Claudia Dammert

Peruvian actress and comedian

  • Colegio Villa María
  • Lindenwood University
Occupation(s)Actress, comedianSpouses
  • Enrique Jorquera
  • Oscar Cicconi
Children4, including Oriana Cicconi [es]AwardsLuces Award [es] (2016)

María Claudia Dammert Herrera (17 August 1949 – 5 November 2017) was a Peruvian actress and comedian.

Biography

Claudia Dammert was born in San Isidro District, Lima on 17 August 1949, the daughter of María Silvia Herrera Drago and Luis Dammert Muelle.[1][2] She was the great-granddaughter of Juan Luis Dammert Amsink and the philanthropist Juana Alarco de Dammert, granddaughter of Francisco Dammert Alarco, niece of politician Miguel Dammert [es], second niece of Eduardo Dibós Dammert, and second cousin of politician and sociologist Manuel Dammert.

She studied at Colegio Villa María, and after graduation she earned a degree in communication arts at Lindenwood University in Saint Charles, Missouri.[1]

In the 1960s she ventured into the theater, appearing in productions in Lima, Miami, Washington, D.C., Havana, Madrid, and Caracas. She became the first woman to put on one-person shows in Peru.[3][4]

During the military government of Juan Velasco Alvarado, Dammert mounted a one-woman play in which she expressed ideas against the revolution, for which she was briefly jailed.[5]

In 1981, she appeared with Paloma San Basilio and Patxi Andión in the musical Evita, produced in Madrid.[1]

In 2000, Dammert appeared in the high-profile film Proof of Life with Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe.[1][6] That year, she participated as a political activist, opening the Four Quarters March against the Fujimori government.[7]

After living in the Ancash mountains for ten years, supporting the strengthening of the Andean identity and worldview with intercultural radio and TV programs, she returned to the theater in 2009 with her one-woman show Más verde que nunca.[8] In 2010, she acted in the plays August: Osage County and Cómo vivir sin un hombre y no morir en el intento.

Dammert, along with 49 other Peruvian artists, was honored for her career with the Lima Medal in a ceremony organized by the municipality in December 2010.[9]

In 2011, she returned to television in the telenovela Lalola [es], and appeared in the film The Bad Intentions.[10] She finished the year with her performance as the two mothers of Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez, which was selected to represent Peru at the Ibero-American Theater Festival in Bogotá in March 2012.[11]

In 2012, she presented the one-woman show Psicomedia.[3] She reprised this the following year as Psicomedia ¡alto voltage!, with the character Patricia Pardo de Prado.[4]

In 2016, she appeared in the play Reglas para vivir, and had her first leading film role as Marialicia in Deliciosa fruta seca.[12] For the former, she won the Luces Award [es] for Best Theatrical Actress.[13]

In 2017, Claudia Dammert presented the play Tu madre, la Concho.[14] She died from a heart attack later that year, on 5 November.[1]

Her daughter Oriana Cicconi [es] is an actress, radio announcer, and YouTuber.[15]

Filmography

Film

  • Yo hice a Roque III [es] (1980) as Nurse
  • Proof of Life (2000) as Ginger
  • Cuando el cielo es azul (2005)
  • The Bad Intentions (2011)
  • La herencia (2015)
  • Cementerio general 2 [es] (2015)
  • Deliciosa fruta seca (2016) as Marialicia
  • Sobredosis de amor [es] (2017)
  • Gemelos sin cura (2017)

Television

  • La Fábrica (1972)
  • Matrimonios y algo más (1983)
  • Carmín (1984) as Liliana
  • Rosa de invierno (1988)
  • Mala mujer (1991)
  • Energía todo el día, presenter
  • Lalola [es] (2011) as Gina Calori

Theater

  • Evita (1981) (Madrid)
  • El ritual de la salamandra (1982) as Evilia (Washington, D.C.)
  • Diamantes en almíbar (1984)
  • Yo me bajo en la próxima, ¿y usted? [es] (1985)
  • Coser y cantar (1986) (Washington, D.C.)
  • Extraño juguete (1986) as Ángela (Washington, D.C.)
  • Agnes de Dios (1988)
  • Brujas [es] (1991)
  • La Chunga [es] (1996) as Chunga (Washington, D.C.)
  • Gala en el Watergate (1997) (Washington, D.C.)
  • Quíntuples (1998) as Dafne, Bianca, and Carlota Morrison (Washington, D.C. and Havana)
  • Claudia hace historia.... Y crea histeria (1992) (Peru, Venezuela, and Cuba)
  • Yo Claudia... Yo mujer
  • Terapia de grupo para amargados colectivos
  • Candidaza al 2000 (2000) Patricia Pardo de Prado
  • Más verde que nunca (2009)
  • August: Osage County (2010) as Violeta
  • Cómo vivir sin un hombre y no morir en el intento (2010)
  • La pequeña fiesta (2011)
  • Chronicle of a Death Foretold (2011) as Plácida Linero and Pura Vicario
  • Lúcido (2012) as Teté
  • Psicomedia (2012) as Mani, Linda, Domi, Barbie, and Martirio
  • Psicomedia ¡Alto voltaje! (2013) as Patricia Pardo de Prado
  • Akaloradas (2013-2014)
  • Mujeres de ceniza (2015)
  • Reglas para vivir (2016) as Edith
  • Atrévete a ser feliz (2016)
  • Tu madre, la Concho (2017)

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "La reconocida actriz peruana Claudia Dammert murió a los 68 años" [The Distinguished Peruvian Actress Claudia Dammert Dies at 68] (in Spanish). Radio Programas del Perú. 5 November 2017. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Claudia Dammert, sus preguntas y sus convicciones sobre la muerte" [Claudia Dammert, Her Questions and Her Convictions About Death]. El Regional Piurra (in Spanish). 6 November 2017. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Claudia Dammert: 'Fui la primera mujer en hacer unipersonales'" [Claudia Dammert: 'I Was the First Woman to Do One-Person Shows']. El Comercio (in Spanish). 27 September 2012. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  4. ^ a b "Claudia Dammert vuelve a escena con nueva temporada de 'Psicomedia'" [Claudia Dammert Returns to the Scene With a New Season of 'Psicomedia']. El Comercio (in Spanish). 26 February 2013. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  5. ^ "Claudia Dammert, la actriz que fue a la cárcel por un unipersonal" [Claudia Dammert, the Actress Who Went to Prison for a One-Woman Show]. 15 Minutos (in Spanish). 6 November 2017. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  6. ^ Willis, John; Monush, Barry, eds. (25 March 2002). "Proof of Life". Screen World 2001. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 155. ISBN 9781557834782. Retrieved 6 August 2021 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ Gutiérrez, Fidel (22 September 2009). "Claudia Dammert: Tuve que vencer mis propios monstruos al mudarme al campo" [Claudia Dammert: I had to defeat my own monsters by moving to the country] (in Spanish). Lima. Andina. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  8. ^ Perich, Tatiana (27 August 2009). "Claudia Dammert regresa más verde que nunca" [Claudia Dammert Returns Greener Than Ever]. El Comercio Blogs (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 18 September 2010. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  9. ^ "Reconocidos actores y cantantes nacionales recibirán la Medalla de Lima" [Distinguished National Actors and Singers to Receive the Medal of Lima]. El Comercio (in Spanish). 29 December 2010. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  10. ^ Rojas, Laslo (7 February 2011). "Berlinale 2011: Imágenes del rodaje de 'Las malas intenciones'" [Berlinale 2011: Images From the Filming of 'The Bad Intentions']. Cinencuentro (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  11. ^ "Peruanos presentes en Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro en Bogotá" [Peruvians Perform at Ibero-American Theater Festival in Bogotá] (in Spanish). Radio Programas del Perú. 23 March 2012. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  12. ^ "La Gran Fruta". Caretas (in Spanish). 27 June 2019. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  13. ^ "Claudia Dammert: actriz murió a los 68 años de edad" [Claudia Dammert: Actress Dies at 68]. El Comercio (in Spanish). Lima. 6 November 2017. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  14. ^ "Tu Madre, La Concho". Caretas (in Spanish). 2017. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  15. ^ "Oriana Cicconi: 'Mi mamá se fue como quiso irse'" [Oriana Cicconi: 'My Mother left as she wanted to leave'] (in Spanish). Radio Programas del Perú. 6 November 2017. Retrieved 6 August 2021.

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