Daniela Elizabeth Ramírez Rodríguez (born 11 January 1987) is a Chilean film, theater and television actress. She starred in the series Los archivos del cardenal, for which she won an Altazor Award for best television actress, and also has performed as Isabel Allende in the biographical series Isabel (2021). She also starred on telenovelas such as Esperanza (2011) and Amanda (2016).

Daniela Ramírez
Ramírez in 2013
Born
Daniela Elizabeth Ramírez Rodríguez

(1987-01-11) January 11, 1987 (age 37)
Santiago, Chile
OccupationActor
Years active2011–present

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Daniela Ramírez was born in Santiago de Chile. She is the youngest of three siblings. At 16 she was a mother and she had Martín, her first and only child to date. He completed his secondary studies at the Centennial School of Maipú and graduated from acting at the ARCIS University in 2009. During the school period he made the montage "I am not killing anyone" with the company Teatro Malcriado, in which he gains recognition as best actress at the La Casa Theater School performance festival. In 2008 she participated in the European Dramaturgy Show in the City of Concepción, with the text "El padre" by Heiner Muller, directed by Cristian Torres and Francisco Albornoz. In the first semester of 2010, she is a collaborating professor at ARCIS University in the field of theater acting.

She started acting at the age of 14 when she read an ad in the newspaper where they were looking for young people from the age of 15 who wanted to participate in children's plays. She went to the casting and stayed, although she was always afraid that they would find out that she was a year younger. Finally, she stayed there until she was 18 years old. At that time, she already belonged to the theater workshops of the Centennial School of Maipú, where she lived almost her entire life.[1]

It was precisely during her university days that she met Rodrigo Suzarte, her film teacher and director of the series Gen Mishima (TVN). He invited her to participate in some synopses of her films and it was that material of her that she saw the production of Los archivos del cardenal. Thanks to that, she was called to appear at the casting.

In July 2011, Ramírez made his debut on the state network TVN in the series Los archivos del cardenal, under the direction of Nicolás Acuña. It is centered on the years of the military dictatorship, where she is the protagonist, playing Laura Pedregal, a young social worker who works in the Vicariate of Solidarity to fight for the injustice that existed in the country.

Later, in August 2011, she starred in the TVN telenovela, Esperanza, winner of a fund from the National Television Council and the first Chilean telenovela to air in the afternoon, where she played a young Peruvian who comes to work as a domestic worker in a house in the upper neighborhood of Santiago, where her boss (Álvaro Escobar) is, without knowing it, the man with whom she had an affair 11 years ago in her homeland and from whom a son of the that he is unaware of its existence.

She participated in the film La Jubilada directed by Jairo Boisier.

In October, Ramírez also played Abigaíl Williams, the problematic protagonist of Las brujas de Salem, and with that role the actress who graduated from Arcis led the cast composed of Francisco Melo, Tomás Vidiella, Paola Volpato and Jaime McManus, in the theatrical bet of the production company Fiebre.

After having starred in Esperanza, Daniela Ramírez would continue in the telenovelas, continuing in Separados, a project that meant her debut in the nighttime soap operas of TVN.

In 2012, she was the protagonist of director Jorge Durán's film (Prohibido prohibir, 2006), which is tentatively named Police Romance, a Brazilian co-production thriller whose main setting is San Pedro de Atacama.[2]

In September 2012, she starred in singer Mika's music video, "Origin of love," which was directed by Chilean director Cristián Jiménez and shot in Santiago and Valparaíso.

Later, she was confirmed for the second season of the HBO series Prófugos as the love interest of the main character who is played by Benjamín Vicuña. In 2013, Daniela Ramírez left TVN and negotiated with Channel 13, however, she asks to be linked to the public channel, asking for permission to record the second season of Los archivos del cardenal on TVN.

In 2016 she emigrated to Mega starring in the daytime telenovela called Amanda, which turned out to be a complete success and with the final episode setting unprecedented ratings for a daytime telenovela in Chile.

In 2019, and after the success of Amanda, she signed again with the AGTV Producciones production company, which this time, made productions for Channel 13, where she was the main protagonist for the new evening directed by Vicente Sabatini, Amor a la Catalán.[3]

In 2021 she starred in the Amazon Prime biographic series Isabel, about Chilean writer Isabel Allende.[4][5]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Director
2009 La Ñoko
2012 La Jubilada Jairo Boisier
2014 Romance policial Florencia Jorge Durán
Hijo de Trauco Aurelia Alan Fischer
Olvidados Sofía Carlos Bolado
Aurora Jimena Rodrigo Sepúlveda
Allende en su laberinto Miguel Littín
2015 El botón de nácar Patricio Guzmán
En la gama de los grises Soledad Claudio Marcone
Inside the Mind of a Psychopath Journalist Alejandro Torres
La prima luce Vincenzo Marra
2016 Madre Diana
2017 Crisis Ofelia
2017 Un dia cualquiera Constanza
2017 Ausencia Carmen Arriagada Claudio Marcone
2018 Swing Camila
2018 Enigma Actriz recreación Laura Ignacio Juricic Merillán
2020 Matar a Pinochet Juan Ignacio Sabatini
2020 Detrás de la lluvia Valeria Sarmiento
2022 Blanquita Fernando Guzzoni

Television

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Television roles
Year Title Character Role
2011–2012 Esperanza Esperanza Reyes Main role
2011–2014 Los archivos del cardenal Laura Pedregal Main role
2012–2013 Separados Amanda Valenzuela Supporting role
2013 Prófugos Rocío 3 episodes
2013–2014 Secretos en el jardín Sofía Ventura Main cast
2014 La canción de tu vida Camila Lorca Episode: "Un amor violento"
2014 Los 80 Sybilla 7 episodes
2015 La poseída Micaela Rojas Supporting role
2016–2017 Amanda Amanda Solís Main role
2018–2019 Casa de muñecos Alejandra Falco Main cast
2019 Berko, el arte de callar Divina Day Main role
2019–2020 Amor a la Catalán Dafne Catalán Main role
2020 Inés del alma mía Marina de Valdívia 2 episodes
2021 Demente Valentina Spencer Supporting role
2021 Isabel Isabel Allende Main role
2022 La ley de Baltazar Antonia Rodríguez Main role
2024 Secretos de familia Elena Valdés Main role

Music videos

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Year Title Director Artist(s)
2012 «Trampas para oso» Jorge Riquelme Serrano Mowat
2012 «Origin of Love» Cristián Jiménez Mika
2014 «Medusa» Riff Producciones Manuel García
2017 «Amor de Madrugada» Hermanos Ibarra Roa Villa Cariño

References

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  1. ^ "Las 10 cosas que no sabes de mi… Daniela Ramírez – Biut.cl". Biut (in Spanish). 13 March 2013. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Daniela Ramírez". Cinechile (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  3. ^ Cooperativa.cl. "Daniela Ramírez se suma como protagonista de teleserie nocturna de Canal 13". Cooperativa.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  4. ^ Clarín.com (1 June 2021). "¿Quién es Daniela Ramírez, la actriz elegida para encarnar a Isabel Allende?". www.clarin.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  5. ^ S.A.P, El Mercurio (1 June 2021). "Daniela Ramírez, protagonista de "Isabel": "Imagínate qué atractivo para una actriz que te digan 'vas a ser Isabel Allende'" | Emol.com". Emol (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 July 2021.
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