Evita Muñoz

Evita Muñoz

Born: November 26, 1936
Died: August 23, 2016
in Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico
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.

Movies for Evita Muñoz...

Title: Don't Mess with an Angel
Character: Candelaria Martínez
Released: June 9, 2008
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Contra viento y marea
Character: Doña Cruz Cárdenas
Released: July 6, 2005
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Las Lunas del Auditorio
Character: Herself
Released: September 4, 2002
Type: TV
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Serafín: La Película
Title: Serafín: La Película
Character: Cocó (voice)
Released: July 13, 2001
Type: Movie
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!
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Mimí Derba
Title: Mimí Derba
Character: Self
Released: October 18, 2000
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Alma Rebelde
Character: Berenice
Released: July 19, 1999
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Unforgettable
Character: Benita
Released: January 18, 1999
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Gotita de Amor
Character: Dolores "Lolita" Lomeli de Centella
Released: August 3, 1998
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Bendita Mentira
Character: Goya
Released: August 5, 1996
Type: TV
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Title: Ángeles sin paraíso
Character: Asunción "Mamá Chonita"
Released: November 9, 1992
Type: TV
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Cambiando el destino
Title: Cambiando el destino
Character: Hermana Margarita
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
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.
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De lengua, me como un plato
Title: De lengua, me como un plato
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Mexican Christian comedy about gossip and mundane situations.
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Dia de Madres
Title: Dia de Madres
Released: October 5, 1988
Type: Movie
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Dos machos que ladran no muerden
Title: Dos machos que ladran no muerden
Released: September 8, 1988
Type: Movie
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.
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Agente 0013: Hermelinda linda II
Title: Agente 0013: Hermelinda linda II
Character: Hermelinda Linda
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A sophisticated device falls into Hermelinda's hands and when the Soviets and Arabs try to retrieve it, an international witchcraft war breaks out.
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Hermelinda Linda
Title: Hermelinda Linda
Character: Hermelinda Linda
Released: July 21, 1984
Type: Movie
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.
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Romancing the Stone
Title: Romancing the Stone
Character: Hefty Woman
Released: March 30, 1984
Type: Movie
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.
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Los humillados
Title: Los humillados
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
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En el camino andamos
Title: En el camino andamos
Released: February 24, 1983
Type: Movie
Practical-joking bromance between two motorcycle cops, designed as a next-gen sequel to A Toda Maquina (1953).
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¡El que no corre... vuela!
Title: ¡El que no corre... vuela!
Character: Doña Chona
Released: June 25, 1982
Type: Movie
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.
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El barrendero
Title: El barrendero
Character: Pachita
Released: May 5, 1982
Type: Movie
A cheerful sweeper collects garbage dancing, and the maids of the neighborhood get jealous because he invites another woman out.
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Vividores de mujeres
Title: Vividores de mujeres
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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La casa prohibida
Title: La casa prohibida
Released: July 7, 1981
Type: Movie
Three sex workers and three pimps, wacky complications.
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Las musiqueras
Title: Las musiqueras
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
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.
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La palomilla al rescate
Title: La palomilla al rescate
Released: December 23, 1976
Type: Movie
Cute elementary-school kids get mixed up with black-marketeers.
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Peluquero de señoras
Title: Peluquero de señoras
Released: March 28, 1973
Type: Movie
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...
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Cayó de la gloria el diablo
Title: Cayó de la gloria el diablo
Character: Nachita
Released: May 11, 1972
Type: Movie
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...
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Title: Columbo
Character: Chambermaid
Released: September 15, 1971
Type: TV
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.
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Unethical Behaviour
Title: Unethical Behaviour
Character: Doña Cata "La pulques"
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
A family in extreme poverty is forced to make a series of sacrifices in order to survive.
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La muerte es puntual
Title: La muerte es puntual
Character: Creolina
Released: January 19, 1967
Type: Movie
Lurid crime drama about drug traffic.
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Cuando el diablo sopla
Title: Cuando el diablo sopla
Released: September 15, 1966
Type: Movie
Two babies are switched in the cradle to gratify wealthy parents' preference for a boy. Nineteen years later, the babies meet...
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Planetary Giants
Title: Planetary Giants
Character: Frijol
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
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.
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El dengue del amor
Title: El dengue del amor
Released: October 15, 1965
Type: Movie
Dancing fanatic weasels his way into Perez Prado's entourage as a personal assistant.
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This was Pedro Infante
Title: This was Pedro Infante
Character: Evita Muñoz
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
The life of Pedro Infante, with scenes from his best films and the chaos that his tragic death caused in the public.
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Dos tontos y un loco
Title: Dos tontos y un loco
Character: Cuquis
Released: December 21, 1961
Type: Movie
Crown-prince of a primitive country goes to Mexico for college. Wacky hijinks ensue.
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En cada feria un amor
Title: En cada feria un amor
Released: November 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Two cowboy bon vivants on the shady side of the law travel from county fair to county fair...
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Mi niño, mi caballo y yo
Title: Mi niño, mi caballo y yo
Released: June 4, 1959
Type: Movie
Nun tries to heal the relationship between a six-year-old boy and his estranged father.
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My Parents Are Divorced
Title: My Parents Are Divorced
Character: Maruja, amiga de Fernando
Released: May 28, 1959
Type: Movie
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El hombre que me gusta
Title: El hombre que me gusta
Released: November 13, 1958
Type: Movie
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.
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Beneath the Sky of Mexico
Title: Beneath the Sky of Mexico
Released: October 22, 1958
Type: Movie
Romantic triangle. One of the guys is a very bad man.
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La locura del rock and roll
Title: La locura del rock and roll
Released: March 29, 1957
Type: Movie
Two rival colleges prepare for a Battle Of The Bands. Also malt-shoppes and football games.
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This Was Pancho Villa: First chapter
Title: This Was Pancho Villa: First chapter
Character: Remedios
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
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.
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Padre nuestro
Title: Padre nuestro
Character: Elisa Molina
Released: October 28, 1953
Type: Movie
Pops is dismissed from his banking job for embezzlement, and his family have to adjust to a more modest lifestyle.
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Pepe El Toro
Title: Pepe El Toro
Character: Chachita
Released: August 21, 1953
Type: Movie
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.
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Una calle entre tú y yo
Title: Una calle entre tú y yo
Released: December 4, 1952
Type: Movie
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.
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La Hija De La Otra
Title: La Hija De La Otra
Released: July 18, 1951
Type: Movie
Husband and wife raise hubby's extra-marital child when the birth mother rejects it.
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Los pobres van al cielo
Title: Los pobres van al cielo
Released: May 9, 1951
Type: Movie
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...
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El Cristo de mi Cabecera
Title: El Cristo de mi Cabecera
Character: Marcela
Released: January 3, 1951
Type: Movie
1830s, guerrillas in the hills resisting the French occupation. Meanwhile, their leader has a French officer and another guy chasing after his fiancé, and...
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El Cristo de mi Cabecera
Title: El Cristo de mi Cabecera
Released: January 3, 1951
Type: Movie
1830s, guerrillas in the hills resisting the French occupation. Meanwhile, their leader has a French officer and another guy chasing after his fiancé, and...
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Las dos huerfanitas
Title: Las dos huerfanitas
Released: October 18, 1950
Type: Movie
Two young girls escape from an orphanage to go look for their mommies.
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Guardián, el perro salvador
Title: Guardián, el perro salvador
Released: April 5, 1950
Type: Movie
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!
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You the Rich
Title: You the Rich
Character: Chachita
Released: December 31, 1948
Type: Movie
Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.
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We the Poor
Title: We the Poor
Character: Chachita
Released: March 25, 1948
Type: Movie
A poor neighborhood in Mexico City. Carpenter Pepe el Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita while woos the pretty Celia, but tragedy knocks his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.
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Yo vendo unos ojos negros
Title: Yo vendo unos ojos negros
Released: March 11, 1948
Type: Movie
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.
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¡Qué verde era mi padre!
Title: ¡Qué verde era mi padre!
Character: Chachita
Released: January 25, 1947
Type: Movie
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La hija del payaso
Title: La hija del payaso
Released: May 2, 1946
Type: Movie
Circus clown and society matron compete for custody of their daughter.
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La pequeña madrecita
Title: La pequeña madrecita
Released: June 15, 1944
Type: Movie
Little girl develops her maternal instincts with dolls and with an infant cousin while family tragedies erupt over and over again around her.
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Beautiful Michoacán
Title: Beautiful Michoacán
Character: Chachita
Released: October 10, 1943
Type: Movie
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.
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Morenita clara
Title: Morenita clara
Character: Chachita
Released: April 28, 1943
Type: Movie
Priest nags a crusty old man into reconciling with his daughter-in-law and granddaughter after the death of his son.
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Ay, Jalisco, Don't Give Up!
Title: Ay, Jalisco, Don't Give Up!
Released: November 12, 1941
Type: Movie
An orphan boy is left in the care of his godfather, a bartender who teaches him to play cards and shoot weapons.
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El secreto del sacerdote
Title: El secreto del sacerdote
Released: January 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Three boys grow up to be a priest, a military commander and the town mayor.
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Title: The Marked Hour
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
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.