Valentina Vargas
Valentina Vargas is a Chilean actress. She began, and spent most of, her career working in France.
Biography
Vargas began her career in the dramatic arts by joining the workshop of Tania Balaschova in Paris and later at the Yves Pignot School in Los Angeles. Her cinematographic career started with the filming of three works in contemporary French cinema, specifically Pierre Jolivet's Strictly Personal, director Luc Besson's Big Blue and Jean-Jacques Annaud's The Name of the Rose. As the 1980s and 1990s continued, Vargas continued to work in film. She appeared in Samuel Fuller in Street of No Return, Miguel Littín in Los náufragos and Alfredo Arieta in Fuegos.Vargas is multilingual, speaking Spanish, French and English. This has enabled her to star in films as varied as the cinematic horror film Hellraiser: Bloodline where she played the demon Angelique, to the comedy Chili con carne of Thomas Gilou. She appeared opposite Jan Michael Vincent, Malcolm McDowell and Michael Ironside, and James Remar.
After her performance in the horror-comedy Bloody Mallory, where she played "the malicious one", she began playing roles for television as well as film. She appeared in a TV miniseries version of Les Liaisons dangereuses directed by Josée Dayan. She also starred in the production alongside Catherine Deneuve, Rupert Everett, Leelee Sobieski and Nastassja Kinski.
Filmography
- Strictement personnel as La masseuse
- The Name of the Rose as The Girl
- Fuegos as Margarita
- The Big Blue as Bonita
- Dirty Games as Nicola Kendra
- Street of No Return as Celia
- The Tigress as Tigress / Pauline
- The Devil's Breath
- Twin Sitters as Lolita
- The Shipwrecked as Isol
- Hellraiser: Bloodline as Peasant Girl / Angelique / Angelique Cenobite
- Southern Cross as Mariana Flores
- Chili con carne as Ines
- Bloody Mallory as Lady Valentine
- All Inclusive as Carmen
- Ilusiones ópticas as Rita
- Faces in the Crowd as Nina
- Night Across the Street as Nigilda
- Johnny 100 Pesos: Capítulo Dos as María Francisca
- The Four Altars as Doña Sofía
Television
- Le flair du petit docteur as Laure
- Piazza Navona as Perla
- Air America as Celia
- L'Été de Chloé as Agnès
- Un homme en colère as Laura
- Les Liaisons dangereuses as Emilie
- Le Caprice des cigognes as Anna
- Fête de famille as Monica
- Héroes as Sofía Linares