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name: "Cristina Banegas"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/cristina-banegas"
fi1m_id: "cristina-banegas"
tmdb_id: 1028517
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "26 February 1948"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T01:04:48.486279+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."
---

# Cristina Banegas

## Identity

Cristina Banegas

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/cristina-banegas
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** cristina-banegas
- **TMDB ID:** 1028517
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1028517

Actor. Born 26 February 1948 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 26 February 1948, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1028517

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*The Two Popes*](https://film.one/film/the-two-popes.md) (75)

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## Biography

Cristina Banegas is an Argentine actress who has worked in film, television and theatre since the mid-1960s. She was born on 26 February 1948 in Buenos Aires.

She is known for her roles in *The Two Popes* (2019) as Lisabetta, *Gemini* (2005) as Lucía, *Clandestine Childhood* (2012) as Abuela Amalia, *Wild Tango* (1993) and *Puan* (2023). Banegas has also appeared in numerous television series and has directed for the stage. She received an International Emmy Award in 2012.

Banegas trained and worked extensively in Argentine theatre, including long associations with independent venues in Buenos Aires.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, watch.plex.tv.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Two Popes* (2019), Fi1m 75, as Lisabetta — [page](https://film.one/film/the-two-popes.md)

## Complete filmography (66)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Yiya* (2025), series, as Yiya Murano (anciana)
- *Martina's Search* (2025), as Rosa
- *Surfacing* (2025), as Sara
- *Ariel* (2023), as Silvia Vega
- *Puan* (2023), Actor
- *Cut* (2022), as Numeróloga
- *The Two Popes* (2019), as Lisabetta — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/the-two-popes.md)
- *Inconvivencia* (2019), series, Actor
- *Encerrados* (2018), series, as Narradora
- *The Daughters of Fire* (2018), Actor
- *Variaciones Walsh* (2015), series, as María Elena
- *La Intrusa* (2015), Actor
- *Mika, mi guerra de España* (2013), Actor
- *Santos y pecadores* (2013), series, Actor
- *23 pares* (2012), series, Actor
- *Clandestine Childhood* (2012), as Abuela Amalia
- *Paco Urondo: el poeta y sus armas* (2012), as Voz de Beatriz Urondo
- *El pacto* (2011), series, as Lidia Escudero
- *Glorious Accidents* (2011), Actor
- *Nazion* (2011), Actor
- *Trátame Bien* (2009), series, as Clara Lombardo
- *Rodney* (2009), as La Madre
- *¿De quién es el portaligas?* (2007), as Rosa
- *The Signal* (2007), Actor
- *Arizona sur* (2007), as Nélida
- *Cartoneros* (2006), as Narrator
- *Paco Urondo, la palabra justa* (2005), Actor
- *Criminal* (2005), series, Actor
- *Killer Women* (2005), series, as Elvira, Milagros
- *Your Life for Perón* (2005), Actor
- *Gemini* (2005), as Lucia
- *Palermo Hollywood* (2004), as Beba
- *Cruz de sal* (2004), as Ester
- *Lili's Apron* (2004), Actor
- *El día que me amen* (2003), as Mabel
- *Samy and Me* (2002), as Laura
- *Animalada* (2001), as Natalie
- *Contraluz* (2001), as Sonia
- *Love and Dread* (2001), as Boarding house owner
- *El astillero* (2000), Actor
- *Invocación* (2000), Actor
- *What Your Eyes Don't See* (2000), as The Rubeo
- *Only People* (2000), as Madre Matías
- *The Cloud* (1998), Actor
- *Eva Perón* (1996), as Juana de Ibarbuen
- *Historias de amor, de locura y de muerte* (1996), Actor
- *Grey Fire* (1994), Actor
- *Wild Tango* (1993), as Madre de Mariana
- *Siempre es difícil volver a casa* (1992), Actor
- *The Journey* (1992), as Helena (voice)
- *Dr. Lazarus* (1992), as Tutora Bettina P. Peralta
- *Sinfín (La muerte no es ninguna solución)* (1988), Actor
- *Sentimientos: Mirta, de Liniers a Estambul* (1987), Actor
- *Pinocchio* (1986), Actor
- *Te amo* (1986), as Madre de Valeri
- *Luna caliente* (1985), as Cristina Bernárdez
- *Hablamos esta noche* (1982), as Secretaria (uncredited)
- *Mis días con Verónica* (1980), Actor
- *The Power of Darkness* (1979), Actor
- *Un idilio de estación* (1978), Actor
- *La Raulito* (1975), Actor
- *Brief Heaven* (1969), Actor
- *Buenos Aires, verano 1912* (1966), Actor
- *Alma de artista*, series, Actor
- *Mapuche, brotes de la tierra*, Actor
- *Fragmento*, as relatora

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