Manuela Martelli
Known For
Acting
Born
1983-04-16 in Santiago, Chile
Biography
Manuela Martelli is a Chilean actress and director At the young age of 18 and without previous studies of theater Manuela Martelli was chosen to star in the film B-Happy, by Gonzalo Justiniano. The film received excellent critics and immediately the actress became the revelation of the Chilean cinema, captivating to the national and international critic. For this work she drew attention at the Toronto Film Festival and then won the Coral Award for Best Actress at the Havana Film Festival, in addition to the Best Actress Award at the Washington Latin American Film Festival. Machuca, by Andrés Wood was his next movie where he showed that his striking debut was not a beginner's luck. For her role in Machuca Manuela Martelli received the award for best actress at the Viña del Mar Festival and the Altazor Prize, awarded by the Chilean actors' guild. His third film, Como Un Avión Estrellado by Argentine director Ezequiel Acuña is his first film outside of Chile. The beginning of her cinematographic career could have been even more active, but she chose to finish her art baccalaureate studies at the Catholic University of Chile and then pursue a theatrical acting career at the same university. In 2010 he started studying film in the United States thanks to the support of a Fullbright Scholarship and Scholarships Chile Description above from the Cinechile.cl article "Manuela Martelli"
Most Known For
De pé a pá
as Self
Feroz
as Amanda Carrera
Forgotten
Huaiquimán y Tolosa
as Sofía Santos
My Last Round
as Jennifer
Queso-Pimentón
as La mujer
Karma
as Margarita
Machuca
as Silvana
Cartas de mujer
as Leontina
The Good Life
as Paula
La canción de tu vida
as Isa
The Future
as Bianca
Overnight
as Laura
Vera De Verdad
as Clara
Two Shots Fired
as Lucía
Radio Corazón
as Berenice 'Nice' Riquelme
The Magnetic Tree
as Marianela
Up to the World
as Ana
Christmas
as Aurora
Sonetàula
as Maddalena Irde