Valentina Vargas

Valentina Vargas is a Chilean actress whose career has unfolded in France. Born in Santiago, she trained in Paris with the Tania Balaschova workshop and continued her studies at the Yves Pignot School in Los Angeles. Her screen appearances began in three French features: The Name of the Rose (1986), directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud; Big Blue (1988), from Luc Besson; and Strictly Personal (1985), by Pierre Jolivet. During the 1980s and 1990s she appeared in Samuel Fuller's Street of No Return (1989), Miguel Littín's Los náufragos (1994) and Alfredo Arieta's Fuegos. Speaking Spanish, French and English, she moved between genres, playing the demon Angelique in Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996) and taking comic work in Thomas Gilou's Chili con carne, as well as parts in Dirty Games, Southern Cross and The Tigress. In the horror comedy Bloody Mallory (2002) she portrayed a malicious figure, then added television to her film work, including a Les Liaisons dangereuses miniseries for director Josée Dayan.