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Patricio Contreras (born December 15, 1947) is a Chilean-Argentine television, film and stage actor.
Biography
Contreras was born in Santiago, Chile in 1947 and emigrated to neighboring Argentina following the 1973 coup d'état against left-wing President Salvador Allende, of whom Contreras was a vocal supporter. He was shortly afterwards cast in a number of minor Argentine cinema roles, notable among them a part in Adolfo Aristarain's 1978 crime thriller, La parte del león (The Lion's Share).
He married an up-and-coming Argentine actress, Leonor Manso, in 1981, and in 1983, he was given his first significant film role as the treacherous Sergeant Comini in Aristarain's Funny Dirty Little War. Contreras then gave what became perhaps his best-known performance as the targeted Professor Benítez in the Oscar-winning The Official Story (1985), for which he was awarded a Silver Condor. This was followed a leading role in Juan José Jusid's emotional look at exile, Made in Argentina (1986), which earned Contreras a Havana Film Festival Best Actor Award.
He appeared next to Gregory Peck and Jane Fonda in the 1989 movie Old Gringo.
He starred in fellow Chilean exile Miguel Littín's Sandino (1990),