María Izquierdo
Acting
Biography
Ana María Izquierdo Huneeus (Santiago, December 15, 1960), is an outstanding Chilean actress, director and screenwriter, considered by Chile to be the fourth best Chilean television actress of all time.
Born: December 15, 1960
Place of Birth: Santiago, Chile
Known For
Revenge
A small house is devastated by the irrepressible force of the Ñuble river. Anita is rescued from the riverbank while her parents disappear into the water. She is given in adoption to her godparents, who can not keep her, they turn her over to a large hacienda in the area, where the little one will be the companion of the sickly patron, Lucia. When the owner of the hacienda dies, Anita, disregarding the advice of the other servants, stays to serve the boss, Don Pablo. She is already a woman and he is a single man. A strong attraction emerges between the two. This sad story of love and revenge as strong and uncontrollable as the overflowing waters of the Ñuble River.
Machuca
Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become buddies, paradoxically protesting together as Gonzalo gets adopted by Pedro's slum family and gang. But the adults spoil that too, not in the least when general Pinochet's coup ousts Allende, and supporters such as McEnroe.
My Father's Memory
After the death of his mother, a repressed tv writer is forced to take care of his father who is loosing his memory, obsessed with his wife is still alive and lost.
Sex with Love
In Santiago, Chile, the schoolteacher Luisa proposes a debate about sex with the parents of her students with the intention of giving classes about sex education to the youngsters.
Family Holidays
The Kellys are a bourgeois family that have fallen into hard times. Deprived of the bragging rights of their typical summer vacation at a posh Chilean beach resort town, they pretend that they are instead going to Brazil for their vacation. They feign leaving on vacation but instead spend the time locked up at home and avoiding the suspicions of a nosy neighbor.
Hijo de Trauco
A 14-year-old skeptical young man one day discovers that everything he knows about his father is a lie.
Bahía azul
A teenager visits his mother in search of affection. She lives semi isolated from the world, on a house facing the sea and in the company of a woman. The meeting of both characters will be rather a disagreement that will throw the young man towards other characters that will be moving further away from his mother until he disappears. Only at that moment will she feel the weight of his absence.
Cerro Alegre
Legend says that when two people kiss on the eve of the new millennium, their love endures forever.
Adrenalina
After her parents' murder, Cathy Winter flees to Santiago. At Adrenalina, a new club, she meets her soulmate, a publisher, and her best friend, a shy DJ, during the 90s dance craze.
Fuga
Could a brilliant composer's music actually be killing his loved ones? Eliseo can't help but believe it when his younger sister dies tragically and then his pianist Georgina suddenly dies on the piano. Completely traumatized, Eliseo is taken to a mental hospital where he can find escape only through music.
Filmography
as Alba
as Mirta
as Ester
as María
as Sofía Arteaga
as Moira
as Florencia's Mother
as Mildred
as Ana Cristina
as Teresa
as Laura
as Florencia
as Loreto Alcántara
as Rocío Riquelme
as María Paz (2002)
as María Morris
as Leonora Cienfuegos
as Isidora Subercaseaux
as Ximena Urquiza
as Clorinda
as Paulina Olivares
as Eva Soler
as Josefina
as (uncredited)
as Maca
as Leila
as Dora
as Doña Lucía
as Raquel Thompson
as Manuela Seron (segment "Pasión de multitudes")
as Domitila Vilches
as Elisa Rioseco
as Michelle Benoit
as Aranzazú
as Francisca
as Sofia