Nacha Guevara

Nacha Guevara

Born: October 3, 1940
in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Nacha Guevara (born Clotilde Acosta, October 3, 1940) is an Argentine singer-songwriter, dancer and actress from Mar de Plata, Buenos Aires province.

With poet Mario Benedetti and musician Alberto Favero, 1973 trained as a dancer and actress, she discovered by chance a career as a singer becoming a symbol around 1968 in the avant-garde movement at Instituto Di Tella in Buenos Aires, the preeminent pioneer center for visual and theater experimentation at that time. She was a controversial cult figure in the underground movement and as a singer-songwriter in the "cafe-concert" scene, singing tunes and parodies by Boris Vian, George Brassens, Tom Lehrer, Nicolas Guillén and Argentine writers including Julio Cortázar, Jorge de la Vega, Ernesto Schoo and others.

According to a 1974 interview, she adopted her stage name in the mid-1960s, "Nacha" as a family tradition, and "Guevara" due to a "problem of identity", before Che was well known.[2]

At the beginning of 1970, one of her pivotal works was Nacha sings Benedetti, where she and Alberto Favero, musical partner and at that time husband, adapted some of the most famous poems of Uruguayan poet Mario Benedetti to music.

In 1973 she obtained great recognition by critics and audiences with a big revue named Las mil y una Nachas ("One thousand and one Nachas"). Nacha Guevara exiled herself first to Peru then Mexico in 1974, threatened by the Triple A death squad. She attempted to make a comeback in 1975 with a new version of Las mil y una Nachas. The show was never performed. After the dress rehearsal prior to the opening night, a bomb destroyed the theater, killing a member of the crew and forcing her to flee the country once more.

She continued a successful career in Mexico, Cuba and Spain with performances in New York, Chicago and La Habana too, before returning to Argentina.

Nacha Guevara has acted in numerous Argentine films, as well as on Broadway. However, she is best known for her extensive musical career, which has been realized throughout the world and over several decades.

After the end of the Argentine dictatorship, she came back to her native country in 1984. In 1986 she starred Pedro Orgambide's Eva, an Argentine answer to the musical Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The show was redone for a bigger version in 2008 and renamed Eva, the great Argentinean musical.

In the last decades she won recognition as an actress, participating in movies and TV shows such as Alas, Poder y Pasión ("Wings, Power and Passion") and films as El Lado Oscuro del Corazón ("The Dark Side of the Heart") and its sequel, where she plays Death, a symbolic character who is in love with the hero and harasses him, trying to take him to the other side.

Movies for Nacha Guevara...

Los bastardos
Title: Los bastardos
Character: Eva
Released: March 30, 2023
Type: Movie
An epic about one of the most turbulent times in the recent history of the Buenos Aires suburbs. In this context, a group of idealists emerges who are specifically called: "The bastards."
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Title: Morir de Amor
Character: Alcira Popescu
Released: October 18, 2018
Type: TV
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Title: PH: Podemos hablar
Released: July 15, 2017
Type: TV
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Title: La Dueña
Character: Carmen Salguero Solar
Released: April 18, 2012
Type: TV
La Dueña is a 2012 Argentine miniseries. It is a blockbuster starring Mirtha Legrand, who worked on this series after 46 years of retirement from acting in television.
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Cruzadas
Title: Cruzadas
Character: Camila Lamónica
Released: April 21, 2011
Type: Movie
Ernesto Pérez Roble is a tycoon, owner of a multimedia group, who when he dies leaves everything in the hands of his daughter Juana. But Camila Lamónica appears, his other daughter -unrecognized-, who owns a dancehall and wants half of her father's fortune.
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Title: Bailando por un sueño
Character: Jurado
Released: April 17, 2006
Type: TV
Bailando por un Sueño 1 was the first argentinian season of Bailando por un Sueño. The season, first aired on April 17, 2006, and was part of the original show, Showmtach broadcast on Canal 13, and hosted by Marcelo Tinelli. 8 couples competed during 7 weeks, and the winner was revealed on the season finale, on June 1, 2006. The winner of this first season was the actress, producer and comedian Carmen Barbieri, who was paired with the professional dancer, Christian Ponce. The judges, were the famous journalist Jorge Lafauci, professional dancer Laura Fidalgo, vedette Zulma Faiad, and producer, actress and singer Reina Reech
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Title: Killer Women
Released: July 19, 2005
Type: TV
Anthology series, in which every episode introduces fictionalized versions of real cases about women who, for different reasons, ended up committing murder.
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Title: Sangre Fría
Released: September 1, 2004
Type: TV
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The Dark Side of the Heart 2
Title: The Dark Side of the Heart 2
Character: The Death
Released: July 5, 2001
Type: Movie
The sequel to the blockbuster Argentinean smash hit. After ten years, Oliverio is still intrigued by the works of great poets and continues to search for true love. When he meets the beautiful... The sequel to the blockbuster Argentinean smash hit. After ten years, Oliverio is still intrigued by the works of great poets and continues to search for true love. When he meets the beautiful Miranda, she suggests that they both move in together and find jobs. Oliviero, however, leaves Miranda in search of his first love Ana who he met ten years prior. Once in Barcelona, he realizes that Ana's life has drastically changed and their love is in the past. Soon, he meets poet and circus performer, Alejandra. Oliviero becomes smitten and desperately tries bond with her, but she makes things a little more difficult that he ever imagined.
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Héroes y demonios
Title: Héroes y demonios
Character: Dra. Pena
Released: September 2, 1999
Type: Movie
Gabriel and Sergio meet at the psychiatric hospital where they are interned. Gabriel is a rebellious and violent young man marginalized by society. Sergio is a programmer and systems analyst and has an enviable attitude to fight against life. Soon the promise of fighting against injustice unites them.
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Title: De pé a pá
Character: Self
Released: January 7, 1996
Type: TV
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Don't Die Without Telling Me Where You're Going
Title: Don't Die Without Telling Me Where You're Going
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1995
Type: Movie
A lonely film projectionist through a series of odd events, discovers that he is the reincarnation of one of the inventors of cinema, and that a woman he sees in his dreams is his eternal companion on a trip through centuries.
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Funes, a Great Love
Title: Funes, a Great Love
Character: Amanda
Released: April 1, 1993
Type: Movie
A group of musicians, prostitutes, gamblers, and laborers, react to the arrival of a tango pianist at a saloon.
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Cuatro caras para Victoria
Title: Cuatro caras para Victoria
Character: Victoria II
Released: October 27, 1992
Type: Movie
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The Dark Side of the Heart
Title: The Dark Side of the Heart
Character: Death
Released: May 21, 1992
Type: Movie
Oliveiro is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sell his ideas to an advertising agency to make a living or exchange his poems for a steak. In Montevideo, he meets a prostitute, Ana, with whom he falls in love. Back in Buenos Aires, he accepts a contract with a publicity agency to get the money for three days of love with her. Will he get what he's searching for when his ideal of love's pleasure is literally going in levitation while making love?
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Miss Mary
Title: Miss Mary
Character: Mecha
Released: July 31, 1986
Type: Movie
A young British woman is hired as a governess by a wealthy Argentine family. Through her position, she slowly sees how the upper class of society is slowly crumbling, and how a fascist movement is preparing to install itself in power.
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Juan Lamaglia y Sra.
Title: Juan Lamaglia y Sra.
Released: April 28, 1970
Type: Movie
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El extraño del pelo largo
Title: El extraño del pelo largo
Released: March 5, 1970
Type: Movie
Argentinian movie about the 1968's beat band "La Joven Guardia" and their effort to get success in hard sociopolitical times.
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Ufa con el sexo
Title: Ufa con el sexo
Character: Cantante de café concert
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
An intelligent look at the absurdity of love, prostitution and money.
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Cómo seducir a una mujer
Title: Cómo seducir a una mujer
Released: March 2, 1967
Type: Movie
A shy young man has trouble relating to women and asks an extravagant relationship counselor for help.