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She supported Prof Cavaco Silva in his run to the Portuguese presidency

She supported Dr. Pedro Santana Lopes when he was elected Lisbon's Mayor

Has six children, Susana Muñoz do Couto (with Rui Couto), António, Maria.

She and her second husband, an artist, became Muslims many years ago.

She is one of the best Portuguese theater actresses of the second half of the XXth century.

Daughter of Hernâni Muñoz and his wife Júlia Muñoz (actress). Has two brothers named Hernâni do Carmo Muñoz (b. 1929) and Francisco Fernando do Carmo Muñoz (1942-1997). Her surname Muñoz is from Spanish origin.

Has eight grandchildren, including Joana, Lídia Muñoz (actress), Sofia, Raquel and Miguel, also three great-grandchildren.

Officer of the Ancient, Most Noble and Enlightened Military Order of Saint James of the Sword, of the Scientific, Literary and Artistic Merit (13 July 1981), Grand-Officer of the Order of Prince Henry (26 November 1991), Grand-Officer of the Ancient, Most Noble and Enlightened Military Order of Saint James of the Sword, of the Scientific, Literary and Artistic Merit (8 June 2010), Grand-Cross of the Order of Prince Henry (28 November 2011).

In May 2012, he suffered a fall at the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II during rehearsals for the rehearsal of the Tennessee Williams play "O Comboio da Madrugada" and broke both his wrists and injured her neck, and the premiere was cancelled.

She was awarded the title of honorary doctor by the University of Évora in 2009.

She studied at the Portuguese National Conservatory, nowadays the Lisbon Theatre and Film School (Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema).

Daughter and granddaughter of theater actors and circus performers, throughout her career Eunice Muñoz appeared in close to two hundred plays, worked with around a hundred companies.

Eunice Muñoz debuted 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 was based there.

She was not only a popular Portuguese actress in Portuguese theatre, television and cinema, but she was also unanimously considered one of the best Portuguese actresses of all time.

In April 2021, celebrating 80 years of career, she retired from her artistic career with the play A Margem do Tempo, which she had to stop for 20 days, having been hospitalized due to fatigue and fragility.

In 1991, her 50th anniversary of Theater is celebrated, with an exhibition at the National Theater Museum, with Eunice being decorated, in an open scene, on the stage of the National Theater, by the President of the Republic, Mário Soares.

In 1993, she debuted in telenovelas with the interpretation of D. Branca in A Banqueira do Povo, by Walter Avancini.

A Maçon, a play written by the novelist Lídia Jorge specifically for Eunice, was staged in 1997 on the stage of the National Theater and in 2001 Ernest Thompson's A Casa do Lago, staged by La Féria, premiered at the Politeama.

On September 13, 2015, "74 Eunices" was organized, a tribute show to actress Eunice Muñoz that took place in Sala Garrett of the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II. The show was directed by Cristina Carvalhal. 74 actresses were part of the cast of the show.

On April 22, 2021, she was awarded the Grand Cross of the Military Order of Sant'Iago da Espada.

Her film debut took place in 1946, in "Camões", by Leitão de Barros, which won her the award for best actress. At the time, she also appeared in "Um Homem do Ribatejo", by Henrique de Campos, who would also direct her in "Ribatejo" (1950) and "Cantiga da rua" (1955).

By the 70th anniversary of her debut, which took place on the stage of the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, in Lisbon, her statements already had the essence of that desire, to be remembered as the common person who, however, she tried to "always do better", because "I couldn't be anything else, I could only be an actress".

With an 80-year career, Eunice Muñoz, however, was the personification of Portuguese theater.

In 1963, she shared with Laura Alves the award for best actress, for her role in William Gibson's "The miracle of Ana Sullivan" (1963).

According to the database of the Center for Theater Studies of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon, she won more than a dozen of awards throughout her career.

She retired from the scene, between the age of 23 and 27 year., because he wanted to dedicate herself to he family. She worked in a cork shop, in Príncipe Real, where the public would go to see her, because they couldn't find her on stage. Frustrated with the situation, she took a secretarial course. She then worked as a management secretary in an electrical supply store in Barreiro.

Born on July 30, 1928, in Amareleja, Moura, in the district of Beja, on a street that bears her name, Eunice Muñoz descends from a family of three generations of actors: the Spaniards Muñoz, in the theater, and the Sicilians Cardinalli, at the circus. At the age of five, she was already performing musical numbers in the family's traveling theater company, Troupe Carmo. Shy, she even invented stomachaches to avoid the faces that looked at her on stage, as she recalled in different interviews, telling about her "nomadic childhood".

"I am a person like any other", and she liked to be remembered like that, as a "simple woman", although she could not "stop being an actress", she told the Lusa agency.

She returned to the stage in 1955, to be "Joana d'Arc", by Jean Anouilh, at Teatro Avenida, in Lisbon, at the invitation of Vasco Morgado.

Actress Eunice Muñoz, never imagined herself outside the theater, despite always having considered herself "a woman like any other, mother of six children, with grandchildren and great-grandchildren".