
Maricarmen Arrigorriaga
Biography
Maricarmen Arrigorriaga Aguirre (born 1957 in Santiago) is a popular Chilean film and soap opera actress.
Known For & Full Filmography37 Titles

Drama Series - 2003, 16 episodes • as Estela Salazar
A severe and authoritarian father is on the verge of an existential crisis when his children are not able to fulfill his expectations and image of "strong and tough men" that he wishes for all of them. Will he be able to straighten the lives of his sons? Or will he have to learn that each of them have already clipped their own wings?

Drama Series - 2017, 16 episodes • as Leticia Hurtado
A woman is faced with the dilemma of selling her four-year-old daughter. 20 years later, fate will reunite them, unleashing unthinkable consequences.

Drama Series - 2025, 16 episodes • as Anita
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Drama Series - 2016, 16 episodes • as María Teresa Velasco
Three very different parents meet day after day at the door of a kindergarten, each have different difficulties. By sharing their experiences together they form a close friendship.

Drama Series - 2020, 16 episodes • as Martha Herrera
Sergio Jadue, a lowly director of a small-town soccer club in Chile, unexpectedly finds himself at the head of the Chilean soccer association. Drunk with power, he becomes the protégé of soccer godfather Julio Grondona, as well as the FBI’s key to undoing the largest corruption scheme in the world of soccer.

Drama Series - 2015, 16 episodes • as Berta Bonfante
A man seeks a wife to raise his children and finds the answer to his prayers in the way he least expects it.

Drama Series - 2011, 16 episodes • as Sonia Arce
When an unexpected volcano eruption strikes a sect that expects the end of the world, each member will be marked forever once their deranged leader tries to reunite the sect again.

Drama Series - 2011, 16 episodes • as Gendarmerie Chief
Four men become fugitives after a failed drug deal, running from north to south of Chile.

Drama Series - 2002, 16 episodes • as Alicia
Different stories about people having more luck than usual...

Movie - 1999, 2h 15m • as Luisa
A sucesseful doctor gets involved in an extramarital affair he can't escape.

Drama Series - 1999, 16 episodes • as Bernardita Álvarez
A series of tragedies will haunt the Patiño sisters after the surprising death of the family's patriarch.

Drama Series - 2008, 16 episodes • as Blanca Cifuentes
Five adopted brothers see how their easygoing life in the countryside is changed by the death of their father, who gives part of his land to his only biological child, Paula, who comes to claim what belongs to her.

Drama Series - 2006, 16 episodes • as Josefina
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.

Drama Series - 2010, 16 episodes • as Yolanda Sanhueza
Gone are the days of tranquility for the billionaire family Fabres, strange things happen inside his home and around his people in a place where nothing is what it seems.

Drama Series - 1993, 16 episodes • as Regina Agüero
Daniela, a young student, falls in love with Luciano the son of the owner of her high school. He corresponds her love. But both must face Francisca, an unbalanced and beautiful young woman who holds an insane obsession for Luciano.

Drama Series - 1997, 16 episodes • as Raquel Garay de Moraga
An ambitious entrepreneur wants to cut down the forest of southern Chile, but a young ecologist girl will hinder their plans.

Drama Series - 2009, 16 episodes • as Pola Amunátegui
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Drama Series - 1995, 16 episodes • as Victoria Díaz Hidalgo
Lucas must choose between love and the power he acquires after becoming a renowned sculptor.

Movie - 2012, 2h 15m • as Self (archive footage)
In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the ‘No’ vote persuade a brash young advertising executive, René Saavedra, to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and while under scrutiny by the despot’s minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free.

Drama Series - 1994, 16 episodes • as Bernardita Arancibia
The love story of Claudia Bernhardt and Rodrigo Carvajal, they come from different worlds: she was a young university student, used to urban lifestyle and he was in charge of his father's ranch. Their romance is at stake when another man offers Claudia the stability she needs. The honey of the city will clash with the red passion of the countryside.

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes • as Teresa García
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Drama Series - 2015, 16 episodes • as Magdalena
The story of three women (and one of them's mother) who share a flat in Viña del Mar, Chile. Remake of the American TV series "The Golden Girls".

Drama Series - 2005, 16 episodes • as Elisa San Juan
The funny situations that happen inside and outside a mechanical workshop and the mechanics part of it.

Drama Series - 2004, 16 episodes • as Teresa
A potrayal of young people's life in their last year of college.

Movie - 2014, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A married professor of music has a normal life until the day he meets an unusual women, 20 years younger than he. He gets involved in a love relation with her. At the beginning everything looks normal, nevertheless after some time with her, he begins questioning his whole life, breaking with the comfortable and conventional existence he used to have.

Drama Series - 2010, 16 episodes • as Senator
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.

Drama Series - 1990, 16 episodes • as Ana Cruchaga
The life, work and death of the Chilean Jesuit priest and founder of "Hogar de Cristo" (Home of Christ), San Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga.

Movie - 2008, 2h 15m • as Old Widow
Ana, Verónica, Marta, and Toro are four lonely people who live an unadventurous and quiet existence in southern Chile. They are with each other without the need of using words, trying to save themselves in a stealthy and extreme way. In order not only of getting away of the loneliness that constitutes their innermost core, but also of finding themselves, they reach for each other to get brotherly and sexual love, affection, and a space and time of their own.

Movie - 2014, 2h 15m • as Susana Tocornal
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.

Movie - 1994, 2h 15m • as Ramírez's Wife (voice)
Dreaming of a better life, a young woman leaves her country home and moves to the city where she only finds trouble.

Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • as Laura / Manuela / Leonor
The film revolves around the concept of soap opera. Its structure is based on the assumption that Chilean reality does not exist, but rather is an ensemble of soap operas.

Movie - 1994, 2h 15m • as Rosa
A Spanish sailor becomes involved with a woman whose child was stolen by the mafia.

Movie - 2007, 2h 15m • as María Paz
Gaspar is a young, lonely cinematographer. Unable to deal with his sister and sick grandfather he spends his time with Susana, an actress working on a opera. When he meets Alvaro, an idealistic traveler, Gaspar's life changes. They embark on a adventure that help them unearth the fragility and value of human existence

Movie - 2007, 2h 15m • as Sofía
In Chile, Mexican photographer Emilia falls in love with a rabbi and gets the news that her father is terminally ill.

Movie - 2002, 2h 15m • as Amanda
The seductive quality of the night of a saturday where both the rich and the poor experience the drunken urgency of the party and the clock.

Movie - 2007, 2h 15m • as Irma
As two families celebrate the engagement of their children, one of the lovers unearths a family secret.

Movie - 1999, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
After a long period ofexile, Félix and Magui return to their country. Magui's fathers take them to one of the houses of the family. Félix resistance to adapt himself to the social reality of the country and the presence of "aliens" on the region start to trouble the chief of the family.