Pachi Torreblanca

Pachi Torreblanca, born Fedora Casandra Torreblanca Francisco, Santiago, Chile, 9 September 1948, was a stage and movie actress as well as a renowned mime. In 1968 she began acting with the Mimes of Noisvander company (founder Enrique Noisvander), the first mime company in South America, with great local and regional success. Afterwards she also performed in several movies like Los Hijos de la Guerra Fría (Cold War Children; Gonzalo Justiniano, 1986), her first film, which deserved her the Best Actress prize at the Torino Film Festival that year. After acting in the TV series La Invitación (The Invitation, 1987-), she joined the Gran Circo Teatro popular theatre company (founder Andrés Pérez), with which she acted in La Negra Ester (The Black Esther, premiered December 1988), a stage play that enjoyed unprecedented success and was played for many years in Chile and abroad, including at The London International Festival of Theatre in 1989. Later she performed in the film La Rubia de Kennedy (The Blonde of Kennedy Avenue; Arnaldo Valsecchi, 1995) and in the short film Cielo y Cielo, Mar con Mar (Sky and Sky, Sea with Sea; Mauricio García, 2000). In 2003 she moved to Barcelona, where she worked as a teacher of movement as well as meditation teacher, and where she eventually died in 2010. In 1970 Pachi Toreeblanca was married with Mario Fonseca (separated in 1975) with whom they had a daughter Fedora Fonseca Torreblanca.