Francisca Gavilán

Francisca Gavilán graduated from the Theater School of Fernando González in 1994, with the play Madame de Sade, directed by Rodrigo Pérez. In this academy she was a student of Luz Jiménez, who has been one of her main artistic influences. She also counts as influences Tamara Acosta – who was her partner at theater school and on the cast of Los Pincheira and Papi Ricky – Amparo Noguera, and Paulina Urrutia. She has participated in several Chilean television series, beginning with Romané on Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN) and Piel canela on Canal 13, and then returning to TVN with more central roles in Puertas adentro, Los Pincheira, and Los Capo. In 2007 she returned to Canal 13 to play Andrea Kuntz on the series Papi Ricky, and in 2010 she played a small role on the series Los 80. In cinema she has acted in the films Monos con navaja (2000), Ulysses (2010), and in 2011 she was the protagonist of the Violeta Parra biopic Violeta Went to Heaven, directed by Andrés Wood. In Violeta Went to Heaven, Gavilán interpreted the songs of Parra sung in the movie. In 2016 she appeared on the program Puro Chile with La Regia Orquesta, where she performed songs by Parra and from the musical La negra Ester.