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Manuela Martelli
Santiago, Chile
Manuela Martelli is a Chilean actress and director At the young age of 18 and without previous studies of theater Manuela Martelli was chosen to star in the film B-Happy, by Gonz…
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Manuela Martelli is a Chilean actress and director At the young age of 18 and without previous studies of theater Manuela Martelli was chosen to star in the film B-Happy, by Gonzalo Justiniano. The film received excellent critics and immediately the actress became the revelation of the Chilean cinema, captivating to the national and international critic. For this work she drew attention at the Toronto Film Festival and then won the Coral Award for Best Actress at the Havana Film Festival, in addition to the Best Actress Award at the Washington Latin American Film Festival. Machuca, by Andrés Wood was his next movie where he showed that his striking debut was not a beginner's luck. For her role in Machuca Manuela Martelli received the award for best actress at the Viña del Mar Festival and the Altazor Prize, awarded by the Chilean actors' guild. His third film, Como Un Avión Estrellado by Argentine director Ezequiel Acuña is his first film outside of Chile. The beginning of her cinematographic career could have been even more active, but she chose to finish her art baccalaureate studies at the Catholic University of Chile and then pursue a theatrical acting career at the same university. In 2010 he started studying film in the United States thanks to the support of a Fullbright Scholarship and Scholarships Chile Description above from the Cinechile.cl article "Manuela Martelli"
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2026
The Meltdown
Movie Director
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2026
Behind the Rain
Movie
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2025
God Will Not Help
Movie Teresa
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2024
The Practice
Movie Casting
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2023
Blanquita
Movie Casting
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2022
Chile '76
Movie Director
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2020
Vera De Verdad
Movie Clara
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2020
Overnight
Movie Laura
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2020
Entierro
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2016
Valparaiso
Movie Rocío
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2015
Land Tides
Movie Writer
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2015
Apnea
Movie Director
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2014
Mar
Movie Writer
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2014
Two Shots Fired
Movie Lucía
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2014
Forgotten
Movie
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2014
Up to the World
Movie Ana
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2014
La canción de tu vida
TV show Isa
- 2013
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2013
The Magnetic Tree
Movie Marianela
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2013
The Future
Movie Bianca
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2011
My Last Round
Movie Jennifer
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2011
Karma
TV show Margarita
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2010
Queso-Pimentón
Movie La mujer
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2010
Cartas de mujer
TV show Leontina
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2010
Feroz
TV show Amanda Carrera
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2009
Christmas
Movie Aurora
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2008
The Good Life
Movie Paula
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2008
Sonetàula
Movie Maddalena Irde
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2007
Radio Corazón
Movie Berenice 'Nice' Riquelme
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2007
¡Pega Martín pega!
Movie
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2007
Scrambled Beer
Movie Fedora
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2006
Huaiquimán y Tolosa
TV show Sofía Santos
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2006
The Sacred Family
Movie Art Department Assistant
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2005
Baño de mujeres
Movie Soledad
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2005
Como un avión estrellado
Movie Luchi
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2004
Machuca
Movie Silvana
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2004
B-Happy
Movie Katty
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1996
De pé a pá
TV show Self
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Estrella Solitaria
Movie Director
