China Zorrilla

China Zorrilla ( born March 14, 1922 as Concepción Zorrilla de San Martin in Montevideo) is an Uruguayan actress and director.

Life

China Zorrilla is the daughter of sculptor José Luis Zorrilla de San Martín (1891-1975) and the granddaughter of the famous poet Juan Luis Zorrilla de San Martín ( 1855-1931 ). She spent her childhood in Paris, where her father worked as a pupil of Antoine Bourdelle. Her acting work she began in the theater group Ars Pulcra the Asocoación de Estudiantes y Profesionales Catolicos. In 1946 she moved to London, where she made ​​possible by the British Council Stipendiumnis 1948 studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art at Katina Paxinou. On the stage of the Comedia Nacional, whose ensemble she belonged after their return to Uruguay to 1958, she acted in the Teatro Solís montevideanischen with the legendary Margarita Xirgu, Armando Discépolo and Orestes Caviglia. She appeared in over 80 plays. For three years she then returned in 1958 to Europe. In 1961, she founded the Teatro de la Ciudad de Montevideo ( TCM) with Antonio and Enrique Larreta Guarnero and thus has traveled to Buenos Aires, Paris and Madrid. For their piece hasta morir Porfiar of Lope de Vega, the ensemble the Spanish Critics Prize in Madrid. After China Zorrilla settled in 1964 in New York, was their temporary four -year-long shift away from the theater. Another move to Buenos Aires in 1971 resulted simultaneously in the beginning of her film career.

Roll

Zorilla is one of the great actresses of South America in the classic roll compartment (Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, Molière, Tirso de Molina, Blood Wedding by García Lorca, Mother Courage and Her Children by Brecht, Paul Claudel, Luigi Pirandello, La Folle de Chaillot, La Celestina, La Voix Humaine by Jean Cocteau, The Seagull by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Eduardo De Filippo, Ferenc Molnár, Peter Ustinov, etc.), as Emily Dickinson (Emily ), as Mrs. Patrick Campbell, as Victoria Ocampo in Evita and Victoria, in Noël Coward comedy Hay Fever, the Road to Mecca by Athol Fugard, and the Teatro Colón as Persephone by Igor Stravinsky was to see them.

Direction

As a theater director, she directed Lost in Yonkers ( Neil Simon ), Arlecchino (Carlo Goldoni ), An Inspector Calls and as an opera director Un ballo in maschera ( Verdi, Sodré ), La Bohème ( Puccini, Sodré ) 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 the Festival Grec in Barcelona. For this she was awarded the Order de Mayo the Argentine government and the Gabriela Mistral Order of the Chilean government. She was " Illustrious Citizen " in Buenos Aires, Montevideo and other Argentine cities; two theaters named after her. In 2008 she was appointed by the French government a Knight of the Legion of Honour. China Zorrilla lives in Buenos Aires.

On 30 December 2012, initially reported that China Zorilla is with pneumonia in critically ill in hospital Asociación Española in Montevideo, after they had just returned to the Uruguayan capital, in order to settle permanently there. El País reported, however, Zorilla had been hospitalized with " digestive problems " in the hospital Asociación Española, Montevideo. A few weeks earlier, she had the work on the book, A mí me aplauden the writer Diego Fischer finished that the latest biography of the actress is.

Filmography (selection)

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 Actress ) Film Festival Moscow 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 Premio Clarín
• 2009 Premio Estrella de Mar de Oro