
Acting
Jun 26, 1973
Santiago, Chile
Francisca Gavilán
Acting
Biography
Francisca Gavilán (born 27 June 1973) is a Chilean film, theater, and television actress and singer.
Feature Films (19)

A 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

The 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

Sayen 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

Based 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

A 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

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

A 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

Mariana 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

Ignacio 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

During 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

Amanda (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

Serginho 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
Television & Series (25)

Four 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

Game 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

Sixteen real stories of women who have been victims and survivors of male violence.
La vida de nosotras

The 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

Based 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

In 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.






