Luz Jiménez (actress)

Luz Jiménez Ormeño (born 18 December 1934) is a Chilean actress, theater director, and teacher who gained recognition for her performances in the roles of Maruja in the play Tres Marías y una Rosa (1979) and Kiki Blanche in the telenovela Bellas y audaces (1988). She has developed a career spanning 50 years, in which she gained popularity mainly as a theater and television actress.

She began acting theatrically in the 1950s, and during the 1980s became one of the first important figures of the then-emerging telenovela industry at Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN) centered around Sonia Fuchs. Since then, she has been considered one of the country's most respected figures in the performing arts.

Among her most recognized collaborations are those she formed with director Vicente Sabatini, appearing in important telenovelas such as La torre 10 (1984), Marta a las ocho (1985), Teresa de los Andes (1989), Oro verde (1997), La fiera (1999), Romané (2000), Pampa Ilusión (2001), El circo de las Montini (2002), Corazón de María (2007), Manuel Rodríguez (2010), and La Doña (2011).

In 2015, she was recognized with a career award at the first La Serena Film Festival.

In 2017, she obtained a small role in the Rede Globo series Os Dias Eram Assim.