Tatiana Astengo

Acting

Tatiana Astengo

Born 1967-06-07 · Lima, Peru

Tatiana Astengo (born June 7, 1967) is a Peruvian actress. She studied Communication Sciences at the University of San Martín de Porres and began her career as a dancer and singer in the 1980s. She made her film debut in Captain Pantoja and the Special Services (1999), a role that catapulted her to fame. She has appeared in various television series in Peru and Spain, including Al fondo hay sitio (2011-2016) and De vuelta al barrio (2018-2019). Astengo has also worked in theatre and has received awards for her performances in cinema. She has had a versatile career, excelling in different media and genres.

Acting credits

Animales de compañía poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Animales de compañía

2009

Queens poster
7.4

Surrounded by social and political chaos in Lima during the summer of 1992, Lucia, Aurora, and their mother, Elena, plan to leave and seek opportunities in the United States. Their farewell involves reconnecting with their estranged father, Carlos, adding turbulence to the regrets, hopes, and fears of their emotional departure.

Queens

2024

Redención poster
NR

Obsessed with having a child, a couple devoted to a religious cult decides to bring a pregnant young woman, into their home until the baby is born, intending to adopt the child afterwards.

Redención

2023

Undertow poster
7.3

A married fisherman struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his town's rigid traditions.

Undertow

2009

Captain Pantoja and the Special Services poster
7.2

The Peruvian army captain Pantaleon Pantoja, a very serious and efficient officer, is chosen by his superiors to set up a special service of 'visitors' to satisfy the sexual needs of the soldiers posted on remote jungle outposts.

Captain Pantoja and the Special Services

1999

Seven Minutes poster
3.5

¿Bastan 7 minutos para enamorarse? Los protagonistas de esta comedia coral y romántica no lo tienen claro. Pero lo van a intentar. Por eso acuden a una sesión de "citas rápidas", encuentros entre hombres y mujeres que quieren conocer gente, huir de la soledad y encontrar el amor.En estas veladas, cada uno tiene siete minutos para hablar con cada una, y viceversa. Luego, todos se van a casa y votan por Internet a aquellas personas que les han gustado. Si el voto es coincidente, la empresa que organiza los encuentros remite a los interesados los e-mails respectivos, y a partir de ahí, puede surgir o no una historia...

Seven Minutes

2009

The Vanished Elephant poster
6.0

A crime novelist receives a vital clue to the whereabouts of his long-missing fiancée.

The Vanished Elephant

2014

My Prison Yard poster
5.8

In Madrid, a petty thief who cannot adjust to life outside of jail puts together a theater troupe her friends -- a prostitute, a gypsy, and a Colombian immigrant -- in an attempt to make a go at a relatively straight life.

My Prison Yard

2008

The Best Families poster
5.5

Luzmila and Peta are two sisters who come from a modest environment and work as housemaids for Alicia and Carmen, two aristocratic ladies of Peru. They are almost considered a part of the families or, at least, that’s what it seems… But one day, as the city is taken over by violent protests, a birthday celebration gathers all the members of both families together. A long-held secret involving both households — upstairs and downstairs — is suddenly revealed, blowing up the bubble of their perfect aristocratic world forever.

The Best Families

2020

Red Ink poster
6.7

Peru, early 2000s. Alfonso wants to be a writer, but he decides to work first as a journalist. He is assigned to the crime section of a newspaper, a job from which he can know the nasty guts of tabloid publications.

Red Ink

2000

Magallanes poster
7.6

Magallanes sees his humdrum life turn upside down the day Celina, a women he met in the violent years when he was a soldier with the Peruvian Army, jumps into his taxi in a Lima street. This unexpected re-encounter after 25 years with the dark past that unites them prompts Magallanes to embark on a daring plan to help Celina get money and find his own redemption.

Magallanes

2015

Django: La otra cara poster
6.8

Based on true events, this crime drama chronicles the wanderings of the thief Orlando González -alias Django- during his brief years of glory. After spending a time in the province, Django returns to Lima with his family, trying to escape the criminal circuit. But the appearance of the woman of a dead partner will unleash Django's ambition, and his libido.

Django: La otra cara

2002

Vivo o muerto: El expediente García poster
8.3

Amidst the uncertainty caused by the alleged suicide of former president Alan García, journalist Carmen Ríos initiates an intense search aiming to unravel the mystery surrounding the case and answer the pressing question still lingering in the minds of all of Peru: Is Alan García alive or dead?

Vivo o muerto: El expediente García

2024

Paper Dove poster
6.0

Juan, a young man convicted of terrorism, is given amnesty from a Lima prison; he boards a bus to return home and, in his mind's eye, recalls events in his village near Huaraz when he was 10 or 12. His father is long dead, his mother lives with Fermin, secretly a sympathizer with the Communist guerrillas in the hills. Town leaders are assassinated at night. When Juan discovers Fermin's secret, Juan is spirited away to the guerrillas to learn Marxist slogans and how to fight. When the band decides to attack the town to avenge the death of a comrade, Juan must choose.

Paper Dove

2003

¡Asu Mare! poster
6.7

Follows the adventures of Carlos Alcántara on his way to fame from his childhood in the "Unidad Vecinal Mirones".

¡Asu Mare!

2013

No artwork available
NR

Short film.

Mirada Líquida

2002

Destiny Has No Favorites poster
6.0

Ana is a rich, repressed housewife. Much to her annoyance, her husband rents out their garden to a soap-opera production, and goes away on a business trip. In her dull solitude, Ana follows the shooting from her window, and soon becomes just as engrossed in the soap-opera as her two maids. When accidentally mistaken for an actress, she ends up being cast for a role -to the great dismay of the other actresses and her maids. The set soon becomes dominated by gossiping, intrigues and blackmail, while the boundary between her real world and the make believe world of soap-operas begins to blur. Ana finds herself entangled in a real life soap-opera all of her own when she tries to get everything back to normal before her husbands comes home.

Destiny Has No Favorites

2003

Django: Sangre de mi sangre poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Django: Sangre de mi sangre

2018

Promedio rojo poster
4.8

Nerdy comic book aficionado Roberto Rodriguez battles low self-esteem, loser friends and vicious high school bullies as he vies for the heart of Cristina, the hot new girl from Madrid.

Promedio rojo

2004

Fiestapatria poster
4.3

As two families celebrate the engagement of their children, one of the lovers unearths a family secret.

Fiestapatria

2007

Friends in a hurry poster
10.0

In a party, Fico bumps into Manolo, an old friend from school, a rascal who is running away from the mob who is after him. To take shelter in his friend house, Manolo fakes a desease that will start a series of entanglements that will change their lives. Soon they will find out that everything but friendship is an illusion.

Friends in a hurry

2018

What the Eye Doesn't See poster
7.2

Through out six different and yet parallel stories that take place during the corrupted goverment during the 90s in Peru, Lombardi tells the moral decomposition that ran through all classes and generations of the peruvian society.

What the Eye Doesn't See

2003

Django: En el nombre del hijo poster
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Django: En el nombre del hijo

2019

La herencia poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

La herencia

2015