Paulina García

Paulina García Alfonso, better known as Pali García, is a Chilean actress, stage director, and playwright.
García debuted on television with a small role in the telenovela Los títeres, but she was soon known for her theatre direction and for her various performances in films such as Tres noches de un sábado, Cachimba, Casa de remolienda and Gloria.
García has received four nominations for the Altazor Awards, winning on one occasion, and three for the APES Awards — the Chilean Arts and Entertainment Critics Awards—winning twice. In February 2013 she won the prestigious Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival for her performance in the movie Gloria, directed by Sebastián Lelio. In 2016, she appeared in Ira Sachs' film, Little Men.

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Biography

Born in Santiago, García studied acting at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, where she graduated with a degree in theatre arts and later with diplomas in theatre direction and writing.
García made her debut at Catholic University's theatre in 1983 in ¿Dónde estará la Jeanette? by Luis Rivano, a work for which she received an APES Award for best actress. Since then, she has acted in over thirty productions including Cariño malo, by Inés Margarita Stranger, El tío Vania, by Chekhov, The Trojan Women, by Euripides, El lugar común, Las analfabetas and BBB-Up.
The year following her theatre debut, García appeared on television as Adriana Godán in the TV series Los títeres, a role she shared with actress Gloria Münchmeyer.
The first work she directed was El continente negro by Marco Antonio de la Parra for which she received an APES Award nomination for best director in 1996. A grant from the National Arts Development Fund allowed for the financing of productions such as Lucrecia y Judith by the same author, and Look Back in Anger by John Osborne. She has also directed at national theatre festivals on three occasions, directing works by authors such as Alberto Fuguet and Celeste Gómez.
García has taught acting at the theatre school of the University of Chile, at Fernando González night school, at the University for the Arts, Sciences, and Communication and the University for Development. Between 1997 and 2001, she founded and formed a part of the Theatre Directors Association.
In television, of note is her performance in Cárcel de Mujeres as Raquel, a role for which García received both an APES Award and the Altazor Award for best actress.
In 2002, García received an Andes Foundation grant to undertake research on conjugal violence, Golpes extraños al amor, which led to the work Peso negro, selected for the Unipersonales de Galpón 7 Festival, and Frágil, a work presented at Matucana 100 Cultural Center under her direction.
In film, García debuted in the 2002 movie Tres noches de un sábado by Joaquín Eyzaguirre, receiving a nomination for the Altazor Awards for her interpretation of the character Mathilde. She also appeared in the 2004 film Cachimba by Silvio Caiozzi, in Casa de remolienda by Eyzaguirre in 2007, and in Gloria, by Sebastián Lelio, for which she received the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	Los títeres	Adriana Godán
1986	La villa	Eliana "Eli"
1987	La invitación	Laura del Solar
1989	A la sombra del ángel	Edith
1989	Los Venegas	Jefa de Guillermo	Televised series
1990	El milagro de vivir	María Pía Santillán
2003	JPT: Justicia Para Todos	Catalina	Episode: "Tráfico de órganos"
2006	Huaiquimán y Tolosa	Doña Berta	Episode: "¿La mafia rusa?"
2007	Héroes	María Encarnación de Fernández y Palazuelos	Episode: "Portales, la fuerza de los hechos"
2007–08	Cárcel de Mujeres	Raquel "La Raco" Reina	Winner—Altazor Awards
2010	Los simuladores	Marcela	Episode: "El secreto de Marcela"
2011	Los archivos del cardenal	Mónica Spencer
2015	Narcos	Hermilda Gaviria
2018	Matar al padre	Isabel

Theatre

Actress

¿Dónde estará la Jeanette?, comedy by Luis RivanoCariño malo, by Inés Stranger; dir.: Claudia Echenique; 1990; 2012Malasangre, dir.: Mauricio Celedón, 1991El tío Vania, by Anton Chekhov; dir.: Raúl Osorio, 1994El lugar comúnInocencia, by Dea Loher; dir.: Luis Ureta; Muestra de Dramaturgia Europea, 2004En la Sangre, by Suzan-Lori Parks; dir.: Carlos Osorio; interprets Hester, a beggar; Centro Cultural Matucana 100, 2004Déjala sangrar, by Benjamín Galemiri, dir.: Adel Hakim; interprets Virna Vigo; 2005El último fuego, by Dea Loer; dir.: Luis Ureta; April 2009Gertrudis, el grito, by Howard Barker, dir.: Marcos Guzmán; 9th Festival of Contemporary European Theatre in Santiago, August 2009Las analfabetas, by Pablo Paredes, 2010Fábula del niño y los animales que se mueren, free version of Euripides The Trojan Women by Pablo Paredes; dir.: Isidora Stevenson; García interprets queen Hecuba; La Nacional company in Matucana 100, 6–15 January 2012

Director

El continente negro, by Marco Antonio de la Parra; 1996Lucrecia y Judith, by Marco Antonio de la ParraRecordando con ira, by John Osborne Anhelo del corazón, by Caryl Churchill ; Muestra de Dramaturgia Europea, 2004El neoproceso, work by Benjamín Galemiri inspired by Kafka, premiere: 15 July 2006La gran noche, by Marcelo Simonetti; premiere: 28 May 2008, Centro Mori in VitacuraApoteosis final: BBB up, Santiago a Mil, January 2009Orates, by Jaime Lorca; premiere: 4 November 2010La mantis religiosa, by Alejandro Sieveking, La Palomera theatre, premiere: 9 June 2011Cerca de Moscú, adaptation by Pablo Paredes of two pieces by Chekhov: Platonov and Ivanov; Santiago a Mil International Festival 2013

Playwright

Peso negroFrágil, 2002; premiered and directed by García in 2003.

Awards and nominations

Altazor Awards

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
2003	Best Actress	Film	Tres noches de un sábado	Nomitated
2005	Best Actress	Theatre	En la Sangre	Won
2008	Best Actress	Television	Cárcel de Mujeres	Won
2009	Best Actress	Television	Cárcel de Mujeres 2	Nomitated

Platino Awards

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
2014	Best Actress	Film	Gloria	Won