Eunice Muñoz
Eunice do Carmo Muñoz ( born July 30, 1928 in Amareleja ) is a Portuguese actress.
Life
Her family ran a traveling theater in the Ribatejo and Alentejo, so she was already at the age of five years for the first time on stage. At age eleven, she moved with her parents to Lisbon and got there two years later at the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II ( 1941 Vendaval of Virgínia Vitorino ) her first engagement. While she studied theater studies at the National Conservatory, she continued to play theater. Even before her 18th birthday she had her first significant film role in Jose Leitão de Barros ' film about Portugal's national poet Luís de Camões. For this she received the award for "Best Actress " of 1946 in Portugal.
In addition to an appearance in the popular revue of time ( in Ninotchka, on the side of Vasco Santana ), they continued to play theater, including in pieces by Júlio Dantas, Molière, and Gil Vicente. In 1952 she retired from the theater and took a job as a shop assistant. In 1955 she returned to the stage in the play Joana d' Arc ( Jeanne or The Lark by Jean Anouilh ) at the Teatro Avenida. Her portrayal of Joan of Arc is true critics as a highlight of her career. It was followed by 1959 further performances at the Teatro Avenida.
From the 1960s to 1970s, it stood next to serious roles for the boulevard theater on stage. She played with in several films, without a comparable attention to their stage roles to achieve. At the newly founded Teatro Villaret, Raul Solnado, she was awarded the then highest ever paid to an actress (in Portugal) of monthly salary of 30,000 escudos. With José de Castro, she founded in 1970 its own theater company ( Companhia Somos Dois, " Compagnie There are two of " ), with which they undertook extensive concert tours in the former Portuguese colonies of Angola and Mozambique .. After the Carnation Revolution in 1974, she paused before to the newly founded ensemble in 1978 at the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II joined. Apart from an appearance at the Teatro Cornucopia ( in The Park by Botho Strauss ), she played in the following years only there. For her role in the film Sunken Tomorrow ( 1980) the first time they also received recognition of film criticism.
Early 90s, she was honored several times, so by the Honorary Medal of the city of Lisbon in gold, the culture Medal of Merit of the State and devoted to her exhibition at the Theatre Museum. In the following years she received wide attention, both for their recitations (including two works by Fernando Arrabal, 1997 at the Centro Cultural de Belém ), as well as for her numerous roles in plays by Lidia Jorge, Jean -Paul Sartre, Agustina Bessa - Luís Athol Fugard and. Their performances in the film were rare and no major importance. They now turned increasingly to television and took to the surprise of criticism roles in several telenovelas on.
Today Eunice Muñoz is considered one of the greatest actresses of the country. The town of Oeiras called the urban event center for her and in 2008 she received the Globo de Ouro for her life's work. For her 70th anniversary on stage, she was by President Aníbal Cavaco Silva, on the occasion of the premiere of the emitted also from the television piece O Cerco a Leningrado ( " The encirclement of Leningrad ," by José Sanchis Sinisterra ), awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique.