2. CHARITO SOLIS
• Rosario Violeta Hernández Solís, better known as Charito
Solís (October 6, 1935 – January 9, 1998), was a Filipino film
actress.
• She was hailed as the biggest dramatic actress spanning a
career from Film for 5 decades until her death in 1998. She
also starred in television in the fantasy comedy sitcom Okay
Ka Fairy Ko Maalaala Mo Kaya, and Ipaglaban Mo, such as
Mula Sa Puso and also Tierra Sangre before her death.
3. PROFILE
• Rosario Violeta Solís Hernández was born in Manila. At age
19, she was introduced by her uncle, the film director F. H.
Constantino to Doña Narcisa de León, the head of LVN
Pictures,[1] who cast her to star in her initial movie Niña
Bonita,[1] an adaptation of Frank Capra's It Happened One
Night. The film was a success, and marked the beginning of
Solís' 43-year career in film, lasting until her death. Solís died
on January 9, 1998, in Calamba from cardiac arrest. She was
buried at Manila Memorial Park in Parañaque.
4. FILM CAREER
• Solís would star in well over 100 films starting with LVN
Pictures' classics such as Niña Bonita (1955), Charito, I Love
You! (1956),[1] Walang
Sugat (1957), Malvarosa (1958), Kundiman Ng Lahi (1959)
and Emily (1960). She was featured in several of the best-
known and critically acclaimed movies of Philippine cinema.
She played the female lead in the 1962 film adaptation of Jose
Rizal's El filibusterismo, directed by Gerardo de Leon.
5. • Among her many films she also appeared in Eddie
Romero's Manila, Open City (1967), Araw-Araw, Gabi-Gabi (1975)
and Agila (1980); in Mike de Leon's Kisapmata (1981) and Batch
81 (1982); in Ishmael Bernal's City After Dark (1980) and Hinugot
sa Langit (1985); in Lino Brocka's Init (1979) and Ina, Kapatid,
Anak (1979);[2] and as the narrator in Marilou Diaz-
Abaya's Karnal (1983). Other notable performances of Solís were
featured in Angustia (1963), Tatlong Mukha Ni
Pandora (1963), Magda Sales (1964), Claudia (1966)
and Boomerang (1966).
6. • From 1967 to 1971, she was under contract with Nepomuceno Productions. Her
eight films for that outfit were Dahil Sa Isang Bulaklak,[1] Ang Langit Sa
Lupa, Luha Sa Karimlan, Manila Open City, Igorota, Ang Pulubi, Pipo and The
Hunted. Her performance in Dahil Sa Isang Bulaklak earned her the 1967 Asian
Best Actress award from the Asian Film Festival held in Tokyo, Japan. Dahil sa
Isang Bulaklak also brought a bonus to Solis: with the film being the country's
entry to the Best Foreign Film category at the Academy Awards (although the film
did not make it to the semi-finals), she and Luis Nepomuceno, the film's producer,
were given tickets to see the 40th Academy Awards, the first Filipinos to ever do
so.
7. • After her association with Nepomuceno Productions ended,
she appeared in several more films such as Shake, Rattle &
Roll, Hindi Kami Damong Ligaw (1976), Ms. Teresa Abad Ako
Si Bing, Hugasan Mo Ang Aking Kasalanan, Babae Sa Likod
Ng Salamin, Beerhouse, Babae Huwag Kang Tukso, Tundo
Isla Puting Bato, Babae Ngayon At Kailanman, Walang
Katapusang Tag-araw, Mga Tinik Ng Babae, Iwasan
Kabaret, Hubad Sa Mundo, Mga Huwad Na Mananayaw, Init,
and Alaga.
8. • Solís became the first Filipino actress to play the lead role
in an internationally released Japanese movie, in 1961
when she starred in Kenji Misumi's Shaka, a biographical
film about Shakyamuni Buddha.[3] She appeared in
another Japanese film, The Princess and I, produced by
Daiei Japan which had its Philippine premiere at the Lyric
Theater in Escolta on October 10, 1962.
9. AWARDS
• Her performance in 1967's Dahil sa Isang Bulaklak, directed by Luis Nepomuceno,
won her Best Actress award at the 1967 Asian Film Festival.[4] She again starred for
Nepomuceno the following year in Igorota, where she became the first Filipina actress
to bare her breasts on film. Her role in Igorota won her the 1968 FAMAS Best Actress
Award, one of 5 she would win during her career. Her other four FAMAS Best Actress
wins came in 1959 for Kundiman ng Lahi; in 1960 for Emily; in 1963 for Angustia; and
in 1983 for Don't Cry for Me, Papa. After her fifth win, in 1984, she became the first
actress to be inducted into the FAMAS Hall of Fame.[5] She also won the Gawad
Urian Best Actress award in 1979 for Ina, Kapatid, Anak, and for Best Supporting
Actress for in 1981 and 1982 for Kisapmata and Karnal, respectively. In 1984, Solís
won Best Supporting Actress for her performance as a narrator in Karnal from
Philippine Academy of the Philippines (FAP Awards).
10. • In the first-ever Metro Manila Film Festival held in 1975,
Solís won the Best Actress Award for Araw Araw, Gabi
Gabiand a Best Supporting Actress in the 1981 Metro
Manila Film Festival for Kisapmata. She received Ulirang
Artista Lifetime Achievement Award from Philippine Movie
Press Club (Star Awards) in March 1997.
11. • In the Catholic Mass Media Awards, she was the first lead
artist to be awarded the "rock trophy" for an excellent
performance as a jealous sister, wife and mother in the
family drama, Ina, Kapatid, Anak. In 1983, she was
awarded the best actress rock trophy for playing the role
of a manipulative mother in Minsan May isang Ina.
12. ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL
Year Nominated work Category Result
1967 Dahil sa Isang Bulaklak Best Actress Won[1]
13. FAMAS AWARDS
FAMAS Awards
Year Nominated work Category Result
1986 Moises Padilla Story: The Missing Chapter Best Supporting Actress Nominated
1985 - Best Actress Hall of Fame Won
1984 Don't Cry for me, Papa Best Actress Won
1982 Kisapmata Best Supporting Actress Nominated
1980 Ina, Kapatid, Anak Best Actress Nominated
14. 1976 Araw-araw, Gabi-gabi Nominated
1970 Ang Pulubi Nominated
1969 Igorota Won
1968 Dahil sa Isang Bulaklak Nominated
15. 1967 Claudia Nominated
1965 Lagablab sa Maribojoc Nominated
1964 Angustia Won
1963 El filibusterismo Nominated
1961 Emily Won
1960 Kundiman ng Lahi Won[1]
1958 Krisalis Nominated
1957 Ulilang Birhen Nominated
