Claudia Irene Celedón Ureta (born 15 August 1966) is a

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an television, film, and theater actress. She is the winner of an

Altazor Award The Altazor Award of the National Arts or simply Altazor, is a Chilean award which is awarded annually. The winners are chosen by the own creators and performers of the arts. They were established in 1958, but were not awarded until 1999. The a ...

for best theater actress for her role in the play ''Mujer gallina'', and was awarded at the Cartagena International Film Festival for her role in ''

Old Cats ''Old Cats'' () is a 2010 Chilean drama film directed by Sebastián Silva. Plot Isidora (Bélgica Castro) and Enrique (Alejandro Sieveking) are an elderly couple living in a central apartment in Santiago. Isidora has started exhibiting symptoms ...

''. She is the mother of the actress , and ex-wife of Cristián García-Huidobro.

Biography

Claudia Celedón is the daughter of the actor and publicist and Bernadette Ureta. She studied theater at the school of . She was part of the cast of the TVN television series ', and the Canal 13 series ', ', ', and '. She also worked on humor programs such as '' De chincol a jote'', ''Jaguar Yu'', and the segment "Los Eguiguren" on '' Sábados gigantes''. Celedón has participated in the shorts ''Matar a un boyscout'', ''Amigos'', and in the films '' The Sentimental Teaser'' and ', for which she won a Pedro Sienna Award for Best Actress in 2008, and was nominated for an Altazor. In theater, she acted in ''Ser un romántico viajero'', ''Ingenuas Palomas'', ''Cariño Malo'', ''Malinche'', ''Sidhartha'', ''El Seductor'', and ''Madame de Sade'', among others. In addition, she has acted and participated in the collective creation of Bareatoa and Hermanos Martínez Internacional. In 2004 she received the Altazor Award for ''La Mujer Gallina''. That same year she worked on the short film ''La Perra'', on the TVN series ', and on the play . She also played

Gabriela Mistral Lucila Godoy Alcayaga (; 7 April 1889 – 10 January 1957), known by her pseudonym Gabriela Mistral (), was a Chilean poet-diplomat, educator, and Catholic. She was a member of the Secular Franciscan Order or Third Franciscan order. She was ...

in the biographical project of the poet called ''La pasajera''.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards

* 2004 Altazor Awards: Best Theater Actress (''Mujer gallina'') * 2008 Pedro Sienna Award: Best Supporting Actress (''La vida me mata'') * 2011 Cartagena International Film Festival: Best Actress (''Old Cats'') * 2012 Pedro Sienna Award: Best Supporting Actress (''Old Cats'')

Nominations

* 2000 Altazor Awards: Best Film Actress (''The Sentimental Teaser'') * 2005 Altazor Awards: Best Theater Actress (''El taller de los celos'') * 2008 Altazor Awards: Best Film Actress (''La vida me mata'') * 2010 Altazor Awards: Best Actress (''The Maid'')

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Celedon, Claudia 1966 births 20th-century Chilean actresses 21st-century Chilean actresses Actresses from Santiago, Chile Chilean film actresses Chilean people of Basque descent Chilean stage actresses Chilean telenovela actresses Living people