Benjamín Vicuña

**Benjamín Vicuña Luco** (born November 29, 1978) is a Chilean film, theater and television actor and businessman, who has developed his career in Chile as well as in Argentina and Spain. Together with Gonzalo Valenzuela, he is the founder of the Mori Cultural Center. He was selected as the seventh best Chilean actor of all time by the _Chile Elige_ list, in 2006.

## Childhood and studies

He is the youngest of the four children of Juan Pablo Vicuña Parot and Isabel Luco Morandé —the others are: Carolina (psychologist), María José (painter) and Juan Pablo (architect)—.  His parents separated when he was 4 years old and his mother remarried Oussama Aboughazal.

Upon finishing school, he entered the theater career at the University of Chile.  There he discovered his companions, with whom he would later form "El Hijo", a theater company that has staged works such as "El lugar comun", "Sala de urgencies", "Ifigenia", "Cuec@" and "La mujer gallina". At this stage of his life, he also experienced "street theater", encouraged by the masters of Chilean theater: Fernando González, Alfredo Castro, Rodrigo Pérez and Ramón Griffero, to name a few.

## Television

|style="text-align:center;"|Year|style="text-align:center;"|Title|style="text-align:center;"|Channel|style="text-align:center;"|Character|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2000|align="left"|_Vivir al Día_|style="text-align:center;"|Red Televisión|align="left"|||
|2001|align="left"|_Piel Canela_|style="text-align:center;"|Canal 13|align="left"|Gabriel Vallejos||
|2002-2003|align="left"|_Purasangre_|style="text-align:center;"|TVN|align="left"|Rafael Callasis||
|rowspan="2"|2003|align="left"|_Pecadores_|style="text-align:center;"|TVN|align="left"|Herodes Barriga, El Piruja|
|align="left"|_La vida es una lotería_ <small>(episode: _Pobre Millonario_)</small>|style="text-align:center;"|TVN|align="left"|Javier Soto|||
|2004|align="left"|_Destinos Cruzados_|style="text-align:center;"|TVN|align="left"|Franco Schiafino||
|2005-2010|align="left"|_Los Simuladores_|style="text-align:center;"|Canal 13|align="left"|Gabriel Medina||
|2006-2008|align="left"|_Huaiquimán y Tolosa_|style="text-align:center;"|Canal 13|align="left"|Richard Tolosa||
|2007|align="left"|_Héroes_|style="text-align:center;"|Canal 13|align="left"|Manuel Rodríguez||
|2008-2009|align="left"|_Don Juan y su bella dama_|style="text-align:center;"|Telefe|align="left"|Franco Ramirez Puente||
|2010|align="left"|_Los Hombres de Paco_ (Spain)|style="text-align:center;"|Antena 3|align="left"|Deker||
|2011-2012|align="left"|_Herederos de una venganza_|style="text-align:center;"|Argentina|align="left"|Benicio Echagüe, El Maldito||
|2011-2013|align="left"|_Prófugos_ (LatinAmerica)|style="text-align:center;"|HBO|align="left"|Alvaro Parraguez / Tegui||
|2011-2014|align="left"|_Los archivos del cardenal_|style="text-align:center;"|TVN|align="left"|Ramón Sarmiento||
|2012|align="left"|_La Dueña_|style="text-align:center;"|Telefe|align="left"|Félix Fernández||
|2013-2014|align="left"|_Farsantes_|style="text-align:center;"|El Trece|align="left"|Pedro Beggio||
|2015|align="left"|_Entre caníbales_|style="text-align:center;"|Telefe|align="left"|Agustín Larralde||
|2015-2018|align="left"|_Sitiados_|style="text-align:center;"|Fox, TVN|align="left"|Agustín González||
|rowspan="2"|2016|align="left"|_2091_|style="text-align:center;"|Fox|align="left"|Lodi|
|align="left"|_Por Fin Solos_|style="text-align:center;"|TVN|align="left"|Gonzalo Munoz|||
|2017|align="left"|_Un Diablo Con Ángel_|style="text-align:center;"|TVN|align="left"|Gaspar Muñoz||
|2018|align="left"|_100 Days to Fall in Love_|style="text-align:center;"|Telefe|align="left"|Emiliano Iturria||
|2018-2019|align="left"|_Locked Up_|style="text-align:center;"|Fox|align="left"|Antonio Hierro||
|2019|align="left"|_Argentina, tierra de amor y venganza_|style="text-align:center;"|El Trece|align="left"|Torcuato Ferreyra||
|2019-2020|align="left"|_Berko: el arte de callar_|style="text-align:center;"|FOX/TVN|align="left"|Boris Berkowitz||
|2020|align="left"|_Inés del alma mía_|style="text-align:center;"|RTVE, Boomerang TV, Chilevisión|align="left"|Rodrigo de Quiroga||
|rowspan="3"|2021|align="left"|_Demente_|style="text-align:center;"|Mega|align="left"|Joaquín Acevedo|
|align="left"|_The First of Us_|style="text-align:center;"|Telefe|align="left"|Santiago|||
|align="left"|_Terapia alternativa_|style="text-align:center;"|Star+|align="left"||||

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Benjamín Vicuña
- **image**: Benjamín Vicuña 02.jpg
- **image size**: 220px
- **caption**: Benjamín Vicuña in 2006.
- **birth name**: Benjamín Vicuña Luco
- **birth place**: Santiago, Chile
- **alma mater**: University of Chile
- **occupation**: Actor and Entrepreneur
- **years active**: 1998–present
- **partner**: Carolina Ardohain
(2005–2015)
China Suárez
(2015–2021)
- **children**: 6 (one deceased)