Tita de Villa is a character

Character actor

A character actor is one who predominantly plays unusual or eccentric characters. The Oxford English Dictionary defines a character actor as "an actor who specializes in character parts", defining character part in turn as "an acting role displaying pronounced or unusual characteristics or...

 actress from the Philippines. Her long acting career started in 1954 in a Sampaguita Pictures

Sampaguita Pictures

Sampaguita Pictures was a Philippine film production company. It was named for the Philippine National Flower, Sampaguita. The company has been long-defunct since the 1980s with Mike de Leon's classic "Batch '81" being the last film released...

 movie, Dalagang Ilocana

Dalagang Ilocana

Dalagang Ilocana is a 1954 Filipino romantic comedy film produced by Sampaguita Pictures. The film is in black and white and was directed by Olive La Torre.-Cast:*Gloria Romero*Ric Rodrigo*Dolphy*Tita de Villa*Francisco Cruz...

 (Ilocana Maiden), the movie which also catapulted the career of actress Gloria Romero

Gloria Romero (actress)

Gloria Romero is a Filipino actress appearing in film and television. Her career spans 60 years and includes award winning performances in the films Tanging Yaman , Nagbabagang Luha and 1955's Dalagang Ilocana...

 into stardom. In the film, De Villa played a bit role of a lady boarder. Typecasted

Typecasting (acting)

In TV, film, and theatre, typecasting is the process by which a particular actor becomes strongly identified with a specific character; one or more particular roles; or, characters having the same traits or coming from the same social or ethnic groups...

 into playing antagonistic roles, De Villa is perhaps known for her portrayal of the scheming matriarch

Matriarchy

A matriarchy is a society in which females, especially mothers, have the central roles of political leadership and moral authority. It is also sometimes called a gynocratic or gynocentric society....

, Mena, in the highly successful Tagalog soap opera

Soap opera

A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...

 Gulong ng Palad

Gulong ng Palad

Gulong ng Palad is a Philippine 50's radio drama series and 1980s soap opera hit...

 in the late 1970s. She is married to Jose de Villa

José de Villa

José de Villa was a Filipino film actor in the 1950s and a film director in the late 1950s and 1960s. He made his made his first movie for Sampaguita Pictures in 1947, Maria Kapra, which starred Ángel Esmeralda....

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Filmography

• Dalagang Ilocana
  Dalagang Ilocana
  Dalagang Ilocana is a 1954 Filipino romantic comedy film produced by Sampaguita Pictures. The film is in black and white and was directed by Olive La Torre.-Cast:*Gloria Romero*Ric Rodrigo*Dolphy*Tita de Villa*Francisco Cruz...
  
   (1954)
• Anak sa Panalangin (1954)
• R.O.T.C. (1955)
• Portrait of My Love
• Iginuhit ng Tadhana: The Ferdinand E. Marcos Story (1965)
• Jamboree '66 (1966)
• Sitting in the Park (1967)
• Pogi (1967)
• Let's Dance the Soul! (1967)
• All Over the World (1967)
• Way Out in the Country (1967)
• Cinderella A-Go-Go (1967)
• Kamatayan Ko ang Ibigin Ka (1968)
• Junior Cursillo (1968)
• Ikaw Ay Akin, Ako Ay sa Iyo (1968)
• Elizabeth (1968)
• Deborrah (1968)
• Paula (1969)
• Orang (1970)
• My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1971)
• Fiesta Extravaganza '71 (1971)
• Lumuha Pati mga Anghel (1971)
• Little Darling (1972)
• Mr. Lonely (1972)
• Kamay na Gumagapang (1974)
• Mortal (1975)
• Batu-Bato sa Langit (1975)
• Gulong ng Palad
  Gulong ng Palad
  Gulong ng Palad is a Philippine 50's radio drama series and 1980s soap opera hit...
  
  (TV series) (1977)
• Ang Pagbabalik ni Harabas at Bulilit (1977)
• Doble Kara (1978)
• Darna, kuno? (1979)
• Pepe en Pilar (1984)
• Adultery (Aida Macaraeg, Case no. 7892) (1984)
• Anak ni Waray vs Anak ni Biday (1984)
• Super wan-tu-tri (1985)
• White Slavery (1985)
• Babaing Hampaslupa (1988)
• Here Comes the Bride (1989)
• Island of Desire (1990)
• Cedie (1996)
• Mapanuksong Hiyas (1997)
• The Abandoned (2000)

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