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Pedro Pascal is a Chilean-born actor. He is best known for portraying the roles of Oberyn Martell in the fourth season of the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011), Javier Peña in the Netflix series Narcos (2015), the titular character in the Disney+ series The Mandalorian (2019) and Joel Miller in the HBO series The Last of Us (2023).
He's long-time friends with Triple Frontier (2019) co-star Oscar Isaac.- Actress
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Lorenza Francesca Izzo Parsons is a Chilean actress and model. She has appeared in films, including Aftershock (2012), The Green Inferno (2013), Knock, Knock (2015), and Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). Izzo was born in Santiago, Chile, to Chilean model Rosita Parsons . She is of Italian descent on her father's side. She has a younger sister, Clara Lyon Parsons, who is a model as well. When she was twelve years old, she moved to Atlanta with her father, then working towards a Ph.D. at Georgia Institute of Technology. She was bullied over her strong Chilean accent as a child, but stated she "got over [her] accent pretty fast" after watching the 2002 sports film Blue Crush several times. Izzo recalls becoming "obsessed with [Blue Crush star] Kate Bosworth."- Actress
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Cote de Pablo was born in Santiago, Chile, but was raised in Miami, Florida. She attended Arvida Middle School in Miami and then Carnegie Mellon University. She graduated in 2000 after studying music theater. Whilst at Carnegie Mellon she appeared in several theater productions, including "Indiscretions," "The Fantasticks," "The House of Bernarda Alba," "And The World Goes 'Round," "A Little Night Music," and "Cloud Techtonics." Her first television job was co-hosting the 1994 show Control (2000), alongside Entertainment Tonight (1981) host Carlos Ponce.
In 2001, Cote appeared on the New York City Public Theater stage in the Shakespearean play "Measure for Measure," then moved on to roles on the small screen such as Gina in the ABC series The Education of Max Bickford (2001), acting alongside Academy Award-winners Richard Dreyfuss and Marcia Gay Harden, Golden Globe winner Regina Taylor, veteran actress Helen Shaver, and Katee Sackhoff. She also had roles in The $treet (2000) and When I Grow Up (1990). In 2004, she starred in the short-lived Fox series The Jury (2004), playing Marguerite Cisneros.
In 2005, she played Dolores Fuentes in the stage musical "The Mambo Kings" and later was cast as Mossad officer Ziva David in the hit series NCIS (2003), alongside Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Pauley Perrette, David McCallum, Sean Murray, Lauren Holly, Rocky Carroll, and Brian Dietzen.
As of 2008, she was living in Los Angeles.- Actress
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Leonor Varela was born on December 29, 1972 in Santiago de Chile, Chile, the daughter of Leonor Palma, a massage therapist, and Francisco Varela (Francisco Javier Varela Garcia), a biologist, neuroscientist, and philosopher. Her family fled to Costa Rica, leaving behind the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. They subsequently resided in Germany, USA, and France, where Varela studied.
In the '90s she appears in the Chilean soap Tic Tac (1997), and in other French and Europeans productions like Pony Trek (1995), Sous le soleil (1996), Shooting Stars (1997), A Legend to Ride (1997), Le juste (1996), or Bouge! (1997). Her career in Holywood began in 1998, when she joined the cast of The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) when she starred opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, and she appeared in The Bible Collection: Jeremiah (1998) opposite Patrick Dempsey. The following year (1999), she played the title character in the ABC TV movie "Cleopatra" (1999) (TV) opposite her future fiancé Billy Zane and Timothy Dalton
She appeared in The Tailor of Panama (2001) as Marta and in Texas Rangers (2001) as Perdita opposite Ashton Kutcher. In 2002 she appeared as the fanged vampire princess Nyssa in the action film Blade II (2002) opposite Wesley Snipes and Kris Kristofferson and directed by Guillermo del Toro. After that came Paraíso B (2002) as Gloria and in Pas si grave (2003) as Angela.
Varela also had a short recurring role in the Fox Television show Arrested Development (2003) as the original Marta. She was nominated for the Ariel Award in 2005 in the category of Best Actress for Innocent Voices (2004). She also had a non-recurring role in Stargate: Atlantis (2004).
In 2005 she appeared playing Adela in Americano (2005), and her following projects included Goal II: Living the Dream (2007) as the journalist Jordana Garcia, Where God Left His Shoes (2007) with John Leguizamo and the TV series produced by Jennifer Lopez Como ama una mujer (2007).
In the 2008 Sundance Film Festival she screened Sleep Dealer (2008) and the Larry Bishop's Hell Ride (2008), opposite Michael Madsen and Eric Balfour and produced by Quentin Tarantino.- Actress
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Fernanda Urrejola has built her career playing strong, courageous women. She is originally from Santiago, Chile where she was an internationally competitive synchronized swimmer before she became an actress. In 2018 Fernanda will appear on Netflix's "Narcos" as María Elvira, wife of Diego Luna's character Miguel. She has three feature films set for release later this year, including "No Estoy Loca" (Nicolás López), "After Her" (Felipe Gon), and "Imprisoned" (Paul Kampf) opposite Juana Acosta, Juan Pablo Raba and Laurence Fishburne She lives and works between Los Angeles, Mexico and Chile, in both English and Spanish.- Writer
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Alejandro Jodorowsky was born in Tocopilla, Chile on February 17, 1929. In 1939 he moved to Santiago where he attended university, was a circus clown and a puppeteer. In 1953 he went to Paris and studied mime with Marcel Marceau. He worked with Maurice Chevalier there and made a short film, La cravate (1957). He also befriended the surrealists Roland Topor and Fernando Arrabal, and in 1962 these three created the "Panic Movement" in homage to the mythical god Pan. As part of this group Jodorowsky wrote several books and theatrical pieces. In the later 1960s he directed avant-garde theater in Paris and Mexico City, created the comic strip "Fabulas Panicas", and made his first "real" film, the surrealist love story Fando and Lis (1968), based on a play by Arrabal. In 1971, El Topo (1970) was released and became a cult classic, as did The Holy Mountain (1973). In 1975 he returned to France to begin work on a film that was never made: a colossal adaptation of Frank Herbert's "Dune", which was to star Orson Welles, Salvador Dalí and others, was to be scored by Pink Floyd, and which brought together the visionary talents of H.R. Giger, Dan O'Bannon, and 'Jean "Moebius' Giraud' (Giger and O'Bannon later collaborated on Alien (1979).) The project's financiers backed out, and "Dune" was eventually filmed by David Lynch. Jodorowsky's next film was 1979's Tusk (1980), a story of a young girl's friendship with an elephant, which quickly faded into obscurity. In the early 1980s he began working with Moebius and other artists on various comic strips, graphic novels and cartoons, and wrote several more books. He returned to film with 1989's Santa Sangre (1989), which was critically acclaimed and widely distributed. In 1990 he directed Omar Sharif and Peter O'Toole in the fantasy film The Rainbow Thief (1990). Throughout the 1990s he continued to produce cartoons with a variety of graphic artists and is reportedly to begin work on another film, the long-awaited "Sons Of El Topo", sometime in 2002 or 2003. Jodorowsky's wife Valerie and sons Brontis, Axel and Adan have all at times appeared in his films.- Actor
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Marko Zaror is a Chilean martial arts action star and fight choreographer, currently residing in Los Angeles, California. His career began as a young boy with a passion for martial arts and fighting, his mother, a Black belt in Karate took him to the gym when he was just a baby. Inspired by Bruce Lee, at the age of six he started training himself, and by the age of 18 Marko had become an exceptional martial artist. Marko moved to Mexico and quickly found success in modeling by doing fashion shows until he receive a study grant in Televisa. After acting on local movies, Despite this success, he never lost his passion for martial arts and decided to move to Los Angeles. Zaror's first break into the Hollywood industry was by doing Dawne " The Rock " Johnson stunt double on the movie "The Rundown" where he won a World Stunt award.
Zaror then gained international notoriety as lead and producer of indie action cult Kitro, Mirageman, Mandrill and Redeemer, all premiered at Fantastic Fest in Austin Texas where they achieved international and domestic distribution. In his first American film, he was nominated for best villain with his performance of "Dolor" in Isaac Florentine's "Undisputed 3", where he earned worldwide fans for his physical skills and acting.
His big break was when Robert Rodriguez discovered and wrote him a role in Machete Kills. Since then, Marko has developed a promising career with several performances in series and movies that include the series From Dusk Till Dawn with the epic character of "Zolo" and now Hollywood most anticipated Action saga of 2023 John Wick 4 as "Chidi" one of Wick's main pursuers in the film.
Zaror latest film Fist of The Condor, which recently had its world premiere at the 2023 Rotterdam Film Festival in Germany, has been selected for the Alamo Drafthouse Fantastic Fest Presents series.- Actor
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Horatio Sanz was born on June 4, 1969, in Santiago, Chile, and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He was one of the Upright Citizen Brigade's founding members and performed with Chicago's Second City comedy troupe.
When he joined the cast of Saturday Night Live (1975) as a featured player at the beginning of the 24th season (September 26, 1998), he became the long-running sketch comedy show's first Latino cast member. He appeared along with fellow featured players Jimmy Fallon and Chris Parnell, and after only one season, the three were promoted to cast members. On the show, Horatio played the characters Frankie Hilbert on the sketch "Boston Teens", pothead Gobi on the recurring sketch "Jarret's Room", and A/V teacher Mr. Banglian on "Wake Up, Wakefield."
Horatio has had many minor but memorable roles in movies since 1994. However, his big break came in 2003 with his first starring role in the movie Boat Trip (2002), in which he appeared along with Cuba Gooding Jr. and Vivica A. Fox. He continued to star on Saturday Night Live (1975) until 2007.- Valentina Vargas is a Chilean-born French actress. She developed most of her career in France, where she was raised.
Vargas began her career in the dramatic art within the workshop of Tania Balachova in Paris and also later at the Yves Pignot School of Los Angeles. Her cinematographic career started via the filming of three French movies, namely Pierre Jolivet's Strictly Personal (1985), Luc Besson's The Big Blue (1988) and Jean-Jacques Annaud's The Name of the Rose (1986). Over the years, Vargas also worked with Samuel Fuller in Street of No Return (1989), Miguel Littín in Los Náufragos (1994) and Alfredo Arieta in Fuegos (1987).
Vargas is trilingual in Spanish, French and English. This has enabled her to pass without notice in films as varied as the cinematic horror film Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996) where she played the Cenobite Angelique, to the comedy Chili con carne (1999) of Thomas Gilou. She appeared opposite Jan Michael Vincent (Dirty Games (1989)), Malcolm McDowell and Michael Ironside (Southern Cross (1999)), and James Remar (Die Tigerin (1992)).
After her performance in Bloody Mallory (2002) where she played "Lady Valentine/Carmina Belladone", she turned to playing roles for television. Initially she played in a version of Dangerous Liaisons (2003) directed by Josée Dayan. She starred in this production with Catherine Deneuve, Rupert Everett, Leelee Sobieski and Nastassja Kinski. - Writer
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Is the son of a Spanish mother and a Chilean father. His family moved back to Spain when he was 1 year old, and he grew up and studied in Madrid. He wrote, produced and directed his first short film La cabeza at the age of 19, and he was 23 when he directed his feature debut Thesis (1996). His film Open Your Eyes (1997) was a huge success in Spain and was distributed worldwide. It was remade in Hollywood by Cameron Crowe as Vanilla Sky (2001), starring Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz (also the star of the original version) and Cameron Diaz. The Others (2001) is Amenábar's first English language film.- Actor
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Cristián de la Fuente was born on 10 March 1974 in Santiago, Chile. He is an actor and producer, known for Basic (2003), Driven (2001) and In Plain Sight (2008). He has been married to Angelica Castro since 5 January 2002. They have one child.- Producer
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Nicole Polizzi was born on 23 November 1987 in Santiago, Chile. She is a producer and writer, known for The Three Stooges (2012), Movie 43 (2013) and Supernatural (2005). She has been married to Jionni LaValle since 29 November 2014. They have three children.- Producer
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Pablo Larraín was born in Santiago, Chile. He is a director, writer and producer, known for Spencer (2021), Jackie (2016), El Club (2015), NO (2012), among others. Together with his brother Juan de Dios Larraín, they founded Fabula in 2004, one of the most prolific production companies in Latin America.- Actor
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Jorge López was born on 30 October 1991 in Santiago, Chile. He is an actor, known for Soy Luna (2016), Decibel 110 (2011) and Now and Then (2022).- Actress
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Born in Santiago, Chile, and raised in Toronto Canada. Is of Spanish, Irish, French and Jewish descent. She trained in ballet and flamenco and is fluent in Spanish and French, and also speaks Italian and Portuguese. She lived in Spain and France before returning to Canada to pursue her Masters degree in Vancouver.- Actress
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Evelyn Ankers, a beautiful movie actress who was a staple of Universal's horror films in the 1940s, was born in Chile to English parents in 1918. Her parents repatriated the family back to England in the 1920s, and it was in Old Blighty that Ankers developed a desire to become an actress.
She began appearing in small roles in English movies in the mid 1930s while she was still in school. She appeared in Fire Over England (1937) with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh and in Bells of St. Mary's (1937). A beauty with talent, she soon won starring roles in the low-budget The Villiers Diamond (1938) and The Claydon Treasure Mystery (1938).
With war clouds darkening the skies over Europe, Ankers emigrated to the United States and was signed to a contract by Universal in 1940. She made her Universal debut in the Abbott and Costello comedy-horror picture Hold That Ghost (1941) before appearing in the horror film classic The Wolf Man (1941) opposite Lon Chaney Jr.. Ankers found herself cast into the horror picture ghetto, appearing in three more Chaney fright films, The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), Son of Dracula (1943) and The Frozen Ghost (1945), during a period in which she was cast ashore with a sarong-less Jon Hall in The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944). She also appeared in support of Basil Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942) and The Pearl of Death (1944).
Ankers married B-movie hunk Richard Denning in 1942 and made a go articulating the anxieties of the home front while her husband was off to war. Horror flicks were popular during World War II, but after the cessation of hostilities in 1945, they went out of favor with audiences. Ankers' career, mated to the genre at Universal, suffered.
She quit Universal in 1945 and freelanced at Columbia and Poverty Row's Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) and Republic Pictures in dramas and mysteries. Evelyn co-starred with her returned husband, Richard, in the major release Black Beauty (1946) for 20th Century Fox. For PRC, she headlined Queen of Burlesque (1946) and later co-starred with Lex Barker in Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949).
As the 1950s dawned, a decade of conformity and family values, Ankers quit the movies for married life and motherhood after making The Texan Meets Calamity Jane (1950), in which she was first-billed. She was 32 years old. A decade later, Ankers came out of retirement to make one final screen appearance, in her hubby's No Greater Love (1960).
Evelyn Ankers died of ovarian cancer on August 29, 1985, twelve days after her 67th birthday.- Director
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Born in 1974, Sebastián Lelio is one of the leading figures (along with Pablo Larraín, Andrés Wood and a few others) of the post-dictatorship Chilean cinema. After graduating from the "Escuela de Cine de Chile" in Santiago, Lelio started by making shorts (he made five from 1995 to 2003, as well as a documentary). From 2005 on, he directed four remarkable feature films, the first three very dark, the fourth one somewhat lighter, which all garnered awards in the festival circuit. The Sacred Family (2005) is kind of Chilean version of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Teorema (1968). It was followed by Navidad (2009), a drama of uncommon intensity focusing on three teenagers alienated from their families and The Year of the Tiger (2011), recounting the escape of an inmate during Chile's 2010 earthquake. Coming after this taught triptych, Gloria (2013) surprises by its peaceful tone. The amorous adventures of Gloria, a sixty-year-old office worker in Santiago, although not without tensions and bitterness, are less upsetting than what Lelio had filmed before. But whether dark or rosy, Lelio's cinema explores the Chilean society of today with the same acuteness.- Cinematographer
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Claudio Miranda was born in March 1965 in Valparaíso, Chile. He is a cinematographer and actor, known for Life of Pi (2012), Top Gun: Maverick (2022) and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008). He has been married to Kelli Bean since February 2009.- Writer
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Sebastián Silva was born on 9 April 1979 in Santiago, Metropolitan Region, Chile. He is a writer and director, known for Tyrel (2018), The Maid (2009) and Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus (2013).- Paula Luchsinger Escobar (Santiago, December 24, 1994) is a Chilean film and television actress, recognized for her participation in the film El Conde (2023), the film Ema (2019), the series La jauría (2020) and many Chilean television series.
She studied Acting at the Theater School of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Subsequently, she completed a Diploma in Aesthetics and Philosophy at the same university, and a Diploma in Biology of Knowledge and Human Communication at the University of Chile.
In parallel with her university studies, at the age of 20 she debuted on television, beginning a prolific national and international career in film and television, which made her be considered by chilean actors as "one of the most promising talents of her generation", being highlighted as "A rising star" on the cover of Wiken Magazine on August 7, 2020. Subsequently, on May 7, 2022, she was honored as "Breakthrough Actress" in Chile by the newspaper El Mercurio, the country's main newspaper. - Actress
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Born in Santiago (Chile) to a Chilean mother and a Spanish father, both economists, Paulina was raised in Spain from the age of eight. She started her artistic career as a Flamenco dancer in several companies and her first acting work was leading the film Bazar Viena with renewed Spanish actor Alfredo Landa, while attending the Cristina Rota acting school. Paulina started in theatre (with famous experimental Catalan group Els Joglars, from Barcelona) and has been working in film productions, theater and television in Europe, USA, and Latin America.- Art Director
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Was married to Anna Maria Alberghetti, the opera and musical theater star and pitchwoman for Good Seasons salad dressing.
Has 2 daughters with Alberghetti. His second daughter is Pilar Guzman (age 34, born 1972), a food critic & lifestyle& home/garden columnist for the New York Times. Pilar graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree is English & Italian.- Actor
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Alfredo Castro Gómez was born in Santiago de Chile. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre Acting from Universidad de Chile. Presently, he works as a theatre director, actor, pedagogue, playwright, and founder of Teatro La Memoria, a theatre company that marks a milestone in the history of contemporary Chilean theatre. In 2006, the company founded the Centro de Investigación Teatral (Center for Theatrical Investigation) and the Sala de Teatro: Teatro La Memoria (anintimate 100-seat playhouse).
In 1989, Gómez received a grant from the French Government for advanced professional studies in Theatre Direction in Paris, Strasbourg, and Lyon. He then traveled to London in 1993, with a scholarship from the British Council for professional training in theatre acting at The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. In June of 2010, Gómez went to Italy to perform alongside distinguished actor Tony Servillo in the Italian film É stato il figlio, directed by Daniele Cipri.
As an actor and screenwriter, Alfredo Castro Gómez has participated in several films by Chilean director Pablo Larraín. These have included: Fuga (2006), Tony Manero (2008), and Post Mortem (2010), the last of which was selected to compete for the prestigious Golden Lion award in the 67th Venice International Film Festival, in the Best Film category.- Actress
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Daniela Vega Hernández is a Chilean transgender actress and lyrical singer. She was born in San Miguel, Santiago, Chile. She was the first child of Igor Vega, a printing owner, and Sandra Hernández, a housewife. After a time, the family moved to Ñuñoa, where her brother Nicolás was born. At the age of eight, one of her teachers discovered her talent to sing opera. She began performing in small productions in Santiago, which developed in her a taste for arts.
After finishing high school, she started making a life as hair stylist. In her spare time and without any other formal education, she got involved with the local acting atmosphere. One her first plays was "La mujer mariposa" (The Butterfly Woman), where she starred.
In 2014 she got notoriety when she appeared in the video clip of the songwriter Manuel García's song "Maria". The same year she made her filming debut in The Guest (2014).
2017 has been a prolific year in her career. The play "Migrantes" was chosen as one of the best in the Festival Teatro a Mil. She also starred the Chilean movie A Fantastic Woman (2017). The film was released in the 67th edition of the Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Berlin International Film Festival) and was critically acclaimed, eventual winning Best Foreing Language Film at the 2018 Academy Awards (Oscars).- Actress
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The Great Lady of Chilean theater, TV and cinema, Paulina García has garnered an impressive number of awards, among which the APES Award, the Altazor Award as well as the prestigious Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival. Paulina García studied drama at the Catholic University of Chile where she debuted in the play 'Donde estara la Jeanette?'. Since then, she has appeared in over thirty plays. Also a stage director and a playwright, the multi-talented García opened 'Asociacion de Directores de Teatro', a drama school where she was a teacher until 2001. Not the kind to rest on her laurels, Paulina García also performed on TV ('Los Titeres', a 1984 telenovela; 'Carcel de mujeres', a 2007 series) and of course on the silver screens of her country. Her shining hour came with the title role of Gloria (2013). She was indeed wonderful as the engaging 58-year-old office worker who still loves dancing in clubs, keeps follows her heart and goes through all the delights and pangs of a new romance. She quite deserved the aforementioned Silver Bear for this memorable performance.- Mariana Di Girólamo is a Chilean film, theatre and television actress. In the movie "Ema", by the Chilean director Pablo Larraín, she plays a mother who, together with her partner, represented by the Mexican Gael García, lives the process of adopting a child.
Mariana studied theatre at the Catholic University of Chile and then did a theatre coaching in Spain. In 2019 she participated in the "Río Oscuro" series and will premiere during 2020 in the series La Jauría, produced by Fábula, where she shares cast with actresses Daniela Vega and Antonia Zegers. - María Ignacia Allamand Lyon is a Chilean actress who debuted in the movie Se Arrienda. She has also performed as a playwright in charge of the adaptation of Edmond and as the author of The 80s, The Musical. She is the daughter of the former Chilean Minister of Defense and former Presidential candidate Andrés Allamand Zavala and Bárbara Lyon, recognized for her work in the Alter Ego Foundation. . Due to the work of her father, she lived part of her adolescence in Washington D.C., and then returned to study theater at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She was also based in Buenos Aires, where she studied acting.
Her debut as an actress was in 2005's Se Arrienda by Alberto Fuguet. Two years later, she debuted on television with the role of teenager Eloísa Solé in Vivir con 10, the first TV series from Chilevisión, which won her an APES Award in 2008.
She married actor Tiago Correa on April 18, 2010. One year later, they confirmed their separation by mutual agreement.
In 2013, Allamand collaborated and participated in her father's presidential campaign.
In 2014, she translated and adapted the play Edmond by prominent US playwright David Mamet, and the following year she wrote The 80s, The Musical.
Since her debut on television she has done almost her entire career on the channel Chilevisión. On the film side, she is a stable part of almost all the films of her great friend Nicolás López, who even came to work with Eli Roth in several of them. - Actress
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Angelica Castro was born in 1972 in Santiago, Chile. She is an actress and producer, known for The Scorpion King (2002), In Plain Sight (2008) and Angel (1999). She has been married to Cristián de la Fuente since 5 January 2002. They have one child.- Chilean actress born in 2002, with a promising career. Sara began her career at the age of nine, participating in short films and advertising. At the age of eleven, she jumped to her first television role and from there, she took her first steps in theater and movies.
Her latest role was a co-starring role in the film "La Contadora de Películas", soon to be released, alongside Alondra Valenzuela, Antonio de la Torre, Berenice Bejo and Daniel Brühl. The feature film is directed by Danish Lone Scherfig, winner of the 2000 Berlinale Silver Bear. Based on the novel by Hernán Rivera Letelier, it is a Spain-Chile-France co-production, written by Walter Salles and Rafa Ruso.
Sara has also participated in films by notable Chilean directors such as Marialy Rivas "Princesita" (2017) and Gonzalo Justiniano "Damn Kids" (2017).
In television she has been part of the cast of recognized national series, such as "Martín, el Hombre y la Leyenda" (2018), "La Cacería: Las Niñas de Alto Hospicio" (2018) and "No nos Quieren Ver" (2021). Sara's versatility and above all her ability to play intense and dramatic roles place her among the female actresses with the greatest national and international projection. In theater, she was part of the creation process and cast of the play "Paisajes para no Colorear" (2018), directed by Marco Layera, a production of the prestigious Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral GAM and the theater company La Re-sentida, premiered in 2018 passing through the Santiago a Mil Festival and circulating successfully in countries such as Brazil, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Switzerland and Spain. - Actor
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At age 19, Ariel Levy starred in 'Promedio Rojo,' the first feature film of director Nicolas Lopez. Promedio Rojo was a box office smash in Chile and Latin America, which helped to launch Levy's television career. Levy has starred in over ten Chilean television series including 'Vivir Con 10' and 'Mala Conducta.' While working in television Levy continued his film career, starring in the romantic comedy trilogy, 'Que Pena Tu Vida,' 'Que Pena Tu Boda,' and 'Que Pena Tu Familia.' Levy is beginning his international career with Aftershock, in which he stars along with Eli Roth.- Actor
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Born in Santiago Chile, Pancho moved to the United States at age 8. At 18 he kept on traveling as a professional skateboarder. Pancho is the first professional Little Person skateboarder in the world.
After suffering a debilitating back injury, which forced him to leave skateboarding, Pancho wasn't sure where his career would take him next. A friend invited him to an acting class, curious, since he had always loved movies and TV, he went. There was no turning back after that. Acting gave him the same excitement, the same adrenaline rush as skateboarding. On top of that, it allowed him to step out of himself and be someone else if only for a moment.
Pancho began studying acting with Robert Rusler at The Hollywood Playground. Then with Matthew Barry at The Working Actor. Also, He is in the midst of training with Upright Citizens Brigade. Most recently, Pancho became a Working Finalist at the world renowned Actor's Studio.- Director
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Chilean director Raúl, or Raoul, Ruiz (1941-2011) was one of the most exciting and innovative filmmakers to emerge from 1960s World Cinema, providing more intellectual fun and artistic experimentation, shot for shot, than any filmmaker since Jean-Luc Godard. A guerrilla who uncompromisingly assaulted the preconceptions of film art, this frightfully prolific figure -he made over 100 films in 40 years- did not adhere to any one style of filmmaking. He worked in 35mm, 16mm and video, for theatrical release and for European TV, and on documentary and fiction features and shorts. His career began in avant-garde theatre where, between 1956 and 1962, he wrote over 100 plays. Although he never directed any of these productions, he did dabble in TV and filmmaking in the early 1960s. In 1968, with the release of his first completed feature, the Cassavetes-like Three Sad Tigers (1968), Ruiz became one of the key Chilean directors of New Latin American Cinema. A committed though critical supporter of the Marxist government of Salvador Allende, Ruiz was forced to flee his country after the fascist coup of 1973. Living in exile in Paris from that time onwards, he found a forum for his ideas in European TV and was championed by the critics of Cahiers du Cinéma, several of whom appeared in his first European successes, The Suspended Vocation (1978) and L'hypothèse du tableau volé (1978), two enigmatic Pierre Klossowski adaptations. Between 1980 and his death in 2011, Ruiz was one of the world's most productive but least known auteurs, in part through a long-term working relationship with Portuguese producer Paulo Branco. Other regular collaborators included Ruiz's wife and editor Valeria Sarmiento, composer Jorge Arriagada, cinematographers Sacha Vierny, Henri Alekan and Ricardo Aronovich, writers Gilbert Adair and Pascal Bonitzer, and actor Melvil Poupaud. Key early works from this period included the surrealistic masterpieces Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983), City of Pirates (1983) and Manuel on the Island of Wonders (1984), three of his many French-Portuguese co-productions perversely yet charmingly addressing the recurring Ruizian themes of childhood, exile, and maritime and rural folklore. In the 1990s, Ruiz embarked on larger projects with prominent actors such as John Hurt, Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert and John Malkovich, alternating this sporadic mainstream art-house endeavour with his usual low-budget experimental productions and the teaching of his Poetics of Cinema (two volumes of which he published in 1995 and 2007). In the 1990s and 2000s, he also shot several films and TV series' in Chile, though usually without Chilean funding. Ruiz is beloved among cinephiles as a poet of oneiric imagery and a fabulist of labyrinthine stories-within-stories whose films slip effortlessly from reality to imagination and back again. A manipulator of wild intellectual games in which the rules are forever changing, Ruiz's techniques were as varied as film itself; a collection of bizarre angles, close-ups and deep-focus compositions, bewildering POV shots, dazzling colours, and labyrinthine narratives which weave and dodge the viewer's grasp with every shot. As original as Ruiz was, one can tell much about him by the diversity of his influences; he was clearly inspired by Jorge Luis Borges, Robert Louis Stevenson, Orson Welles, "Left Bank" New Wave directors such as Chris Marker and Alain Resnais, and baroque low-budget Hollywood B-movie directors like Edgar G. Ulmer, Ford Beebe and Reginald Le Borg. His erudition also extended to medieval theology, Renaissance theatre and quantum physics. Ruiz remains a much-admired auteur on the European continent, having won prestigious prizes at Cannes, Berlin, San Sebastián, Locarno, Rome and Rotterdam. He is little-known in his native Chile, however, despite having made the widely seen Little White Dove (1992), receiving several major arts prizes and having a National Day of Mourning dedicated to him on the day of his burial there. In the English-speaking world, only a handful of Ruiz's films have been distributed and it is on these few films that his reputation there is built: most notably, major art-house fare such as the Ophüls- and Visconti-inspired Marcel Proust's Time Regained (1999) but also Comedy of Innocence (2000), Klimt (2006) and Mysteries of Lisbon (2011) and straight-to-video thriller pastiches like Shattered Image (1998) and Blind Revenge (2009). Little of his huge oeuvre is available on DVD. The works that are, however, bear witness to Ruiz's unique genius.- Actor
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Matías Novoa was born on 14 June 1980 in Valparaiso, Chile. He is an actor and writer, known for La Herencia (2022), Cabo (2021) and Quiéreme Tonto (2010). He has been married to Isabella Castillo since 11 October 2019. He was previously married to Daniela Castillo.- Director
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Academy Awards® Nominee Director and Producer, she is the first Chilean women to be nominated to the Oscars. She has developed a particular style that is characterized by the intimate portrait of small worlds, her renowned label has led her to be one of the most important voices of Latin American documentary.
In 2011 she released his first feature film "The Lifeguard". Through Micromundo Producciones, her production company, she directed her second film "La Once", which has won more than 12 international awards, and was nominated for the 2016 Goya for Best Ibero-American Film. In 2016 she released the short film "I am not from here" nominated for the European Films Award and also premiered her third feature film "The Grown-Ups" that got 10 international awards. In Sundance 2020, she premiered her last film "The Mole Agent", the first Chilean documentary to be nominated to the Academy Awards®.
Maite is co-author of the book "Documentary film theories in Chile 1957-1973". She has produced the feature films: "Sexual life of plants", "Los Reyes" and "God". She works as a teacher in different universities, and teaches documentary workshops and project development in Chile and abroad. In 2013, she was selected as Global Shaper, young leaders by the World Economic Forum (WEF), and in 2018 she was invited to be a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science.- Producer
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J.J. Harting was born in Santiago de Chile in 1964 and lived during his childhood in the US and in Europe. He's a civil engineer and professor of geopolitics and international analysis. He has produced over a thousand hours of comedies, feature films, documentaries and dramas, in several languages, shot around the world, all distributed by major studios as well as independently.- Editor
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Felipe Gálvez Haberle was born in 1983 in Santiago, Chile. Felipe is an editor and writer, known for The Settlers (2023), Silencio en la sala (2009) and Rapaz (2018).- Camera and Electrical Department
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Alexander Witt was born in 1952 in Santiago, Chile. He is an assistant director and director, known for Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004), No Time to Die (2021) and Terminator Genisys (2015).- Actor
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Luis Gnecco Dessy was born in Santiago, Chile. He is one of Chile's most popular comedic actors, recently tackling the Ricky Gervais part in his country's version of "The Office". Pablo Larraín cast him in a decidedly non-comedic role as an unscrupulous villain in HBO Latin America's hit mini-series "Prófugos". Gnecco appeared in Fabula's provocative "Young and Wild" before assuming the role of the man who recruits Saavedra to join the NO campaign; it was a natural fit for the actor, as he was deeply involved in the 1988 movement to overthrow Pinochet.- Director
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Patricio Guzmán was born on 11 August 1941 in Santiago, Chile. He is a director and writer, known for Nostalgia for the Light (2010), The Battle of Chile: Part I (1975) and The Southern Cross (1991).- Actress
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Antonia Zegers Oportot was born in Santiago, Chile. She is a well-known television actress in Chile. She has starred in TV movies and mini-series, and is one of the busiest actors in teleseries today. Of late she has been on stage in a long-running revival of Ariel Dorfman's "Death and the Maiden" at the National Theatre of Chile, a play that echoes the themes of "NO" and was written by one of the most famous exiles of the Pinochet dictatorship. Her films with Pablo Larraín have introduced her to cinephiles and film critics who recognize her range and depth, from her role as a TV producer in "Tony Manero" to the emaciated showgirl in "Post Mortem" to the strong-minded left-wing activist in "NO". Last year she starred in "La Vida de Los Peces" (The Life of Fish), directed by Matías Bize.- Tatiana Merino was born on 19 February 1966 in Talcahuano, Concepción, Biobío, Chile. She is an actress, known for Garrincha: Estrela Solitária (2003), Las mujeres no van al cielo (2005) and Teatro en CHV (2003).
- Raquel Evans was born in 1956 in Santiago de Chile, Chile. She is an actress.
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Valentina Pollarolo was born in Santiago, Región Metropolitana, Chile. She is a writer and actress, known for Candy Cruz (2023), High Heat (2022) and Como la Vida Misma (2023).- Producer
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Over three decades, Paulina's career has spanned the areas of business affairs, communications, content creation, production, post-production and distribution within Canada's Indigenous, English and French-language creative industries.
As a programming specialist, she has developed, curated and delivered a number of innovative, award-winning, multi-year digital projects reporting to public and private stakeholders.
During her tenure as Programming and Operations Lead of the Encore+ YouTube channel created by the Canada Media Fund in an unprecedented collaboration with industry partners, she oversaw the digitization and promotion of over 3000 iconic Canadian films, documentaries and television series. Passionate the preservation of Canada's audiovisual heritage and cultural memory, Paulina commissioned and oversaw the restoration of important feature films including Eclipse (Jeremy Podeswa), L'Arrache-coeur (Mireille Dansereau), The Wars (Robin Phillips), When Night is Falling (Patricia Rozema), Monica, la mitraille (Charles Binamé), Johnny Mnemonic (Robert Longo), A Silent Love (Federico Hidalgo), Remembrance (Stephanie Morgenstern) and Farley Mowat's The Snow Walker (Charles Martin Smith) over 2018-2022.
In 2020, she launched and executive produced Encore+ Originals featuring A-list Canadian talent revisiting iconic past collaborations. Recorded via Zoom during the pandemic and leveraging the YouTube Premiere feature, the initiative fostered discoverability, and deep engagement with global audiences, festivals and archives.
As co-founder and past executive producer of the Women in Film and Television International's Short Film Showcase, Paulina curated three editions of the Showcase, presented in twenty cities across three continents. Featuring award-winning short films directed by women from all continents, it proved extremely popular, serving as a vital advocate for increased gender balance in the global film industry. Prior to this role, she served as Vice-President, Programming and later as President of Women in Film and Television Montréal (Allia).
She has served as a programming specialist for First Person Digital (NFB/Ada X), the 2010 HTMles Festival of Media Art + Digital Culture and 2023 and 2024 editions of the International Film Festival of Ottawa's Save As Symposium: The Future of Restoring, Preserving, Distributing and Exhibiting Heritage Cinema.
At the start of her career, Paulina developed her curatorial competencies serving as founding Artistic Director of a Montreal-based theatre company for over ten years.
She is an alumna of the Media Leadership Program at York University's Schulich School of Business, HEC Montréal, the National Theatre School of Canada, the University of Toronto and the Neil Munro Intern Directors Project at Shaw Festival.- Actor
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Lautaro Murúa was one of the best actors in the Argentinean cinema. He was born in Chile and he resided in Argentina at the beginning of the fifties. He participated of the called renovation The Generation of the '60 acting in movies of Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Rodolfo Khun, Manuel Antín, David José Khon and Leonardo Favio. He was also devoted to direct movies of social topics: Shunko, Alias Gardelito and The Raulito, among others. He left to live to Spain for political reasons in the seventies, and then he returned to Argentina to film several movies until sickness set in and he died in Spain when he worked in that country.- Ramón Llao was born on 5 June 1968 in Santiago, Chile. He is an actor, known for The Green Inferno (2013), Aftershock (2012) and Qué pena tu familia (2012).
- Carolina Vera was born on 4 January 1973 in Valparaíso, Chile. She is an actress, known for My Zoe (2019), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) and Schutzlos (2009).
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Benjamín Vicuña Luco is a Chilean actor. He studied theatre at the University of Chile. He is a descendant of Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna, a Chilean historian and politician of Basque and Irish descent. He is the founder of Centro Mori and has been appointed as a goodwill ambassador of UNICEF Chile in 2008.- María Elena Swett was born on 11 April 1979 in Santiago de Chile, Metropolitan Region, Chile. She is an actress, known for Papi Ricky (2007), Machos (2003) and Mirageman (2006). She was previously married to Felipe Braun.
- Alicia Rodríguez was born on 21 May 1992 in Santiago de Chile, Metropolitan Region, Chile. She is an actress, known for Young & Wild (2012), La Poseída (2015) and Zoológico (2011).