Valentina Vargas

Acting

Valentina Vargas

Born 1964-12-31 · Santiago, Chile

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Valentina Vargas (born December 31, 1964) is a Chilean-born actress. She developed most of her career in France, where she was raised. Vargas began her career in the dramatic art within the workshop of Tania Balaschova in Paris and also later at the Yves Pignot School of Los Angeles. Her cinematographic career started via the filming of three of the most important works[dubious – discuss] in contemporary French cinema, namely Pierre Jolivet's Strictly Personal, Luc Besson's Big Blue and Jean-Jacques Annaud's The Name of the Rose. Over the years, Vargas also worked with Samuel Fuller in Street of No Return, Miguel Littín in Los náufragos and Alfredo Arieta in Fuegos. Vargas is trilingual in Spanish, French and English. This has enabled her to pass without notice in films as varied as the cinematic horror film Hellraiser IV: Bloodline where she played the Cenobite Angelique, to the comedy Chili con carne of Thomas Gilou. She appeared opposite Jan Michael Vincent (Dirty Games), Malcolm McDowell and Michael Ironside (Southern Cross), and James Remar (The Tigress). After her performance in Bloody Mallory where she played "the malicious one", she turned to playing roles for television. Initially she played in a version of Les Liaisons dangereuses directed by Josée Dayan. She starred in this production with Catherine Deneuve, Rupert Everett, Leelee Sobieski and Nastassja Kinski.

Acting credits

The Name of the Rose poster
7.5

14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence; which is considerable.

The Name of the Rose

1986

The Big Blue poster
7.4

Childhood friends Jacques and Enzo share a passion for the danger of free diving. Jacques, following in the footsteps of his father, who died at sea when Jacques was a boy, harbors a remarkable ability to adjust his heart rate and breathing patterns in the water, with his vital signs more closely resembling those of dolphins than men.

The Big Blue

1988

Hellraiser: Bloodline poster
5.3

Three generations of the same family deal with the consequences of unleashing the forces of hell.

Hellraiser: Bloodline

1996

Faces in the Crowd poster
6.1

Anna is living with "face-blindness" after surviving a serial killer's attack. As she lives with her condition, one in which facial features change each time she loses sight of them, the killer closes in.

Faces in the Crowd

2011

Twin Sitters poster
6.4

An evil business executive is releasing dangerous toxins and the Barbarian Brothers set out to stop his evil work.

Twin Sitters

1994

Fuegos poster
8.0

The action takes place at the turn of the century in a remote village in South America. Drunkard and brutal, a father reigns over a world of women whom he whips. For a long time, he imposed his "macho" law. But he created a flame of hatred in the heart of his eldest daughter, who organized the death of the tyrant...

Fuegos

1987

Southern Cross poster
3.2

A mining businessman gets involved in crimes and murderers as he flees from another businessman who plans to dump nuclear waste illegally in abandoned coal mines in southern Chile

Southern Cross

1999

Dirty Games poster
5.0

The beautiful daughter of a murdered scientist determines to apprehend her father's brutal killer at a nuclear waste site they're both inspecting as part of a team of international delegates. But the visiting scientists soon realize that ruthless terrorists intend to blow up the complex.

Dirty Games

1989

An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose poster
2.0

An oral history of the 1986 film adaptation of "The Name of the Rose", gathering together the memories of several members of the surviving cast/crew.

An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose

2022

The Tigress poster
4.3

It's the roaring twenties in Berlin. The Tigress, a gorgeous, wild, and very independent street walker, falls for a handsome grifter. When one of her lovers gets jealous, she betrays him and has to skip town. The grifter reveals he has what it takes to move in upper class circles and suggests they flee to Carlsbad, a spa in Czechoslovakia. Does he love her or is he only using her? Is the Tigress madly in love with him or does she want to satisfy her vanity and drop him once he falls for her? The ancient cat and mouse game between a man and a woman unfolds amidst sensual seduction, the scheme of robbing a rich Texan and the jilted lover arriving from Berlin, gun drawn.

The Tigress

1992

Bloody Mallory poster
5.1

Mallory is the head of an elite government-run strike force dedicated to combating the supernatural. Her team includes the drag queen Vena Cava, an explosives expert; a mute, pre-teen telepath capable of possessing others named Talking Tina; and an armed governmental agent named Durand.

Bloody Mallory

2002

The Big Blue Adventure poster
10.0

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Luc Besson's The Big Blue (Le Grand Bleu), featuring production footage and interviews with Besson, legendary freediver Jacques Mayol, and stars Rosanna Arquette, Jean-Marc Barr, and Jean Reno.

The Big Blue Adventure

1989

Street of No Return poster
5.2

A rock star-turned-bum, his vocal chords severed at the height of his career for the love of a woman, drunkenly roams the city, torn apart by sponsored race riots. When accused of murder, he may have the chance to get revenge on the magnate who maimed him.

Street of No Return

1989

Optical Illusions poster
5.6

A blind man who recovers his sight after an operation finds his life in chaos when he is rejected by the community to which he once belonged.

Optical Illusions

2010

No artwork available
6.7

A German TV documentary that chronicles the daily rehearsals, the filming and all the behind the scenes of Jean-Jacques Annaud's classic "The Name of the Rose". From actors perspectives to the ideas used by the director to produce an impeccable international epic adaptation of Umberto Eco's best selling novel, the film presents the obstacles behind the creation of a production of such large scale and also the making of the many difficult scenes, most of the ones presented here are the characters' murders inside the mysterious abbey.

The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'

1986

Chili con carne poster
3.8

Living in perfect harmony with three former boy friends, three kids from these boy friends and her grand mother, Irène came to France from Chili twenty years ago.It would be broken with the arrival of Claude.

Chili con carne

1999

Strictement personnel poster
7.0

The crimes and tragedies that tear apart one family seem overblown in the telling, yet this psychological drama about the miseries of one French policeman is compelling throughout. Jean (Pierre Arditi) is a cop and also a failed novelist who was abandoned by his father, brother, and sister after his mother died. The trio move to Paris where they set up an art scam that nets them considerable cash -- something Jean begins to figure out when he joins them for a family reunion. Little by little, he learns that his father is an expert forger, his stepmother's art gallery seems to be involved in the scam, his brother is a derelict and into drugs, his stepmother is a hooker in addition to all of this, and his sister runs an exercise gym for keeping prostitutes in shape. Things get worse -- just when everything seems bad enough, the stepmother is murdered and it is up to Jean to find the killer.

Strictement personnel

1985

Le Nom de la Rose : Le Documentaire poster
10.0

A documentary on the genesis, writing, shooting and analysis of the film "The Name of the Rose".

Le Nom de la Rose : Le Documentaire

2004

Night Across the Street poster
6.4

A drama centered on an office worker on the verge of retirement who begins to relive both real and imagined memories.

Night Across the Street

2012

The Devil's Breath poster
5.8

A small family of travelers arrives after a long journey at a village hut, which they claim as home. The family consists of Damian, a mute but skilled hunter, his wife Priscila, and their two children, a mute son named Pablo and a beautiful daughter named Agueda. Before long, Don Rodrigo, the feudal lord of the village, sets his sights on both Priscila and Agueda.

The Devil's Breath

1993

The Four Altars poster
NR

The intensity of Ana's life, a Spanish journalist, has reached its climax. On a trip to the Amazon that begins as an investigation into deforestation and illegal gold, she meets Don Abel, a man initiated into an ancient sacred science. Ana will find herself in a ritual that will change her life.

The Four Altars

2025

Johnny 100 Pesos: Chapter Two poster
5.3

After being twenty years in in jail, Johnny now a free man, must confront a heartless society and ensure that the son he never knew does not go down the same criminal path that he once took.

Johnny 100 Pesos: Chapter Two

2017

Los náufragos poster
4.4

After 20 years of exile, Aron returns to Chile to find out who he is. He asks questions, not only of those who stayed behind but also of himself, examining his relationship with his past and his own memory. The people who stayed lived through 20 years of dictatorship. They were either victims or executioners. Amidst this wreckage, Aron wonders what name his brother is using now, where his father is... Can he, in Isol's arms and through her love, find his way again ? What future awaits him? Like Mola the torturer, he has returned from an impossible journey, and Aron knows that each man is his own executioner. Shipwreck and resurrection are the two facets of a complex truth.

Los náufragos

1994