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Paulina Urrutia
Paulina Urrutia
	2014
Minister of the National Council of Culture and the Arts of Chile
	In office; 11 March 2006 – 11 March 2010
President	Michelle Bachelet
Preceded by	José Weinstein
Succeeded by	Luciano Cruz-Coke
Personal details
Born	Paulina Marcela Urrutia Fernández; 15 January 1969 (age 55); Santiago, Chile
Spouse	Augusto Góngora
Alma mater	Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Occupation	Actress, politician

Paulina Marcela Urrutia Fernández (born 15 January 1969) is a Chilean actress, academic, director, trade union leader, and politician. She was a State Minister of the first government of President Michelle Bachelet.

Biography

Born into a middle-class family, Paulina Urrutia grew up in the San Miguel district of the Chilean capital. Her parents worked in public administration and separated when she was fifteen years old. She studied at the Company of Mary school on Seminario Street in the municipality of Providencia.

Her first introduction to theater was as a girl, in a school workshop. Later, after graduating from high school, she entered the discipline at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.^[1]

The exercise of her profession began very early. The first play in which she performed was Esperando la carroza, in 1987, under the direction of Raúl Osorio.^[2] Her career in television began in a Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN) series in 1989, thanks to an invitation from the producer Sonia Fuchs [es]. She played, with great success, Juanita Fernández Solar, who was later declared the first Chilean saint under the name Teresa of the Andes.^[3]

A year later she participated, also on TVN, in El milagro de vivir [es; El milagro de vivir (telenovela chilena)], her first telenovela. In 1994, after starring in the television series Jaque mate [es],^[3] she joined the Television Corporation of the Catholic University of Chile (UC TV), where she remained until 2002. A highlight of that period was her performance in Fuera de control [es], as Sarita Mellafe, considered by critics as one of the best villains seen on Chilean television.^[4]^[5] In 2003 she returned to TVN, appearing in the telenovela Puertas adentro [es], but would return to UC TV the following year, acting in Tentación [es] and Gatas y tuercas [es].^[6] Her film debut came in 1993, in the movie Johnny 100 Pesos by local filmmaker Gustavo Graef Marino.

Urrutia quickly became involved in the political world by actively participating in the Chilean Actors Union (Sidarte), becoming its general secretary and its president in 2001. During the first government of Michelle Bachelet, she was appointed president of the National Council of Culture and the Arts in 2006. This is equivalent to the position of culture minister in other countries.^[3]

Under her administration as minister, a set of reforms to intellectual property law was drafted and discussed. It was approved unanimously by the National Congress on 13 January 2010, and promulgated as Law No. 20,435 on 4 May of that year, during the government of Sebastián Piñera.^[7]

In May 2017 she assumed the direction of the Camilo Henríquez Theater, succeeding the playwright Ramón Griffero.^[1]^[8]

Urrutia was married to journalist, producer, and director Augusto Góngora, until his death in May 2023.^[9]^[10] Gongora had been diagnosed with Alzheimers disease since 2014. She has no children, but two step-children with him. Between 2018 and 2022 the Chilean film maker Maite Alberdi followed the couple in and outside their home to create a full-length documentary film, The Eternal Memory, showing how they coped with Góngora's illness in daily life. The film was awarded the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival^[11] and had its European premiere in the Panorama Section at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2023.^[12] On May 19, 2023, Gongora died.^[13]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Director
1993	Johnny 100 Pesos	Patty	Gustavo Graef-Marino
1996	El encierro	Olga	Marcelo Ferrari
1999	No tan lejos de Andrómeda	América	Juan Vicente Araya
2003	Carga vital	Engracia	Sebastián Campos
2004	Cachimba [es]	Lucy	Silvio Caiozzi
2004	Tendida, mirando las estrellas	Nieves	Andrés Racz
2006	Fuga	Macarena Sancho	Pablo Larraín
2007	La gravedad del púgil	Nancy	Jorge Mella
2016	Chameleon	Paulina	Jorge Riquelme Serrano
2021	A Place Called Dignity	First Lady	Matías Rojas Valencia
2023	The Eternal Memory	Herself	Maite Alberdi
2023	History and Geography		Bernardo Quesney

Telenovelas

Year	Title	Role	Channel
1988	Las dos caras del amor [es]	Luchita (joven)	TVN
1990	El milagro de vivir	Elcira Troncoso	TVN
1991	Volver a empezar [es]	Nancy Jara	TVN
1992	Trampas y caretas [es]	Doris Machuca	TVN
1993	Jaque mate [es]	Paula Quesney	TVN
1994	Champaña [es]	Marly González	Canal 13
1995	El amor está de moda	Soledad	Canal 13
1996	Marrón Glacé, el regreso [es]	Rosita Monarde	Canal 13
1997	Eclipse de luna	Luly	Canal 13
1998	Amándote [es]	Nelly Lobos	Canal 13
1999	Fuera de control	Sarita Mellafe	Canal 13
2000	Sabor a ti [es]	Lucero del Campo	Canal 13
2001	Piel canela [Piel canela]	María Conejo	Canal 13
2003	Puertas adentro [es]	Sofía Méndez	TVN
2004	Tentación	Dominga Jiménez	Canal 13
2005	Gatas & tuercas	Brenda Lillo	Canal 13
2017	Dime quién fue [es]	Eliana Bustos	TVN

TV series

Year	Title	Role	Channel
1989	Teresa de los Andes [es]	Juana Fernández del Solar	TVN
1990	Historias de Corín Tellado		TVN
2003	Cuentos de mujeres	Carla / Silvia	TVN
2005	Casados	Jessica López	Chilevisión
2006	JPT: Justicia para todos [es]		TVN
2011-2013	Prófugos	Adriana Bascuñán	HBO
2013	Ecos del desierto [es]	Inés de Rivera	Chilevisión
2014	Sudamerican Rockers [es]	Carmen Ríos	Chilevisión
2014	Pulseras rojas [es]	Dra. Patricia Andrade	TVN
2015	Juana Brava	Hilda Salgado	TVN
2017	12 días: Gran incendio en Valparaíso [es]	Madre de Jorge	Chilevisión
2018	Casa de Angeli		TVN

Theater

Esperando la carroza (1987), by Jacobo Langsner, Theater of the Catholic University of Chile, dir.: Raúl Osorio
El paseo de Buster Keaton (1988), assembly of three pieces by Federico García Lorca for the director Aldo Parodi, La Memoria Theater Company
La Tierra no es redonda (1989), staged by Alfredo Castro, based on El libro de Cristóbal Colón by Paul Claudel, La Memoria Theater Company
Historia de la sangre [es], by Alfredo Castro and Rodrigo Pérez [es], in the role of the girl in the pear tree, 1992, La Memoria Theater Company; re-release: 2010
Los días tuertos (1993), La Memoria Theater Company
El seductor (1996), by Benjamín Galemiri
La misión (1997), by Heiner Müller
Máquina Hamlet (1999), by Heiner Müller
Cinema-Uttopia (2000), by Ramón Griffero
Todos saben quién fue (2001), by Alejandro Moreno
Devastados (2002), by Sarah Kane, dir.: Alfredo Castro
La amante fascista, by Alejandro Chato Moreno, in the role of Iris Rojas, La Palabra Theater Company, 2010; Camilo Henríquez Theater, 2017, under the direction of Víctor Carrasco [es]
Tus deseos en fragmentos (2012), by Ramón Griffero, Fin de Siglo Theater
Prometeo, el origen (2015), by Ramón Griffero, Camilo Henríquez Theater
99 La Morgue (2017), by Ramón Griffero, directed by the author, Camilo Henríquez Theater

Music videos

Year	Title	Artist	Director
2017	"Para ser aceptada"	Martina Lecaros	Nano García

Awards

APES

1990, APES [es] Award for Best Television Actress for Volver a empezar [es]
1993, APES Award for Best Film Actress for Johnny 100 Pesos^[3]

Altazor

2000, Altazor Award in Audiovisual Arts as Best Television Actress for Fuera de control [es]
2003, Altazor Award in Performing Arts as Best Theater Actress for Devastados^[3]
2011, Altazor Award in Performing Arts as Best Theater Actress for La amante fascista^[14]

International Festival of Trieste, Italy

2007, Best Performance for the film Tendida, mirando las estrellas^[15]

Caleuche

2016, Caleuche Award for Best Supporting Actress in the series Sudamerican Rockers [es]^[16]

References

^ ^a ^b "Paulina Urrutia nueva Directora del Teatro Camilo Henríquez" [Paulina Urrutia New Director of the Camilo Henríquez Theater] (in Spanish). Círculo de Periodistas de Santiago. 4 May 2017. Archived from the original on 4 April 2018. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
^ "Trágica jornada" [Tragic Journey]. El Mercurio de Valparaíso (in Spanish). 21 September 2003. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Actriz liderará Cultura" [Actress Will Lead Culture]. El Mercurio de Valparaíso (in Spanish). 31 January 2006. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
^ "Las grandes villanas en nuestras teleseries" [The Greatest Villainesses in Our TV Series] (in Spanish). Fotech. 9 February 2009. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
^ Figueroa, Nicolás (13 November 2016). "Paulina Urrutia y la razón por la que nunca ha vuelto a ver el atípico final de 'Sarita Mellafe'" [Paula Urrutia and the Reason Why She Has Never Seen the Atypical Finale of 'Sarita Mellafe'] (in Spanish). Teletrece. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
^ "Paulina Urrutia vuelve a las teleseries tras 12 años de ausencia" [Paulina Urrutia Returns to the TV Series After 12 Years of Absence]. soychile.cl (in Spanish). 31 July 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
^ "Modifica la ley n° 17.336 sobre propiedad intelectual" [Modifies Law No. 17.336 on Intellectual Property] (in Spanish). Library of the Congress of Chile. 4 May 2010. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
^ Bahamondes, Pedro (5 May 2017). "Paulina Urrutia asume la dirección del Teatro Camilo Henríquez" [Paulina Urrutia Assumes the Direction of the Camilo Henríquez Theater]. La Tercera (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 April 2018.
^ Ahumada, C. (12 April 2017). "Augusto Góngora presenta su renuncia al directorio de TVN" [Augusto Góngora Presents His Resignation to the TVN Directorate]. El Mercurio (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 April 2018.
^ Qué pasa, Issues 1456-1459 (in Spanish). Segunda Editorial Portada. 1999. p. 286. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
^ "The Complete List of 2023 Sundance Film Festival Award Winners". festival.sundance.org. January 23, 2023. Retrieved February 21, 2023.
^ "The Eternal Memory". berlinale.de. Retrieved February 21, 2023.
^ T13 (2023-05-19). "Muere Augusto Góngora, reconocido periodista chileno, a los 71 años". www.t13.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-08-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ "Función gratuita obra 'La amante fascista' en Teatro San Joaquín" [Free Feature Play 'La amante fascista' at San Joaquín Theater]. El Mostrador (in Spanish). 25 October 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
^ "Festival de Trieste premia actuación 'intensa y profunda' de Paulina Urrutia" [Trieste Festival Awards 'Intense and Profound' Performance by Paulina Urrutia]. El Mercurio (in Spanish). Santiago. 12 November 2007. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
^ "Los ganadores de los Premios Caleuche 2016" [The Winners of the 2016 Caleuche Awards] (in Spanish). CNN Chile. 25 January 2016. Retrieved 3 April 2018.