Acting
Francisca Gavilán
Born
1973-06-27 (53)
Place of birth
Santiago, Chile
Known for
Acting
Credits
42 titles
Francisca Gavilán (born 27 June 1973) is a Chilean film, theater, and television actress and singer.
Known for
2.0Game show in which every episode two contestants team with celebrities to play various games. A team's correct responses in these games score seconds, extending their contestant's time limit in the final game, known as 'el rosco'.
Pasapalabra
2018
5.0A woman is faced with the dilemma of selling her four-year-old daughter. 20 years later, fate will reunite them, unleashing unthinkable consequences.
Verdades ocultas
2017
6.9Anthology series based on real criminal cases, featuring an interview with the actual perpetrator at the end of each episode.
Mea culpa
1993
4.0Four celebrities invite each other to their homes and compete to be the best host, where night after night they must cook for the other guests, who in turn will be both the judges and their rivals.
La divina comida
2016
8.4Stories of paranormal activities and extraordinary nature -allegedly- based on real events.
El día menos pensado
1999
2.8The story of a powerful family of the Chilean high aristocracy in the decade of the 50's. A clan led by the fearsome Armando Quiroga, where intrigue, suspense and romance build a story of passion in times of hypocrisy.
Perdona nuestros pecados
2017
Film credits
2020s · 3 titles
7.5During the last years of Pinochet's military regime, a group of militants from the "Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front" plan a prison break of political prisoners, through a tunnel that will take them 18 months to dig.
Pacto de Fuga
2020
6.2Sayen follows a lead to the picturesque desolation of the Atacama Desert. There, she reluctantly teams up with a young Atacameño girl, Quimal, looking to clear her father’s name and save her town from becoming an arid wasteland due to Acteon’s exploitative water usage.
Sayen: Desert Road
2023
NRAntu has been living in her occupied school for months, which she and her classmates took over. As her mother’s birthday approaches and rumors of eviction grow, Antu is faced with a choice: she stay in the own world she and her friends have created, or return home?
A Fortress
2026
2010s · 11 titles
6.3Amanda (46), a complaisant and lonely woman, lives with her son Daniel (16) in the mountains of southern Chile. Octavio (16), a Daniel’s friend, is accidentally injured while hunting in the forest. Amanda takes over the healing sessions, developing an intimate bond with the teenager. They discover that the contact with the wound produces an addictive pleasure.
Austral Fever
2019
6.4A rebellious young man nicknamed Tano and a shy Mapuche boy named Cheo bond together by facing the violence and prejudice they carry during their complicated adolescence.
Bad Influence
2017
7.0Mariana is a woman who has dedicated her entire life to equine therapy that goes over the history of how she came to that. In her youth she lived a happy and prosperous life until a particular episode leads her to have to face millionaires debts. This situation can lead to being left homeless and especially without their horses, among which stands out Artax, the only being with which his son Bruno with Asperger's syndrome manages to have a special bond that helps him to cope with his life with harmony. Mariana must fight against wind and tide in this story of struggle and resilience sustained by the love of a mother and her son.
Artax
2017
5.3After 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
NRThe emotional life story of a Peruvian immigrant in Chile is the subject of this nuanced character study of a man uprooted from home by economic necessity and suffering loneliness and dislocation. Higher wages can’t fill the void created by separation from everything that is important to him.
Ulises
2011
NRA young city man joins the construction of a lighthouse in the deep south of Chile. Among rude workers, the only woman in the place will be his best company on this cold and lonely piece of land.
El constructor del faro
2018
7.2Based on a true story occurred in 1974, this is the tale of sisters Justa, Lucia, and Luciana Quispe, sheperds in the Chilean altiplano who lead a solitary life. A visitor brings news about a law that might change their way of living. This event forces the women to question their existence and relentlessly brings them to a tragic end.
The Quispe Girls
2013
3.3Ignacio has one obsession: creating a play about his uncle Jaime Guzmán, an ideologist of the 80's constitution and collaborator of the Pinochet military-civic dictatorship. But things get out of control...
The Uncle
2013
6.7Three teenage girls from a Santiago shanty town set in motion a plan to climb buildings and break into the apartments of the wealthy side of the town.
Spider Thieves
2017
6.6Serginho has a hard time finding his place in the world as he works with his uncle at the market, supports his depressed mother, and takes care of his little brother.
Absence
2014
6.8A portrait of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra filled with her musical work, her memories, her loves and her hopes.
Violeta Went to Heaven
2011
Series credits
2.0Game show in which every episode two contestants team with celebrities to play various games. A team's correct responses in these games score seconds, extending their contestant's time limit in the final game, known as 'el rosco'.
Pasapalabra
2018
5.0A woman is faced with the dilemma of selling her four-year-old daughter. 20 years later, fate will reunite them, unleashing unthinkable consequences.
Verdades ocultas
2017
6.9Anthology series based on real criminal cases, featuring an interview with the actual perpetrator at the end of each episode.
Mea culpa
1993
4.0Four celebrities invite each other to their homes and compete to be the best host, where night after night they must cook for the other guests, who in turn will be both the judges and their rivals.
La divina comida
2016
8.4Stories of paranormal activities and extraordinary nature -allegedly- based on real events.
El día menos pensado
1999
8.4Stories of paranormal activities and extraordinary nature -allegedly- based on real events.
El día menos pensado
1999
8.4Stories of paranormal activities and extraordinary nature -allegedly- based on real events.
El día menos pensado
1999
8.4Stories of paranormal activities and extraordinary nature -allegedly- based on real events.
El día menos pensado
1999
2.8The story of a powerful family of the Chilean high aristocracy in the decade of the 50's. A clan led by the fearsome Armando Quiroga, where intrigue, suspense and romance build a story of passion in times of hypocrisy.
Perdona nuestros pecados
2017
8.4No synopsis available yet.
El Jardín de Olivia
2025
6.0Four bandit siblings try to take revenge on the landowners who killed their father.
Los Pincheira
2004
8.0The 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
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Al Sur del Corazón
2024
2.0A series of crimes occur in Viña del Mar during the 80s. The detective Ramiro Opazo and the journalist Javier Montes will investigate those responsible for the murders and robberies.
Secretos en el jardín
2013
4.0The relationship between Ricky and his daughter will suffer when the girl's mother returns and wants her back.
Papi Ricky
2007
2.0In 1907 Chile, two brothers are separated after the death of their parents. Pedro grows up in Valparaíso and Gaspar is adopted by a wealthy family. Thirty years later, unaware that they are brothers, they meet and become enemies due to circumstance and their love for the same woman. This happens in a context of political turmoil and international intrigue.
Hijos del desierto
2022
6.0A young possessed woman is brought to live in a convent, where she will provoke passions and test the beliefs and strength of the faithful.
La Poseída
2015
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 it
Piel canela
2001
10.0Gaspar dies and in order of not going to hell he is given a second opportunity to return to earth with the condition of learning what love really means.
Un Diablo con Ángel
2017
3.8Based 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
The exploits of an investigative police group that from anonymity, solve intricate criminal cases.
Brigada Escorpión
1997
The exploits of an investigative police group that from anonymity, solve intricate criminal cases.
Brigada Escorpión
1997
2.0Sixteen real stories of women who have been victims and survivors of male violence.
La vida de nosotras
2023
6.9The story of the Salvador Allende, former president of Chile, from his presidential campaign to the day of his death on 11 September 1973. Part of the special programming for the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the coup.
Los mil días de allende
2023
5.0A young woman from lower class usurps the identity of a woman from high-class to get a job.
Las 2 Carolinas
2014