Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende

Acting
1942-08-02
Lima, Peru

Biography

Isabel Allende is a Chilean-American writer. She is best known for novels such as "The House of the Spirits" (La casa de los espíritus, 1982) and "City of the Beasts" (La ciudad de las bestias, 2002).

Known For & Full Filmography17 Titles

#1Omnibus

Drama Series - 1967, 16 episodes as Self

7.2 / 10
Documentary

Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the successor to the long-running arts-based series 'Monitor'. It ran from 1967 until 2003, usually being transmitted on Sunday evenings. During its 35-year history, the programme won 12 Bafta awards. Among the series' best remembered documentaries are Cracked Actor, a profile of David Bowie, and Rene Magritte, a graduate film by David Wheatley, 'Madonna: Behind the American dream', a film produced by Nadia Hagger, and a profile of the British film director Ridley Scott. For a season in 1982, the series was in a magazine format presented by Barry Norman. The series was replaced by 'Imagine' hosted by Alan Yentob.

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#2Jane the Virgin

Drama Series - 2014, 16 episodes as Isabel Allende

7.9 / 10
ComedyDrama

A comedy-drama following a chaste young woman who is accidentally impregnated via artificial insemination as she struggles to inform her devoutly religious family and make the right choices concerning the child. Based on the telenovela "Juana la virgen."

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#3Apostrophes

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes as Self

8.5 / 10
Talk

Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.

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#4Poder & verdad

Drama Series - 2021, 16 episodes as Self

2.0 / 10
Talk

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#5La Revuelta

Drama Series - 2024, 16 episodes as Self - Guest

5.2 / 10
ComedyTalk

David Broncano, along with Jorge Ponce, Ricardo Castella and his other collaborators, lead La Revuelta, a comedy show that includes multiple sections and interviews from the Teatro Príncipe Gran Vía in Madrid.

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#6Kulturplatz

Drama Series - 2004, 16 episodes as Self

6.0 / 10
NewsDocumentary

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#7Q&A

Drama Series - 2008, 16 episodes as Self - Panellist

3.2 / 10
NewsTalk

Hosted by Hamish Macdonald, Q&A puts punters, pollies and pundits together in the studio to thrash out the hot issues of the week. It's about democracy in action - the audience gets to ask the questions.

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#8Animal nocturno

Drama Series - 2006, 16 episodes as Self

6.0 / 10
Talk

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#9Unfinished Diary

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m as The friend of childhood

8.0 / 10
Documentary

In this heartwarming docudrama, Chilean immigrant Marilú Mallet strives to make a film about her experience of deep isolation. Her English-speaking husband, a prominent film director, criticizes her subjective approach to filmmaking; her young son, raised in Quebec, speaks only French. Interviews with Isabel Allende and other Chilean exiles reveal a deep bond in this powerful and resonant film about language and genre, exile and immigration.

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#10Santiago Files

Movie - 2011, 2h 15m as Self

6.0 / 10
Documentary

President Salvador Allende's topple from Chile's unstable government and the CIA's involvement in the September Coup that would turn the South American socialist country into a dictatorship.

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#11Viola Chilensis

Movie - 2003, 2h 15m as Self

7.7 / 10
Documentary

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#12A Fierce Green Fire

Movie - 2013, 2h 15m as Narrator (voice)

5.8 / 10
DocumentaryHistory

It is the largest movement the world has ever seen, it may also be the most important - in terms of what's at stake. Yet it's not east being green. Environmentalists have been reviled as much as revered, for being killjoys and Cassandras. Every battle begins as a lost cause and even the victories have to be fought for again and again. Still, environmentalism is one of the great social innovations of the twentieth century, and one of the keys to the twenty-first. It has arisen at a key juncture in history, when humans have come to rival nature as a power determining the fate of the earth.

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#13The Gifts of Grief

Movie - 2005, 2h 15m as Self

8.8 / 10

A documentary that explores how seven remarkable people embrace their pain, learn to live with their loss, and now engage in life with more compassion, courage, and awareness. The personal and moving stories include those of author Isabel Allende, Reverend Cecil Williams, writer Alana Laraine, Zen Monk/Vietnam Veteran Claude AnShin Thomas, youth motivator Vinny Ferrero, and filmmaker Lee Mun Wah. With courage, these people invite the viewer to open up to the pain of grief and discover for themselves the extraordinary opportunities their own losses may reveal.

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#14The Power of the Heart

Movie - 2014, 2h 15m as Self

6.0 / 10
Documentary

From the director of ‘THE SECRET’ comes this unparalleled and life-changing film about the astonishing power and intelligence of your heart. Featuring some of the most inspiring and influential icons of our age including Paulo Coelho, Maya Angelou, Deepak Chopra, Isabel Allende, and Eckhart Tolle, ‘THE POWER OF THE HEART’ – which ties into a book of the same name – is an experience that will lead you to uncover... and rediscover... the treasure in your chest.

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#15Isabel Allende: A Writer in Exile

Movie - 2025, 2h 15m as Self - Writer

8.8 / 10
DocumentaryHistoryTV Movie

A look at the life and work of Chilean writer Isabel Allende, the most widely read author in Spanish, with a special focus on her latest novel.

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#16The Inconclusive Independence

Movie - 2010, 2h 15m as Self - Writer. Chile

6.5 / 10
Documentary

Documentary about the independence and history of Latin America.

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#17Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir

Movie - 2021, 2h 15m as Self

8.2 / 10
Documentary

Amy Tan has established herself as one of America’s most respected literary voices. Born to Chinese immigrant parents, it would be decades before the author of The Joy Luck Club would fully understand the inherited trauma rooted in the legacies of women who survived the Chinese tradition of concubinage.

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