María Izquierdo

Acting

María Izquierdo

Born

1960-12-15 (65)

Place of birth

Santiago, Chile

Known for

Acting

Credits

54 titles

Ana María Izquierdo Huneeus (Santiago, December 15, 1960), is an outstanding Chilean actress, director and screenwriter, considered by Chile to be the fourth best Chilean television actress of all time.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 11 titles

Las niñas poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Las niñas

2019

Brillantes poster
5.0

After losing his job and his girlfriend on the same day. A man visits his friend in AZ for some R&R. But after a series of what it seemed impossible events the two turn into fugitives

Brillantes

2014

Romance Policial poster
NR

Antonio, young Brazilian civil servant, travels to the Atacama Desert in search of inspiration to write a short story.

Romance Policial

2014

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

Street Theatre, My Captain poster
NR

At the beginning of the summer of 1986, a group of actors and actresses directed by Andrés Pérez, put on the street the play “All these years” presented in front of the Cathedral of Santiago, the Bellavista neighborhood, the La Bandera district, the Parque O'Higgins, Plaza del Mulato and many other places in Santiago. Armed with megaphones, costumes, musical instruments, giant dolls, stilts and banners, they set up shop in different parts of the city where they raised scaffolding on which they climbed to summon the public to witness their show of singing, music, dancing and pantomime in the who told stories that quietly delved into the events of the last years of the military dictatorship at the end of the 1980s. 25 years passed, Andrés Pérez had died and the street actors became references in theater and television, when Flores returned to the eighties images to create this tribute documentary.

Street Theatre, My Captain

2011

Alma poster
4.5

Fernando is married to Alma, a very funny woman with bipolar disorder, which kicks him when she learns that he no longer supports her. When Alma meets an Argentine suitor Fernando reacts discovering that still love her. But it's too late.

Alma

2015

The Summer of Flying Fish poster
5.3

Manena is the headstrong adolescent daughter of Pancho, a rich Chilean landowner who devotes his vacation to one thing : the invasion of his artificial lagoon by carps. While he employs increasingly radical methods, Manena has her first romantic experiences and hearbreak - and discovers a silent world in the shadow of her own : that of the Mapuche Indians who demand access to the land and clash with her father.

The Summer of Flying Fish

2013

Mamá Ya Crecí poster
3.2

Gerardo was never detached from his mother. So when he presented his first girlfriend, the gorgeous model Ana Verónica, the mother will do everything possible to get rid of her.

Mamá Ya Crecí

2014

Hijo de Trauco poster
6.0

A 14-year-old skeptical young man one day discovers that everything he knows about his father is a lie.

Hijo de Trauco

2014

Bahía azul poster
6.0

A teenager visits his mother in search of affection. She lives semi isolated from the world, on a house facing the sea and in the company of a woman. The meeting of both characters will be rather a disagreement that will throw the young man towards other characters that will be moving further away from his mother until he disappears. Only at that moment will she feel the weight of his absence.

Bahía azul

2012

Family Holidays poster
7.2

The Kellys are a bourgeois family that have fallen into hard times. Deprived of the bragging rights of their typical summer vacation at a posh Chilean beach resort town, they pretend that they are instead going to Brazil for their vacation. They feign leaving on vacation but instead spend the time locked up at home and avoiding the suspicions of a nosy neighbor.

Family Holidays

2014

2000s · 10 titles

Fuga poster
6.2

Could a brilliant composer's music actually be killing his loved ones? Eliseo can't help but believe it when his younger sister dies tragically and then his pianist Georgina suddenly dies on the piano. Completely traumatized, Eliseo is taken to a mental hospital where he can find escape only through music.

Fuga

2006

Sex with Love poster
6.5

In Santiago, Chile, the schoolteacher Luisa proposes a debate about sex with the parents of her students with the intention of giving classes about sex education to the youngsters.

Sex with Love

2003

Machuca poster
7.7

Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become buddies, paradoxically protesting together as Gonzalo gets adopted by Pedro's slum family and gang. But the adults spoil that too, not in the least when general Pinochet's coup ousts Allende, and supporters such as McEnroe.

Machuca

2004

Unfaithful Women poster
5.0

Cecilia Ureta, host of Chile's highest-rated news show, announces the results of a United Nations survey, the conclusion of which states that 62% of Chilean women are or have never been unfaithful. Ironically, Cecilia maintains an extramarital relationship with the network's owner. Maliciously, a rival colleague discovers this during a live broadcast, with tragic results. The revelation spreads becoming a conversation of national interest.

Unfaithful Women

2004

El Roto: Perjudícame cariño poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

El Roto: Perjudícame cariño

2005

Loco Fever poster
5.9

When the Chilean officials lift the ban on harvesting the shellfish "el loco" (which purportedly is an aphrodisiac) in the seaside village of Puerto Gala greed and lust take hold. Greed is embodied by Carlos Maldonato, "El Canuto," who attempts to buy all of the shellfish for a Japanese company, and by a traveling band of prostitutes that accompany the influx of fishermen. El Canuto also wrangles to get into good stead with an old flame, Sonia, who is now the proprietor of "La Pincoya," a local restaurant. But "el loco" proves more effective, and more damaging, than anyone could have guessed.

Loco Fever

2001

Lamb of God poster
5.8

The kidnapping 77-year-old man in Argentina forces his daughter to return to Buenos Aires after years of exile abroad.

Lamb of God

2008

Kill Them All poster
4.6

A story set in Uruguay in 1993. It revolves around an investigation by a law court lawyer, Julia. She's looking into the possibility that a chemist named Eugenio Barrios is being secretly sheltered in Uruguay by right-wing political powers.

Kill Them All

2007

Coronation poster
6.1

The elderly heir of a formerly wealthy and respected Chilean family, Andres, suffers from decadence and solitude. He hires young Estela in order to look after his tiranic and almost crazy grandmother. The differences in class and age don't stop Andres from courting Estela, whose fiancé Mario tries to make some money with the passions of his well-off rival. The suffocating atmosphere of the run-down mansion in the outskirts of Santiago represents the deterioration of the bourgeoisie, and sets the scene for the total collapse of Andres.

Coronation

2000

Función de gala poster
NR

Experimental film where the actors don't utter a word. Tells the story of two women who get revenge on their rapists during a gala event.

Función de gala

2007

1990s · 6 titles

El hombre que imaginaba poster
8.0

A Reality Show TV host tired of the sensationalist routine of this kind of programs and confident in his powerful Imagination, dreams in writing the most original story in the world

El hombre que imaginaba

1998

Soccer Stories poster
5.3

Three vignettes about the lives of young Chileans and their passions and frustrations over one of the century's most important rituals: football.

Soccer Stories

1997

Blind Sky poster
10.0

This is a film about the life of a family of marginal thiefs, and how destiny punishes each and every one of its members. A constant contrast between a violent and a domestic world, in which violence, humor and irony, give a new layer to the social and moral conflicts of the characters. A lost house in a forest, an underground bar, a prison, a bus, fields and highways, are the spaces on which thieves, truckers, cooks and hookers collide.

Blind Sky

1998

Latent Image poster
6.2

In the late 1980s, a politically neutral photographer in Pinochet's Chile is still struggling to come to terms with the "disappearance" of his activist brother in the Villa Grimaldi torture centre back in 1975.

Latent Image

1990

Revenge poster
8.0

A small house is devastated by the irrepressible force of the Ñuble river. Anita is rescued from the riverbank while her parents disappear into the water. She is given in adoption to her godparents, who can not keep her, they turn her over to a large hacienda in the area, where the little one will be the companion of the sickly patron, Lucia. When the owner of the hacienda dies, Anita, disregarding the advice of the other servants, stays to serve the boss, Don Pablo. She is already a woman and he is a single man. A strong attraction emerges between the two. This sad story of love and revenge as strong and uncontrollable as the overflowing waters of the Ñuble River.

Revenge

1999

No artwork available
9.0

A 12-year-old boy and girl find love, they believe the girl might be pregnant from their first kiss. Both children will look for a way to face this challenge.

Juan, 12 años

1998

Series credits

Rompecorazón poster
5.5

A rich man decides to fake his death in order to save himself from a millionaire debt, before fleeing to Europe for a facial surgery. He leaves his fortune to one of his 3 lovers, while the other 2 and their families have to deal with the ecomic aftermath.

Rompecorazón

1994

Cerro Alegre poster
7.0

Legend says that when two people kiss on the eve of the new millennium, their love endures forever.

Cerro Alegre

1999

Trampas y caretas poster
4.5

A billionaire and obsessive mother entrusts a woman named Mariana with the job of falling in love with one of her two sons in exchange of a generous monthly check. However, Carmen's wishes will not be easy to fulfill, as both men have totally opposite personalities.

Trampas y caretas

1992

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Viva el lunes

1995

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Viva el lunes

1995

No artwork available
5.5

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...

Playa salvaje

1997

Adrenalina poster
7.3

After her parents' murder, Cathy Winter flees to Santiago. At Adrenalina, a new club, she meets her soulmate, a publisher, and her best friend, a shy DJ, during the 90s dance craze.

Adrenalina

1996

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

12 días que estremecieron Chile poster
2.0

Fictional stories about Chilean historical events that shook the country through joy, horror, excitement or sadness, and where the great virtues and defects of its national idiosyncrasy were expressed, that marked the lives of many people.

12 días que estremecieron Chile

2011

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

Témpano poster
NR

The mystery takes over the crew of a vessel on the ice in southern Chile.

Témpano

2011

17 poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

17

2005

Someone Has to Know poster
6.8

A boy vanishes, and no one can find him. An open-and-shut case, except there are no leads. Three hundred people around him, and no one saw anything?

Someone Has to Know

2026

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

No artwork available
2.0

Documentary series that takes a nostalgic journey through decades of Chilean theater and its history.

Mierda Mierda, la función debe continuar

2020

No artwork available
9.0

The adventures of the friendly and talkative Cárcamo family, their friends and neighbors.

Los Cárcamo

1998

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

Bienvenida realidad poster
8.0

A potrayal of young people's life in their last year of college.

Bienvenida realidad

2004

Cuenta Conmigo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cuenta Conmigo

2009

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

TVN - 40 años - Tu historia es mi historia

2009

Volver a mí poster
2.0

The story focuses on the rehabilitation of different people who for different reasons have turned to drugs, alcohol, pills and other types of toxins in order to forget their problems.

Volver a mí

2010

Gatas y Tuercas poster
4.0

The funny situations that happen inside and outside a mechanical workshop and the mechanics part of it.

Gatas y Tuercas

2005

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Familia moderna

2015

No artwork available
7.0

The story of 4 women who are approaching their forties and despite having different lives, they have in common their frustrations and broken dreams.

Geografía del deseo

2004

No artwork available
NR

An intense story of love and heartbreak between guitar player Roberto and a legendary prostitute named Ester. Set in the coastal town of San Antonio, during the late 30s.

La Negra Ester

1996