Ana Carolina Ardohaín Dos Santos (born 17 January 1978) is an Argentine model, television personality, dancer, television host and actress. She is widely known by the nickname Pampita, a diminutive for

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, the province where she was born.

Personal life

Carolina Ardohaín was born on 17 January 1978 in

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, Argentina: she was one of very few people baptised at the monastery of Nuestra Señora del Pilar in

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. Her father is Argentine, her mother is Brazilian. Pampita is the mother of a daughter, Blanca Vicuña Ardohaín (born 15 May 2006 and deceased 8 September 2012), and three sons, Bautista Vicuña Ardohaín (born 29 February 2008), Beltrán Vicuña Ardohaín (born 8 June 2012) and Benicio Vicuña Ardohaín (born 12 October 2014). Their father is the Chilean actor

Benjamín Vicuña Benjamín Vicuña Luco (born 29 November 1978) is a Chilean actor and entrepreneur. Biography Vicuña was born November 29, 1978 to father Juan Pablo Vicuña Parot and mother Isabel Luco Morandé. He is a descendant of Benjamín Vicuña Mack ...

, boyfriend of Pampita from July 2005 to December 2015. Pampita on 22 November 2019 married the gastronomic entrepreneur Roberto García Moritan; this couple has a daughter, Ana García Moritán Ardohaín, who was born on 22 July 2021.

Career

Since 2013, Carolina Ardohaín represents the car makes Citroën and Citroën DS line. In May 2016, Pampita took part in the dancing reality show ''

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'' as a member of the jury. From June 2017 she present the talk show '' Pampita Online''. In March 2022, he hosts the program ''

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'', together with Leandro Leunis, in eltrece.

Acting career

She debuted in 2002 as actress in the first season of the Argentine ''telenovela juvenil'' (teen telenovela) ''

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'' with the role of ''Lulú'', the teacher of dance. In 2005 Pampita starred in the Argentine romantic telenovela ''Doble vida'' with the role of ''Ema'', who is the first of co-protagonists. Pampita made her cinema debut in the 2009 Chilean film ''Súper, todo Chile adentro'' with the secondary role of ''Camila Hudson''. Pampita starred in the 2015 Chilean television series '' Familia moderna'' with the role of ''Magdalena''. In the 2017 Argentine film ''

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'' Pampita played the role of ''Ofelia'', her first leading role.

Filmography

As an actress

Television roles

Film roles

As an herself

Realities shows

References

External links

* (in Spanish) * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pampita 1978 births Living people People from La Pampa Province Argentine people of Brazilian descent Argentine female models Argentine film actresses Actresses of Brazilian descent Expatriate models in Chile 21st-century Argentine women Participants in Argentine reality television series Bailando por un Sueño (Argentine TV series) participants Bailando por un Sueño (Argentine TV series) winners Bailando por un Sueño (Argentine TV series) judges