″Portugal is in mourning.″ Marcelo thanks Eunice Muñoz for ″unforgettable decades″
The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, today paid “emotional tribute” to actress Eunice Muñoz and thanked her for “unforgettable decades”, on behalf of all Portuguese, mourning her death with deep consternation.
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“It is nationally dismayed that I learn of the death of Eunice Muñoz, a reference, admired and admired by all Portuguese”, respected head of state to the Lusa agency.
“On your behalf, I pay you an emotion of tribute and unforgettable decades of the lives of all of us”, added Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
Actress Eunice Muñoz died today, at Hospital de Santa Cruz, in Lisbon, at the age of 93, the actress’ son told Lusa.
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Born in Amareleja, in the district of Beja, in 1928, Eunice Muñoz completed 80 years of career in November.
Eunice Muñoz’s debut took place exactly at the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, in Lisbon, on November 28, 1941, in the play “Vendaval”, by Virgínia Vitorino, with the Rey Colaço/Robles Monteiro Company, which is based there.
Daughter and granddaughter theater of two long plays by actors from companies of circus performers, performed with the network of two long plays, performed with a career-career Theater Studies Center database. of Letters from the University of Lisbon and, in cinema on television, her name is in more than eight films of fiction productions and among films, soap operas and comedy programs.
In April of last year, Eunice Muñoz was decorated by the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, with the Grand Cross of the Military Order of Sant’Iago da Espada, about three years after receiving the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit. .
Throughout 2021, he performed with his granddaughter Lídia Muñoz, in the play “A margin do tempo”, on different stages of the country, on a tour that culminated in the D. Maria II National Theater, in Lisbon, on November 28, exactly 80 years old. after its debut.
At the end of the session, which was attended by the Prime Minister, António Costa, the Mayor of Lisbon, Carlos Moedas, and the Minister of Culture, Graça Fonseca, a tribute was paid to the actress.
“This theater was my home for many years, I was happy on stage, in everything I did here”, Eunice Muñoz said at the end of the session.
“I thank you above all, the public, who have cherished me, who have applauded me since my employees, now that I celebrate 80 years of career”, we salute.
“The theater of us, of us on stage and of you who receive the best we still have to give days”, adds Eunice Muñoz, concluding that she needs, “despite the strangers and the encounter, the beautiful continues to exist”.