Luz Valdivieso


Luz María Valdivieso Ovalle is a Chilean actress.

Early life

Luz María Valdivieso Ovalle was born in Santiago, Chile. She went to study at Colegio Institución Teresiana and later entered the University of Chile to study psychology for two years. While at the university she realized that she wanted a career in acting. She put her career on hold to try her luck at the School of Teatro de Gustavo Meza and by the end of the first year of theater, she decided to stay there.

Television career

Her first telenovela was in Piel Canela, as Anita Moreno. Next she played her first antagonistic role, Estefania, in the telenovela Buen Partido, alongside Cristián Arriagada, a complicated moment for the drama division of Channel 13.
Later TVN asked for her to join the new telenovela Juvenil 16, where she played an impulsive girl named Alejandra.
After Juvenil 16, she joined the cast of the first night-time telenovela Ídolos, where she played a young rebel named Natalia Medina. It involved a love conflict with her father, played by Eduardo Barril, and her best friend. Her acting skills brought her much attention. Following Ídolos, she joined the cast of Juvenil 17 y later, the second night-time telenovela Los Treinta playing Simona, a married woman who decides to leave her husband and her son in order to regain her liberty.
Her notoriety gained here a role in a major telenovela on TVN named Versus, playing her second antagonistic role as Vanesa Carrera, a young girl who fights for the love of Octavio Cox.
She went on to make special appearances in the night-time series Disparejas as Javiera, a woman who represents Francisco Pérez-Bannen.

Movie career

Valdivieso's first film role came in 2004 in a film called No me toques, along with Carmen Gloria Bresky, Sebastian Layseca, Francisca Lewin, Juan Pablo Ogalde and Benjamín Vicuña; under the direction of Mauro Bravo.
Her second film role came in La remolienda which was released in 2007.

Personal life

She is married to Marcial Tagle, who acts in the series Casado con Hijos on MEGA.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
2001Piel CanelaAna MorenoSoap Opera
2002Buen PartidoEstefanía RobertsSoap Opera
200316Alejandra MorettiTelevision series
2004ÍdolosNatalia MedinaSoap Opera
200517Alejandra MorettiTelevision series
2005Los TreintaSimona BórquezSoap Opera
2005VersusVanessa CarreraSoap Opera
2006DisparejasJavieraSoap Opera
2006Tiempo FinalCynthiaTelevision series
2006FloribellaAgustina SantillanSoap Opera
2007Alguien Te MiraTatiana WoodSoap Opera
2007Amor por AccidenteAdriana CicarelliSoap Opera
2009Los Exitosos PellsSol CostaSoap Opera
2009Conde VrolokMontserrat BatistaSoap Opera
2010La Familia de al ladoIgnacia FabresSoap Opera
2012Reserva de FamiliaLucía RiveraSoap Opera
2013SeparadosCarolina CavadaSoap Opera
2014El Amor Lo Manejo YoLaura GreenSoap Opera
2014No abras la puertaIsabel TobarSoap Opera

Theater