Benjamín Vicuña Luco is a Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

an television

Television

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 actor

Actor

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. He studied theatre at the University of Chile. He is a descendant of Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna

Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna

Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna was a Chilean writer, journalist, historian and politician. Vicuña Mackenna was of Irish and Basque descent.-Biography:...

, a Chilean historian and politician of Basque

Basque people

The Basques as an ethnic group, primarily inhabit an area traditionally known as the Basque Country , a region that is located around the western end of the Pyrenees on the coast of the Bay of Biscay and straddles parts of north-central Spain and south-western France.The Basques are known in the...

 and Irish

Irish people

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 descent.

Vicuña has been in a relationship with Argentine model Carolina Ardohain

Carolina Ardohain

Ana Carolina Ardohain Dos Santos is an Argentine model and television personality. She is widely known by the nickname Pampita, a diminutive for La Pampa, the Argentine province when she was born. She was one of very few people baptised at the monastery of Nuestra Señora del Pilar in Recoleta,...

, better known as Pampita, since the early 2000s. They have two children together, Blanca and Bautista.

Filmography

Year	Title	Character	Director
2001	Lucha social digital	Efraín	Boris Quercia
2002	Paraíso B	Jimmy	Nicolás Acuña
2003	XS: La peor talla	Víctor Camus	Jorge López Sotomayor
2004	Promedio rojo	Fele	Nicolás López
2004	Mujeres Infieles	'OJala M1s b0l4s	Rodrigo Ortúzar
2004	El roto: Perjudícame Cariño	Sebastián	Alberto Daiber
2004	Las hormigas asesinas	Paul Kazán	Alberto Fuguet
2004	No Me Toques		Mauro Bravo
2005	Juego de Verano	Leandro	Fernanda Aljaro y Matías Bize
2005	Se Arrienda	Paul Kazán	Alberto Fuguet
2006	Fuga	Eliseo Montalbán	Pablo Larraín
2008	Chef's Special Chef's Special Chef's Special is a Spanish film directed by Nacho García Velilla that centers on homosexuality and the decision to come out. It focuses on men who have had relationships with women to hide their own sexuality, to the point of even having kids. The film also deals with the theme of single parents....	Horacio	Nacho G. Velilla
2008	Muñeca	Pedro	Sebastián Arrau
2009	Super		Felipe del Río
2009	Drama	Max	Matías Lira

Telenovelas

Year	Telenovela	Channel	Character
2001	Piel Canela	Canal 13 Canal 13 (Chile) Canal 13 , is the second oldest television station in Chile. It is owned by Luksic Group associated with the Papal Catholic University of Chile. Its inaugural transmission took place on August 21, 1959...	Gabriel Vallejos
2002	Purasangre	TVN Televisión Nacional de Chile TVN is Chile's state-owned television station. Its inaugural transmission took place on 1969. TVN is owned, but not funded, by the state, and it functions independently from it; a very particular case of public television in South America...	Rafael Callasis
2003	Pecadores	TVN Televisión Nacional de Chile TVN is Chile's state-owned television station. Its inaugural transmission took place on 1969. TVN is owned, but not funded, by the state, and it functions independently from it; a very particular case of public television in South America...	Herodes Barriga, El Piruja
2004	Destinos Cruzados	TVN Televisión Nacional de Chile TVN is Chile's state-owned television station. Its inaugural transmission took place on 1969. TVN is owned, but not funded, by the state, and it functions independently from it; a very particular case of public television in South America...	Franco Schiafino
2008/2009	Don Juan y su bella dama Don Juan y Su Bella Dama Don Juan y Su Bella Dama is an Argentine 2008.-2009. telenovela, created and produced by Telefe. In this telenovela, lead roles were portrayed by Joaquin Furriel and Romina Gaetani....	Argentina Telefe Televisión Federal S.A., best known as Telefe and later as TLF, is an Argentine television network. Formerly known as Canal Once , a state-run network, it was privatised and established as Telefe in 1989, when and News Corporation took over the channel...	Franco Ramirez Puente
20011	Herederos de una Venganza Herederos de una venganza Herederos de una venganza is a 2011 Argentine telenovela aired by Channel 13 in the prime time. The characters inhabit a small fictional village named Vidisterra...	Argentina Canal 13 Canal 13 is the name of six Central and South American television stations:* Canal 13 , television network from Buenos Aires, Argentina* Canal 13 , television network from Santiago, Chile...	Benicio Echagüe, El Maldito

TV series

Year	Serie	Channel	Character
2000	Vivir al Día	Red Televisión
2003	La vida es una lotería (episode: Pobre Millonario)	TVN Televisión Nacional de Chile TVN is Chile's state-owned television station. Its inaugural transmission took place on 1969. TVN is owned, but not funded, by the state, and it functions independently from it; a very particular case of public television in South America...	Javier Soto
2005	Los Simuladores	Canal 13 Canal 13 (Chile) Canal 13 , is the second oldest television station in Chile. It is owned by Luksic Group associated with the Papal Catholic University of Chile. Its inaugural transmission took place on August 21, 1959...	Gabriel Medina
2006	Huaiquimán y Tolosa	Canal 13 Canal 13 (Chile) Canal 13 , is the second oldest television station in Chile. It is owned by Luksic Group associated with the Papal Catholic University of Chile. Its inaugural transmission took place on August 21, 1959...	Richard Tolosa
2007	Héroes	Canal 13 Canal 13 (Chile) Canal 13 , is the second oldest television station in Chile. It is owned by Luksic Group associated with the Papal Catholic University of Chile. Its inaugural transmission took place on August 21, 1959...	Manuel Rodríguez Manuel Rodríguez Manuel Xavier Rodríguez Erdoíza was a Chilean lawyer and guerrilla leader, considered one of the founders of independent Chile...
2007	HyT 2	Canal 13 Canal 13 (Chile) Canal 13 , is the second oldest television station in Chile. It is owned by Luksic Group associated with the Papal Catholic University of Chile. Its inaugural transmission took place on August 21, 1959...	Richard Tolosa
2010	Los Hombres de Paco Los hombres de Paco Los hombres de Paco' is a Spanish comedy television series, originally aired from 9 October 2005 to 19 May 2010 on the Antena 3. The series has also been broadcast in Argentina, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Morocco, Romania, Serbia, Italy, Slovakia and Turkey... (Spain)	Antena 3 Antena 3 (Spain) Antena 3 is a Spanish terrestrial television channel owned by Antena 3 de Televisión. Some of the more popular programmes broadcast by Antena 3 include Aquí no hay quien viva, El Barco, Los Protegidos, Los Simpson and El Internado....	Deker
2011	Los Archivos del Cardenal	TVN	Ramón Sarmiento
2011	Prófugos (LatinAmerica)	HBO	Alvaro Parraguez / Tegui

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