---
name: "Soledad Villamil"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/soledad-villamil"
fi1m_id: "soledad-villamil"
imdb_id: "nm0897845"
tmdb_id: 93647
wikidata_id: "Q769719"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "19 June 1969"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:20:00.770292+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."
---

# Soledad Villamil

## Identity

Soledad Villamil

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/soledad-villamil
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** soledad-villamil
- **IMDb ID:** nm0897845
- **TMDB ID:** 93647
- **Wikidata ID:** Q769719
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledad_Villamil, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q769719, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0897845/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/93647

Actor. Born 19 June 1969 in La Plata, Argentina.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 19 June 1969, La Plata, Argentina
- **Also known as:** 蘇萊達·維利亞米爾, 索蕾達維拉米爾
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledad_Villamil, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q769719, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0897845/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/93647

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Secret in Their Eyes*](https://film.one/film/the-secret-in-their-eyes.md) (78)

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## Fi1m on Soledad Villamil

> Soledad Villamil makes romantic restraint convincing without draining away the humour. In *The Secret in Their Eyes*, her assurance beside Ricardo Darín gives a frustrated romance enough feeling to withstand some unnecessary encouragement from the score.

In *The Secret in Their Eyes* (2009), Soledad Villamil makes Irene Menéndez Hastings’s attraction to Ricardo Darín’s Benjamín Espósito clear without continually signalling it. Their restraint gives the frustrated romance enough weight to hold our interest even when the crime drama wanders. We were moved by their attraction because both make holding back feel difficult. There is pleasure in the humour, too: Villamil can let it emerge without sacrificing Irene’s dignity.

Before that wider recognition, she had played Laura in *Same Love, Same Rain* (1999) and Natalia in the independent crime drama *A Red Bear* (2002). Her film and television work began in the 1990s, and emotionally reserved women recur in her dramas. The risk with such parts is that composure becomes the whole performance. Irene avoids that: the humour matters as much as the attraction, giving Villamil something to do besides keep a feeling under control.

Director Juan José Campanella does not always give the actors enough room. Federico Jusid and Emilio Kauderer’s music sometimes pushes the romance towards melodrama when the actors have already done the necessary work. The effect is to make Villamil’s performance seem less delicate than it is, and Campanella’s more emphatic storytelling creates the same problem. This is still a satisfying crime drama, but the interruptions are instructive about what she contributes. When a performance has made us believe in an attraction so readily, it seems perverse to keep adding reminders of how much it matters.

Her later parts include the psychiatrist in *A Twelve-Year Night* (2018) and Saula in *Goyo* (2024). Those credits take the work beyond the role that remains most associated with her, but Irene is still the performance we would send someone to first. Watch for how comfortably Villamil and Darín allow humour into a romance built on frustration. When the music starts pressing the point, the actors have usually made it already.

## Biography

Soledad Villamil is an Argentine actress and singer. Born on 19 June 1969 in La Plata, she trained with Hugo Midón and Ricardo Bartis and began her career in theatre in the early 1990s.

She is known for her film roles including Irene Menéndez Hastings in *The Secret in Their Eyes* (2009), for which she received a Goya Award for Best New Actress, Laura in *Same Love, Same Rain* (1999) and María in *It's Not You, It's Me* (2004). Villamil has also appeared in television and released several tango and folklore albums, winning two Carlos Gardel Awards. She is married to actor Federico Olivera.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Secret in Their Eyes* (2009), Fi1m 78, as Irene Menéndez Hastings — [page](https://film.one/film/the-secret-in-their-eyes.md)

## Complete filmography (29)

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

- *Cinco Tonos De Verdad* (2025), Actor
- *Caught* (2025), series, as Ema Garay
- *A Silent Death* (2025), as Bea
- *Cromañón: The Night of the Fire* (2024), series, as Betty
- *Goyo* (2024), as Saula
- *Close Your Eyes* (2023), as Lola San Román
- *Now and Then* (2022), series, as Daniela
- *So Much Love to Give* (2020), as Vera
- *A Twelve-Year Night* (2018), as Psychiatrist
- *El Host* (2018), series, as Mercedes Miller
- *Your World Isn't For My Eyes* (2018), as Clarice
- *Dark Buildings (A Crack in the Wall)* (2018), as Marta Horvath
- *Variaciones Walsh* (2015), series, as Alberta
- *The House By The Sea* (2015), series, as Brenda Larsen
- *¿Quién mató a Mariano Ferreyra?* (2013), Actor
- *Everybody Has a Plan* (2012), as Claudia
- *The Secret in Their Eyes* (2009), as Irene Menéndez Hastings — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-secret-in-their-eyes.md)
- *It's Not You, It's Me* (2004), as María
- *Locas de amor* (2004), series, as María Eva Alchouron Doura.
- *A Red Bear* (2002), as Natalia
- *Culpables* (2001), series, as Adriana Juárez
- *Same Love, Same Rain* (1999), as Laura
- *Vulnerables* (1999), series, as Cecilia Fusiak
- *El sueño de los héroes* (1997), as Clara
- *Life According to Muriel* (1997), Actor
- *A Wall of Silence* (1993), as Ana - Laura
- *¿Dónde queda el paraíso?* (1993), Actor
- *Vivir mata* (1991), Actor
- *Villaflor*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Corrientes, 26 de Enero de 2017 Elena Rogers, Soledad Villamil, Hilda Lizarazu, Valeria Gomez participaron de la 27 Fiesta Nacional del Chamamé en la ciudad de ](https://film.one/media/person/103669/gallery-7eb60fcb706e.jpg) Corrientes, 26 de Enero de 2017 Elena Rogers, Soledad Villamil, Hilda Lizarazu, Valeria Gomez participaron de la 27 Fiesta Nacional del Chamamé en la ciudad de  — Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación Argentina, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Rogers%2C_Villamil%2C_Lizarazu_y_G%C3%B3mez_en_el_Chamam%C3%A9_Mujer_%2832230244120%29.jpg/1280px-Rogers%2C_Villamil%2C_Lizarazu_y_G%C3%B3mez_en_el_Chamam%C3%A9_Mujer_%2832230244120%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Corrientes, 26 de Enero de 2017 Elena Rogers, Soledad Villamil, Hilda Lizarazu y Valeria Gomez participaron de la 27 Fiesta Nacional del Chamamé en la ciudad de](https://film.one/media/person/103669/gallery-cfa7ed30ad10.jpg) Corrientes, 26 de Enero de 2017 Elena Rogers, Soledad Villamil, Hilda Lizarazu y Valeria Gomez participaron de la 27 Fiesta Nacional del Chamamé en la ciudad de — Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación Argentina, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Rogers%2C_Villamil%2C_Lizarazu_y_G%C3%B3mez_en_el_Chamam%C3%A9_Mujer_%2832486724431%29.jpg/1280px-Rogers%2C_Villamil%2C_Lizarazu_y_G%C3%B3mez_en_el_Chamam%C3%A9_Mujer_%2832486724431%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Corrientes, 26 de Enero de 2017 Elena Rogers, Soledad Villamil, Hilda Lizarazu, Valeria Gomez participaron de la 27 Fiesta Nacional del Chamamé en la ciudad de ](https://film.one/media/person/103669/gallery-3efb20e77f95.jpg) Corrientes, 26 de Enero de 2017 Elena Rogers, Soledad Villamil, Hilda Lizarazu, Valeria Gomez participaron de la 27 Fiesta Nacional del Chamamé en la ciudad de  — Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Rogers%2C_Villamil%2C_Lizarazu_y_G%C3%B3mez_en_el_Chamam%C3%A9_Mujer_-_31765885804.jpg/1280px-Rogers%2C_Villamil%2C_Lizarazu_y_G%C3%B3mez_en_el_Chamam%C3%A9_Mujer_-_31765885804.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Corrientes, 26 de Enero de 2017 Elena Rogers, Soledad Villamil, Hilda Lizarazu y Valeria Gomez participaron de la 27 Fiesta Nacional del Chamamé en la ciudad de](https://film.one/media/person/103669/gallery-782694df39b5.jpg) Corrientes, 26 de Enero de 2017 Elena Rogers, Soledad Villamil, Hilda Lizarazu y Valeria Gomez participaron de la 27 Fiesta Nacional del Chamamé en la ciudad de — Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Rogers%2C_Villamil%2C_Lizarazu_y_G%C3%B3mez_en_el_Chamam%C3%A9_Mujer_-_32456101102.jpg/1280px-Rogers%2C_Villamil%2C_Lizarazu_y_G%C3%B3mez_en_el_Chamam%C3%A9_Mujer_-_32456101102.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Soledad Villamil](https://film.one/media/person/103669/gallery-f5a32e44326a.jpg) Soledad Villamil — Image via TMDB
- ![Corrientes, 26 de Enero de 2017 Elena Rogers, Soledad Villamil, Hilda Lizarazu y Valeria Gomez participaron de la 27 Fiesta Nacional del Chamamé en la ciudad de](https://film.one/media/person/103669/gallery-774dabafc372.jpg) Corrientes, 26 de Enero de 2017 Elena Rogers, Soledad Villamil, Hilda Lizarazu y Valeria Gomez participaron de la 27 Fiesta Nacional del Chamamé en la ciudad de — Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Rogers%2C_Villamil%2C_Lizarazu_y_G%C3%B3mez_en_el_Chamam%C3%A9_Mujer_-_32568883866.jpg/1280px-Rogers%2C_Villamil%2C_Lizarazu_y_G%C3%B3mez_en_el_Chamam%C3%A9_Mujer_-_32568883866.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Soledad Villamil portrait (2024). Photo by: Bruno Imanol Nogueira Quintana](https://film.one/media/person/103669/gallery-113988280a69.jpg) Soledad Villamil portrait (2024). Photo by: Bruno Imanol Nogueira Quintana — Bruno Imanol Nogueira Quintana, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Soledad-villamil-perfil.jpg/1280px-Soledad-villamil-perfil.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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