Remembering Ana María Palma Yrarrázaval: A Tribute to the Renowned Chilean Actress

2023-09-12 17:45:00

The corporation Chile Actors confirmed the death of Ana María Palma Yrarrázavalrenowned Chilean actress who triumphed in film, theater and television starting in the 1970s.

In addition to being a prominent artist, she also held administrative positions associated with culture. During the government of Patricio Aylwin She worked as a cultural manager in New York, United States; and in the presidency of Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Taglefulfilled the same function, but in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Her talent on stage was passed on to her family: she is the aunt of the actor and musician Jose Palma Eskenazi; and the actress and theater director Javiera Hernandez del Valle. In fact, together with them she participated in the Chilean film “American Huaso“, this being his last performance.

Death Ana María Palma (Instagram @somoschileactores)

His role in dictatorship

In December 1983, Ana María Palma led the meeting “Women for life“, where different women’s organizations opposed to the dictatorial regime of Augusto Pinochet met at the Caupolicán Theater to sign a commitment “to history, the present and the future.”

As stated The Mercury At that time, hundreds of women agreed to hold protests to demand justice for the disappeared and political detainees. All this, under the slogan “democracy today and not tomorrow“.

Ana María Palma at the “Women for Life” meeting at the Caupolicán Theater (Museum of Memory archive)

“Today there are more of us who consciously reject this system of death (referring to the dictatorship). There are more of us who today, and not tomorrow, fight to end this system of death. A system built on lies“exclaimed the actress that time.

Then, he shouted slogans that the female audience responded with the word “lie!“: “They say that the detainees are ‘alleged’. They say that the CNI does not torture. They say there are no political prisoners. “They say they die in confrontations.”

Artistic career

A large part of his television career was spent on TVN, participating in five soap operas, between 1971 and 1978. One of them was “The flower pergola“, in which she played “Clarita”.

Ana María Palma was the aunt of the actor José Palma and the actress Javiera Hernández (archive)

In 1981 he signed for Canal 13, making three television productions until 1983. A little more than a decade later, in 1997, he returned to Televisión Nacional and remained there until 2005. Finally, his successful career on the small screen ended in 2014, in the teleserye “The two Carolinas” from Chilevisión.

This Tuesday, his wake will be held at the Saint Helena parishlocated at Presidente Errázuriz 3786, in the commune of The Counts.

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