Julio Pelegrin Milostich Muñoz (born October 5, 1966) is a Chilean theater, film and television actor.

Julio Milostich
Milostich in 2009
Born
Julio Pelegrin Milostich Muñoz

(1966-10-05) October 5, 1966 (age 58)
OccupationActor
Years active1988–present

The cynical and morally antagonistic style of many of Milostich's characters and his condition as an unconventional heartthrob are some of the most memorable outstanding traits. Among his most remembered roles are his portrayal of General Bernardo O'Higgins in Héroes and as José Luis Echeñique, the protagonist of El señor de La Querencia for which he won many awards.[1][2]

Career

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Milostich was born in Punta Arenas on October 5, 1966. His father died quite young, so his mother, Magdalena Muñoz, took care of her family, made up of 5 siblings. He studied basic education at the E-20 school and continued his studies at the Liceo Salesiano San José, in Punta Arenas. Driven by the priests, in 1986 he emigrated to Santiago to study at the DRAN School of Dramatic Art

Milostich's first audition for a play was in 1988, to work on La batuta. Together with the actor and director Mateo Iribarren, he made a version of The Little Prince. Shortly afterwards, Milostich was invited to participate in Chronicle of a Death Foretold, where he met Alejandro Trejo, one of his great friends to this day, and whom he considers as his mentor. Together with him they formed the company La comarca.

Milostich's first television incursion was on TVN's Mea culpa, under the direction of Carlos Pinto.

In 2004 Milostich began to work on Channel 13, his first role in a television series being Manuel Doren for Hippie, where he arrived because the casting director of Channel 13 saw him acting in the play The Dark Shared Flight. Then he has been the permanent face of the television series of the first semester of Channel 13 in productions such as Brujas (2005), Descarado (2006), and Papi Ricky (2007).

However, Milostich's great leap came in 2007, when he played Bernardo O'Higgins in the miniseries Héroes de Canal 13, for which he was nominated for the Altazor Award in 2009. Director Ricardo Larraín, who was in charge of the project on Bernardo O'Higgins, says that he chose Milostich because of his physical resemblance to the hero. Milostich's performance of O'Higgins was considered masterful.[3]

Thanks to Milostich's performance in the telefilm, the director María Eugenia Rencoret noticed him and signed him for two years for the drama area of TVN. During 2008 he participated in the nightly telenovela of the same television station, El señor de La Querencia, where he played José Luis Echeñique, the owner of La Querencia and the telenovela's main antagonist. Although Milostich said that, "Playing the bad guy is a great challenge," he also claimed to be happy with his latest performance on television. Despite this, the stress and pressure of the character would eventually lead him to ask for a few weeks off on two occasions. Sigrid Alegría (Leonor in El Señor de La Querencia), declared that "after a very powerful year for him, a year with a character who taught him to know a threshold of emotions that was too high [...] Julio Milostich reached a limit". His deteriorating mental health and some legal problems kept him away from television for a while.[4][5][6]

Milostich finally returned to the stage in 2009 with the play El hombre de La Mancha at the Municipal Theater of Santiago, where together with the participation of Amaya Forch and the tenor Daniel Farias, he would interpret the idealist "Don Quixote". That same year he would participate as part of the cast of actors in the electoral strip for the presidential elections for the campaign of candidate Jorge Arrate. The work would be put on the billboard again in the same venue during the summer of 2010, within the framework of the Santiago a Mil Festival. He returned to Channel 13 in 2010 acting in the TV series Primera dama and in 2014 in the drama Secretos en el Jardín.[7]

In 2014, Milostich played Rodrigo Pérez de Uriondo, a Spanish captain who arrived at the Villarrica fort during the Arauco war between the Spanish and the Mapuches in the series Sitiados directed by Nicolás Acuña. He was accompanied among others in the cast such as Andrés Parra, Marimar Vega and Benjamín Vicuña. The series was released on Fox and on TVN, that year.

In 2019 Milostich starred in the drama Río Oscuro alongside Claudia Di Girolamo and Amparo Noguera on Channel 13. In the same year, he appeared on Gemelas de Chilevisión.[8]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Film Role Director
2015 Vacaciones en familia Juan Kelly Ricardo Carrasco
2016 Tierra Yerma Jorge Miriam Heard
Neruda Entrevistador de Radio Pablo Larraín
Un hombre interesado en la justicia Coronel Jaime Amunategui
2017 Libertad Sebastián Ariel Rafalowski
Nublado, cubierto y lluvia Alberto Fernando Solís
2018 Contra el demonio José Miguel Zúñiga
2019 Sumergida Andrés Finat
2020 Alto Hospicio Jorge Olguín
2023 Cacique mulato Jorge Grez]]

Telenovelas

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Year Telenovela Character Channel
2004 Hippie Manuel Doren Canal 13
2005 Brujas Fabián Mainardi
2006 Descarado Marco Antonio Ferrada
2007 Papi Ricky Renato del Río
2008 Viuda Alegre Alfonso Correa TVN
El señor de La Querencia José Luis Echeñique
2009–2010 Conde Vrolok Fraile Faustino Rengifo
2010 Primera Dama Leonardo Santander Canal 13
2013 Las Vega's Álvaro Sandoval
2013–2014 Secretos en el jardín Francisco O'Ryan
2016 Señores papis Eduardo Bachi (Lalo) Mega
2017 Verdades ocultas Pedro Mackenna
2019–2020 Gemelas Manuel Vázquez de Acuña Chilevision
2019 Río oscuro Juan Echeverría Canal 13
2023 Juego de ilusiones Julián Mardones / Guillermo Mardones Mega

TV Series

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Year Serie Character Channel
1994 Mea culpa Alfonso Salinas TVN
2003 La vida es una lotería Pablo
2004 Justicia para todos
2007 Héroes General Bernardo O'Higgins Canal 13
2008 Cárcel de Mujeres 2 Ricardo Cisternas TVN
2012 Vida por vida Doctor Álex Mackenna Canal 13
2015 Puerto Hambre Gobernador Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa UCV Televisión
Sitiados Capitán Rodrigo Pérez de Uriondo TVN/ Fox
2016 Bala loca General Esteban Larrondo Chilevisión
Neruda, la serie Locutor radial Mega
2017 Irreversible Aníbal Valenzuela Canal 13
2018 Mary & Mike Guillermo Chilevisión / Space

Theatre

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References

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  1. ^ publimetro. "Las dos caras de Julio Milostich". Publimetro (in European Spanish). Retrieved July 31, 2021.
  2. ^ "» Julio Milostich | Altazor – Premio a las Artes Nacionales". September 1, 2011. Archived from the original on September 1, 2011. Retrieved July 31, 2021.
  3. ^ Cooperativa.cl. "Julio Milostich: Estamos contentos de entregar una obra de arte como "Héroes"". Cooperativa.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved July 31, 2021.
  4. ^ "La Tercera – Madre y hermanos de Julio Milostich impactados por crisis emocional del actor". March 22, 2009. Archived from the original on March 22, 2009. Retrieved July 31, 2021.
  5. ^ "La Tercera – Julio Milostich: "Quiero ordenar mi vida"". May 25, 2009. Archived from the original on May 25, 2009. Retrieved July 31, 2021.
  6. ^ "La Tercera – Sigrid Alegría: "Julio Milostich llegó a un límite y ya no hay más. No hay corazón que aguante"". March 22, 2009. Archived from the original on March 22, 2009. Retrieved July 31, 2021.
  7. ^ "Terra – Julio Milostich alucina con su regreso al teatr – Entretención". April 14, 2009. Archived from the original on April 14, 2009. Retrieved July 31, 2021.
  8. ^ publimetro. "Las dos caras de Julio Milostich". Publimetro (in European Spanish). Retrieved July 31, 2021.