Miranda Bodenhöfer (born

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on 17 May 1990) is a

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and actress, known for her role in the

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film ''

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''.

Biography

Belonging to an artistic family, Miranda is the daughter of musician Andreas Bodenhöfer and actress Verónica González, and niece of television actor

Bastián Bodenhöfer Bastián Lorenzo Bodenhöfer Alexander (Santiago, July 1, 1961) is a Chilean actor, theater director, musician and cultural manager. He served as cultural attaché of the Chile embassy in France between 2000 and 2002, during the government of p ...

. At the age of 12, she began classes in classical dance and two years later, took classes in the

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. Later on, she attended other dance schools: the John Cranko school in

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and the

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. Bodenhöfer was 16 years old when Spanish director

Fernando Trueba Fernando Rodríguez Trueba (born 18 January 1955), known as Fernando Trueba, is a Spanish book editor, screenwriter, film director and producer. Between 1974 and 1979, he worked as a film critic for Spain's leading daily newspaper '' El País' ...

discovered her in a ballet class at the

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. Two years later, following auditions with many dancers, Trueba returned to Santiago looking for her to play Victoria in his film ''The Dancer and the Thief''. “Something rather magical happened. When I came to view locations and passed by the Municipal Theatre, among a group of girls studying there I saw a child of about 16 years old. I saw her from afar and thought, ‘that’s Victoria’, but as that seemed silly to me, I forgot about it and we went ahead with casting in a series of countries. In the end, that girl who I had said was Victoria, was indeed ‘my Victoria’”.Miranda Bodenhofer, la bailarina que quería actuar
Latecera.com POR RODRIGO GONZÁLEZ - May 10, 2009 cite="Me pasó una cosa bastante mágica. Cuando vine a ver locaciones y pasé por el Teatro Municipal, entre el grupo de chicas que estaban estudiando vi al fondo a una cría de unos 16 años. La miré a lo lejos y pensé 'esa es Victoria', pero como eso me parece en general una estupidez, me olvidé e hicimos el casting por una serie de países. Al final, aquella chica que yo había dicho que era Victoria era 'mi Victoria'"

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bodenhofer, Miranda 21st-century Chilean actresses Chilean film actresses Actresses from Santiago Chilean ballerinas Living people 1990 births Chilean people of German-Jewish descent

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