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Paula Luchsinger Escobar (Santiago, December 24, 1994) is a chilean film and television actress, recognized for her participation in the film El Conde (2023), the series La jauría (2020) and different chilean soap operas, including Yo soy Lorenzo (2019).

Artistic career
He studied law at the Law School of the Universidad de Chile. After completing and passing her first year of law school, she enrolled in an acting career at the School of Theater of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Subsequently, she completed a degree in Aesthetics and Philosophy at the same university, and a degree in Biology of Knowledge and Human Communication at the Universidad de Chile.

Parallel to her university studies, at the age of 20 she made her television debut, beginning a prolific national and international career in film and television, which made her be considered by chilean actors as "one of the most promising talents of her generation", being highlighted as "a rising star" on the cover of Wiken Magazine on August 7, 2020, and later, on May 7, 2022, she was distinguished as "Revelation actress" in Chile by the newspaper El Mercurio.

Soap operas
Her television career began with soap operas on the Mega television network, the channel with the most watched dramatic productions in Chile. In 2015 she participated in an episode of the soap opera Papá a la deriva. Then, she became part of the stable cast of the dramatic area of the channel.

During 2016 and 2017 she participated in her first soap opera, Señores papis, in which she played Ignacia Pereira, the daughter of Francisco Melo and Francisca Imboden's characters.

During 2017 and 2018 she participated in the soap opera Tranquilo papá.

During 2019 and 2020 she played Blanca's main antagonist character in the musical soap opera Yo soy Lorenzo, set in the 1960s, a role for which she had to take dance classes and study movies and TV series of the time. In the telenovela, she also had to perform the song "Tú serás mi baby".

In 2021 she starred in two soap operas in Mega. She co-starred in the soap opera Edificio Corona. She also played an antagonistic role in the telenovela Amar Profundo, playing Jeimy Contreras, a strage young woman who could not stand the precariousness of the fishing, but due to a family debt, she was forced to join the artisanal fishing business. For this role she won the category "Best Youth Interpretation" at the Premios Foronovelas 2022.

In 2023 she acted in the telenovela Dime con quién andas of Paramount+ and Chilevisión, playing Bruna Ayala, one of the co-starring roles in the plot.

Series
In 2019, he appeared in two episodes of the series Los Spookys on the HBO television network.

In 2020 she premiered his first series, La jauría, a police drama produced by audiovisual production company Fábula and Fremantle for Televisión Nacional de Chile, released in Latin America and Spain by Prime Video and by HBO Max in the United States.

For her performance in the lead role of Celeste Ibarra, she was nominated for "Breakthrough Actress" at the 2020 Produ Awards, shortlisted for "Best Female Supporting Performance" at the eighth edition of the Premios Platino, was winner of the "Best Female Supporting Performance" category of the Premios Estrella that same year, and was nominated for "Best Leading Actress" at the 2022 Premios Caleuche. She previously attended the 2019 Zurich Film Festival gala as a representative of the cast of the series. In an interview with BBC, Luchsinger highlighted that the series "breaks with several paradigms, because it stars women, and strong women. And that shows a very important change compared to television products where only men were protagonists", adding that "what is in the series is a show of women demanding their rights. It is not a war against men, because feminism does not want that. It wants equal rights and that is evident throughout the chapters".

Cinema
During 2019 she released her first film, Ema, shot in Valparaíso, directed by Pablo Larraín and produced by Fábula, where she played the supporting role of María, a role for which she had to take dance classes and dye her hair completely light blue. The film had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival, where it was selected to compete for the Golden Lion 2019, the main award of the Mostra, having a great critical reception. In an interview in Revista Ya of El Mercurio, Luchsinger highlighted about the people who starred in the film that "in the bodies of these women are embodied such powerful ideas as freedom and rebellion. I also feel that they are female minds very little visited, or associated with bad things: the strong, sensual woman is always the enemy and never the heroine, as in this case, Ema is".

In 2023, she released her second film, El Conde, directed by Pablo Larraín, produced by Fábula and Netflix, which premiered at the 80th edition of the Venice International Film Festival on August 30, 2023 (it was selected to compete for the Golden Lion 2023 and won the Osella Prize for Best Screenplay) and by Netflix worldwide on September 15, 2023. In it, she played the character of the nun Carmen, the main antagonist of the film. Her performance was well received by critics for its transcendence in the plot, the character's complex personality and demonstrated abilities, as well as its proximity to the portrayal of María Falconetti in Carl Theodor Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc, to the point that film critic Anthony Lane of The New Yorker stated that "no one in the film makes a more surprising impact than Luchsinger". Luchsinger attended the film's premiere at the 80th Venice International Film Festival on behalf of the cast. During the international press conference, Luchsinger commented to Variety magazine on the importance of the work in the context of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the coup d'état in Chile, noting that "this is a film that can start a national conversation", adding that "there is a resurgence of the extreme right in Chile and this is a necessary film because it reminds us that Pinochet went unpunished". Likewise, on the red carpet of the film's premiere, the style and elegance of her look was highlighted by Vogue magazine and other chilean media.