
Acting
China Zorrilla
Born — Died
1922-03-14 — 2014-09-17
Place of birth
Montevideo - Uruguay
Known for
Acting
Credits
45 titles
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…
Known for
8.0The plot is based on the daily life of the Panigasi family, an impoverished middle-class family.
Gasoleros
1998
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Alta comedia
1970
6.0Anthology series, in which every episode introduces fictionalized versions of real cases about women who, for different reasons, ended up committing murder.
Killer Women
2005
10.0Ricos y Famosos is an Argentine telenovela.
Ricos y Famosos
1997
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Atreverse
1990
5.5No synopsis available yet.
Enamorarte
2001
Film credits
2000s · 5 titles
7.7When 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.
Elsa & Fred
2005
4.0Angel 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. .
Tres de corazones
2007
6.2A family divided between two continents put their differences aside when one of them is diagnosed with cancer.
Touch the Sky
2007
5.9Jaime 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 apartment he owns, to ask her to move with him so he can sell the apartment. But she is not going to cooperate. And, to Jaime's surprise, she also has a boyfriend!
Conversations with Mother
2004
NRJorge 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.
Blood Pacific
2009
1990s · 7 titles
8.5This 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, Rovi
Summer of the Colt
1991
3.7Patagonia, Argentina, 1880s. During the Conquest of the Desert, Marguerite, the French wife of Colonel Garay, in charge of protecting a new railway, discovers that a French woman is being held captive by the local natives.
Warriors and Prisoners
1990
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Cuatro caras para Victoria
1992
7.2Mercedes, a widow of eighty and fearful of loneliness, falls in love with Sebastian, a writer sixty years younger than her. Mercedes will feel trapped in her wrinkled and slow body that which prevents her from living their love as it should be lived.
Besos en la frente
1996
4.0Angel 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 family.
God Raises Them
1991
7.2In 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.
Ship of Fools
1995
10.0The life story of Argentine sculptress Lola Mora.
Lola Mora
1996
1980s · 9 titles
8.1Mama 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?
Waiting for the Hearse
1985
7.2After 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 himself fully to save his patient.
To Realize
1984
7.0It 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.
Nobody's Wife
1982
10.0About an upper-class family during the Centenary of the May Revolution, which coincides with the decline of the aristocratic classes in those years.
Nunca estuve en Viena
1989
7.4Mendizábal, 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.
Last Days of the Victim
1982
6.7A 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.
Poor Butterfly
1986
5.1It's about three women, three stories, or perhaps a single story in different projections of time and space. The Mistress wishes to unravel the meaning of being a woman is the victim of Hollywood. Ana is the product of a society ruled or dominated by men.
Pubis angelical
1982
8.0Argentina'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.
Contar hasta diez
1985
6.5No synopsis available yet.
La Invitación
1982
1970s · 9 titles
6.5Count Dracula travels to Buenos Aires with his secretary and stays in a very special hotel, where several mobsters are also staying.
Los vampiros los prefieren gorditos
1974
6.3The 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.
The Mafia
1972
3.9When his father dies in a hospital, Beto decides to take revenge on all the people he blames for his bad luck in life.
Las venganzas de Beto Sánchez
1973
7.1The 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.
Jewish Gauchos
1975
8.0In a boring marriage a model-photographer attracts the husband and a young man to the woman.
Triangle of Four
1975
7.5A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future.
The Truce
1974
6.8The moral conflicts of a conservative politician, his wife and a bully, in the Buenos Aires of the early twentieth century.
Un guapo del 900
1971
9.0"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.
Las sorpresas
1975
6.2A woman who has been traumatized by her brother's accidental death from electrocution in the subways of Buenos Aires learns to readjust.
Heroína
1972
Series credits
8.0The plot is based on the daily life of the Panigasi family, an impoverished middle-class family.
Gasoleros
1998
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Alta comedia
1970
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Alta comedia
1970
6.0Anthology series, in which every episode introduces fictionalized versions of real cases about women who, for different reasons, ended up committing murder.
Killer Women
2005
10.0Ricos y Famosos is an Argentine telenovela.
Ricos y Famosos
1997
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Atreverse
1990
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Atreverse
1990
5.5No synopsis available yet.
Enamorarte
2001
6.2No synopsis available yet.
R.R.D.T.
1997
NRLos 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.
Los Roldán
2004
2.0No synopsis available yet.
Vidas robadas
2008
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Pobre diabla
1973
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Piel naranja
1975


