María Gracia Omegna

María Gracia Omegna

Birthday: November 10, 1984 in Santiago de Chile, Metropolitan Region, Chile
Birth Name: María Gracia Andrea Omegna Vergara
Height: 162 cm
María Gracia Andrea Omegna Vergara (Santiago, November 10, 1984) is a Chilean film, theater and television actress. She is known for the productions Dama y obrero and Papá a la Deriva, as well as the film Joven y Alocada. Her Theater studies were carried out at the Finis Terrae University, where she was also part of the institution's student... Show more »
María Gracia Andrea Omegna Vergara (Santiago, November 10, 1984) is a Chilean film, theater and television actress. She is known for the productions Dama y obrero and Papá a la Deriva, as well as the film Joven y Alocada. Her Theater studies were carried out at the Finis Terrae University, where she was also part of the institution's student federation. Shortly before graduating, her aunt the actress Berta Lasala motivated her to participate in a casting on Channel 13 for a TV series. Although it was not among her interests to act on television, she went, but she did not stay. A year later, Herval Abreu called her for another test and entered the cast of Lola. Later she would participate in Corazón rebelde (Chilean version of the Argentine Rebelde Way), playing Pilar Ortúzar.María Gracia was a theater woman, from a very young age she is part of the company "Lafamiliateatro, with whom she performs some shows, including a tour to Bolivia and with whom she continues to collaborate to this day, becoming the official presenter of the SANTIAGO OFF FESTIVAL , organized by your company in 2012 and 2013.In 2010, she was hired by TVN, where she achieved her first leading role in a soap opera, this time as Leonor Encina in the historical television series Martín Rivas, where she stars in a loving romance with the protagonist Diego Muñoz.She made her film debut with the film The Life of the Fish directed by Matías Bize, a winning film at the Goya Awards.In 2011, for the second time, she takes a leading role in the production Témpano, playing Amparo Benavente, a woman who comes for a cold revenge. This dramatic production was recorded in Puerto Natales and Santiago.In 2012, for the third consecutive time, she took a leading role, this time in the successful daytime production Lady and Worker, playing Ignacia Villavicencio, a millionaire married woman who ends up falling in love with a poor worker played by Francisco Pérez-Bannen.That same year, she also obtained a leading role in the cinema, in the film Joven y Alocada, directed by Marialy Rivas and based on the eponymous book by Camila Gutiérrez, in which she plays Antonia, a university niece of the director of an evangelical channel , who is romantically involved with the protagonist, Daniela, a bisexual student who relates her controversial experiences and the conflicts that occur between her conservative family contrasted with her rebellious sexuality, played by Alicia Rodríguez. The film was released worldwide on January 21, 2012 at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the award for best screenplay.In 2013 she plays the lawyer and human rights activist Carmen Hertz in the Chilevision miniseries Ecos delierto, directed by Andrés Wood.After five years on TVN, in 2015 she emigrated to the Mega channel to play the role of Violeta Padilla in the TV series Papá a la deriva, where she also shares the limelight with actor Gonzalo Valenzuela. The following year, she would make her first night production, the Chilean version of Sres Papis, where she also shares with actors Jorge Zabaleta, Francisco Melo and Diego Muñoz.Already for 2018, she would be again in an evening production of Mega, If I Were Rich, starring again by Gonzalo Valenzuela, also together with Mariana Loyola and Jorge Zabaleta. Show less «
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