Paulina Urrutia

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Not to be confused with Paulina Núñez Urrutia.
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Urrutia and the second or maternal family name is Fernández.
Paulina Urrutia
2014
Minister of the National Council of Culture and the Arts of Chile
In office
11 March 2006 – 11 March 2010
PresidentMichelle Bachelet
Preceded byJosé Weinstein
Succeeded byLuciano Cruz-Coke
Personal details
Born
Paulina Marcela Urrutia Fernández

(1969-01-15) 15 January 1969 (age 55)
Santiago, Chile
SpouseAugusto Góngora
Alma materPontifical Catholic University of Chile
OccupationActress, politician

Paulina Marcela Urrutia Fernández (born 15 January 1969) is a Chilean actress, academic, director, trade union leader, and politician. She was a State Minister of the first government of President Michelle Bachelet.

Biography[edit]

Born into a middle-class family, Paulina Urrutia grew up in the San Miguel district of the Chilean capital. Her parents worked in public administration and separated when she was fifteen years old. She studied at the Company of Mary school on Seminario Street in the municipality of Providencia.

Her first introduction to theater was as a girl, in a school workshop. Later, after graduating from high school, she entered the discipline at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.[1]

The exercise of her profession began very early. The first play in which she performed was Esperando la carroza [es], in 1987, under the direction of Raúl Osorio.[2] Her career in television began in a Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN) series in 1989, thanks to an invitation from the producer Sonia Fuchs [es]. She played, with great success, Juanita Fernández Solar, who was later declared the first Chilean saint under the name Teresa of the Andes.[3]

A year later she participated, also on TVN, in El milagro de vivir [es; El milagro de vivir (telenovela chilena)], her first telenovela. In 1994, after starring in the television series Jaque mate [es],[3] she joined the Television Corporation of the Catholic University of Chile (UC TV), where she remained until 2002. A highlight of that period was her performance in Fuera de control [es], as Sarita Mellafe, considered by critics as one of the best villains seen on Chilean television.[4][5] In 2003 she returned to TVN, appearing in the telenovela Puertas adentro [es], but would return to UC TV the following year, acting in Tentación [es] and Gatas y tuercas [es].[6] Her film debut came in 1993, in the movie Johnny 100 Pesos by local filmmaker Gustavo Graef Marino.

Urrutia quickly became involved in the political world by actively participating in the Chilean Actors Union (Sidarte), becoming its general secretary and its president in 2001. During the first government of Michelle Bachelet, she was appointed president of the National Council of Culture and the Arts in 2006. This is equivalent to the position of culture minister in other countries.[3]

Under her administration as minister, a set of reforms to intellectual property law was drafted and discussed. It was approved unanimously by the National Congress on 13 January 2010, and promulgated as Law No. 20,435 on 4 May of that year, during the government of Sebastián Piñera.[7]

In May 2017 she assumed the direction of the Camilo Henríquez Theater, succeeding the playwright Ramón Griffero.[1][8]

Urrutia was married to journalist, producer, and director Augusto Góngora, until his death in May 2023.[9][10] Gongora had been diagnosed with Alzheimers disease since 2014. She has no children, but two step-children with him. Between 2018 and 2022 the chilean film maker Maite Alberdi followed the couple in and outside their home to create a full-length documentary film, The Eternal Memory, showing how they coped with Góngora's illness in daily life. The film was awarded the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival[11] and had its European premiere in the Panorama Section at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2023.[12] On May 19, 2023, Gongora died.[13]

Filmography[edit]

Film[edit]

Year Title Role Director
1993 Johnny 100 Pesos Patty Gustavo Graef-Marino
1996 El encierro Olga Marcelo Ferrari
1999 No tan lejos de Andrómeda América Juan Vicente Araya
2003 Carga vital Engracia Sebastián Campos
2004 Cachimba [es] Lucy Silvio Caiozzi
2004 Tendida, mirando las estrellas Nieves Andrés Racz
2006 Fuga Macarena Sancho Pablo Larraín
2007 La gravedad del púgil Nancy Jorge Mella
2016 Chameleon Paulina Jorge Riquelme Serrano
2021 A Place Called Dignity First Lady Matías Rojas Valencia
2023 The Eternal Memory - documentary film Herself Maite Alberdi

Telenovelas[edit]

Year Title Role Channel
1988 Las dos caras del amor [es] Luchita (joven) TVN
1990 El milagro de vivir Elcira Troncoso TVN
1991 Volver a empezar [es] Nancy Jara TVN
1992 Trampas y caretas [es] Doris Machuca TVN
1993 Jaque mate [es] Paula Quesney TVN
1994 Champaña [es] Marly González Canal 13
1995 El amor está de moda Soledad Canal 13
1996 Marrón Glacé, el regreso [es] Rosita Monarde Canal 13
1997 Eclipse de luna [es] Luly Canal 13
1998 Amándote [es] Nelly Lobos Canal 13
1999 Fuera de control Sarita Mellafe Canal 13
2000 Sabor a ti [es] Lucero del Campo Canal 13
2001 Piel canela [Piel canela] María Conejo Canal 13
2003 Puertas adentro [es] Sofía Méndez TVN
2004 Tentación Dominga Jiménez Canal 13
2005 Gatas & tuercas Brenda Lillo Canal 13
2017 Dime quién fue [es] Eliana Bustos TVN

TV series[edit]

Year Title Role Channel
1989 Teresa de los Andes [es] Juana Fernández del Solar TVN
1990 Historias de Corín Tellado TVN
2003 Cuentos de mujeres Carla / Silvia TVN
2005 Casados Jessica López Chilevisión
2006 JPT: Justicia para todos [es] TVN
2011-2013 Prófugos Adriana Bascuñán HBO
2013 Ecos del desierto [es] Inés de Rivera Chilevisión
2014 Sudamerican Rockers [es] Carmen Ríos Chilevisión
2014 Pulseras rojas [es] Dra. Patricia Andrade TVN
2015 Juana Brava Hilda Salgado TVN
2017 12 días: Gran incendio en Valparaíso [es] Madre de Jorge Chilevisión
2018 Casa de Angeli TVN

Theater[edit]

  • Esperando la carroza [es] (1987), by Jacobo Langsner, Theater of the Catholic University of Chile, dir.: Raúl Osorio
  • El paseo de Buster Keaton (1988), assembly of three pieces by Federico García Lorca for the director Aldo Parodi, La Memoria Theater Company
  • La Tierra no es redonda (1989), staged by Alfredo Castro, based on El libro de Cristóbal Colón by Paul Claudel, La Memoria Theater Company
  • Historia de la sangre [es], by Alfredo Castro and Rodrigo Pérez [es], in the role of the girl in the pear tree, 1992, La Memoria Theater Company; re-release: 2010
  • Los días tuertos (1993), La Memoria Theater Company
  • El seductor (1996), by Benjamín Galemiri
  • La misión (1997), by Heiner Müller
  • Máquina Hamlet (1999), by Heiner Müller
  • Cinema-Uttopia (2000), by Ramón Griffero
  • Todos saben quién fue (2001), by Alejandro Moreno
  • Devastados (2002), by Sarah Kane, dir.: Alfredo Castro
  • La amante fascista, by Alejandro Chato Moreno, in the role of Iris Rojas, La Palabra Theater Company, 2010; Camilo Henríquez Theater, 2017, under the direction of Víctor Carrasco [es]
  • Tus deseos en fragmentos (2012), by Ramón Griffero, Fin de Siglo Theater
  • Prometeo, el origen (2015), by Ramón Griffero, Camilo Henríquez Theater
  • 99 La Morgue (2017), by Ramón Griffero, directed by the author, Camilo Henríquez Theater

Music videos[edit]

Year Title Artist Director
2017 "Para ser aceptada" Martina Lecaros Nano García

Awards[edit]

APES[edit]

Altazor[edit]

  • 2000, Altazor Award in Audiovisual Arts as Best Television Actress for Fuera de control [es]
  • 2003, Altazor Award in Performing Arts as Best Theater Actress for Devastados[3]
  • 2011, Altazor Award in Performing Arts as Best Theater Actress for La amante fascista[14]

International Festival of Trieste, Italy[edit]

  • 2007, Best Performance for the film Tendida, mirando las estrellas[15]

Caleuche[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Paulina Urrutia nueva Directora del Teatro Camilo Henríquez" [Paulina Urrutia New Director of the Camilo Henríquez Theater] (in Spanish). Círculo de Periodistas de Santiago. 4 May 2017. Archived from the original on 4 April 2018. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  2. ^ "Trágica jornada" [Tragic Journey]. El Mercurio de Valparaíso (in Spanish). 21 September 2003. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Actriz liderará Cultura" [Actress Will Lead Culture]. El Mercurio de Valparaíso (in Spanish). 31 January 2006. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  4. ^ "Las grandes villanas en nuestras teleseries" [The Greatest Villainesses in Our TV Series] (in Spanish). Fotech. 9 February 2009. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  5. ^ Figueroa, Nicolás (13 November 2016). "Paulina Urrutia y la razón por la que nunca ha vuelto a ver el atípico final de 'Sarita Mellafe'" [Paula Urrutia and the Reason Why She Has Never Seen the Atypical Finale of 'Sarita Mellafe'] (in Spanish). Teletrece. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  6. ^ "Paulina Urrutia vuelve a las teleseries tras 12 años de ausencia" [Paulina Urrutia Returns to the TV Series After 12 Years of Absence]. soychile.cl (in Spanish). 31 July 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  7. ^ "Modifica la ley n° 17.336 sobre propiedad intelectual" [Modifies Law No. 17.336 on Intellectual Property] (in Spanish). Library of the Congress of Chile. 4 May 2010. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  8. ^ Bahamondes, Pedro (5 May 2017). "Paulina Urrutia asume la dirección del Teatro Camilo Henríquez" [Paulina Urrutia Assumes the Direction of the Camilo Henríquez Theater]. La Tercera (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  9. ^ Ahumada, C. (12 April 2017). "Augusto Góngora presenta su renuncia al directorio de TVN" [Augusto Góngora Presents His Resignation to the TVN Directorate]. El Mercurio (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  10. ^ Qué pasa, Issues 1456-1459 (in Spanish). Segunda Editorial Portada. 1999. p. 286. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  11. ^ "The Complete List of 2023 Sundance Film Festival Award Winners". festival.sundance.org. January 23, 2023. Retrieved February 21, 2023.
  12. ^ "The Eternal Memory". berlinale.de. Retrieved February 21, 2023.
  13. ^ T13 (2023-05-19). "Muere Augusto Góngora, reconocido periodista chileno, a los 71 años". www.t13.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-08-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ "Función gratuita obra 'La amante fascista' en Teatro San Joaquín" [Free Feature Play 'La amante fascista' at San Joaquín Theater]. El Mostrador (in Spanish). 25 October 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  15. ^ "Festival de Trieste premia actuación 'intensa y profunda' de Paulina Urrutia" [Trieste Festival Awards 'Intense and Profound' Performance by Paulina Urrutia]. El Mercurio (in Spanish). Santiago. 12 November 2007. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  16. ^ "Los ganadores de los Premios Caleuche 2016" [The Winners of the 2016 Caleuche Awards] (in Spanish). CNN Chile. 25 January 2016. Retrieved 3 April 2018.

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