Patricio Contreras (Santiago, December 15, 1947) is a
Chilean-Argentine television, film and stage actor.Contreras was born
in Santiago, Chile in 1947 and emigrated to neighboring Argentina
following the 1973 coup d'état against left-wing President Salvador
Allende, of whom Contreras was a vocal supporter. He was shortly
afterwards cast in a number of minor Argentine cinema roles, notable
among them a part in Adolfo Aristarain's 1978 crime thriller, La parte
del león (The Lion's Share).He married an up-and-coming Argentine
actress, Leonor Manso, in 1981, and in 1983, he was given his first
significant film role as the treacherous Sergeant Comini in
Aristarain's Funny Dirty Little War. Contreras then gave what became
perhaps his best-known performance as the targeted Professor BenÃtez
in the Oscar-winning The Official Story (1985), for which he was
awarded a Silver Condor. This was followed a leading role in Juan
José Jusid's emotional look at exile, Made in Argentina (1986), which
earned Contreras a Havana Film Festival Best Actor Award.He appeared
next to Gregory Peck and Jane Fonda in the 1989 movie Old Gringo.
Chilean-Argentine television, film and stage actor.Contreras was born
in Santiago, Chile in 1947 and emigrated to neighboring Argentina
following the 1973 coup d'état against left-wing President Salvador
Allende, of whom Contreras was a vocal supporter. He was shortly
afterwards cast in a number of minor Argentine cinema roles, notable
among them a part in Adolfo Aristarain's 1978 crime thriller, La parte
del león (The Lion's Share).He married an up-and-coming Argentine
actress, Leonor Manso, in 1981, and in 1983, he was given his first
significant film role as the treacherous Sergeant Comini in
Aristarain's Funny Dirty Little War. Contreras then gave what became
perhaps his best-known performance as the targeted Professor BenÃtez
in the Oscar-winning The Official Story (1985), for which he was
awarded a Silver Condor. This was followed a leading role in Juan
José Jusid's emotional look at exile, Made in Argentina (1986), which
earned Contreras a Havana Film Festival Best Actor Award.He appeared
next to Gregory Peck and Jane Fonda in the 1989 movie Old Gringo.
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