Catalina Saavedra
Birthday: Born in 1968-01-09 in Viña del Mar, Chile
Deathday: Alive
Catalina Saavedra is a Chilean actress. She is known to international audiences for her numerous collaborations with filmmaker Sebastián Silva. She has also appeared in films such as Ema, Problemista and Young & Wild.
TV Credits
Mentiras verdaderas
Character: Self
Daily interviews discussing the guest's personal lives and national contingency....
La vida de nosotras
Character: Nancy Cortez
Sixteen real stories of women who have been victims and survivors of male violence....
Los Espookys
Character: Bárbara
A group of friends turn their love for horror into a peculiar business, providing horror to those who need it, in a dreamy Latin American country where the strange and eerie are just part of daily life....
Bala Loca
Character: Patricia Fuenzalida
A veteran journalist starting a news site about corruption in Chile stumbles on a big story when a fellow investigative reporter dies suspiciously....
Ecos del desierto
Character: Marta Bertoni
Carmen spends 40 years of her life seeking for justice after the murder of her husband....
Amor a domicilio
Character: Brígida Gómez
The adventures and misadventures of the young people who work in a Pizza Shop as deliverymen. Those in charge of making this pizza place work are idealists and dreamers, but from different worlds and opposite personalities, which will make their work and personal relationships constantly clash....
La otra cara del espejo
Character:
Anthology horror series that dives into urban myths, regional fears, mysteries and paranormal events. Tales full of terror, suspense and sensuality....
Sabor a ti
Character: Virginia Solano
Refugio Sarmiento, an elderly wine entrepreneur and owner of the "El Embrujo" vineyard, hides the secret why his wine is the tastiest in the area....
Matriarcas
Character: Cony Ríos
Diana, the widow of an Arab millionaire must share her home with all the women related to latter's life, including her monarchist mother Isabelle, her envious sister Letizia, her two nieces Leonor and Amalia, her employee and a cute kinesiologist....
Los Galindo
Character: Susana Flores
The life of a family from a working-class neighborhood, that after the success of their car wash business, they move to an apartment in the wealthiest neighborhood in the country....
Volver a mí
Character: Julia
The story focuses on the rehabilitation of different people who for different reasons have turned to drugs, alcohol, pills and other types of toxins in order to forget their problems....
Mea culpa
Character: Verónica
Anthology series based on real criminal cases, featuring an interview with the actual perpetrator at the end of each episode....
Huaiquimán y Tolosa
Character: Josefa
A pair of private detectives solve crimes and protect the Patronato district in Santiago, the most important commercial district of immigrants in Chile, facing dangerous mobsters and criminals....
Helga y Flora
Character: Flora Gutiérrez
Helga Gunkel and Flora Gutiérrez, the first women of the Chilean police, are on the trail of a criminal who has returned for revenge on Kerren, a small southern town....
Una historia necesaria
Character: Ana González
Anthology series based on true stories about the disappeared detainees and their families during Pinochet's military dictatorship....
Enigma
Character: Irene
Anthology series based on true crime stories that usually are unsolved mysteries. Intertwining dramatizations and real interviews with the victims and witnesses....
Adrenalina
Character: María Raquel Trujillo
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Movie Credits
The Maid
Character: Raquel
Raquel has been the live-in housekeeper for a kind, reasonably wealthy family for half her life, and the joyless repetition of the job has begun to take its toll. Increasingly dependent on painkillers, Raquel resorts to pranks and childish avoidance to antagonize the family’s college-age daughter and a procession of new servants, all in the hopes of protecting her precarious power within the home. Her antics successfully push everyone away, until new maid Lucy actually pushes back....
History and Geography
Character: Atenea Martínez
Gioconda Martínez, a well-remembered comic television actress, decided to return to her hometown to stage a play about the conquest of Chile, which will allow her to regain the artistic recognition she thought she had lost but never had....
Problemista
Character: Dolores
Alejandro is an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador, struggling to bring his unusual ideas to life in New York City. As time on his work visa runs out, a job assisting an erratic art-world outcast becomes his only hope to stay in the country and realize his dream....
The Dancer and the Thief
Character: Ángel's Mother
Present day. Chile. Legendary bank robber Vergara Grey is getting out of prison after 5 long years and is looking forward to a quiet, uneventful life together with his wife and son whom oddly he hasn't heard from in years. But soon his resolve is tested when he meets 19 year old Angel a young thief who insists the two join up to score the biggest heist of all time. Though tempted, he resists until he finds out that his beloved wife has gone off with a millionaire and his son wants to change his ...
Chile Can Do It
Character: Magda
The businessman who sends the first Chilean astronaut into outer space can't quite come up with the money to bring the adventurer back....
Young and Wild
Character: Converted Woman
Daniela, raised in the bosom of a strict Evangelical family and recently unmasked as a fornicator by her shocked parents, struggles to find her own path to spiritual harmony....
Normal con alas
Character: Carmen Cecilia Salfate
Pancha Illanes is the black sheep of her ladies' college, after the constant insistence of her boyfriend she accepts the proposal of selling marijuana at the college. What at first seems like an impossible mission, soon becomes an electrifying game...
Isidora
Character:
Isidora immerses itself, in the manner of a journey through time and space, in the life of Chilean playwright Isidora Aguirre (1919-2011) and in the main ones of her 30 plays, which are recreated on screen by outstanding actors. Mixing family archives, life diaries and interviews she gave at the age of 91, the film becomes the creative biography of the author of La Pergola de las Flores, her most famous work, and opens the door to the social and political issues she narrated in her theater, the ...
The Passion of Michelangelo
Character: Irma
An intense religious drama set during the Pinochet regime and based on a true story....
The Practice
Character: Therapist
Dealing with a series of increasingly absurd situations and relationships, recently separated yoga instructors Gustavo and Vanesa are finding it difficult to live apart. Their challenges include meddling mothers, amnesiac students, and burgeoning romances. Step by step, they find their way back to the practice....
Caleuche: The Call of the Sea
Character: Aurora
A young woman who suffers a strange disease must travel to a mysterious island in South America, where myths and reality are one and the same....
The Magnetic Tree
Character: Carla
A young boy returns to his birth country, Chile, after a long absence. The house in the country where he lived with his family is up for sale and they all gather to bid the place farewell. Their visit to the "magnetic tree", a local curiosity with strange properties, will awaken almost forgotten feelings and affections in the boy....
What We Never Said
Character:
Intimate story of a small family, starring Marian, only daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Di Mateo, who after several years of living in Mexico returns to his hometown Mendoza, because her father is dying; although the true intent of her return is to say what was sealed by the silence of the unspoken in an exemplary family as such as her mother claims to sustain....
The Quispe Girls
Character: Lucía Quispe
Based on a true story occurred in 1974, this is the tale of sisters Justa, Lucia, and Luciana Quispe, sheperds in the Chilean altiplano who lead a solitary life. A visitor brings news about a law that might change their way of living. This event forces the women to question their existence and relentlessly brings them to a tragic end....
El castigo
Character:
An infant disappears from his parents sight in a mysterious but haunting forest after a punishment....
Un nuevo baile
Character:
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The Mud Woman
Character: María
María Cartagena is a seasonal worker in the fruit fields of an arid valley in northern Chile, to bring sustenance to her daughter and disabled husband. During the hard workday she overcomes abuse and mistreatment driven by a powerful motivation: saving enough money to visit her brother’s grave, one of the disappeared after the Pinochet coup....
Natural Disasters
Character: Valentina
Raquel is a teacher who resists the idea of retiring. One day she has to teach a class at her old school, only to find out she has been replaced with someone much younger. She insists still on teaching, and gets the support of her former students who will occupy the classroom demanding her reinstatement, leading to a small revolution that will threaten the establishment's order....
Rotting in the Sun
Character: Señora Vero
A filmmaker facing an existential crisis goes on a vacation to a Mexican gay nudist beach, where he meets a social media celebrity who convinces him to collaborate with him on his new TV show. But one disappears and another embarks on a wild journey through Mexico City to find him....
And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow's Eye
Character: Rosa
Emeteria is visited by a ghost she believes has come to take her to the afterlife. But he has more devastating news....
The Simple Things
Character: Penélope
Penelope is a civil servant who lives with her mother, who has Alzheimer's. One day she meets Ulises, a poor old man who has lost his memory and his identity papers. She convinces him that he is her father and he must come home to take care of his wife....
Little White Lie
Character: Leontina
A small-town journalist in southern Chile realizes he just run out of good news so that he starts making gossips and fake stories in order to keep his job in the local newspaper he works for....
Atacama's 33
Character: Sister
A team of Chilean miners are trapped underground for months and hold out for a miraculous rescue....
Mirage of Love
Character:
1925, In a mining town in the middle of nowhere in Chile. The daughter of an anarchist hairdresser falls deeply in love with a trumpeter. They will have to fight dictatorship in order to save their love....
(09)
Character:
In 2012, three friends got together for a college assignment in a beach house. There was some sort of paranormal activity. What happened that day was recorded in their phones, but it wasn't authorized to be shown publically. Until now....
Marilyn
Character: Olga
Marcos and his family work as ranch hands. While his father and brother handle the heavier tasks, Marcos stays home, close to his mother. Each one has their future laid out before them, yet Marcos bides his time waiting for Carnival, the one moment where he can let his true self out to shine. The sudden death of his father leaves his family in a very vulnerable situation. The ranch owner hounds them to go away, while Marcos’s mother pressures him to take over the work in the fields. Nicknamed Ma...
Un día cualquiera
Character: Danisa
A story that highlights the charm of a chance and the magic of an unexpected encounter. A new opportunity to fall in love. 5 romantic stories....
Life Kills Me
Character: Chabela
Gaspar is a young, lonely cinematographer. Unable to deal with his sister and sick grandfather he spends his time with Susana, an actress working on a opera. When he meets Alvaro, an idealistic traveler, Gaspar's life changes. They embark on a adventure that help them unearth the fragility and value of human existence...
Ema
Character: Marcela
Ema is a magnetic and impulsive dancer in a reggaeton troupe. Her toxic marriage to choreographer Gastón is beyond repair, following a decision to give up on their adopted child Polo. She sets out on a mission to get him back, not caring who she’ll need to fight, seduce or destroy to make it happen....
Old Cats
Character: Hugo
Isidora, an old woman, discovers that her mind is quickly deteriorating. At an apparently relaxed dinner table, she will desperately try to hide her state from her daughter, a demanding woman who awaits any sign of senility in order to take way everything she has....
Run Over
Character:
A lawyer with addiction problems who can't handle his spoiled daughter, a young millionaire lacking paternal affection.and a man who is killed on the same day he finds true love are connected by the same fate that will bond them together on a Sunday in July in Santiago...
Hasta en las mejores familias
Character: Jessica
Dramatic comedy that raise questions through satire about the moral tradition of Chilean society, its dogmatism and sexual intolerance and the repressive nature of the country's traditional family....
I Love You Mum
Character: Carmen
A mother on the brink of blindness abandons her little daughter every day. The girl just wants to please her mother so it develops a macabre game to look like her. Until one day, the plan seems to have yielded results beyond all expectations....
The Retiree
Character: Gina
Fabiola returns to her homeland, province of Los Andes, to recover the affection of her family, after seven years of being away....
Secrets
Character:
After long decades of exile, a leftist former activist returns to Chile to settle accounts with his conscience, related to the death of a colleague and political hero . The task of Atalibar is to reveal his secret. But his view clashes with the current country, godless, far from the old ideologies and where all his old colleagues have changed....
On My Own
Character: Margarita
A lonely beautician suffering from the onset of menopause is encouraged by her young client to pursue a love interest. The two women, youthful and aging, find unexpected insight in the advice of the other...
La Mamita
Character:
Karina is 51 years old and is a regular trucker on the north route. Due to mechanical problems, he stops for the first time at "La Mamita" restaurant. The owner and cook of the restaurant, Marta, 63, welcomes her as kindly as any of her customers. However, the accidental discovery of a human hand in the garbage makes Karina see that all the stories this cook tells her are nothing more than a premonition of her destiny....
Neruda: The Fugitive
Character: Valparaiso Seamstress
The 1948 speech called "Yo Acuso" resulted in Pablo Neruda going under hiding for 13 months and the police searching intensively for him....
Diablada
Character: Rosaura Meneses
A group of girls from a humble little town in the middle of the desert disappears systematically without the police or the authorities taking action on the matter. Families desperately seek help, but are faced with bureaucracy, discrimination and total abandonment....
31 Minutos, la película
Character: Cachirula (voice)
The rag-tag crew of world famous TV news show 31 Minutos goes into the sea to a mystery island to rescue their beloved producer Juanin Juan Harry....
The Painting Lesson
Character: Leontina
In Chile, during the 60´s, the son of a poor single teenage girl turns out to be a gifted painter. The man to discover his talent is the owner of the drugstore that lies in the outskirts of the small rural town, next to the railroad. He himself is an amateur painter who will try to make the boy into a great artist, like all the ones in his art books. From the pharmacists point of view in his old age, unfolds the story of this young boy who could have become a great art genius, had he not disappe...
Crisis
Character: Edith
Her work, her marriage, maternity, life itself… For Edith, everything has passed along without further questioning. As a cashier of a supermarket, she watches her days pass by between family and labor routine. Weeks, months and years she sees go by without even thinking. Suddenly, she discovers she is not happy. A conflict at work seems to synchronize with other thousands of sparks that set on fire the dry prairie of a society without hope. While Santiago starts to burn, Edith moves, bound for a...
No Control in a Random World
Character: School Principal
Three stories with surrealistic comedy elements: A Chilean kid who speaks only in German language; a man fighting with his mind about their way of living; and an old couple trying to solve a problem in silence....
Bahía azul
Character:
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....
Dog Flesh
Character: Factory Worker
Alejandro, a solitary, fragile and unpredictable man is crushed by the hostility of his mysterious past....
La mirada incendiada
Character: Valentina
Film inspired by the real story of Rodrigo Rojas de Negri. Killed on July 2, 1986 during the first national protest against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet....
The True Story Of People In The Dragon
Character: Maca
PEOPLE IN THE DRAGON, the new promise of Chilean rock, is finally invited to the biggest festival in America, but 2 days before the show their vocalist dies in an accident. The show tries to go on....
Almost Graduated
Character: Carolina
Emilia (23), a young woman eager for independence, is finishing her university thesis with uncertainty. Her sense of stagnation leads her to seek an escape, promising herself that she can take control of her future by finally getting her driver's license....