Anita Linda
| Anita Linda | |
|---|---|
| Born | Alice Lake November 23, 1924 Pasay, Rizal, Philippine Islands |
| Years active | 1940 - present |
| Awards | FAMAS Best Supporting Actress 1974 Tatlo, Dalawa, Isa 1998 Ang Babae sa Bubungang Lata Gawad Urian Best Supporting Actress 1986 Takaw Tukso Cinemayala 2012 Best supporting actress 2012 Sta. Niña |
Anita Linda (born Alice Lake, November 23, 1924) is a two-time FAMAS award-winning and Gawad Urian award-winning Filipino film actress. A romantic lead in her youth, she later gained critical acclaim for her portrayals in maternal or elderly roles. At the age of 74, she became the oldest actress to ever win a FAMAS award, when she was named Best Supporting Actress for Ang Babae sa Bubungang Lata.[1] In 2008, at age 83, she was named Best Actress in the 10th Cinemanila International Film Festival (Southeast Asia Film Competition) for her portrayal of the titular character in Adela.
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Early career
Linda was born in Pasay City, the daughter of a full-blooded American soldier/mining engineer father and Ilonggo mother.[2]
Linda was discovered by renowned director Lamberto Avellana while watching a stage show at the Avenue Theater starring Leopoldo Salcedo, Lopito, among others. Then a Visayan teenager that couldn't speak Tagalog, she had second thoughts when she was asked backstage if she wanted to become an actress. Avellana then told her to report for rehearsals for the next show and later had her fetched when she didn’t appear.
Linda first did High School with no dialogue, then Biyernes sa Quiapo with Jaime dela Rosa as her leading man, then Aksesorya with Leopoldo Salcedo onstage. Avellana later gave her the screen name Anita Linda and cast her in Tia Juana, her first film at LVN Pictures.[3] The film was completed shortly before the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, but released only in 1943.[2] With the film studios being shut down for the duration of the war, Linda spent the war years performing on bodabil at Avenue Theater in Manila.[2] After the war in 1947, she was later offered a contract by Premiere Productions where she was cast by Avellana in Sekretang Hong Kong with Pugo and Togo. Her first lead role in Alyas Sakim with Pol Salcedo in 1947 directed by Moises Cagin.
In 1951, Linda portrayed the titular character in Gerardo de Leon's Sisa, a film based on the tragic character in Jose Rizal's novel Noli Me Tangere. The role garnered her the Best Actress Maria Clara award (a precursor of the FAMAS).[2] De Leon then cast Linda in Sawa sa Lumang Simboryo (1952), a role for which Linda would be nominated for a FAMAS Best Actress Award.[2]
Later career
In the 1970s, Linda gained renewed critical acclaim in maternal roles she played for director Lino Brocka in Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang (1974), Isa Dalawa Tatlo (1974) and Jaguar (1979). She would win the FAMAS Best Supporting Actress Award for Isa Dalawa Tatlo. Linda would also be nominated for the Gawad Urian Best Supporting Actress Award for Jaguar, which was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. In 1982 she was given the Natatanging Gawad Urian ng Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino.[3]
Linda would appear in several leading films of the 1980s and 1990s, including Joey Gosiengfiao's Temptation Island (1980), Mike de Leon's Sister Stella L. (1984), Chito Roño's Itanong Mo sa Buwan and Brocka's Gumapang ka sa Lusak (1990). For her portrayal of an aging film actress in Mario O'Hara’s Ang Babae sa Bubungang Lata (1998), Linda would receive a Star Award for Best Supporting Actress and her second FAMAS Best Supporting Actress Award. For this, she set a record as the oldest actress to ever win a FAMAS at age 74. In 1987, Linda also won a Gawad Urian Best Supporting Actress award for Takaw Tukso.
Linda remained active in the film industry as she reached her eighties, appearing in such films as Aishite Imasu 1941: Mahal Kita (2004), You Are the One (2006) and Ouija (2007). In 2009, she returned to television, starring in the ABS-CBN drama Tayong Dalawa as Kim Chiu's ruthless Chinese grandmother Lily and in the upcoming ABS-CBN horror suspense primetime series Florinda (TV series).
Linda garnered widespread acclaim in 2008, she starred in the independent film, Adela (2008), directed by Adolfo Alix, Jr.. For her performance plaing the loneliness of a woman celebrating her 80th birthday alone when her children failed to visit her, she was cited as Best Actress in the 10th Cinemanila International Film Festival (Southeast Asia Film Competition),[4] as Best Actress by the Young Critics Circle,[5] and as Best Actress (tied with Judy Ann Santos) at the Gawad Tanglaw Awards.[6] New York Times film critic Stephen Holden praised Linda's performance as "quietly transfixing".[7] Recently, Anita Linda was given the ENPRESS Lino Brocka Lifetime Achievement Award.[3]
She won the Best Supporting Actress award, for her performance in Sta. Niña, at the Cinemalaya 2012 under the New Breed Full Length Feature Category.[8]
In 2014, she made a comeback on primetime television in an ensemble drama Sana Bukas pa ang Kahapon as Paulo Avelino's grandmother Lola Patchi.
Personal life
In January 2009, Linda was unhurt in a mugging incident that occurred while she was aboard a taxicab.[9] In October 1950, Linda's sister Mamey was murdered in a robbery attempt at the home they had shared; Linda herself was unharmed after she and her nieces had locked themselves in a bedroom to evade the burglars.[10]
Awards and nominations
International awards
| ASEAN International Film Festival ( Malaysia) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| 2013 | Sta. Niña | Best Supporting Actress | Won |
Ref:[11]
| Fajr International Film Festival (Iran) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| 2011 | Lola | Best Actress | WonI |
- Shared with Rustica Carpio
Ref:[12]
| 11th Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival in Spain (Spain) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| 2010 | Lola | Best Actress | WonII |
Ref:[13]
| Cinemanila International Film Festival | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| 2008 | Adela | Best Actress (Southeast Asia Competition) | Won |
Local awards
| Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| 2012 | Sta. Niña | Best Supporting Actress (New Breed Category) |
Won |
| FAMAS (Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Awards) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| 1999 | Babae sa Bubungang Lata | Best Supporting Actress | Won |
| 1982 | Bakit Bughaw ang Langit | Nominated | |
| 1979 | Mahal mo, mahal ko | Nominated | |
| 1977 | Mrs. Teresa Abad ako po si Bing | Nominated | |
| 1975 | Tatlo, Dalawa, Isa | Won | |
| 1970 | Bimbo | Nominated | |
| 1962 | Nag-uumpugang bato | Best Actress | Nominated |
| 1953 | Sawa sa Lumang Simboryo | Nominated | |
| Luna Awards | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| 2013 | Sta. Niña | Best Supporting Actress | Won |
| Gawad Urian | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| 2011 | Presa | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated |
| 2010 | Lola | Best Actress | WonIII |
| 2009 | Adela | Nominated | |
| 2008 | Tambulista | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated |
| 1999 | Babae sa bubungang lata | Nominated | |
| 1989 | Itanong mo sa Buwan | Nominated | |
| 1986 | Takaw Tukso | WonIV | |
| 1982 | - | Lifetime Achievement Award | Won |
| 1980 | Jaguar | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated |
| Golden Screen Awards (ENPRESS) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| 2013 | Sta. Niña | Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role | Won |
| 2010 | Lola | Best Performance by an Actress in a Lead Role-Drama | Nominated |
| 2011 | Gawad Lino Brocka Lifetime Achievement Award | Won | |
| 2009 | Adela | Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role | Nominated |
| Gawad Tanglaw | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| 2009 | Adela | Best Actress | Won |
| Maria Clara Awards | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| 1952 | Sisa | Best Actress | Won |
| Star Awards for Movies | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| 2013 | Sta. Niña | Best Supporting Actress Actress | Nominated |
| 1999 | Babae sa bubungang Lata | Won | |
| Young Critics Circle | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| 2010 | Porno | Best Performance by Male or Female, Adult or Child, Individual or Ensemble in Leading or Supporting Role | Nominated |
| 2010 | Lola | Nominated | |
| 2009 | Adela | Won | |
| 1999 | Babae sa Bubungang Lata | Nominated | |
Notes
- ^I Shared with Rustica Carpio for Lola.
- ^II Shared with Rustica Carpio for Lola.
- ^III Shared with Rustica Carpio for Lola.
- ^IV tied with Nida Blanca for Magdusa Ka.
References
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