China Zorrilla
China Zorrilla (born March 14, 1922 as Concepción Zorrilla de San Martin in Montevideo , Uruguay ; † September 17, 2014 there ) was a Uruguayan actress and director .
Life
China Zorrilla was the daughter of the sculptor José Luis Zorrilla de San Martín (1891–1975) and the granddaughter of the poet Juan Luis Zorrilla de San Martín (1855–1931). She spent her childhood in Paris, where her father worked as a student of Antoine Bourdelle . She began her acting career in the theater group Ars Pulcra of the Asociación de Estudiantes y Profesionales Católicos . In 1946 she moved to London , where she studied with Katina Paxinou at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1948 thanks to a British Council scholarship . On the stage of the Comedia Nacional , whose ensemble she belonged to after her return to Uruguay until 1958, she acted in the Montevidean Teatro Solís with the legendary Margarita Xirgu , Armando Discépolo and Orestes Caviglia . She participated in over 80 plays. In 1958 she returned to Europe for three years. In 1961 she founded the Teatro de la Ciudad de Montevideo (TCM) with Antonio Larreta and Enrique Guarnero and traveled to Buenos Aires, Paris and Madrid . For their piece Porfiar hasta morir by Lope de Vega , the ensemble in Madrid received the Spanish Critics' Prize. After China Zorrilla settled in New York in 1964, she left the theater temporarily for four years. Another move to Buenos Aires in 1971 led to the start of her film career.
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Zorilla was one of the great actresses in South America in the classic role field ( Shakespeare , Lope de Vega , Molière , Tirso de Molina , blood wedding of Garcia Lorca , mother Courage and her children by Brecht , Paul Claudel , Luigi Pirandello , La Folle de Chaillot , La Celestina , La Voix Humaine by Jean Cocteau , Die Möwe by Anton Pawlowitsch Chekhov , Eduardo De Filippo , Ferenc Molnár , Peter Ustinov etc.), also as Emily Dickinson (Emily) , as Mrs. Patrick Campbell , as Victoria Ocampo in Evita and Victoria , in Noël Coward's comedy Hay Fever , The Road to Mecca by Athol Fugard , and at the Teatro Colón as Perséphone by Igor Stravinsky .
Director
As a theater director, she staged Lost in Yonkers ( Neil Simon ), Arlecchino (Carlo Goldoni), Ein Inspektor komm and as an opera director Ein Maskenball (Verdi, SODRE ), La Bohème (Puccini, SODRE) and The Barber of Seville (Rossini) and worked in Lima, Santiago, La Paz, Quito, Caracas, Bogotá, New York, Miami, Tel Aviv, San Juan, Puerto Rico and at the Festival Grec in Barcelona. For this she was awarded the Orden de Mayo of the Argentine government and the Gabriela Mistral order of the Chilean government. She was an "Illustrious Citizen" in Buenos Aires, Montevideo and other Argentine cities; two theaters bear her name. In 2008 she was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor by the French government . China Zorrilla lives in Buenos Aires.
On December 30, 2012, it was initially reported that China Zorilla was in critical health with pneumonia at the Asociación Española hospital in Montevideo, after having recently returned to the Uruguayan capital to settle there permanently. El País , however, reported that Zorilla had been treated as an in-patient with "digestive problems" in the Asociación Española hospital in Montevideo. A few weeks earlier she had finished work on the book A mí me aplauden by the writer Diego Fischer , which is the latest biography of the actress. She ultimately died on September 17, 2014 in a hospital in the Uruguayan capital of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, after having been admitted to the hospital again three days earlier with pneumonia.
Filmography (selection)
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Awards
- Premio Fondo Nacional de las Artes .
- Mención de Honor Domingo Faustino Sarmiento 2010
- 1981 Premio Konex , Fundación Konex Argentina
- 1985 Cóndor de Plata , Darse Cuenta - Asociación de Cronistas Cinematográficos de Argentina.
- 1985 Premio mejor actriz Darse cuenta en el Festival de Cine de La Habana (Cuba)
- 1991 Premio Konex , Fundación Konex Argentina
- 2001 Mención especial , fundación Konex Argentina.
- 2002 Cóndor de Plata , Asociación de Cronistas Cinematográficos de Argentina.
- 2003 Premio Ace de Oro , Sociedad de Cronistas del espectáculo.
- 2003 Premio Trinidad Guevara
- 2003 Premio Florencio Sánchez
- 2003 Premio María Guerrero
- 2003 Premio Martin Fierro , APTRA
- 2004 Premio Mejor Actriz , (Best Lead Actress) Moscow Film Festival for Conversaciones con mamá .
- 2004 Premio Mejor Actriz , (Best Actress) Festival Internacional de Cine de Málaga for Conversaciones con mamá .
- 2005 Premio Cóndor de Plata , Asociación de Cronistas Cinematográficos de Argentina.
- 2005 Premio Clarín Mejor Actriz (Best Actress) for Elsa & Fred
- 2006 Premio CEC , Elsa & Fred
- 2006 Premio Martin Fierro , APTRA
- 2006 Cóndor de Plata , Elsa & Fred - Asociación de Cronistas Cinematográficos de Argentina
- 2006 Premio Gloria - Festival de Cine Latino (Chicago) (Best Actress)
- 2007 Clarín Prize
- 2009 Premio Estrella de Mar de Oro
literature
- Miguel Ángel Campodónico , Nuevo Diccionario de la Cultura Uruguaya by, Librería Linardi y Risso, 2003, p. 361
- Diego Fischer, "A mi me aplauden", Editorial Sudamericana, 2012, ISBN 9789974 701 22 9
- China Zorrilla, "Diario de viaje", Ediciones La Plaza, 2013, Uruguay, ISBN 9789974482265
Web links
- China Zorrilla in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Plenitud a los 86 años ( Memento of August 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish)
- Cronología de China Zorrilla en la Comedia Nacional Uruguaya ( Memento of June 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish)
- Entrevista La vida es una pantalla (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ NN: China Zorrilla internada por indisposición Pasajera . In: El Pais . December 31, 2012. Retrieved August 12, 2013.
- ↑ China Zorrilla internada en La Española - Delicada (Spanish) at www.montevideo.com.uy, accessed December 30, 2012
- ↑ Uruguay mourns the loss of “China” Zorrilla on latina-press.com on September 17, 2014, accessed on September 17, 2014
- ↑ http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1288165
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| SURNAME | Zorrilla, China |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zorrilla de San Martín, Concepción (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Uruguayan actress and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 14, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montevideo , Uruguay |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th September 2014 |
| Place of death | Montevideo , Uruguay |