14 Facts About Charito Solis

Rosario Violeta Hernandez Solis, professionally known as Charito Solis, was a Filipino film actress.

Charito Solis was considered among the major dramatic film actresses in the Philippines, with a career spanning five decades until her death in 1998.

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 films 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 became the first Filipino actress to play the lead role in an internationally released Japanese film, in 1961 when she starred in Kenji Misumi's Shaka, a biographical film about Shakyamuni Buddha.

Charito Solis 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.

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.

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 Of the Flesh, respectively.

In 1984, Charito Solis won Best Supporting Actress for her performance as a narrator in Of the Flesh from Philippine Academy of the Philippines.

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