Antonia Santa María Monckeberg (born 22 July 1982) is a Chilean film, television, and theater actress.

Biography

The daughter of Juan Pedro Santa María Pérez, legal director of

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and great-grandson of President

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, Antonia Santa María attended the Apoquindo School and, after completing her secondary education, studied theater at the

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. She refined her skills with an acting seminar at Alfredo Castro's school. She has also taken singing and dancing courses. Her first television series was '' Brujas'' on Canal 13, playing the role of Sharon Sánchez. She next joined ' and ''

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'' on the same network. In 2008 she began to appear on

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(TVN) series such as '' El señor de La Querencia'', '' Hijos del Monte'', '' Conde Vrolok'', ''

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'', and ''

La chúcara ''La chúcara'' (English: ''Rebel in Love'') is a 2014 Chilean telenovela produced and broadcast by Televisión Nacional de Chile, TVN. Antonia Santa María and Felipe Braun will star as the protagonists, while Bárbara Ruiz-Tagle, Josefina Vela ...

'', with the latter being her first leading role. In 2006, the year after her premiere in ''Brujas'', she performed professionally in theater for the first time, in the play ''Oedipus (o La múltiple dislexia)'', a version of ''

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'' written and directed by Luna del Canto. Since then she has made sporadic theatrical appearances, in productions such as ''El Último Cuplé, el cabaret de Sarita Montiel'' and '. She debuted on the big screen as Antonia in ''Las niñas'' (2007), the award-winning first work by Rodrigo Marín. She acted in ''Quiero entrar'' (2011) by Roberto Farías, and ''Pérez'' (2012), which was directed by her husband, Álvaro Viguera, and of which she was also a producer. The film, for which Viguera won the Best Director award at the 2012

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, is based on the 2009 play of the same name by Elisa Zulueta (in which Santa María also acted). She is the youngest of four siblings: painter and musician Pedro Santa María, journalist and singer , and architect and musician Rodrigo Santa María.

Filmography

Films

Telenovelas

TV series and specials

TV programs

* ' ( Mega, 2013) – Guest * ' ( TVN, 2013) – Participant * ''Dudo'' ( 13C, 2013) – Guest * ''Cadena Nacional'' ( Vía X, 2013) – Guest * ' ( TVN, 2014) – Guest * ''La Juguera'' ( TVN, 2017) - Interviewee * '' Muy buenos días'' ( TVN, 2017) – Guest

Music videos

* 2012: "Mis cenizas" by Rodrigo Santa María * 2013: "Suicidas" by Rodrigo Santa María

Theater

Discography

* 2013: ''Ceniza'' (collaboration with Rodrigo Santa María)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Santa Maria, Antonia 1982 births 21st-century Chilean actresses Actresses from Santiago, Chile 21st-century Chilean women singers Chilean film producers Chilean women film producers Chilean stage actresses Chilean telenovela actresses Living people Pontifical Catholic University of Chile alumni Singers from Santiago, Chile Chilean people of German descent Chilean television personalities