The best female characters from the Argentine series that are becoming popular in streaming

A waitress, a rock singer, a wheelchair user, a feminist journalist, two political leaders and an event organizer. This is a selection of the great female characters of the most watched Argentine series in streaming.

Just review local fiction from late 2022 and 2023 to notice: the protagonists are usually men. But, at the same time, in the most popular Argentine series there are huge female characters: heroines and villains with multiple nuances, conflicts and dreams.

Here’s a look at the series’ unforgettable female roles Nothing, Love after love, kingdom 2, Palermo Division, December 2001, The end of love AND Planners. Also, the actresses who gave them life: Majo Cabrera, Micaela Riera, Pilar Gamboa, Mercedes Morán, Alejandra Flechner, Lali Espósito AND Celeste Cid.

1) Antonia Noguera (Majo Cabrera)

“Nothing”, by Star+

At 80, the pedantic food critic Manuel Tamayo Prats (Luis Brandoni) will experience a great teaching of friendship and simplicity thanks to the character of Majo Cabrera, 29. The dandy and the sybarite will learn to connect better with others and with themselves. And he can also invite his New York writer friend (Robert De Niro) to come to Argentina to present his gourmet book.

Antonia Noguera is inexperienced, exuberant and stubborn. She left her little daughter in Paraguay and needed an urgent job: now, with determination and emotional intelligence, she will earn the trust of Tamayo Prats.

The comical, absurd and tender scenes between the young Paraguayan woman (Majo Cabrera is the soul of Nada) and his employer (Brandoni) will be unmissable and captivating. But Antonia’s transparent personality will not only change Manuel Tamayo Prats: it will also change the style of acid directors and screenwriters. Mariano Cohn & Gaston Duprat.

2) Fabiana Cantilo (Micaela Riera)

“Love after Love”, by Netflix

This series recreated the life of Fito Páez in Buenos Aires at the height of Alfonsinism, his friendship and his musical ties with Charly García and Luis Alberto Spinetta and his infatuation, bright and wounded, for Fabiana Cantilo.

Yes Ivan Hochman played Fito Páez with great credibility, Micaela Riera has achieved an almost perfect mimesis with Fabi Cantilo: in his gestures, in his impetuosity and in his creative intelligence. An artist who managed to ensure that Fito (Hochman) and Charly García (Andy Chango) did not overshadow her vocal and compositional talent in the midst of the revelation of the 80s, after the dictatorship.

“We built the bond between Fito Páez and Fabiana Cantilo by walking between the two. It was beautiful, something of ours,” said Micaela Riera Clarion. A key scene takes place in Córdoba in 1984: on a rooftop, Fito and Fabi look at the mountains and walk in circles, seducing each other. He plays her song on a Walkman Rumba on the piano. They both smile and confess their love for each other.

3) Sofia Vega (Pilar Gamboa)

“Palermo Division”, by Netflix

Minister of City Security inaugurated an “inclusive” urban guard.: It consists of a blind man, a trans girl, another in a wheelchair, a fat man, a Jew and a Bolivian. In this ferocious series on the marketing of the integration of the “different”the best character is Sofía Vega (Pilar Gamboa), the girl in the wheelchair. For her lucidity without half measures and her acid humor.

Sofía Vega interacts affectionately with Felipe Rozenfeld’s character (Santiago Korovskythe creator of this political comedy), opening an invisible topic in the series: the sexuality of wheelchair users.

“To play Sofía, Lucrecia Gómez Boschetti’s training was fundamental. It made me not solemnize the character“Gamboa said Clarionon the young Cordobese author of the book Five stories of a reckless invalid and a poem so as not to lose dignity.

With Sofia Vega, The Palermo Division laughs at false inclusion and exposes the public faces of discrimination.

4) Elena Vázquez Pena (Mercedes Morán)

“The Kingdom 2”, by Netflix

“Be careful, because in politics there are false prophets,” says evangelical pastor and president Emilio Vázquez Pena. He then works at Casa Rosada, with his wife Elena (Mercedes Morán), For inoculate fear into public opinion.

“I will fight for freedom and defend the right to property!” shouts Vázquez Pena, and, one step behind him, his wife rubs her hands. Will Elena be the most Machiavellian character that Mercedes Morán has embodied in her vast acting career? Will there be another closer to evil?

In the second season of The kingdom, Vázquez Pena promised salvation to citizens desperate due to the lack of regulations and corruption. Their faithful applauded them blindly and, at the time of the elections, some Patovicas watched the polls.

After the victory, Elena will give intimate and moral support to Emilio Vázquez Pena for his predestined mission. With anger as their flag, ultra-Orthodox sectors now allow themselves to question the value – and price – of democracy.

5) Hilda “Chiche” Duhalde (Alejandra Flechner)

“December 2001,” by Star+

This the political drama and thriller reconstructs the political intrigues before, during and after the last year of Fernando de la Rúa’s government. A fierce struggle for power, with Eduardo Duhalde’s Peronism in the shadow, which will emerge on the fateful 19 and 20 December 2001.

After the repression with dozens of deaths, the flight of capital and the escape of de la Rúa, the sixth episode recreates the web’s maneuvers so that the Legislative Assembly proclaims Duhalde (the actor Cesare Troncoso) on January 1, 2002. E There shines, with a calculating smile, his wife Hilda “Chiche” Duhalde (Alejandra Flechner, in Machiavellian style).

“Whoever deposited dollars will receive dollars”Duhalde swears in Congress, amidst the applause of his subordinates and the winks of his wife. Flechner leaves his usual humor and, behind his eyes, opens new questions: what role did Chiche Duhalde play in 2001? What level of memory do Argentinians have in 2024?

6) Tamara Tenembaum (Lali Espósito)

“The End of Love”, by Amazon Prime Video

“What happens at Easter stays at Easter”says the Jewish trans girl playing Mariana Genesio Peña. And Tamara Tenembaum (Lali Esposito) He gives free rein to his sexual desires on a staircase as soon as the two leave the family dinner for Jewish Passover.

Tamara Tenembaum, teacher and feminist journalist, has left her boyfriend Federico (Andrea Gil), feeling suffocated. Immediately after going to the Jewish-Orthodox wedding of her friend Sara Levy (Brenda Kreizerman), said to Fede: “I am not Sara. “I don’t have to explain everything to you.”

Erika Halvorsen and the real Tamara Tenembaum (based on his book The end of love) wrote the screenplay for this series makes the imaginary Tenembaum shine in its contradictions, thanks to Lali Espósito: Lives in his grandparents’ apartment, but denies his Jewish origins; He gives himself power and frees himself, even if he is now sleeping with a textbook sexist. Who will he be with? Let no one miss the powerful ending of The End of Love.

7) Malena Carregal (Celeste Cid)

“Planner,” by Star+

“I’m looking for cleanliness, seriousness and certainty. “This is planning.” says event organizer Malena Carregal (Celeste Cid), recently divorced. Her ex-husband Marcos Gutiérrez (Valenzuela) maintained the business and she kept her luxurious home. After the work and personal crisis, Malena will reinvent herself: she will create her own “planner” company, led by the chaotic and funny Cali Portman (Letizia Siciliani).

But planning events means dealing with various chaos (a party of 15, a wedding and even a funeral wake): despite herself, Malena Carregal will learn that there are not always certainties, order and cleanliness. What will the competitive Marcos Gutierrez do when he believes his ex-wife is threatening his business?

In your highest social nebula, Planners he manages to spread – and advertise – his universe of luxury, parties, polo horses and six-room houses thanks to the beautiful and powerful interpretation of Celeste Cid. Thanks to you, This fiction far from the real Argentina manages to generate empathy and emotion.