Luz Jiménez

Acting

Luz Jiménez

Born

1934-12-18 (91)

Place of birth

Santiago de Chile, Chile

Known for

Acting

Credits

44 titles

Luz Jiménez Ormeño is a Chilean actress, theater director, and teacher who gained recognition for her performances in the roles of Maruja in the play Tres Marías y una Rosa and Kiki Blanche in the telenovela Bellas y audaces.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 6 titles

BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths poster
6.8

A renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles, after being named the recipient of a prestigious international award, is compelled to return to his native country, unaware that this simple trip will push him to an existential limit.

BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

2022

The Exiles poster
6.6

A mother-daughter relationship is complicated by unprocessed grief and financial strife.

The Exiles

2025

My Brothers Dream Awake poster
5.1

Ángel and his brother Franco have been locked up in a juvenile detention centre for a year. Despite the hostility of the place, they form bonds with others inmates and daydream about the future.

My Brothers Dream Awake

2021

After Elena poster
NR

When a family's matriarch dies, four relatives are forced to confront decades of silence, resentment, and buried affection. Led by Alfredo Castro, this sharp ensemble balances humour and melancholy in a moving portrait of grief and reconciliation.

After Elena

2026

Desconectados poster
6.2

Victoria, a mother addicted to the internet and work, is completely disconnected from her two teenage children, Clara and Julián. Just when he is about to receive that long-awaited promotion, a solar storm leaves the entire world without internet, indefinitely. With her ex-husband stranded in another country, she is faced with the reality that she has to be a mother without the help of apps or the internet.

Desconectados

2022

Los anillos de la serpiente poster
4.5

Ana is a brilliant professor of forensic medicine who is preparing the next Chilean generation of doctors. She lives with her daughter Ursula, who has autism. One day, Ana’s name appears on TV, on a list of former agents of the dictatorship. Faced with harassment from her former colleagues and the police, Ana must protect what is most precious to her.

Los anillos de la serpiente

2020

2010s · 6 titles

The Dance of Reality poster
7.2

'Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.' This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life. He was born in 1929 Tocopilla, a coastal town on edge of the Chilean desert, where he discovered the fundamentals of reality, as he underwent an unhappy and alienated childhood as part of an uprooted family.

The Dance of Reality

2013

Gloria poster
6.6

Gloria is a 58-year-old divorcée. Her children have all left home but she has no desire to spend her days and nights alone. Determined to defy old age and loneliness, she rushes headlong into a whirl of singles’ parties on the hunt for instant gratification – which only leads to repeated disappointment and enduring emptiness. But when Gloria meets Rodolfo, an ex-naval officer seven years her senior, she begins to imagine the possibility of a permanent relationship.

Gloria

2013

The Life of Fish poster
5.7

At a house party, a handsome man wanders around catching up with friends he has not seen for some years. A travel writer now based in Berlin, Andre appears to be living an exciting international life, and yet... something has drawn him back home to Santiago. As the night goes on, we realize that a tragedy binds this group - an event that was also the impetus for Andre's departure from Chile years ago. Moreover, there is someone at the party he goes to great lengths to avoid. But she is the very person he most needs to see.

The Life of Fish

2010

My Father's Memory poster
7.0

After the death of his mother, a repressed tv writer is forced to take care of his father who is loosing his memory, obsessed with his wife is still alive and lost.

My Father's Memory

2017

The Painting Lesson poster
5.7

In Chile, during the 60´s, the son of a poor single teenage girl turns out to be a gifted painter. The man to discover his talent is the owner of the drugstore that lies in the outskirts of the small rural town, next to the railroad. He himself is an amateur painter who will try to make the boy into a great artist, like all the ones in his art books. From the pharmacists point of view in his old age, unfolds the story of this young boy who could have become a great art genius, had he not disappeared at the age of 13, along with all his works, on September 11th 1973, the day of the coupe d´état.

The Painting Lesson

2012

Reflejo actoral poster
NR

A group of Chilean actors reflect on their works when they see footage off their characters on film and TV.

Reflejo actoral

2019

Series credits

Mea culpa poster
6.9

Anthology series based on real criminal cases, featuring an interview with the actual perpetrator at the end of each episode.

Mea culpa

1993

El día menos pensado poster
8.4

Stories of paranormal activities and extraordinary nature -allegedly- based on real events.

El día menos pensado

1999

Los Pincheira poster
6.0

Four bandit siblings try to take revenge on the landowners who killed their father.

Los Pincheira

2004

Corazón de María poster
2.0

Miguel loses his wife Maria in a tragic car accident just hours after getting married. However, Maria's heart will continue to beat on another woman's body. The transplant that marks the death of María will also be synonymous of Elisa's new life.

Corazón de María

2007

Los 80 poster
8.0

The story of the Herreras, a middle-class family living in Santiago of Chile. The plot is set between 1982 and 1989, in the military dictatorship, and revolves around historical events during the 80's, especially the economic crisis of 1982 and the 8.0 magnitude earthquake in Santiago.

Los 80

2008

Pampa Ilusión poster
2.0

The exiled daughter of an English businessman returns home, in the midst of the class struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat in the Humberstone nitrate office, during the acute 1930s financial crisis.

Pampa Ilusión

2001

Romané poster
6.7

A caravan of gypsies arrives in Mejillones, Chile, to celebrate the marriage of their patriarch, without imagining that the unexpected arrival of his daughter after two decades, will revive a stormy past.

Romané

2000

Oro verde poster
6.3

An ambitious entrepreneur wants to cut down the forest of southern Chile, but a young ecologist girl will hinder their plans.

Oro verde

1997

La fiera poster
5.5

Catalina Chamorro, is a woman who rejects every wooer interested in her. The matter would not be important if it were not because, according to an old promise of love, Catalina's father, Pedro Chamorro, refuses to give his youngest daughter, Blanca, in marriage until his oldest daugher has married.

La fiera

1999

My Sad Dead poster
6.3

A reclusive doctor with supernatural abilities faces a disruption when her young niece visits, bringing a different and more intense approach to their shared gift of communicating with spirits.

My Sad Dead

2026

Manuel Rodríguez poster
NR

During the years of the Spanish Reconquest, Manuel Rodríguez is a wanted man in Chile. His head already has a price and he's considered a legend among many. But it's his love for Francisca, a noble woman, what will make him take all kinds of risks, regardless of the differences that separate them. From then on, Rodríguez will fight both for the freedom of his homeland and for the love of his life, Francisca.

Manuel Rodríguez

2010

Volver a empezar poster
NR

A writer returns to her motherland after many years in exile, and seeks to resolve pending conflicts with her son.

Volver a empezar

1991

Bellas y audaces poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bellas y audaces

1988

No artwork available
5.0

A painting unleashes the riddle of three women from different worlds and times but with the same face. How can this be?

La dama del balcón

1986

Chromosome 21 poster
7.8

When the police discover a man with Down syndrome hiding at a crime scene, they launch an investigation to determine whether he's a witness or a suspect.

Chromosome 21

2022

Huaiquimán y Tolosa poster
4.0

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.

Huaiquimán y Tolosa

2006

Los archivos del cardenal poster
2.0

Two young people from opposite social and political worlds will fight for a common cause: to clarify intricate and dangerous crimes of human rights violations during Pinochet's millitary dictatorship in Chile.

Los archivos del cardenal

2011

Heroes poster
10.0

Chilean TV miniseries. Each episode relates the history of one of the principal figures Chilean figures of the 19th century: Bernardo O'Higgins, José Miguel Carrera, Manuel Rodríguez, Diego Portales, José Manuel Balmaceda and Arturo Prat.

Heroes

2007

Corín Tellado: Mis mejores historias de amor poster
NR

Series based on Corín Tellado's "pink" novels. Romantic stories that take place in Modern times, portraying the prejudices and social pressures that both men and women have to endure.

Corín Tellado: Mis mejores historias de amor

1990

Zamudio poster
3.8

Based on a true story. The life and death of Daniel Zamudio, a young man who was brutally beaten in Parque San Borja of Santiago as part of a direct homophobic assault.

Zamudio

2015

La Quintrala poster
NR

Catalina de los Ríos y Lisperguer is a beautiful woman who captivated and intimidated men due to her extreme beauty and indomitable personality. Her nickname "La Quintrala" became a synonymous of fear at the time. The show goes deeper into all the differents facets of Catalina, from her affairs, the mistreatment of her employees, her revenges and her pacts with occult beings.

La Quintrala

1987

Marta a las ocho poster
10.0

A housemaid named Marta travels to Santiago, in search of better opportunities, convinced that in the capital she would find everything she expected.

Marta a las ocho

1985

Cárcel de mujeres poster
NR

Stories about women in prison. Their addictions, unresolved problems with the justice system and inner struggles.

Cárcel de mujeres

2007

Saint Teresa of the Andes poster
9.0

The story of the inspiring life of the new young Carmelite saint who lived in the 20th century, died at the age of just 19 years old, and was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1993. St. Teresa of Jesus of the Andes, known officially as "St. Teresa of the Andes", grew up in a close-knit, upper middle class Catholic family in Santiago, Chile, was very popular with her friends and relatives, entered Carmel at age 19, and died before her 20th birthday.

Saint Teresa of the Andes

1989

Crónica de un hombre santo poster
10.0

The life, work and death of the Chilean Jesuit priest and founder of "Hogar de Cristo" (Home of Christ), San Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga.

Crónica de un hombre santo

1990