13 Facts About Charito Solis

Rosario Violeta Solis Hernandez, better known as Charito Solis, was a FAMAS and Gawad Urian Award-winning Filipina film actress.

Charito Solis died on January 9,1998, in Calamba from cardiac arrest.

Charito Solis was buried at Manila Memorial Park in Paranaque.

Charito Solis was featured in several of the best-known and critically acclaimed movies of Philippine cinema.

Charito Solis played the female lead in the 1962 film adaptation of Jose Rizal's El filibusterismo, directed by Gerardo de Leon.

Charito Solis appeared in another Japanese film The Princess and I produced by Daiei Japan which had its Philippine Premiere in Lyric Theater on Escolta on October 10,1962.

Charito Solis starred in another international production, alongside Tetchie Agbayani and John Saxon in Eddie Romero's Desire.

Charito Solis again starred for Nepomuceno the following year in Igorota, where she became the first Filipina actress to bare her breasts on film.

Charito Solis 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, Charito Solis won Best Supporting Actress for her performance as a narrator in Karnal from Philippine Academy of the Philippines.

Charito Solis received Ulirang Artista Lifetime Achievement Award from Philippine Movie Press Club in March 1997.

In 1973, Charito Solis had a TV weekly drama show named Obra Maestra on RPN.

Charito Solis played the imperious Ina Magenta, Enteng Kabisote's mother-in-law, a character which was loosely modeled after Agnes Moorehead's Endora on Bewitched.