Loreto Valenzuela

Loreto Cristina Valenzuela Valdivia (born 3 July 1954) is a Chilean actress and director, recognized for her extensive career in theater and television. Valenzuela achieved great popularity in the play (1979), in the enigmatic and censored (1986), in the drama (1987), and for her treacherous antagonistic role in (2016). Biography Loreto Valenzuela studied business engineering at the University of Chile's from 1972 to 1973 due to political considerations. After the 1973 military coup, a continuous persecution against leftist students began. The school was dissolved the same year, so she was forced to abandon her studies. Subsequently, she took secretarial and acting courses at the School of Communication Arts (EAC) of the Pontifical Catholic University, graduating in 1979. In 1979 she starred with Luz Jiménez, Myriam Palacios, and Soledad Alonso in the play Tres Marías y una Rosa by David Benavente and directed by Raúl Osorio. Its success led her to tour Latin America and Europe. In the theater, she has excelled in the productions Three Sisters by Chekhov, El día que me quieras by José Ignacio Cabrujas, Invitación a cenar by Egon Wolff, and a theatrical adaptation of Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado, in addition to several plays with the outstanding company, such as Sueños de mala muerte and Oleada.