Violeta Vidaurre

Violeta Rosa Ester Vidaurre Heiremans (12 September 1928 – 1 June 2021), better known as Violeta Vidaurre, was a Chilean actress with a long television and theater career, with more than 120 characters played since her debut.

For three decades, Vidaurre established herself as one of the most important theater actresses in the cast of the Catholic University's Experimental Theater, collaborating with Eugenio Dittborn, Eugenio Guzmán, Hugo Miller, Víctor Jara, and the American Frank McMullan. In 1963, she was summoned to play Laura Larraín in La pérgola de las flores by Isidora Aguirre, replacing Silvia Piñeiro, which quickly became a pop culture sensation. She achieved success in television with the comedy Juntos se pasa mejor in 1965, in the family comedy Juani en Sociedad (broadcast from 1967 to 1972), and in the first television adaptation of Martín Rivas in 1970. After the dictatorship she began to work in various university productions and independent companies. She made her way back onto television as a supporting actress in hit telenovelas such as the comedies Sol tardío and La Colorina (1975–1978) by Arturo Moya Grau, and in De cara al mañana (1982) by María Elena Gertner.

She also performed in emblematic telenovelas such as La represa, La torre 10, La dama del balcón, La Villa, Mi nombre es Lara, A la sombra del ángel, Amor a domicilio, Adrenalina, A todo dar, Romané, Pampa Ilusión, and El circo de las Montini.

In 2015, she was the only woman to be a candidate (out of five selected) for the National Prize for Performing and Audiovisual Arts, whose winner was actor Héctor Noguera. In the same year, she received several tributes and recognitions for her vast career in the performing arts.

Her last performances included appearances in various television series and some valued performances in independent theater companies, allowing herself to be honored in each presentation.