Eva María Muñoz Ruíz[a] (November 26, 1936 – August 23, 2016), known professionally as Evita Muñoz "Chachita", was a Mexican actress and comedian. Her professional career began in 1941, when she was only four years old, and she continued performing through, and contributing to, the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Muñoz was still four years old when she played the character Chachita in her second film, ¡Ay, Jalisco, no te rajes! (Ay! Jalisco, don't back down) (1941), and went on to play Chachita in eight more films and numerous television roles over the subsequent decades, and would be credited as Eva Muñoz "Chachita" in other appearances. For more than 75 years, "Chachita" was recognized as a successful artist in cinema, television, theater, radio, nightclub and circus shows.

Filmography

• Don't Mess with the Angel — Candelaria Martínez
• Contra viento y marea — Doña Cruz Cárdenas
• 2001Serafín: La Película — Cocó (voice)
• Alma Rebelde — Berenice
• Serafín — Coco (voz)
• Unforgettable — Benita
• Gotita de Amor — Dolores "Lolita" Lomeli de Centella
• Bendita Mentira — Goya
• 1992Cambiando el destino — Hermana Margarita
• Ángeles sin paraíso — Asunción "Mamá Chonita"
• 1990De lengua, me como un plato
• 1988Dia de Madres
• 1988Dos machos que ladran no muerden
• The Marked Hour
• 1986Agente 0013 - Hermelinda Linda 2 — Hermelinda Linda
• 1986Se Sufre pero se Goza — Remi
• 1984Hermelinda Linda — Hermelinda Linda
• 1984Los humillados
• 1984Romancing the Stone — Hefty Woman
• 1983En el camino andamos
• 1982El Barrendero — Pachita
• 1982Vividores de mujeres
• 1982¡El que no corre... vuela! — Doña Chona
• 1981La casa prohibida
• 1981Las musiqueras
• 1976La palomilla al rescate
• Mundo de Juguete — Hermana Carmela
• 1973Peluquero de señoras
• 1972Cayó de la gloria el diablo — Nachita
• Columbo — Chambermaid
• 1970La hermana Trinquete — Fat tourist
• 1970Unethical Behaviour — Doña Cata "La pulques"
• 1967Death Arrives on Time — Creolina
• 1966Cuando el diablo sopla
• 1966Planetary Giants — Frijol
• 1965El dengue del amor
• 1963This was Pedro Infante — Evita Muñoz
• 1961Dos tontos y un loco — Cuquis
• 1961En Cada Feria Un Amor
• 1959Mi niño, mi caballo y yo
• 1959My Parents Are Divorced — Maruja, amiga de Fernando
• 1958Beneath the Sky of Mexico
• Gutierritos
• 1958The Man That Pleases Me
• 1957La locura del rock and roll
• 1957This Was Pancho Villa: First chapter — Remedios
• 1953Padre nuestro — Elisa Molina
• 1953Pepe El Toro — Chachita
• 1952Una calle entre tú y yo
• 1951El Cristo de mi Cabecera — Marcela
• 1951La Hija De La Otra
• 1951Los hijos de la calle
• 1951Los pobres van al cielo
• 1950Guardián, el perro salvador
• 1950Las dos huerfanitas
• 1948We the Poor — Chachita
• 1948Yo vendo unos ojos negros
• 1948You the Rich — Chachita
• 1947¡Qué verde era mi padre! — Chachita
• 1946La hija del payaso — Chachita
• 1944La pequeña madrecita
• 1943How Beautiful is Michoacan! — Chachita
• 1943Morenita clara — Chachita
• 1941Ay, Jalisco, Don't Give Up!
• 1941El secreto del sacerdote — Martita

Appearances as themselves (2)

• Las Lunas del Auditorio — Self
• 2000Mimí Derba — Self