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Luz Jiménez (actress)
Luz Jiménez Ormeño (born 18 December 1934) is a Chilean actress, theater director, and teacher who gained recognition for her performances in the roles of Maruja in the play ' (1979) and Kiki Blanche in the telenovela ' (1988). She has developed a career spanning 50 years, in which she gained popularity mainly as a theater and television actress. She began acting theatrically in the 1950s, and during the 1980s became one of the first important figures of the then-emerging telenovela industry at Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN) centered around . Since then, she has been considered one of the country's most respected figures in the performing arts. Among her most recognized collaborations are those she formed with director Vicente Sabatini, appearing in important telenovelas such as ' (1984), ' (1985), ' (1989), ' (1997), ' (1999), '' Romané'' (2000), '' Pampa Ilusión'' (2001), ' (2002), ' (2007), '' Manuel Rodríguez'' (2010), and '' La Doña'' (2011). In 2015, she was re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santiago
Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile (), is the capital and largest city of Chile and one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is located in the country's central valley and is the center of the Santiago Metropolitan Region, which has a population of seven million, representing 40% of Chile's total population. Most of the city is situated between above sea level. Founded in 1541 by the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia, Santiago has served as the capital city of Chile since colonial times. The city features a downtown core characterized by 19th-century neoclassical architecture and winding side streets with a mix of Art Deco, Gothic Revival, and other styles. Santiago's cityscape is defined by several standalone hills and the fast-flowing Mapocho River, which is lined by parks such as Parque Bicentenario, Parque Forestal, and Parque de la Familia. The Andes Mountains are visible from most parts of the city and contribute to a smog problem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ictus Theatre
Teatro Ictus or ICTUS (Ictus Theatre) is the longest-running independent theatre company in Chile. A not-for-profit private company, Ictus was founded in 1955 and is known for its creative works with strong political-social commentary. Of particular note is the work ''Lindo país esquina con vista al mar'' (“Beautiful country on the corner with sea views”), premiered in 1979 at the height of the military dictatorship A military dictatorship, or a military regime, is a type of dictatorship in which Power (social and political), power is held by one or more military officers. Military dictatorships are led by either a single military dictator, known as a Polit ..., with its humorous take on Chilean society as it underwent economic reform amidst political repression. More recent works include ''Levántate y corre'' (“Get up and run”) and ''Alguien tiene que parar'' (“Someone has to stop”). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulina Urrutia
Paulina Marcela Urrutia Fernández (born 15 January 1969) is a Chilean actress, academic, director, trade union leader, and politician. She was a State Minister of the first government of President Michelle Bachelet. Biography Born into a middle-class family, Paulina Urrutia grew up in the San Miguel district of the Chilean capital. Her parents worked in public administration and separated when she was fifteen years old. She studied at the Company of Mary school on Seminario Street in the municipality of Providencia. Her first introduction to theater was as a girl, in a school workshop. Later, after graduating from high school, she entered the discipline at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. The exercise of her profession began very early. The first play in which she performed was '' Esperando la carroza'', in 1987, under the direction of Raúl Osorio. Her career in television began in a Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN) series in 1989, thanks to an invitation from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teresa Of The Andes
Teresa of Jesus of Los Andes, OCD ( Spanish: ''Teresa de Jesús de Los Andes''; born Juana Enriqueta Josefina de Los Sagrados Corazones Fernández Solar; 13 July 1900 – 12 April 1920) was a Chilean nun of the Discalced Carmelites. Fernández Solar was a pious child but had an often unpredictable temperament for she could be prone to anger and being vain but could also demonstrate her charitable and loving nature; she seemed transformed when she decided to become a nun and her character seemed to change for her sole ambition was to dedicate herself to the service of God. However her time in the convent was cut short due to her contracting an aggressive disease that killed her - she knew she would die but was consoled knowing she would be able to make her profession before she died. Her canonization process opened on 23 April 1976 under Pope Paul VI and she became titled as a Servant of God. The confirmation of her life of heroic virtue on 22 March 1986 allowed for her to be ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Mercurio
(known online as ''El Mercurio On-Line'', ''EMOL'') is a Chilean newspaper with editions in Valparaíso and Santiago. is owned by El Mercurio S.A.P. (''Sociedad Anónima Periodística'' 'joint stock news company'), which operates a network of 19 regional dailies and 32 radio stations across the country. History The Valparaíso edition of was founded by Pedro Félix Vicuña ( Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna's father) on September 12, 1827, and was later acquired by Agustín Edwards Ross in 1880. The Santiago edition was founded by Agustín Edwards Mac Clure, son of Edwards Ross, on June 1, 1900. In 1942 Edwards Mac Clure died and his son Agustín Edwards Budge took over as president. When Edwards Budge died in 1956, his son, Agustín Edwards Eastman, took control of the company. Edwards Eastman died in 2017, leaving the company in hands of his son Cristián Edwards del Río. El Mercurio SAP owns the Chilean afternoon daily newspaper '' La Segunda'', which published news wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana María Gazmuri
Ana María Gazmuri Vieira (Santiago, January 22, 1966) is a Chilean actress, politician and activist. Daughter of the agronomist Renato Gazmuri Schleyer and the sociologist and writer Ana María Vieira, she is the eldest of six siblings. Sister of also actress Victoria Gazmuri and niece of politician María Olivia Gazmuri Schleyer. She studied from first to third grade in Necochea (Argentina), and then returned to Chile to continue her primary studies at La Maisonette schools, Lo Castillo and the Liceo 14. First she began to study journalism at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, but the following year she began to study theater with Fernando González. She was married to television director Cristián Mason. She is currently married to Nicolás Dormal. Her debut on television was with the telenovela ''Bellas y audaces'' (1988) with the leading role of Fernanda, where she shared credits with Sonia Viveros, Osvaldo Silva (actor), Osvaldo Silva and Luz Jiménez (actress), L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduardo Barril
Eduardo Andrés Barril Villalobos (born July 7, 1941 in Puerto Montt) is a Chilean actor and theatre director. Biography Born in Puerto Montt, he was the fourth of the seven children of Luis Barril Marquardt and Juana Villalobos Koghel. He graduated from Theater School of the University of Chile in 1963. He joined the ITUCH (Theater Institute of the University of Chile) as a full-time actor, participating in plays such as "La remolienda" by Alejandro Sieveking, "El Círculo de Tiza Caucasiano" by Bertolt Brecht; "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare in Pablo Neruda's version; "Santa Juana" by George Bernard Shaw, "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett, among others. He also conducts acting classes and body language workshops in unions and cultural institutes and participates in the first tele-theater of the experimental television of the University of Chile with carbonatan. In 1966 he travels to Panama. For 8 years, he performs on children's and miscellaneous programs on Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonia Viveros
Sonia Viveros (2 September 1949 – 22 September 2003) was one of the most important actresses on Chilean television. She was born in Santiago, Chile and died in La Serena. She distinguished herself with roles in the telenovelas '' La Madrastra'', ''La Torre 10'' and ''Marta a las Ocho''. Education and career Viveros debuted in soap opera at age 17, becoming the youngest, most popular and talented actress of the time. At 9 she began working in radio and three years later on television. Although she received no formal education in drama school, her innate talent and professionalism led her to acting on television. Her first TV series was ''El Litre 4916'' (1967), in which she played the role of Carmencha. She played a variety of roles in which her beauty, versatility and interpretive strength were her most noted highlights on Chilean screens, becoming well known and loved by the audience. Fame and recognition came in 1981 with the TV series '' La Madrastra'' (telenovela, 1981). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfredo Castro (actor)
Alfredo Arturo Castro Gómez (born 19 December 1955), best known as Alfredo Castro, is a Chilean actor. With a well established trajectory in theater and television, he became one of the most well-known Latin American film actors of the 2010s. Personal and early life Castro grew up in a family of five brothers; his mother died of cancer when he was 10. He attended elementary and middle school at Saint Gabriel de Las Condes, Kent School in Providencia and Liceo de Hombres No. 11 in Las Condes. Castro entered the Theater Department of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Chile, where he graduated in acting in 1977. That same year he received the APES Award from the Association of Entertainment Journalists. That same year he debuted in ''Equus'', with good reviews from the specialized press. Acting career Between 1978 and 1981, Castro worked in ''Teatro Itinerante'', where he was one of the founders. In 1982, he participated in the production of ''De cara al mañana'' for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malú Gatica
Henrietta Maria de la Luz Gatica Boisier (January 15, 1922 – August 10, 1997), known as Malú Gatica, was a Chilean actress and singer. Biography Gatica was born in Purén. With her parents, the journalist Roberto Gatica and Leonie Boisier, Gatica moved to New York in 1928 where she attended elementary and secondary school, as well as studying languages and music. Her first public appearance occurred as a singer at the age of 16 on NBC, where her father worked. Later, in Buenos Aires, she studied theater at the Conservatoire Cunill Cabanellas. Her maternal grandfather was the French settler, French José Boisier Bourgeaux. In 1948 in the US, she married Eugene Fell, an American military attaché at the Mexican Embassy; they had a son, Leon. The marriage did not last long and she lost custody of her child. In 1995, she received the Orden al Mérito Gabriela Mistral, issued by the Ministry of Education of Chile in recognition of his outstanding and long career. She died in Santi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudio Guzmán
Claudio Guzmán (August 2, 1927 – July 12, 2008) was a Chilean-American television director, producer, art director, and production designer. Biography Guzmán was born in Rancagua, Chile, in 1927. As a young man, he enrolled at the University of Chile to study architecture, following in the footsteps of his architect father. In 1947, Guzmán had been appointed set designer for the Chilean National Ballet, the youngest ever up to that date. Sources conflict as to when Guzmán immigrated to the United States, but by 1952 he had begun to establish himself as a set designer in Southern California. Guzmán had also enrolled at the University of Southern California in order to continue his architectural studies. His lack of fluency in English deterred him from continuing, choosing instead to work at an assembly line in Anaheim. Guzmán later quit that job in order to study design, eventually being hired by Paramount Studios, where he became an art director. It was there tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Tercera
(), formerly known as (), is a daily newspaper published in Santiago, Chile and owned by Copesa. It is s closest competitor. is part of Periódicos Asociados Latinoamericanos ( Latin American Newspaper Association), an organization of fourteen leading newspapers in South America. History The newspaper ''La Tercera'' was founded on July 7, 1950, by the Picó Cañas family. Initially known as ''La Tercera de la Hora'', it served as the evening edition of the now defunct newspaper ''La Hora''. In the 1950s, it transitioned from being associated with ''La Hora'' and transformed into a morning paper. While initially affiliated with the Radical Party, ''La Tercera'' ended this association in 1965, becoming more politically independent and disconnected from any party, government system, or religious affiliation. During the early 1970s, the newspaper strongly opposed Salvador Allende's government and supported the September 11 military coup in 1973, as well as General Augusto Pino ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
