Amaranta Kun
Amaranta Asiri Kun Radovic is an Italian-Peruvian actress established in Lima, Peru.
Life and career
Granddaughter of Natacha's and Simplemente Maria's actor and producer Vlado Radovich, she studied at the Franco-Peruvian School Lycée Franco-Péruvien, where she showed a vocation for stage arts since age five, acting and directing in school plays, improv groups, courses and workshops in theater, ballet and contemporary dance. At the age of 10 she was cast in the movie The Trial by Peruvian director Judith Vélez.Her first starring role was in the America Televisión's 2014 miniseries Camino al Triunfo, a TV show about the rise of Latin American lightweight boxing champion Jonathan Maicelo. After finishing production she moved to Lyon to study acting at the ENSATT under the direction of Philippe Delaigue. In 2016 she passed an audition to be a part of the Comédie Française as an academic actress where she performed in their world premiere for Pathé Live.
She currently resides in Peru, where she participates in several theatrical projects. In 2021, she became a founding member of A Mí No Me La Hacen, Peru's first media literacy association, providing workshops in schools, universities and institutes all around her country. In 2021, this association won a prize at UNESCO's Global MIL Awards.
Theatre
Comédie Française
Performances at the Comédie Française:- 2016: Luchino Visconti's The Damned by Ivo van Hove
- 2016: William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet by Éric Ruf
- 2016: Victor Hugo's Lucrèce Borgia by Denis Podalydès
- 2016: Molière's The Misanthrope by Clément Hervieu-Léger
- 2017: Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game by Christiane Jatahy
- 2017: Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Katharina Thalbach
- 2017: Georges Feydeau's L'Hôtel du libre échange by Isabelle Nanty
- 2017: Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac by Denis Podalydès
- 2017: Pierre de Marivaux's Double Inconstancy by Anne Kessler
- 2017: Robert Garnier's Hippolyte by Didier Sandre
As director
- 2022: Nuestros Cuerpos sin Memoria by Sarah Delaby-Rochette and Amaranta Kun for the Festival Temporada Alta
Other performances
- 2018: Molière's L'Amour médecin by Gérald Dumont
- 2022-2023: Molière's The Misanthrope by Jean Pierre Gamarra
- 2022: Joël Pommerat's Cendrillon by Gilbert Rouvière
- 2023: Oscar Wilde's Salome by Jean Pierre Gamarra
- 2023: Desbarranco by Claret Quea
- 2023: The Miser by Jean Pierre Gamarra
- 2024: One Life by Laurent Gutmann
- 2024: Tartuffe by Jean Pierre Gamarra
- 2024: Hamlet by Jean Pierre Gamarra
- 2024: The Solar System by Mariana De Althaus
- 2025: The Tenderness by Alfonso Santistevan
- 2025: The Threepenny Opera by Jean Pierre Gamarra
- 2025: The Barber of Seville by Jean Pierre Gamarra
- 2025: Cyrano de Bergerac by Jean Pierre Gamarra