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María Florencia Peña, (Buenos Aires, November 7, 1974) is an Argentine actress, comedian, television host and producer. She began her television career at the age of seven in singing competition series Festilindo in 1983. Peña rose to fame as "La Pechocha" in the hit comedy series Son De Diez (1992–95). After the show ended and feeling unsatisfied with her sexualized image, she decided to undergo breast reduction surgery to further pursue her acting career. Peña's popularity declined during the late 1990s, while she began to produce her own projects.

On the following decade, she joined sketch comedy show Poné a Francella (2001–02), for which she received two Martín Fierro nominations for Best Comedic Performance, and won a Martín Fierro Award for Best Leading Actress in a Miniseries for her performance in the miniseries Disputas (2003). Her starring role as Flor Finkel in the sitcom La Niñera (2004–05) established her as a leading television comedy actress and won her a Martín Fierro Award for Best Leading Actress in a Comedy Series. She continued her successful comedy career with the sitcom Casados con Hijos ((2005–06), which became one of the biggest shows in Argentina's history and earned her another Martín Fierro Award. Peña is also an accomplished theater actress, winning ACE Awards for her performances in Sweet Charity (2007) and Un Dios Salvaje (2009–10).

Fonda has been an activist for many political causes.

Early years
Florencia Peña was born in Buenos Aires on November 7, 1974. Her father Julio is a systems analyst, while her mother Norma is a retired ballerina, having danced in the Teatro Argentino de La Plata. In 1983, Peña was seven years old when she saw a commercial for a casting call for the children's singing competition series Festilindo, that aired on Canal Trece. She immediately asked her mother to take her to the audition and was cast on the show from more than 1000 girls. Peña has said, "I remember Festilindo with a lot of love and affection, it was where I started out. An experience like that at 7 years old leaves a mark on you, and I think that's where my love for [performing] comes from." During the 1980s, she also appeared as a child panelist in Canal 7's newsmagazine La Gente del 2000 (1985) and had supporting roles in series such as Canal 7's Chispiluz (1987), Canal 13's Clave de Sol (1988–89) and Nosotros y los otros (1989–90). Her roles in the last two projects greatly increased her profile.

1992–2000
In 1992, she was cast at the age of eighteen on Son De Diez, a comedy series that lasted four seasons in Argentine network Canal 13. The show was a ratings success, averaging a 40.0 rating per episode, while her character Barbara soon became known as "La Pechocha" because of Peña's breast size. Peña became the breakthrough star of the show and was dubbed a sex symbol by magazines and tabloids. Following the end of the show in 1995, she was approached to do the cover of Playboy and her only acting offers were as a vedette in revue shows. She became conflicted with the disconnect between her career goals and her sexualized public image and underwent breast reduction surgery at age 19. On the same year, she bought her first home which was valued at 90,000 US dollars, when she had a net worth of only 40,000. She struggled economically for the next year and a half, and was going to put her house on sale until she was cast on Sueltos (1996–97) and subsequently in De Corazón (1997–98), two telenovelas that aired on Canal 13.

Peña mortgaged her home multiple times to produce her own plays and musicals. Her first play was an production of Cinderella (1997) at the Recoleta Cultural Centre, which was panned by critics. The reviews for the show greatly affected Peña. On the same year, she made a cameo appearance on a performance of the Buenos Aires production of Beauty and the Beast, with all of the proceedings being donated to Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. In 2000, she starred opposite Mónica Ayos, Mariana Briski and Lidia Catalano in the short-lived sketch comedy series Chabonas. The show received mostly negative reviews from critics, who criticized it for being a sexist and stereotypical view of women and deemed the performances as overacted and grotesque. The actresses defended their intent and the project, but Chabonas was cancelled after two months.

2001–2006
In 2001, Peña became part of the supporting cast of Poné a Francella, which earned her great reviews from critics and earned her two Martín Fierro nominations for Best Comedic Performance. Leila Guerriero from La Nación said that it was around this time when "Florencia started to become something like an Olmedo with a skirt, a hidden cult actress." She was also the host on singing competition series Cantaniño (2002–03).

In 2003, she starred as a prostitute named Majo in the Telefe miniseries Disputas, directed by Adrián Caetano. Her sex scenes, including some scenes with actor Damián De Santo, sparked controversy, with some journalists suggesting that the scenes were real. In 2004, Peña starred as Flor Finkel (Fran Fine) in an Argentine adaptation of The Nanny, on Argentine network Telefe. The series was a co-production between Telefe Contenidos and Sony Pictures Television, and was the first Spanish-speaking adaptation of the show, as well as the first adaptation of an American sitcom in Argentina. Executives from Sony Pictures travelled to Buenos Aires and spent two weeks with the cast and crew to help them understand the rhythm and tone of the American sitcom. The show premiered on January 19, 2004, to a rating of 29.2, becoming the highest-rated show of the day, and held an average rating of 22.7 during its first two months.

Personal life
During the 1990s, Peña had long-term relationships with actors Diego Olivera and Martín Karpan.

In 2002, Peña began dating musician Mariano Otero. After three months, Peña became pregnant with her first child. Tomás Otero was born on March 2003. Peña said, "Intuitively I knew I had to bring Tomás to the world [...] I'm very addicted to my work, I'm always doing a thousand things and if I would've had to decide when to become a mother, I don't think I would've been able to."

In 2013, a sex tape of Peña with her then-husband Mariano Otero was published on the website of Argentine tabloid magazine El Sensacional. The tabloid is owned by Grupo Veintitrés, a media company that also publishes Tiempo Argentino, the newspaper in which Peña wrote a weekly column. Authorities of Grupo Veintitrés publicly apologized to Peña and referred to the tape leaking as a "mistake".

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, as well as the Mothers and Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, sent her messages expressing their solidarity.

==In the media==

Activism
Following the death of former president Néstor Kirchner, Peña said, "We lost a great leader, as great as the country he dreamed of".

Cultural critic Beatriz Sarlo expressed that in the beginning of Kirchnerism, the government did not have a strong support from the arts community, but "they [have] won a cultural battle. Andrea Del Boca and Florencia Peña share screen time with intellectuals in the party's ceremonies".