Early life

Luz María Valdivieso Ovalle was born in Santiago, Chile

Santiago, Chile

Santiago , also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile, and the center of its largest conurbation . It is located in the country's central valley, at an elevation of above mean sea level...

. She went to study at Colegio Institución Teresiana and later entered the University of Chile to study psychology for two years. While at the university she realized that she wanted a career in acting. She put her career on hold to try her luck at the School of Teatro de Gustavo Meza and by the end of the first year of theater, she decided to stay there.

Television career

Her first telenovela was in Piel Canela (Cinnamon-toned skin), as Anita Moreno. Next she played her first antagonistic role, Estefania, in the telenovela Buen Partido (Good game), alongside Cristián Arriagada

Cristián Arriagada

Cristián Andrés Arriagada Bižaca is a Chilean television, theatre and film actor. Currently is partner of the Chilean dancer Yamna Lobos...

, a complicated moment for the drama division of Channel 13.

Later TVN asked for her to join the new telenovela Juvenil 16, where she played an impulsive girl named Alejandra.

After Juvenil 16, she joined the cast of the first night-time telenovela Ídolos (Idols), where she played a young rebel named Natalia Medina. It involved a love conflict with her father, played by Eduardo Barril, and her best friend. Her acting skills brought her much attention. Following Ídolos, she joined the cast of Juvenil 17 y later, the second night-time telenovela Los Treinta (The Thirties) playing Simona, a married woman who decides to leave her husband (Álvaro Espinoza

Alvaro Espinoza

Álvaro Alberto Espinoza [es-pe-NO-zah] is a former shortstop in Major League Baseball and current infield coach for the Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees.-Early life:...

) and her son in order to regain her liberty.

Her notoriety gained here a role in a major telenovela on TVN named Versus, playing her second antagonistic role as Vanesa Carrera, a young girl who fights for the love of Octavio Cox (Cristián Arriagada

Cristián Arriagada

Cristián Andrés Arriagada Bižaca is a Chilean television, theatre and film actor. Currently is partner of the Chilean dancer Yamna Lobos...

).

She went on to make special appearances in the night-time series Disparejas (Different) as Javiera, a woman who represents Francisco Pérez-Bannen.

Movie career

Valdivieso's first film role came in 2004 in a film called No me toques (Don't touch me), along with Carmen Gloria Bresky, Sebastian Layseca, Francisca Lewin, Juan Pablo Ogalde and Benjamín Vicuña

Benjamín Vicuña

Benjamín Vicuña Luco is a Chilean television actor. He studied theatre at the University of Chile. He is a descendant of Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna, a Chilean historian and politician of Basque and Irish descent....

; under the direction of Mauro Bravo.

Her second film role came in La remolienda (The binge) which will be released in 2007.

Personal life

She is married to Marcial Tagle, who acts in the series Casado con Hijos

Casado con hijos (Chile)

Casado con hijos is a Chilean television series and remake of the American tv show Married... With Children. It aired on May 2, 2006, and ended on October 15, 2008. At the moment it’s aired on post-time schedule, which means, after one a.m....

 on MEGA

Red Televisiva Megavisión

MEGA, formerly known as Red Televisiva Megavisión, is the first private TV channel of Chile. It currently airs in Santiago on digital frequency channel 27 for HDTV.Among the many TV shows broadcast on MEGA are:...

.

Miniseries and unitarian programs

• Tiempo Final (TVN, 2006) "Café Cortado"-Cintyha
• La vida es una Lotería (TVN, 2002) "Es tiempo de soñar" - María

Telenovelas

• La Familia de al Lado
  La familia de al lado
  La Familia de al Lado is a Chilean telenovela based on one of José Ignacio Valenzuela's books. The telenovela was produced by the Chilean national channel TVN and aired by the same channel from September, 2010 through March, 2011, and stars Álvaro Rudolphy, María Elena Swett, Jorge Zabaleta, and...
  
   (TVN, 2010) - Ignacia Fabres / Bernardita Valdivieso
• Conde Vrolok (TVN, 2009) - Montserrat Batista
• Los Exitosos Pells
  Los exitosos Pells
  Los exitosos Pells was a 2008-2009 Argentine telenovela, produced by Underground Producciones and Endemol, and aired by Telefe. It started being aired on November 5, 2008, replacing Vidas Robadas at 10:30PM...
  
   (TVN, 2009) - Sol Costa
• Amor por accidente (TVN, 2007) - Adriana Cicarelli
• Alguien Te Mira
  Alguien Te Mira
  Alguien te mira was a night-time telenovela from Televisión Nacional de Chile. Directed by María Eugenia Rencoret, produced by Daniela Demichelli and written by Pablo Illanes and Nona Fernández...
  
   (TVN, 2007) - Tatiana Wood
• Floribella
  Floribella
  Floribella is a telenovela that was produced in Brazil, Portugal and Chile. Each of those countries had their own cast, but the show had exactly the same name...
  
   (TVN, 2006) - Agustina Santillán
• Disparejas (TVN, 2006) - Javiera
• Versus (TVN, 2005) - Vanessa Carrera
• Los Treinta (TVN, 2005) - Simona Toledo
• Juvenil 17 (TVN, 2005) - Alejandra Moretti
• Ídolos
  Ídolos
  Ídolos may refer to:*Ídolos Brazil*Ídolos Portugal* Ídolos, Chilean telenovela...
  
   (TVN, 2004) - Natalia Medina
• Juvenil 16 (TVN, 2003) - Alejandra Moretti
• Buen Partido (Canal 13, 2002) - Estefania
• Piel canela (Canal 13, 2001) - Anita Moreno

Theater

• H (Hiroshima Mon Amour)
• Los Borrachos
• De Ratones y de Hombres
• La Caida de la Casa Usher
• Top Dogs
• Tres Noches de un Sábado

External links

• Especial de Luz Valdivieso en TVN