Manuela Martelli
Birthday: Born in 1983-04-16 in Santiago, Chile
Deathday: Alive
Manuela Martelli is a Chilean actress and director At the young age of 18 and without previous studies of theater Manuela Martelli was chosen to star in the film B-Happy, by Gonzalo Justiniano. The film received excellent critics and immediately the actress became the revelation of the Chilean cinema, captivating to the national and international critic. For this work she drew attention at the Toronto Film Festival and then won the Coral Award for Best Actress at the Havana Film Festival, in addition to the Best Actress Award at the Washington Latin American Film Festival. Machuca, by Andrés Wood was his next movie where he showed that his striking debut was not a beginner's luck. For her role in Machuca Manuela Martelli received the award for best actress at the Viña del Mar Festival and the Altazor Prize, awarded by the Chilean actors' guild. His third film, Como Un Avión Estrellado by Argentine director Ezequiel Acuña is his first film outside of Chile. The beginning of her cinematographic career could have been even more active, but she chose to finish her art baccalaureate studies at the Catholic University of Chile and then pursue a theatrical acting career at the same university. In 2010 he started studying film in the United States thanks to the support of a Fullbright Scholarship and Scholarships Chile Description above from the Cinechile.cl article "Manuela Martelli"
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De pé a pá
Character: Self
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Feroz
Character: Amanda Carrera
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Huaiquimán y Tolosa
Character: Sofía Santos
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La canción de tu vida
Character: Isa
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Cartas de mujer
Character: Leontina
Intimate stories of women throughout the History of Chile, told by a medium that crosses times and generations: Letters....
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Radio Corazón
Character: Berenice 'Nice' Riquelme
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My Last Round
Character: Jennifer
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The Future
Character: Bianca
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Como un avión estrellado
Character: Luchi
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Scrambled Beer
Character: Fedora
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Christmas
Character: Aurora
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Valparaiso
Character: Rocío
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B-Happy
Character: Katty
A determined teenager must rely on her own wits when her fractured family abandons her....
The Magnetic Tree
Character: Marianela
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Two Shots Fired
Character: Lucía
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Machuca
Character: Silvana
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11 Habitaciones en Antártica
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The Good Life
Character: Paula
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Up to the World
Character: Ana
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Entierro
Character: Narrator (voice)
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¡Pega Martín pega!
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Overnight
Character: Laura
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Vera De Verdad
Character: Clara
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Forgotten
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José, a Bolivian retired general, is lying on his deathbed after a heart attack. Tormented by memories of his involvement in Operation Condor and invaded by deep remorse, he decides to tell his only son his biggest secrets in search of redemption....
Sonetàula
Character: Maddalena Irde
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God Will Not Help
Character: Teresa
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