Usuario:Rodrigoelebe/Paula Luchsinger

Rodrigoelebe/Paula Luchsinger
Educación
Educado en	Saint George's College School of theater at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Paula Luchsinger Escobar (Santiago, December 24, 1994) is a chilean film and television actress, recognized for her participation in the film El Conde (2023), the series La jauría (2020) and different chilean soap operas, including Yo soy Lorenzo (2019).

Artistic career

He studied law at the Law School of the Universidad de Chile. After completing and passing her first year of law school, she enrolled in an acting career at the School of Theater of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Subsequently, she completed a degree in Aesthetics and Philosophy at the same university, and a degree in Biology of Knowledge and Human Communication at the Universidad de Chile.

Parallel to her university studies, at the age of 20 she made her television debut, beginning a prolific national and international career in film and television, which made her be considered by chilean actors as "one of the most promising talents of her generation", being highlighted as "a rising star" on the cover of Wiken Magazine on August 7, 2020, and later, on May 7, 2022, she was distinguished as "Revelation actress" in Chile by the newspaper El Mercurio.

Television

Soap operas

Her television career began with soap operas on the Mega television network, the channel with the most watched dramatic productions in Chile. In 2015 she participated in an episode of the soap opera Papá a la deriva. Then, she became part of the stable cast of the dramatic area of the channel.

During 2016 and 2017 she participated in her first soap opera, Señores papis, in which she played Ignacia Pereira, the daughter of Francisco Melo and Francisca Imboden's characters.

During 2017 and 2018 she participated in the soap opera Tranquilo papá.

During 2019 and 2020 she played Blanca's main antagonist character in the musical soap opera Yo soy Lorenzo, set in the 1960s, a role for which she had to take dance classes and study movies and TV series of the time. In the telenovela, she also had to perform the song "Tú serás mi baby".

In 2021 she starred in two soap operas in Mega. She co-starred in the soap opera Edificio Corona. She also played an antagonistic role in the telenovela Amar Profundo, playing Jeimy Contreras, a strage young woman who could not stand the precariousness of the fishing, but due to a family debt, she was forced to join the artisanal fishing business. For this role she won the category "Best Youth Interpretation" at the Premios Foronovelas 2022.

In 2023 she acted in the telenovela Dime con quién andas of Paramount+ and Chilevisión, playing Bruna Ayala, one of the co-starring roles in the plot.

Series

In 2019, he appeared in two episodes of the series Los Spookys on the HBO television network.

In 2020 she premiered his first series, La jauría, a police drama produced by audiovisual production company Fábula and Fremantle for Televisión Nacional de Chile, released in Latin America and Spain by Prime Video and by HBO Max in the United States.

For her performance in the lead role of Celeste Ibarra, she was nominated for "Breakthrough Actress" at the 2020 Produ Awards, shortlisted for "Best Female Supporting Performance" at the eighth edition of the Premios Platino, was winner of the "Best Female Supporting Performance" category of the Premios Estrella that same year, and was nominated for "Best Leading Actress" at the 2022 Premios Caleuche. She previously attended the 2019 Zurich Film Festival gala as a representative of the cast of the series. In an interview with BBC, Luchsinger highlighted that the series "breaks with several paradigms, because it stars women, and strong women. And that shows a very important change compared to television products where only men were protagonists", adding that "what is in the series is a show of women demanding their rights. It is not a war against men, because feminism does not want that. It wants equal rights and that is evident throughout the chapters".

Cinema

During 2019 she released her first film, Ema, shot in Valparaíso, directed by Pablo Larraín and produced by Fábula, where she played the supporting role of María, a role for which she had to take dance classes and dye her hair completely light blue. The film had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival, where it was selected to compete for the Golden Lion 2019, the main award of the Mostra, having a great critical reception. In an interview in Revista Ya of El Mercurio, Luchsinger highlighted about the people who starred in the film that "in the bodies of these women are embodied such powerful ideas as freedom and rebellion. I also feel that they are female minds very little visited, or associated with bad things: the strong, sensual woman is always the enemy and never the heroine, as in this case, Ema is".

In 2023, she released her second film, El Conde, directed by Pablo Larraín, produced by Fábula and Netflix, which premiered at the 80th edition of the Venice International Film Festival on August 30, 2023 (it was selected to compete for the Golden Lion 2023 and won the Osella Prize for Best Screenplay) and by Netflix worldwide on September 15, 2023. In it, she played the character of the nun Carmen, the main antagonist of the film. Her performance was well received by critics for its transcendence in the plot, the character's complex personality and demonstrated abilities, as well as its proximity to the portrayal of María Falconetti in Carl Theodor Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc, to the point that film critic Anthony Lane of The New Yorker stated that "no one in the film makes a more surprising impact than Luchsinger". Luchsinger attended the film's premiere at the 80th Venice International Film Festival on behalf of the cast. During the international press conference, Luchsinger commented to Variety magazine on the importance of the work in the context of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the coup d'état in Chile, noting that "this is a film that can start a national conversation", adding that "there is a resurgence of the extreme right in Chile and this is a necessary film because it reminds us that Pinochet went unpunished". Likewise, on the red carpet of the film's premiere, the style and elegance of her look was highlighted by Vogue magazine and other chilean media.

Filmography

Soap operas

Year	Show	Character	Role
2015	Papá a la deriva	Felipe's friend	Extra role
2016-2017	Señores papis	Ignacia Pereira	Secondary role
2017-2018	Tranquilo papá	Madonna Poblete	Secondary role
2019	Los Espookys		Extra role
2019-2020	Yo soy Lorenzo	Blanca Noriega	Antagonist role
2020	<i id="mw7A">La jauría</i>	Celeste Ibarra	Protagonic role
2021	Edificio Corona	Catalina Manzano	Co-protagonic role
2021-2022	Amar profundo	Jeimy Contreras	Antagonist role
2023	Dime con quién andas	Bruna Ayala	Co-protagonic role

Cinema

Year	Movie	Role
2019	Ema	María
2023	El Conde	Nun Carmen

Prizes

Año	Premio	Categoría	Obra	Resultado
2020	Premios Produ	Best New Actress	La jauría	Nominated
2021	Premios Platino	Best Supporting Female Performance		Preselected
2021	Premios Estrella	Best Supporting Female Performance		Winner
2022	Premios Caleuche	Best Actress in a Leading Role		Nominated

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