María Izquierdo

Ana María Izquierdo Huneeus (Santiago, December 15, 1960), is an outstanding Chilean actress, director and screenwriter, considered by Chile to be the fourth best Chilean television actress of all time. He studied at the La Girouette School in Las Condes and later at the Theater School of the University of Chile. He graduated in 1980 and made his professional debut the following year in the Berlin work 1930, under the direction of Eugenio Guzmán. Then he participated in Alejandro Sieveking's La regienda, and in Alicia or the wonders he saw in the country, collective creation directed by Andrés Pérez. In 1983 he moved to the United States where he remained until the following year working at the American Repertory Theater in Boston, and with Bread and Puppet Theater in Vermont and New York. Back in Chile he participated in several productions: La comadre Lola, from Sieveking; The death of a traveling salesman, of Arthur Miller; The last train, by Gustavo Meza, with the theater Imagen; The three sisters, of Chekhov and Mala onda with the National Theater. In 1987 he was part of the Street Theater company, with which he acted in All these years, directed by Andrés Pérez. With this director he also worked in the formation of the Great Circus Theater the following year and participated in La negra Ester. That same year she was fired from TVN and therefore of the TV series in which she participated, My name is Lara playing the villain, all due to some unfortunate statements that the actress gave against the channel, at that time owned by the military government. After that, she traveled to the United States with her then husband, the actor Willy Semler, and they settled there. In that country, María had her two children, Julián and Martín. Together with his family he returned to Chile at the beginning of the 90s, when democracy returned definitively to the country. His return to television was in 1992 participating in the TV series Traps and masks as a French. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia