Valentina Vargas
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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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 6.171 |
Birthday | 1964-12-31 |
Place of Birth | Santiago, Chile |
Also Known As | Valentine Vargas, |
1988
The Big Blue
7.5/1423
Two men answer the call of the ocean in this romantic fantasy-adventure. Jacques and Enzo are a pair of friends who have been close since childhood,...
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The Big Blue
1986
The Name of the Rose
7.5/2976
14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under my...
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The Name of the Rose
1996
Hellraiser: Bloodline
5.3/515
Three generations of the same family deal with the consequences of unleashing the forces of hell.
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Hellraiser: Bloodline
1993
The Devil's Breath
5.5/4
A small family of travelers arrives after a long journey at a village hut, which they claim as home. The family consists of Damian, a mute but skilled...
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The Devil's Breath
1985
Strictement personnel
5/1
The crimes and tragedies that tear apart one family seem overblown in the telling, yet this psychological drama about the miseries of one French polic...
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Strictement personnel
1999
Chili con carne
1.5/2
Living in perfect harmony with three former boy friends, three kids from these boy friends and her grand mother, Irène came to France from Chili twent...
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Chili con carne
1994
Twin Sitters
6.4/130
An evil business executive is releasing dangerous toxins and the Barbarian Brothers set out to stop his evil work.
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Twin Sitters
2011
Faces in the Crowd
6.1/481
A horror-thriller centered on a woman living with "face-blindness" after surviving a serial killer's attack. As she lives with her condition, one in w...
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Faces in the Crowd
1989
Street of No Return
5.5/14
A rock star-turned-bum, his vocal chords severed at the height of his career for the love of a woman, drunkenly roams the city, torn apart by sponsore...
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Street of No Return
2010
Optical Illusions
5.6/7
A blind man who recovers his sight after an operation finds his life in chaos when he is rejected by the community to which he once belonged.
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Optical Illusions
2012
Night Across the Street
6.3/15
A drama centered on an office worker on the verge of retirement who begins to relive both real and imagined memories.
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Night Across the Street
1999
Southern Cross
2/2
A mining businessman gets involved in crimes and murderers as he flees from another businessman who plans to dump nuclear waste illegally in abandoned...
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Southern Cross
1992
The Tigress
4.3/6
It's the roaring twenties in Berlin. The Tigress, a gorgeous, wild, and very independent street walker, falls for a handsome grifter. When one of her...
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The Tigress
The Four Altars
0/0
The intensity of Ana's life, a Spanish journalist, has reached its climax. On a trip to the Amazon that begins as an investigation into deforestation...
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The Four Altars
1987
Fuegos
0/0
The action takes place at the turn of the century in a remote village in South America. Drunkard and brutal, a father reigns over a world of women who...
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Fuegos
1989
Dirty Games
4/1
The beautiful daughter of a murdered scientist determines to apprehend her father's brutal killer at a nuclear waste site they're both inspecting as p...
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Dirty Games
2017
Johnny 100 Pesos: Chapter Two
5.8/7
After being twenty years in in jail, Johnny now a free man, must confront a heartless society and ensure that the son he never knew does not go down t...
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Johnny 100 Pesos: Chapter Two
2002
Bloody Mallory
4.875/32
Mallory is the head of an elite government-run strike force dedicated to combating the supernatural. Her team includes the drag queen Vena Cava, an ex...
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Bloody Mallory
1994
Los náufragos
4.6/5
After 20 years of exile, Aron returns to Chile to find out who he is. He asks questions, not only of those who stayed behind but also of himself, exam...
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Los náufragos
1986
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
8/2
A German TV documentary that chronicles the daily rehearsals, the filming and all the behind the scenes of Jean-Jacques Annaud's classic "The Name of...
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The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
2004
Le nom de la rose : Le documentaire
10/1
A documentary on the genesis, writing, shooting and analysis of the film "The Name of the Rose".
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