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Anita Linda was a legendary Filipino actress with a career spanning nearly eight decades. She appeared in close to 400 films, starting in the 1940s. Known as the "face of Philippine cinema", she gained acclaim for portraying strong maternal roles depicting the Filipino experience. In her later career in the 1970s-1990s, she won numerous acting awards, including multiple FAMAS Awards. She remained active in film and television into her 80s and 90s, garnering further accolades and setting a record as the oldest actress to win a FAMAS Award at age 74. Linda was considered an icon of Philippine cinema due to her illustrious career and powerful portrayals over several generations.

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Anita Linda

Anita Linda was a legendary Filipino actress with a career spanning nearly eight decades. She appeared in close to 400 films, starting in the 1940s. Known as the "face of Philippine cinema", she gained acclaim for portraying strong maternal roles depicting the Filipino experience. In her later career in the 1970s-1990s, she won numerous acting awards, including multiple FAMAS Awards. She remained active in film and television into her 80s and 90s, garnering further accolades and setting a record as the oldest actress to win a FAMAS Award at age 74. Linda was considered an icon of Philippine cinema due to her illustrious career and powerful portrayals over several generations.

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ANITA LINDA

Anita Linda

Anita Linda (born Alice Bueñaflor Lake;[1] November


23, 1924 – June 10, 2020),[2] was a Filipino actress
whose career spanned nearly eight decades and had
done close to 400 motion pictures.[3] A romantic lead in
her early years, she gained widespread acclaim for her
portrayals of maternal, elderly roles depicting Filipino
struggles and their lifestyle.[4] Often described as the
face of Philippine cinema,[5] she was one of the top
box-office draws for two decades[6][7] and has received
numerous accolades from international film festivals &
domestic award-giving bodies.
Early career

Linda was born Alice Bueñaflor Lake in Pasay to


James Lake, an American soldier and mining engineer,
and Gorgonia Bueñaflor of Iloilo.
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 Ilongga 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.[11] The film was
completed shortly before the
Japanese invasion of the Philippines, but released
only in 1943.
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.[10] 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 was
directed by Moises Cagin.
In 1951, Linda portrayed the title 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).[10] 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.
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 Award for Best Supporting Actress 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.
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 S.
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.
Linda garnered widespread acclaim in 2008, she starred in
the independent film, Adela (2008), directed by
Adolfo Alix, Jr. For her performance playing 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),[12] as Best Actress by the
Young Critics Circle,[13] and as Best Actress (tied with
Judy Ann Santos) at the Gawad Tanglaw Awards.[14]
The New York Times film critic Stephen Holden praised
Linda's performance as "quietly transfixing".[15] In 2009,
Anita Linda was given the ENPRESS Lino Brocka Lifetime
Achievement Award.
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.
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

• She was married to actor Fred Cortes Sr.(stage name)


The marriage lasted 2 years. They had a son Fred
Cortes Jr. (stage name)[19]
• In January 2009, Linda was unhurt in a mugging incident
that occurred while she was aboard a taxicab.[20] 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.
Death

Linda died on June 10, 2020. She was 95.[22] The


news was confirmed by her daughter, Francesca
Legaspi by a text message to STAR news.
1943 Tiya Juana LVN Pictures
1947 Alias Sakim Premiere Productions
1947 Sekretang Hong Kong Premiere Productions
1947 Ngayon at Kailan Man Premiere Productions
1948 Labi ng Bataan
1948 Perfidia: Kataksilan Premiere Productions
1948 Anghel sa Lupa Premiere Productions
1948 Hiram na Pangalan
1948 Wala Na Akong Luha
Ang Lumang Bahay sa
1949
Gulod
1949 Bakit Ako Luluha?
1949 Bandilang Basahan
1949 Ina ng Awa
1949 Dugo ng Katipunan
1949 Kay Ganda ng Umaga
1949 Kung Sakali Ma't Salat
1949 Magkapilas ng Langit
Suwail (Naglaro ang
1949
Ligaya)
1950 3 Balaraw
1950 Hiwaga ng Tulay na Bato

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