Cristina Banegas
Birthday: Born in 1948-02-26 in
Deathday: Alive
Cristina Banegas (Buenos Aires, born February 26, 1948) is an Argentine theatre, film, and television actress, director and singer.
TV Credits
In-convivencia
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Lucas and Caro are a thirty-something couple who, after seven years of romance, are facing a crisis due to a worn-out and reproachful relationship. In this way they consider how effective are all the prejudices that build our traditional relationships and ties...
Encerrados
Character: Narradora
When people are unexpectedly locked in, their 'monsters' emerge from the depths of themselves, without control or logic....
Criminal
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Mujeres asesinas
Character: Elvira
Anthology series, in which every episode introduces fictionalized versions of real cases about women who, for different reasons, ended up committing murder....
Tratame bien
Character: Clara Lombardo
Tratame bien is an Argentine TV series made by Pol-Ka. It was awarded with seven Martín Fierro Awards in May 2010, including the Golden one....
Variaciones Walsh
Character: María Elena
In each episode, which takes place independently of each other, commissioners Jiménez (Luis Luque) and Laurenzi (Darío Grandinetti) must solve different police cases that will be presented to them and will be a challenge for them, for which they will receive the help of the editor literary Daniel Hernández (Nicolás Cabré) who is looking to write a book about crimes....
23 pares
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Carmen and Elena Iturrioz are sisters and partners in a laboratory inherited from their parents. Both carry out the cases that reach the laboratory, together with a team of collaborators. Each episode will stage a new story that arrives at the laboratory at the hands of characters seeking to find out their identity, recognize a son or a brother, gain access to an inheritance or identify a genetic disease, among others. they will reveal who they are; they will get closer to their own personal and...
Mujeres asesinas
Character: Milagros
Anthology series, in which every episode introduces fictionalized versions of real cases about women who, for different reasons, ended up committing murder....
El pacto
Character: Lidia Escudero
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Movie Credits
Un idilio de estación
Character:
A girl falls in love with the son of a rancher, who gives her certain illusions about their relationship....
Pinocchio
Character:
An old man named Geppetto creates a wooden puppet named Pinocchio who comes to life...
What Your Eyes Don't See
Character: The Rubeo
A murder in a house in Tigre triggers an investigation in the sphere of a political weekly. Crimes follow one another and the police can't solve the puzzle. A magazine journalist will try to get to the truth without knowing that more than one surprise awaits her....
Love and Dread
Character: Boarding house owner
Borges falls in love with Beatriz Viterbo, a high-class young woman, who decides to marry a government official who makes Borges strongly suspect him, speculating that he is a sadist who is slowly poisoning Beatriz. To save Beatriz Borges, he decides to turn to a detective, who becomes the hinge of an unthinkable story....
Only People
Character: Madre Matías
A young doctor recently received must face the difficulties of his profession in a public hospital, proposing to make true the axiom learned in the faculty "you can not always be cured, but you must know how to care."...
The Signal
Character:
An actress goes to Canal Siete's studios to act on a TV version of Chéjov's "The Seagull". As the leading actor doesn't appear, an assistant must take his place....
Sammy and Me
Character: Laura
Things begin to fall apart for Samy (Ricardo Darín), a longtime television writer on the brink of turning 40, when his midlife crisis starts interfering with his career. Suddenly, his scripts just aren't that funny, and he's considering leaving showbiz altogether. Can a pretty new actress (Angie Cepeda) help him turn his life around? Eduardo Milewicz directs this Spanish-language romantic comedy....
Palermo Hollywood
Character: Beba
In a country that has been broken down and corupted by poverty, Pablo and Mario are best friends and local thieves. Although they come from very different backgrounds, they help each other out by commiting petty crimes that help Pablo support his family and Mario become independent from his own. In a twist of fate, they become involved in a kidnapping that goes sour. This tragedy triggers and unmasks a series of events that changes their lives forever. Now the two friends will be tested and thei...
Animalada
Character: Natalie
When rancher Alberto meets "Fanny", a sheep on his farm, a love is born and Baa-aa-ad things begin happening....
Hablamos esta noche
Character: Secretaria (uncredited)
Victor is the engineer who has set up the Nuclear Power Plant Zapater. Alongside his professional problems he also hasa difficult family situation: a divorce, a teenage homosexual son, a relationship that is not satisfactory, the emergence of a new woman. With just a few days to the inauguration, Luis Maria, an engineer close friend of Victor, responsible for a serious accident in the past and addicted to alcohol, warns of the possibility of a malfunction of the plant. Nothing guarantees the tru...
Eva Perón
Character: Juana de Ibarbuen
Drama based on the life of Eva Peron, an obscure actress, who rose to become wife of Argentine strong-man President Juan Peron and one of the most powerful figures in Argentina until her death in 1952 at age 33....
Lili's Apron
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After working eight years as a chef, Ramon (Luis Ziembrowski) is fired from the restaurant. To survive, Lili (Paula Ituriza) leaves the countryside with her family, and Ramon gets a job as a maid, pretending to be a woman....
El astillero
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After 5 years, a man returns to his hometown with the intention of taking revenge on those who drove him out and running a recovering shipyard....
The Power of Darkness
Character:
A man becomes convinced that he is being persecuted by a conspiracy of blind people....
Your Life for Perón
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Delirious black comedy about a leftist group that tries to kidnap General Peron's corpse the day of his death....
Ariel
Character: Silvia Vega
Argentina-born siblings unearth family secrets when they return to their birth country to dance tango....
Cartoneros
Character: Narrator
Cartoneros follows the paper recycling process in Buenos Aires from the trash pickers who collect paper informally through middlemen in warehouses, to executives in large corporate mills. The process exploded into a multimillion dollar industry after Argentina's latest economic collapse. The film is both a record of an economic and social crisis and an invitation to audiences to rethink the value of trash....
Mika, mi guerra de España
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Corte
Character:
Joaco's infidelity breaks up the couple with Vanesa. Trying to maintain a friendly relationship is a possibility that Vanesa accepts because she cannot think without him. The acceptance of the separation will be a painful path but one of personal growth....
Puan
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When Marcelo Pena finally is about to be appointed Head of the Philosophy Department, the famous and seductive Professor Sujarchuk returns from Europe to claim the kingdom for himself....
Surfacing
Character: Sara
Sofía, immersed in a deep secret mourning, must welcome her son home who returns after years in prison. This reunion will be the opportunity for both of them to overcome that insurmountable distance that has separated them since the moment of the crime....
Paco Urondo, la palabra justa
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The life of Francisco "Paco" Urondo, writer, poet, journalist and political activist....
Clandestine Childhood
Character: Abuela Amalia
Juan lives in clandestinity. Just like his mum, his dad and his adored uncle Beto, outside his home he has another name. At school, Juan is known as Ernesto. And he meets María, who only has one name. Based on true events, set in the Argentina of 1979, this film is one about love....
Brief Heaven
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Young and correct Paquito meets a girl on the streets of Buenos Aires. They spend some time around the city, while discovering the outgoing and enigmatic character of Delia....
Gemini
Character: Lucia
An incestuous love affair. Meme and Jeremias are the younger children in a typical bourgeois family. Their mother Lucia is the dominant force in the household, but her fixation on upholding the niceties of upper middle class life has prevented her from seeing what is going on under her roof. When the siblings’ older brother and his fiancee arrive home for their wedding, it seems inevitable that the concealment will be impossible to sustain. But equally it becomes apparent that if Lucia were to f...
The Daughters of Fire
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Three women meet by chance at the end of the world, in Argentinian Patagonia, and set out on a polyamorous journey, caught up in the search for new kinds of relationships, far from possession and pain. They become the Daughters of Fire, a band dedicated to helping those women who look for their own path to erotica....
Wild Tango
Character: Madre de Mariana
A biopic based on the life of one of the pioneer argentine rock stars 'Tanguito'. The movie tells the story of his rise and fall from grace, encompassed in violent times of a military regime....
La Raulito
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The film tells the story of a real life fan of Boca Juniors football club, Mary Esher Duffau, who as a teenage girl adopted the identity of a man in order to survive on the streets of Buenos Aires. The film shows the teenage Raulito wandering between a reformatory for juvenile offenders, prison and psychiatric hospital. Raulito manages to escape, and finds work at Constitución railway station in Barrio Constitución. Raulito meets up with another street child and they become close friends. They ...
Rodney
Character: La Madre
Camilo is a 10-year-old boy who has a conscience that is too awake, serene and transcendent for his age. He lives in the midst of amusing and dangerous chaos, of a family of characters deeply affected by the tremendous impossibility of developing normally in the world, in our current society. Through their eyes we will see how each one, consciously or unconsciously, inevitably constructing their own destiny....
Luna caliente
Character: Cristina Bernárdez
Returning to Argentina, an engineer trained in Europe visiting a friend of his father and meets the teenage daughter, who begins a relationship of love and passion....
Siempre es difícil volver a casa
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Four desperate men decide to rob a provincial bank. The plan is carried out, but something goes wrong and they must flee. Little by little, the victims become victimizers as they pursue the gang....
Sentimientos: Mirta, de Liniers a Estambul
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El día que me amen
Character: Mabel
Mental illness and the power of friendship. Mara and Joaquín were childhood friends, next-door neighbors. They are now in their early 30s. She's returned to Acassuno after eight years abroad, ostensibly to audition for a part in a musical. Joaquín has been a recluse in his parents' house, perhaps because Mara left without a word years before. Mara seeks to renew the friendship, which may be good f...
Glorious Accidents
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Car crashes are instant art and sculptures made in seconds. At least to a certain Buenos Aires photographer, who spends his nights driving through the city in search of capturing the perfect accident. Meanwhile, another man is trying to find a legendary cock sucker who hides somewhere in the dark rooms of a gay sex club. Accidentes Gloriosos tells nine different stories of death and transformation. From the man who undergoes a heart transplant and wakes up with new and strange artistic powers, t...
The Two Popes
Character: Lisabetta
Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church....
The Cloud
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A black cloud brings 1600 days of rain to Buenos Aires, while traffic and pedestrians move backwards. Aging actor Max (Eduardo Pavlovsky) runs the Mirror Theater in a former fish market, but lack of funding means a possible demolition. Max is attracted to Brazilian dancer Fulo (Angela Correa), who worries about her daughter back home. Amid political corruption and police brutality, Max's elderly colleague Enrique leads a protest for unpaid old-age pensions. The pensioners succeed in their demand...
Buenos Aires, verano 1912
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The son of a politician who tries to follow the same path as his father, gives up when he discovers his fraudulent dealings....
The Journey
Character: Helena (voice)
A young man living in a cold southern village in South America, decides to start a trip looking for his father. By doing this he discovers unexpected facts about his Latin American essence....
Arizona sur
Character: Nélida
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Te amo
Character: Madre de Valeri
A single pregnant teenager goes to live with her uncle, a mediocre entertainer in a seedy cabaret....
Historias de amor, de locura y de muerte
Character:
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¿De quién es el portaligas?
Character: Rosa
Rosario, Argentina, the 80's. The story of three girl friends in their twenties, Julieta, Leonora y Romina, who have crazy rock-groupies lives, that get involved in a bizarre mafia chantage, after Leonora falls in the hospital....
Cruz de sal
Character: Ester
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Nazion
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The ideology of Catholic nationalism inspired and justified State terrorism in Argentina, through the association between the Catholic Church and the military. Leopoldo Nacht, an 84-year-old man, who lived through the persecution and disappearance of his friends in the 1976 dictatorship, investigates unpublished files to prevent fragments of this ideology from being reinstated in the new generations. It is his legacy. Assim, rediscovers throughout the history of the 20th century in Argentina, th...
Sinfín (La muerte no es ninguna solución)
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Grey Fire
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A young woman, alienated by her work and confronted to her surroundings, falls into a depression that leads her to live in a sewer to find her identity. In there, life is no better; reality appears in images and alegoric figures that change its form and vanishes, without letting the woman communicate with anyone. It's a film with zero dialog in witch the songs takes us through the states of emotion....
Dr. Lazarus
Character: Tutora Bettina P. Peralta
Pilot episode of a never-produced horror short series: In 1870, a group of Argentine landowners founded the Logia del Eterno Retorno, sponsoring the research of Poison, a British veterinarian seeking immortality. However, a yellow fever epidemic interrupted his plans. Before dying, Poison managed to inject his formula into his son, who became Lazarus. This child, condemned to immortality, returned to Argentina in 1995, carrying the fever in his body, forcing him to undergo constant transplants. ...
Paco Urondo: el poeta y sus armas
Character: Voz de Beatriz Urondo
The documentary narrates the life and work of the militant poet and journalist Paco Urondo who was assassinated by the military dictatorship in 1976...
Mis días con Verónica
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A mature woman and a younger man are romantically related....
A Procura de Martina
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Martina, who has Alzheimer's, has been searching for her grandson for over three decades. Discovering he is in Brazil, her long and solitary journey becomes an intense struggle against time and oblivion....
Invocación
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The film reconstructs the modest process of filming a Super 8 action short by three 12-year-old friends in Buenos Aires during the spring of 1973. From there, a broader reconstruction unfolds, beginning, argumentatively, on the night of March 24, 1999....
Contraluz
Character: Sonia
Celina, a young woman dedicated to her children and her home, is going through a marital crisis when she meets Vito, a drug-addicted teenager from the neighborhood whose greatest aspiration is to play soccer on a professional team....