Felipe Braun

Felipe Braun Valenzuela (Mexico City, December 3, 1970) is a Chilean film, theater and television actor who has also ventured into theater directing, production, cultural management, gastronomy and livestock.

Felipe Braun
Braun in 2009
Born	Felipe Braun Valenzuela December 3, 1970 Mexico City, México
Occupation	Actor

He made his debut in the soap operas in 1994 playing a young schoolboy fanatic of the Colo-Colo football team in Rompecorazón and since then his presence in this genre has been constant. One of his most applauded roles has been that of Ariel Mercader, a homosexual doctor in Machos (Channel 13, 2003).

As an actor in the cinematographic genre, he began in 1997 in the short film by Marco Enríquez-Ominami 10.7: The case of Monserrat de Amesti (screenplay by Alberto Fuguet and Rafael Gumucio); in 2000 he participated in another short, Smog, by Sebastián Lelio and Marialy Rivas, and in his first feature film, Monos con navaja, a Stanley Gonczanski film based on the play Munchile (1998) by Rodrigo Achondo. Later, he has acted in several films playing various roles, including the main one in Dark Illuminated, by Miguel Ángel Vidaurre (2008).

In theater, he starred with Antonia Zegers In My Way (2003), a play directed by Achondo that tells the story of a kidnapping; he also participated in the 2005 revival of Rojas Magallanes, a piece by the same director. In Charly Tango he played Polo, a blind tourist businessman. Braun is also a director and as such he mounted in 2002 Fragments of a farewell letter read by geologists, by Normand Chaurette (presented at the Museum of Natural History with Mariana Loyola and Luciano Cruz-Coke) and Miss Julia, by August Strindberg (Theater Municipal de Santiago, with Ximena Rivas and Cruz-Coke). As a cultural manager, he founded in 2001 with the latter actor the Lastarria 90 Theater, known as L90, a cultural center where a series of theatrical works have been staged and has supported the development of several films through the digital cinema competition .

In 2011, he returned to the theater as the lead in Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman, directed by Willy Semler, in which he plays the role of Katurian, author of ghoulish tales. In 2013, after 11 years, he returned to National Television to star in the soap opera Solamente Julia. Later, he participated in Volver a amar, La Chúcara, El camionero, La colombiana and finally Amar a morir in 2019, the latest TVN telenovela. Likewise, with Amar a Morir he culminated his career in soap operas and officially withdrew on July 14, 2020 during an interview in which he announced the decision. [1][2]