Marcela Osorio

About Marcela Osorio

Marcela Osorio Méndez is a Chilean film and television actress.

Marcela Osorio was born in the city of Valparaíso, in the homonymous province, Chile. At age 12, for political reasons, her family moved to Barcelona, Spain. Four years later she would move to live alone in Italy.

In Italy, without acting studies, she made her debut in theater at the age of 17, achieving some brief participations, until in 1983 the writer Antonio Skármeta invited her to participate in the making of his film Burning Patience, based on the novel Ardiente paciencia, in the leading role of Beatriz González, the young and naive girl seduced by a postman, who, by plagiarizing Pablo Neruda's verses, manages to win his love. In this film, Marcela shows the sensuality that will characterize her career. The 1994's remake is better known internationally, entitled Il Postino: The Postman.

In 1986, she decided to return to Chile, where she obtained the main role in the film Sussi, directed by Gonzalo Justiniano, released in 1987. Sussi is a provincial girl who arrived in Santiago, looking for a job, but on each occasion men seek to take advantage of her, however, a roommate, played by Bastián Bodenhöfer, conquers her with his mysteries and games. Sussi finally becomes a symbol of a government campaign, a stereotype of Chilean women, in the middle of a tour she discovers that she is pregnant and is forced to abort, in the delirium of fever, hallucinates that her lover comes to rescue her.

In recent years, Marcela Osorio has devoted herself to eastern medicine, without neglecting her acting activities, attending the Public Assistance Emergency Hospital (HUAP), formerly the Central Post Office. This activity began after her first daughter was born, and while she was pregnant with a second child.