Valentina Vargas (born December 31, 1964) is a Chilean-born actress.
She developed most of her career in France, where she was
raised.Vargas began her career in the dramatic art within the workshop
of Tania Balaschova in Paris and later at the Yves Pignot School in
Los Angeles. Her cinematographic career started with the filming of
three interesting works in contemporary French cinema, namely Pierre
Jolivet's Strictly Personal, Luc Besson's Big Blue and Jean-Jacques
Annaud's The Name of the Rose. Over the years, Vargas also worked with
Samuel Fuller in Street of No Return (1989), Miguel LittÃn in Los
náufragos (1994) and Alfredo Arieta in Fuegos.Vargas is trilingual in
Spanish, French and English. This has enabled her to pass without
notice in films as varied as the cinematic horror film Hellraiser:
Bloodline where she played the Cenobite Angelique, to the comedy Chili
con carne of Thomas Gilou. She appeared opposite Jan Michael Vincent
(Dirty Games), Malcolm McDowell and Michael Ironside (Southern Cross),
and James Remar (The Tigress).After her performance in Bloody Mallory,
where she played "the malicious one", she turned to playing roles for
television. Initially she played in a TV miniseries version of Les
Liaisons dangereuses directed by Josée Dayan. She starred in this
production with Catherine Deneuve, Rupert Everett, Leelee Sobieski and
Nastassja Kinski.
She developed most of her career in France, where she was
raised.Vargas began her career in the dramatic art within the workshop
of Tania Balaschova in Paris and later at the Yves Pignot School in
Los Angeles. Her cinematographic career started with the filming of
three interesting works in contemporary French cinema, namely Pierre
Jolivet's Strictly Personal, Luc Besson's Big Blue and Jean-Jacques
Annaud's The Name of the Rose. Over the years, Vargas also worked with
Samuel Fuller in Street of No Return (1989), Miguel LittÃn in Los
náufragos (1994) and Alfredo Arieta in Fuegos.Vargas is trilingual in
Spanish, French and English. This has enabled her to pass without
notice in films as varied as the cinematic horror film Hellraiser:
Bloodline where she played the Cenobite Angelique, to the comedy Chili
con carne of Thomas Gilou. She appeared opposite Jan Michael Vincent
(Dirty Games), Malcolm McDowell and Michael Ironside (Southern Cross),
and James Remar (The Tigress).After her performance in Bloody Mallory,
where she played "the malicious one", she turned to playing roles for
television. Initially she played in a TV miniseries version of Les
Liaisons dangereuses directed by Josée Dayan. She starred in this
production with Catherine Deneuve, Rupert Everett, Leelee Sobieski and
Nastassja Kinski.
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