María José Prieto Larraín (Santiago, February 20, 1977) is a Chilean film and television actress.

María José Prieto
Prieto in 2012
Born
María José Prieto Larraín

(1977-02-20) February 20, 1977 (age 47)
Santiago, Chile
OccupationActress
Years active1998–present
Spouse
(m. 2009)

María José Prieto entered the Villa María Academy school in Santiago in 1981, where she completed her primary studies and part of secondary school until 1985, after which she went to live with her family in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she finished high school in 1994.

Back in Chile, in 1995, she entered the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile to study Baccalaureate in Social Sciences and Humanities, graduating in 1997. She later studied Theater at the Pontifical Catholic University (1996-1998)

María José Prieto made her television debut at age 21, in the telenovela A todo dar, produced and broadcast by Megavisión, a participation that led her to win the APES award for Best Acting Screening.

After participating in some telefilms from the same station, she traveled to Madrid, Spain, to take a circus-theater course at the LeCoq academy directed by Ana Vasquez De Castro and then return to Chile to join Channel 13 in 2001, where she acts in the Telenovela Corazón Pirata, which obtained a poor tuning.

After this stage, the actress travels to New York where she studies at the Lee Strasberg Academy, and then returns to Chile to dedicate herself mainly to theater, where she acted in works such as "Now there are the children" and "Crime and shampoo" .

In 2003, she returned to Channel 13, where she appeared in the successful television series Machos, to continue acting in that station in television series such as Tentación and Gatas y Tuercas, which were extremely successful.

In 2004 she ventured into the cinema in the box office film Mujeres Infieles.

In 2005, she signed a contract with the Chilevisión television channel to host the Manzana program and star in the first television series of that channel, the successful Vivir con 10, to later play another leading role in the second television series of the same channel, Bad Conduct.

She is also a Yogini teacher.

She is married to fellow actor Cristián Campos since 2009, and her sister is Ángela Prieto, also an actress.[1][2][3][4][5]

Filmography edit

Films edit

  • 2002: "Domesticame" Director Rodrigo Terreros.
  • 2004: "Mujeres Infieles" Director Rodrigo Ortuzar Lynch.
  • 2005: "Vernissage" Directora Yael Rosemblut.
  • 2008: "Pecados" Director Martín Rodríguez.
  • 2012: "Bombal" Director Marcelo Ferrari.
  • 2018: "Contra el demonio" Director José Miguel Zúñiga

Telenovelas edit

Telenovelas
Year Title Character
1998 A todo dar Maite del Río
1999 Algo está cambiando Javiera Risopatrón
2000-2001 La otra cara del espejo Varios personajes
2001 Corazón pirata Natalia Condell
2002 Más que amigos Claudia
2003 Machos Mónica Salazar
2004-2005 Tentación Tania Donoso
2005-2006 Gatas y Tuercas Violeta López
2005 Los simuladores Ximena (1 episode)
2007 Vivir con 10 Olimpia Solé
2008 Mala conducta Flavia Inostroza
2012 Separados Claudia Amstrong (15 episodes)
2014 Mamá mechona Valeria García (2 episodes)
2016 El Camionero Denise Cienfuegos
2016 Casa de Angelis Elsa Echeñique
2018 Perdona nuestros pecados Lucrecia Romero
2018-2019 Isla Paraíso Elena Martínez

References edit

  1. ^ "T13 | Tele 13". www.t13.cl. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
  2. ^ Mostrador, El (2019-10-02). "María José Prieto: "El yoga debería estar en todos los colegios"". El Mostrador (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-01-28.
  3. ^ ""Es un icono, todo el mundo la recuerda": María José Prieto analizó el reestreno de "Machos"". www.encancha.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-01-28.
  4. ^ "María José Prieto: La hija pródiga de "Vivir con 10"". Revista Nos (in Spanish). 2007-01-22. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
  5. ^ "María José Prieto y su foto en bikini que revolucionó las redes sociales | Guioteca.com". Guioteca.com | Fotografía (in Spanish). 2018-01-26. Retrieved 2021-01-28.