Personal Info
Birth date
1968-01-09 (57 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Viña del Mar, Chile
Also known as
Catalina Saavedra Pérez
Catalina Saavedra
Biography
Catalina Saavedra is a Chilean actress. She is known to international audiences for her numerous collaborations with filmmaker Sebastián Silva. She has also appeared in films such as Ema, Problemista and Young & Wild.
Filmography
Mentiras verdaderas
5.5
Overview:
Daily interviews discussing the guest's personal lives and national contingency.Mea culpa
5
Overview:
Anthology series based on real criminal cases, featuring an interview with the actual perpetrator at the end of each episode.Los Espookys
6.3
Overview:
A group of friends turn their love for horror into a peculiar business, providing horror to those who need it, in a dreamy Latin American country where the strange and eerie are just part of daily life.Enigma
2
Overview:
Anthology series based on true crime stories that usually are unsolved mysteries. Intertwining dramatizations and real interviews with the victims and witnesses.Matriarcas
6
Overview:
Diana, the widow of an Arab millionaire must share her home with all the women related to latter's life, including her monarchist mother Isabelle, her envious sister Letizia, her two nieces Leonor and Amalia, her employee and a cute kinesiologist.Problemista
6.9
Overview:
Alejandro is an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador, struggling to bring his unusual ideas to life in New York City. As time on his work visa runs out, a job assisting an erratic art-world outcast becomes his only hope to stay in the country and realize his dream.Ema
6.748
Overview:
Ema is a magnetic and impulsive dancer in a reggaeton troupe. Her toxic marriage to choreographer Gastón is beyond repair, following a decision to give up on their adopted child Polo. She sets out on a mission to get him back, not caring who she’ll need to fight, seduce or destroy to make it happen.Young and Wild
6.3
Overview:
Daniela, raised in the bosom of a strict Evangelical family and recently unmasked as a fornicator by her shocked parents, struggles to find her own path to spiritual harmony.Playa salvaje
2
Overview:
Mariano Acuña is a widowed commercial pilot, father of a small daughter, who is torn between the love of Javiera Huidobro, an executive of a prestigious record company called Orbital Records and Deborah Meneses. a carefree young woman who resembles his wife in more than one way...La otra cara del espejo
2
Overview:
Anthology horror series that dives into urban myths, regional fears, mysteries and paranormal events. Tales full of terror, suspense and sensuality.The Practice
7
Overview:
Dealing with a series of increasingly absurd situations and relationships, recently separated yoga instructors Gustavo and Vanesa are finding it difficult to live apart. Their challenges include meddling mothers, amnesiac students, and burgeoning romances. Step by step, they find their way back to the practice.Old Cats
4.7
Overview:
Isidora, an old woman, discovers that her mind is quickly deteriorating. At an apparently relaxed dinner table, she will desperately try to hide her state from her daughter, a demanding woman who awaits any sign of senility in order to take way everything she has.El cuento del tío
2
Overview:
Stories about scamming and crime in Chile's big city. All of them based on real events.Rotting in the Sun
6.678
Overview:
A filmmaker facing an existential crisis goes on a vacation to a Mexican gay nudist beach, where he meets a social media celebrity who convinces him to collaborate with him on his new TV show. But one disappears and another embarks on a wild journey through Mexico City to find him.Piel canela
2
Overview:
Marcela has written a susseful tv series based around the personal lives of the people in her appartment building. Now she must prevent everybody in there to watch itAtacama's 33
7.9
Overview:
A team of Chilean miners are trapped underground for months and hold out for a miraculous rescue.Bala Loca
6
Overview:
A veteran journalist starting a news site about corruption in Chile stumbles on a big story when a fellow investigative reporter dies suspiciously.The Maid
6.747
Overview:
Raquel has been the live-in housekeeper for a kind, reasonably wealthy family for half her life, and the joyless repetition of the job has begun to take its toll. Increasingly dependent on painkillers, Raquel resorts to pranks and childish avoidance to antagonize the family’s college-age daughter and a procession of new servants, all in the hopes of protecting her precarious power within the home. Her antics successfully push everyone away, until new maid Lucy actually pushes back.Caravan of Death
NYR
Overview:
Carmen spends 40 years of her life seeking for justice after the murder of her husband.Huaiquimán y Tolosa
4
Overview:
A pair of private detectives solve crimes and protect the Patronato district in Santiago, the most important commercial district of immigrants in Chile, facing dangerous mobsters and criminals.Los Galindo
2
Overview:
The life of a family from a working-class neighborhood, that after the success of their car wash business, they move to an apartment in the wealthiest neighborhood in the country.La vida de nosotras
2
Overview:
Sixteen real stories of women who have been victims and survivors of male violence.31 Minutos, la película
7.179
Overview:
The rag-tag crew of world famous TV news show 31 Minutos goes into the sea to a mystery island to rescue their beloved producer Juanin Juan Harry.Neruda: The Fugitive
6.2
Overview:
The 1948 speech called "Yo Acuso" resulted in Pablo Neruda going under hiding for 13 months and the police searching intensively for him.Amor a domicilio
2
Overview:
The adventures and misadventures of the young people who work in a Pizza Shop as deliverymen. Those in charge of making this pizza place work are idealists and dreamers, but from different worlds and opposite personalities, which will make their work and personal relationships constantly clash.The Dancer and the Thief
5.6
Overview:
Present day. Chile. Legendary bank robber Vergara Grey is getting out of prison after 5 long years and is looking forward to a quiet, uneventful life together with his wife and son whom oddly he hasn't heard from in years. But soon his resolve is tested when he meets 19 year old Angel a young thief who insists the two join up to score the biggest heist of all time. Though tempted, he resists until he finds out that his beloved wife has gone off with a millionaire and his son wants to change his last name. Then Victoria, a graceful and mysteriously mute dancer living in a conservatory, steps into the picture. She captivates Vergara and Angel, as well as all others that cross her path, drastically changing their lives.Acting
TBADecorous Woman as Unknown
2025The True Story Of People In The Dragon as Maca
2025Almost Graduated as Carolina
2024The Practice as Therapist
2024History and Geography as Atenea Martínez
2024Problemista as Dolores
2023Diablada as Rosaura Meneses
2023Rotting in the Sun as Señora Vero
2023Run Over as Unknown
2023La vida de nosotras (1 Episode) as Nancy Cortez
2022El castigo as Unknown
2021La mirada incendiada as Valentina
2020Crisis as Edith
2020Helga y Flora (10 Episodes) as Flora Gutiérrez
2020La Mamita as Unknown
2019On My Own as Margarita
2019Ema as Marcela
2019Los Espookys (1 Episode) as Bárbara
2018Casa de Angelis (10 Episodes) as Mirta
2018Marilyn as Olga
2017Un día cualquiera as Danisa
2017Una historia necesaria (1 Episode) as Ana González
2017Little White Lie as Leontina
2016And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow's Eye as Rosa
2016Bala Loca (10 Episodes) as Patricia Fuenzalida
2016Mirage of Love as Unknown
2015What We Never Said as Unknown
2015The Simple Things as Penélope
2015The Retiree as Gina
2015Matriarcas (141 Episodes) as Cony Ríos
2015The Mud Woman as María
2014Natural Disasters as Valentina
2014No Control in a Random World as School Principal
2014Neruda: The Fugitive as Valparaiso Seamstress
2014(09) as Unknown
2013The Magnetic Tree as Carla
2013Caravan of Death (4 Episodes) as Marta Bertoni
2013The Quispe Girls as Lucía Quispe
2013Dog Flesh as Factory Worker
2013The Passion of Michelangelo as Irma
2012Caleuche: The Call of the Sea as Aurora
2012Bahía azul as Unknown
2012Isidora as Unknown
2012Young and Wild as Converted Woman
2012The Painting Lesson as Leontina
2011Mentiras verdaderas (4 Episodes) as Self
2011Quiero entrar as Unknown
2011Atacama's 33 as Sister
2010Volver a mí (10 Episodes) as Julia
2010Old Cats as Hugo
2010Un nuevo baile as Unknown
2009The Dancer and the Thief as Ángel's Mother
2009The Maid as Raquel
2008Secrets as Unknown
2008I Love You Mum as Carmen
200831 Minutos, la película as Cachirula (voice)
2008Chile Can Do It as Magda
2007Normal con alas as Carmen Cecilia Salfate
2007Life Kills Me as Chabela
2006Huaiquimán y Tolosa (1 Episode) as Josefa
2005Los Galindo (1 Episode) as Susana Flores
2004El cuento del tío (1 Episode) as Ely
2004Loco por ti (1 Episode) as Bank Executive
2004Geografía del deseo (8 Episodes) as Marisa Robles
2004La Perra as Unknown
2003No Place in Anywhere as Unknown
2001Piel canela (69 Episodes) as Talula Vargas
2001Enigma (1 Episode) as Irene
2000La otra cara del espejo (1 Episode) as Unknown
2000Sabor a ti (10 Episodes) as Virginia Solano
1997Playa salvaje (105 Episodes) as Susana Cáceres
1996Adrenalina (103 Episodes) as María Raquel Trujillo
1995Amor a domicilio (104 Episodes) as Brígida Gómez
1994Hasta en las mejores familias as Jessica
1993Mea culpa (1 Episode) as Verónica
Production
2024Someday the roots ... Producer