Paola Barrientos (born February 23, 1975 in
San Fernando,
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...
) is an Argentine actress. She worked in theater for several years. She took part in a successful TV spot of Banco Galicia, which allowed her to work in the 2012 telenovela ''
Graduados''.
Biography
Paola Barrientos began her acting studies after her graduation from high school. She was initially rejected by the Escuela Metropolitana de Arte Dramático and accepted at a later test.
Career
She began to work in several underground theaters, in plays such as ''3-ex'', ''Teo con Julia'' and ''Exhibición y desfile'', attended by very few people. ''Elijo la libertad'' has scripts by Conrado Geiger, Paola's husband.
The play ''Estado de ira'' allowed her to be hired for several other productions. She became famous taking part in an advertisement for the
Galicia bank, a parody of the ''
Titanic'' film. She played the famous scene at the stern of the ship, making sharky remarks to a husband who failed to be romantic. The advertisement was co-starred by the actor Gonzalo Suárez, and was followed by similar ones. The actress
Marilú Marini
Marilú Marini (born 15 June 1940) is an Argentine actress. She frequently works with French filmmaker Claire Denis. She received the Diamond Konex Award in 2021 as the most important person in Entertainment in the last decade in Argentina.
Sele ...
saw her at the ''Estado de Ira'' play and proposed her to work together at Complejo Teatral. The play ''Las criadas'', starred by Barrientos and Marini, is a huge success, with tickets solds for weeks in advance.
''Estado de ira'' allowed her as well to be included in the cast of ''
Graduados''. Actress
Andrea Pietra
Andrea Pietra is an Argentine actress. She worked with Nancy Dupláa as the lead actresses of ''Socias''. She suggested her to hire the actress Paola Barrientos for her new telenovela, ''Graduados''. In 2012 she joined the telenovela ''Sos mi hombr ...
saw the play and advised her friend
Nancy Dupláa, lead actress of the telenovela, to hire her for the role of the best friend of Dupláa's character,
Victoria Lauría.
Although Paola Barrientos made her first major work in television at the age of 38, Nancy Dupláa praised her professionalism and her adaption to the medium. As a result of the success of her character, Paola Barrientos was included in the front page of several Argentine magazines in 2012.
She ended working in the Galicia advertisements in 2018, after 9 years. It was rumored that she was replaced because of her political ideas, close to
Kirchnerism, but she clarified that she resigned simply because she considered that she had worked enough in those ads.
Filmography
Television
Movies
Theater
Awards and Nomination
References
External links
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Alternativa Teatral
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Argentine actresses
Living people
1975 births