--- name: "Ariel Dorfman" canonical: "https://film.one/person/ariel-dorfman" fi1m_id: "ariel-dorfman" imdb_id: "nm0233557" tmdb_id: 65540 wikidata_id: "Q659027" roles: ["Producer"] born: "6 May 1942" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "producer" average_over: 0 updated: "2026-10-04T23:59:59.463386+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Ariel Dorfman ## Identity Ariel Dorfman - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ariel-dorfman - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** ariel-dorfman - **IMDb ID:** nm0233557 - **TMDB ID:** 65540 - **Wikidata ID:** Q659027 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Dorfman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q659027, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0233557/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/65540 Producer. Born 6 May 1942 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ## Details - **Work:** Producer - **Born:** 6 May 1942, Buenos Aires, Argentina - **Also known as:** Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Dorfman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q659027, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0233557/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/65540 ## Streaming the US now - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Death and the Maiden*](https://film.one/film/death-and-the-maiden.md) (74) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Ariel Dorfman (born Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman, 6 May 1942) is an Argentine-born Chilean-American novelist, playwright, essayist and academic. His family moved to the United States shortly after his birth and settled in Chile in 1954. He studied at the University of Chile, where he later taught, and served as cultural adviser to President Salvador Allende from 1970 to 1973. Following the 1973 military coup, Dorfman went into exile and has divided his time between Chile and the United States. Since 1985 he has been a professor of literature and Latin American studies at Duke University. He became a United States citizen in 2004. Dorfman is best known for his play *Death and the Maiden* (1990), which he adapted with Rafael Yglesias as the screenplay for the 1994 film directed by Roman Polanski. His other works include novels, essays and the memoir *Heading South, Looking North* (1998). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, britannica.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Death and the Maiden* (1994), Fi1m 74, Screenplay, Co-Producer, Theatre Play — [page](https://film.one/film/death-and-the-maiden.md) ## Complete filmography (3) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman* (2007), Book - *Soriano* (1999), Actor - *Death and the Maiden* (1994), Screenplay, Theatre Play, Co-Producer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/death-and-the-maiden.md) ## Gallery - ![Ariel Dorfman](https://film.one/media/person/5564161/gallery-6438f989a7ca.jpg) Ariel Dorfman — Robin Kirk, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Ariel_Dorfman_%284115073947%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Ariel Dorfman speaks about "Poems from Guantanamo" (2007)](https://film.one/media/person/5564161/gallery-0f968fa066d1.jpg) Ariel Dorfman speaks about "Poems from Guantanamo" (2007) — Robin Kirk, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Ariel_Dorfman_%281463213435%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Ariel Dorfman speaks about "Poems from Guantanamo" (2007)](https://film.one/media/person/5564161/gallery-c4741b73cb2b.jpg) Ariel Dorfman speaks about "Poems from Guantanamo" (2007) — Robin Kirk, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Ariel_Dorfman_%281463213435%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Ariel Dorfman, Patrick Stawski, Deborah Jakubs, Holly Ackerman and Amb. Munoz (2009)](https://film.one/media/person/5564161/gallery-19c59604f322.jpg) Ariel Dorfman, Patrick Stawski, Deborah Jakubs, Holly Ackerman and Amb. Munoz (2009) — Robin Kirk, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Dorfman_Stawski_Jakubs_Ackerman_Munoz_%284115073947%29.jpg/1280px-Dorfman_Stawski_Jakubs_Ackerman_Munoz_%284115073947%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Book cover photograph. Siglo XXI Editores.Argentina.2002 edition. (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/5564161/gallery-50b58d27786c.jpg) Book cover photograph. Siglo XXI Editores.Argentina.2002 edition. (2024) — Adrimarci, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Para_leer_al_pato_Donald._Fotograf%C3%ADa_del_libro.Edici%C3%B3n_del_2002.jpg/1280px-Para_leer_al_pato_Donald._Fotograf%C3%ADa_del_libro.Edici%C3%B3n_del_2002.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Other awards — 1 won - Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play 1992: Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play (won), for *Death and the Maiden* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/ariel-dorfman