Agustina Cherri

Agustina Cherri
Born	(1983-02-15) February 15, 1983 Vicente López, Argentina
Occupation(s)	Actress, singer, model
Years active	1989–present
Height	1.50 m (4 ft 11 in)
Partner(s)	Gastón Pauls (2007-2014) Tomás Vera (2014-present)
Children	4

Agustina Cherri (born February 15, 1983, Argentina) is one of the leading actresses in Argentina with more than 30 years of career.

Biography

Agustina Cherri grew up as a fan of Flavia Palmiero, a famous children's show host during Cherri's childhood. She had been taking dancing classes and felt someday she would become a great dancer. In 1990, Agustina heard that there was an audition for children dancers at Palmiero's Telefe television show, La Ola Esta de Fiesta. Cherri asked her mother to take her to the audition, and she was chosen for the show, making it her first show business experience.

Career

Agustina Cherri first taste of fame came after she played Camila in 1991's Grande Pa!, a show that made her popular among Argentine pre-teens. At the same time, she participated in a variation of La Ola Esta de Fiesta, Flavia Esta de Fiesta. In 1993, she played Paola in Regalo del Cielo, which was not a major hit and has been a rather forgotten program by the general public. Her fame continued growing after her first stint at Chiquititas as Milagros Urién and, in 1998, she participated in Verano del '98, she played the role of Violeta Herrera, which was replayed by the Argentine television network in 2005. In 1999, Cherri was given her first opportunity to star in a show, playing Lucia Escobar, the leading female character in Cabecita. Two important events happened in Cherri's career during 2001: She was recalled to play Milagros Urién once again in Chiquititas, and she made her feature film debut, in a movie named Rodrigo, la Pelicula. Cherri participated as Gisela Vargas in Canal 13 Mil Millones, made in 2002, and as Anita in 2003 Son amores. That same year, she modeled for a calendar published by Caras magazine. During 2004, Cherri played Shamira in another major Canal 13 hit, Los Pensionados, and as Angela Capello in Hombres de Honor. In 2006 she starred in one of the chapters of Mujeres asesinas. At the beginning of 2007 she returned to the theater starring in the play ¿Quién le teme a Virginia Woolf?. In 2007 she's starring in the soap Mujeres de Nadie. The role was originally for Marcela Klobooster, who also starred in Chiquititas, but she couldn't accept it. Mujeres de Nadie is doing well on its afternoon slot at Canal 13. That same year she appeared in Todos contra Juan where she depicted herself. In 2009 she starred alongside Carmen Vallejos and Leonor Benedetto the prestigious unitary Rosa, Violeta y Celeste in Canal 7. In 2010 she returns to participate in the telenovela Todos contra Juan. After moving away from acting for almost a year and a half due to motherhood, Agustina returns to television as the protagonist of the new unit of Canal 7, El paraíso alongside Alejandro Awada and Mariano Torre. The unit and the performance of Agustina received extremely favorable reviews. In 2014, she was one of the protagonists of Pol-ka's sitcom Mis amigos de siempre alongside Nicolás Cabre, Nicolás Vázquez, Emilia Attías, Gonzalo Heredia and Calu Rivero. On the screen of Telefe she starred an episode of the unit La celebración, which was recorded a year before its broadcast. In the channel encuentro she produced and narrated the cycle Historias de género. In 2016 she is co-star of the telenovela Los ricos no piden permiso, where she plays Elena. In 2017 she star in the telenovela of Telefe Fanny, la fan where she plays Fanny. She is currently working on a theatrical work directed by Guillermo Francella based on the film of Paolo Genovese "Perfectos Desconocidos" alongside Carlos Portaluppi Magela Zannota, Gonzalo Heredia, Alejandro Awada, Mercedes Funes and Peto Menahem.

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Humanitarian Activities

Since 2004 Agustina along with the support of the Municipality Pilar founded ADA since then chaired the non-profit association. With her charity work and the galas which celebrities came, she managed to open the ADA Home, with space to 20 people. The institution had psychologists and social workers who worked with each person who entered the shelter to facilitate their conditions when entering. The home was a transit institution which aimed to devoted the victims of gender violence the desire to have a decent life and the possibility of reintegrating into society. Currently the foundation is still valid.

Personal life

From 2007 to 2014, Agustina Cherri was in a relationship with fellow Argentine actor Gastón Pauls with whom she has two children, daughter Muna, born on March 14, 2009, and Nilo, born on December 29, 2011.

Since 2014, Agustina Cherri is in a relationship with the musician Tomás Vera. On October 1, 2019, she gave birth to Alba, first daughter with her partner.

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Character	Channel	Notes
1989-1990	La ola esta de fiesta	Herself	Canal 9
1991-1992	Flavia esta de fiesta
1993	Regalo del cielo	Paola	Canal 13
1992-1993	Grande, pa!!!	Camila	Telefe
1994	Más allá del horizonte	Victoria Olazába
1995-1997	Chiquititas	Milagros Urién
1998-1999	Verano del '98	Violeta Herrera
1999-2000	Cabecita	Lucía Escobar
2001	Chiquititas	Milagros Urién
	Braceface	Sharon Spitz	Disney Channel
2002	Mil millones	Gisela Vargas	Canal 13
2003	Son amores	Ana "Anita" Lapromatta
2004	Los pensionados	Shamira
2005	Hombres de honor	Ángela Capello/Patter Nostra
2006	Mujeres asesinas	Sofía		"Episode 28: Sofía, nena de papá"
2007	Mujeres de nadie	Laura "Lali" Garreto
2008	Toilette	Carla	Cosmopolitan Televisión
	Todos contra Juan	Herself	América TV
2009	Rosa, Violeta y Celeste	Celeste	TV Pública
2010	Todos contra Juan 2	Herself	Telefe
2011	El paraíso	Laura Denegri	TV Pública
	Historias Sencillas documental	Herself		Producer
2013	Historias de corazón	Anna	Telefe	"Episode 3: El gran ilusionista"
		Luz		"Episode 23: Una nueva Luz"
2013-2014	Mis amigos de siempre	Rocío Monti	Canal 13
2014	La celebración	María Viviani	Telefe	"Episode 6: Boda"
2015	Conflictos modernos	Solana	Canal 9	"Episode 3: Algo Habrán Hecho"
2016	Los ricos no piden permiso	Elena Rodríguez/Elena Villalba	Canal 13
2017	Fanny, la fan	Fanny Rizzo	Telefe
2020	Separadas	Romina Baldi	Canal 13
2021	La 1-518, somos uno	Lola Vidal

Theater

Year	Title	Character	Director	Theater
1990-1991	La Ola está de fiesta	Dancer
1994	Grande brigada
1996-1997	Chiquititas	Milagros Urién	Cris Morena	Teatro Gran Rex
2001	Chiquititas	Milagros Urién	Cris Morena	Teatro Gran Rex
2006	¿Quién le teme a Virginia Woolf?	Honey		Teatro Regina
2018	Perfectos desconocidos	Bianca	Guillermo Francella	Teatro Metropolitan Sura

Movies

Year	Movie	Character	Director
2001	Rodrigo, la película	Romina	Juan Pablo Laplace

Discography

Solo	Year	Album
«Rechufas»	1995	Chiquititas vol 1
«Habia una vez»
«Mentiritas»
«Chufacha»	1996	Chiquititas vol 2
«Me pasan cosas»
«Chufachon»	1997	Chiquititas vol 3
«Por una sola vez»
«Cabecita»	2000	Cabecita
«Chiquititas baila así»	2001	Chiquititas vol 7
«Ventanita de Los Sueños»
«Vuela»
«Esperanza»

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Program	Result
1996	Premios Martín Fierro	Best Young Actress	Chiquititas	Winner
2022	Premios Martín Fierro	Best Leading Actress	la 1-5/18	Winner

See also

• List of Argentines

External links

• Agustina Cherri at IMDb
• Agustina Cherri at Cinenacional.com (in Spanish) (archive)
• "Agustina Cherri, todo un talento juvenil". Chicos.net (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2005-04-22.