Chita Foras

Chita Foras (1900–1986), was an Italian-Argentine actress noted for her work in silent and sound films. Born Josefína Foras Cossini, Chita Foras was an actress who appeared in numerous films during cinema's golden age. She worked in film and theater for more than three decades.

She married filmmaker Nelo Cosimi in March 1929. He directed her in several films, including a pair – Defiende tu honor (1930) and Dios y la patria (1931) – which were intended, in vain, to be released with disc-based sound systems.

She was part of the on-air staff of LRA Radio Nacional Buenos Aires who put on the radio play Las dos carátulas: El teatro de la humanidad in the 1980s, along with actors such as Adolfo Duncan, Claudia Durán, Adrián Di Stefano, Liliana Giménez, Miguel Ángel Medrano, Ricardo Lani, Haydeé Lesquer, Néstor Losadas, Norma Agüero, Rodolfo Caraballo, Enrique Conlazo, Noemí Deis, Osvaldo Demarco, and Inés Mariscal. She performed works such as Se necesita niñera by Mario Herbert Lago.

She died of natural causes in Buenos Aires in 1986.