents Are Divorced poster
5.4

No synopsis available yet.

My Parents Are Divorced

1959

1940s · 10 titles

You the Rich poster
7.8

Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.

You the Rich

1948

We the Poor poster
8.2

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.

We the Poor

1948

Yo vendo unos ojos negros poster
6.5

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.

Yo vendo unos ojos negros

1948

How Beautiful is Michoacan! poster
6.4

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.

How Beautiful is Michoacan!

1943

Ay, Jalisco, Don't Give Up! poster
6.6

An orphan boy is left in the care of his godfather, a bartender who teaches him to play cards and shoot weapons.

Ay, Jalisco, Don't Give Up!

1941

El secreto del sacerdote poster
6.0

Priest Jesus knows a dark secret that was passed onto him during confession. When the town mayor threatens the integrity of some people, it is up to the priest to take action or remain silent.

El secreto del sacerdote

1941

La hija del payaso poster
6.3

Circus clown and society matron compete for custody of their daughter.

La hija del payaso

1946

¡Qué verde era mi padre! poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

¡Qué verde era mi padre!

1947

Morenita clara poster
5.7

Priest nags a crusty old man into reconciling with his daughter-in-law and granddaughter after the death of his son.

Morenita clara

1943

La pequeña madrecita poster
5.7

Little girl develops her maternal instincts with dolls and with an infant cousin while family tragedies erupt over and over again around her.

La pequeña madrecita

1944

Series credits

Columbo poster
8.1

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.

Columbo

1971

Don't Mess with the Angel poster
7.5

When Marichuy was born, her mother—believing she was on the verge of death—handed her over to a priest, who took her to an orphanage. At the age of fourteen, Marichuy ran away from the institution and began wandering from place to place, scraping together a living however she could. Years later, she was attacked by a drunkard; the incident left her harboring resentment toward men and plagued by harrowing nightmares.

Don't Mess with the Angel

2008

Mundo de Juguete poster
9.0

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 Televisa collapsed during the 1985 earthquake. Televisa has been secretive regarding which tapes were lost during that earthquake, so there is no way of confirming this. However, such claims can be disputed, considering that the Telenovela has been repeated on television several times after 1985. During the nineties, it was repeated on Mexico City Canal 9. For a period of time, it was also shown on Unicable or on Telenovelas Televisa remade the telenovela in 2000, and called it "Carita de Angel".

Mundo de Juguete

1974

Gotita de Amor poster
7.6

Isabel is abandoned at the door of an orphanage a few days after birth. There she grows between the jokes of the other girls and the mistreatment of the harsh director called "Justa." One day her classmates show her a false birth certificate where it says that her father's name is Jesús García, that he is alive and resides in Mexico City, so she, with the hope of having a family, escapes from the orphanage towards Mexico City to look for her supposed father.

Gotita de Amor

1998

Contra viento y marea poster
7.2

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.

Contra viento y marea

2005

The Marked Hour poster
8.3

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.

The Marked Hour

1988

Alma Rebelde poster
7.0

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.

Alma Rebelde

1999

Unforgettable poster
7.2

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.

Unforgettable

1999

Serafín poster
NR

Serafín is a Mexican children's telenovela produced by José Alberto Castro for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from August 30 to December 17, 1999. It stars Maribel Guardia, Eduardo Santamarina, Jordi Landeta, and features the voice of María Fernanda Morales as Serafín. The telenovela was the first Mexican production to incorporate digitally created animated characters into a live-action telenovela. The story follows Serafín, a cheerful but mischievous little angel who is sent to Earth to learn how to become a Guardian Angel. In Mexico City, he meets Pepe, an unhappy boy living with his mother, grandfather, and abusive stepfather. Determined to bring hope and happiness into Pepe's life, Serafín helps him and his friends overcome family conflicts, fear, and adversity while teaching lessons about love, friendship, kindness, and faith.

Serafín

1999

Las Lunas del Auditorio poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Las Lunas del Auditorio

2002

Ángeles sin paraíso poster
9.0

Ángeles sin paraíso is a Mexican children's telenovela produced by Pedro Damián for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from November 9, 1992, to January 29, 1993. Created by Lorena Salazar and Eduardo Quiroga, the telenovela stars Anahí and Felipe Colombo as the child protagonists and is remembered as one of Televisa's early children's telenovelas. The story follows siblings Claudia and Andrés, who are separated from their mother and forced to live under the care of their cruel aunt, Aurora Sombría. Trapped in an isolated mansion where they endure abuse and fear, the children find hope through the kindness of those around them and set out on a journey to reunite with their mother while uncovering the truth behind Aurora's crimes.

Ángeles sin paraíso

1992

Bendita Mentira poster
6.7

Bendita Mentira is a Mexican telenovela produced by Jorge Lozano Soriano for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from August 5 to December 6, 1996. It is based on the radio serial La madrastra, created by Inés Rodena, and was adapted for television by Celia Alonso and Andrea Ordóñez. The story follows Esperanza, a humble housekeeper who works for the wealthy de la Mora family. Unknown to everyone, Diego—the young man who despises her—is actually her biological son, having been raised to believe the de la Mora family are his true parents. As long-hidden secrets begin to surface, Esperanza must confront prejudice, betrayal, and painful truths while fighting to reunite her family and find happiness.

Bendita Mentira

1996

Gutierritos poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Gutierritos

1958