Valentina Vargas

Acting Dec 31, 1964 (62 years old) Santiago, Chile

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Valentina Vargas (born December 31, 1964) is a Chilean-born actress. She developed most of her career in France, where she was raised.

Vargas began her career in the dramatic art within the workshop of Tania Balaschova in Paris and also later at the Yves Pignot School of Los Angeles. Her cinematographic career started via the filming of three of the most important works[dubious – discuss] in contemporary French cinema, namely Pierre Jolivet's Strictly Personal, Luc Besson's Big Blue and Jean-Jacques Annaud's The Name of the Rose. Over the years, Vargas also worked with Samuel Fuller in Street of No Return, Miguel Littín in Los náufragos and Alfredo Arieta in Fuegos.

Vargas is trilingual in Spanish, French and English. This has enabled her to pass without notice in films as varied as the cinematic horror film Hellraiser IV: Bloodline where she played the Cenobite Angelique, to the comedy Chili con carne of Thomas Gilou. She appeared opposite Jan Michael Vincent (Dirty Games), Malcolm McDowell and Michael Ironside (Southern Cross), and James Remar (The Tigress).

After her performance in Bloody Mallory where she played "the malicious one", she turned to playing roles for television. Initially she played in a version of Les Liaisons dangereuses directed by Josée Dayan. She starred in this production with Catherine Deneuve, Rupert Everett, Leelee Sobieski and Nastassja Kinski.

28 Acting Credits

Valentina Vargas

Acting

The Name of the Rose

The Big Blue

Hellraiser: Bloodline

Faces in the Crowd

Twin Sitters

Bloody Mallory

Street of No Return

Night Across the Street

Dangerous Liaisons

The Tigress

Johnny 100 Pesos: Chapter Two

Air America

Optical Illusions

Los náufragos

Mea culpa

Chili con carne

The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'

The Devil's Breath

The Big Blue Adventure

Southern Cross

Dirty Games

Strictement personnel

Fête de famille

Fuegos