Ximena Huilipán Muñoz (born September 19, 1986) is a Chilean model and actress of

Mapuche The Mapuche ( , ) also known as Araucanians are a group of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina, including parts of Patagonia. The collective term refers to a wide-ranging e ...

descent.

Career

At 14 years of age, Huilipán won the Elite Model Look Chile 2002 contest.Ximena Huilipán: "Quiero sacar un poco del horror por el que he pasado"
La Tercera November 23, 2008. She was discovered by Dominican fashion designer Oscar de la RentaRichards, Patricia
Mapuche women in the Chilean Print Media
Gender & Society, 2007. for whom she modeled after having won the Elite Model Look Chile 2002. During her early career she also modeled for

Carolina Herrera Carolina Herrera (born María Carolina Josefina Pacanins y Niño, 8 January 1939) is a Venezuelan Americans, Venezuelan American fashion designer. Known for her personal style, she founded her namesake brand in 1980. Herrera has designed for va ...

and was cast in a minor role in Jorge Olguín's movie ''Sangre eterna''. Later she moved further into an actor career playing a role as

Lautaro Lautaro (Anglicized as 'Levtaru') ( " swift hawk") (; 1534 – April 29, 1557) was a young Mapuche toqui known for leading the indigenous resistance against Spanish conquest in Chile and developing the tactics that would continue to be empl ...

's wife in a historical movie about the

Arauco War The Arauco War was a long-running conflict between colonial Spaniards and the Mapuche people, mostly fought in the Araucanía region of Chile. The conflict began at first as a reaction to the Spanish conquerors attempting to establish cities a ...

between Spaniards and Mapuches.Lautaro llegará a la pantalla grande
El Diario Austral de Temuco, December 6, 2005. She has been called "the Mapuche model" several times in the written press, but does not embody the stereotypical physical Mapuche characteristics.

Filmography

* '' Eternal Blood'' aka ''Sangre Eterna'' (2002) - Vampire

References

21st-century Mapuche people 1986 births Chilean people of Mapuche descent Chilean female models Chilean film actresses Living people Indigenous actors of the Americas Mapuche women 21st-century indigenous women of the Americas 21st-century Chilean women {{Chile-model-stub

Career

Filmography

See also

References