Valentina Vargas

Valentina Vargas (born December 31, 1964) is a Chilean-born actress. She developed most of her career in France, where she was raised.

Biography

Vargas began her career in the dramatic art within the workshop of Tania Balaschova in Paris and also later at the Yves Pignot School of Los Angeles. Her cinematographic career started via the filming of three of the most important works in contemporary French cinema, namely Pierre Jolivet's Strictly Personal, Luc Besson's The Big Blue and Jean-Jacques Annaud's The Name of the Rose. Over the years, Vargas also worked with Samuel Fuller in Street of No Return, Miguel Littín in Los naufragos and Alfredo Arieta in Fuegos.

Vargas is trilingual in Spanish, French and English. This has enabled her to pass without notice in films as varied as the cinematic horror film Hellraiser: Bloodline where she played the Cenobite Angelique, to the comedy Chili con carne of Thomas Gilou. She appeared opposite Jan Michael Vincent (Dirty Games), Malcolm McDowell and Michael Ironside (Southern Cross), and James Remar (The Tigress).

After her performance in Bloody Mallory where she played "the malicious one", she turned to playing roles for television. Initially she played in a version of Les Liaisons dangereuses directed by Josée Dayan. She starred in this production with Catherine Deneuve, Rupert Everett, Leelee Sobieski and Nastassja Kinski.

Filmography

• Strictement personnel (1985) - La masseuse
• The Name of the Rose (1986) - The Girl
• Fuegos (1987) - Margarita
• The Big Blue (1988) - Bonita
• Dirty Games (1989) - Nicola Kendra
• Street of No Return (1989) - Celia
• The Tigress (1992) - Tigress/Pauline
• The Devil's Breath (1993)
• Twin Sitters (1994) - Lolita
• The Shipwrecked (1994) - Isol
• Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996) - Peasant Girl / Angelique / Angelique Cenobite
• Southern Cross (1999) - Mariana Flores
• Chili con carne (1999) - Ines
• Bloody Mallory (2002) - Lady Valentine
• Faces in the Crowd (2010)
• Night Across the Street (2012)

Television

• Le flair du petit docteur (1 episode, 1986) - Laure
• Piazza Navona (1 episode, 1988) - Perla
• Air America (1 episode, 1999) - Celia
• L'Été de Chloé (2002) - Agnès
• Un homme en colère (1 episode, 2002) - Laura
• Les Liaisons dangereuses (2003) (mini series) - Emilie
• Le Caprice des cigognes (2006) - Anna
• Fête de famille (5 episodes, 2006) - Monica
• Héroes (2007) (episode: "Balmaceda") - Sofía Linares

References

• "biographical information". Tout Le Ciné. Retrieved 18 May 2009. 

External links

• Valentina Vargas at the Internet Movie Database