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Valentina Chico (born 2 May 1976) is an Italian television, film and theatre actress. She is best known for the lead role of Caterina Masi in the third season of popular Italian drama series Incantesimo and for playing Marta in the 1996 film Follow Your Heart.
Chico made her acting debut in 1994 in the Italo-German film Mario and the Magician by Klaus Maria Brandauer. In 1996 she starred alongside Virna Lisi in Cristina Comencini's Follow Your Heart, based on Susanna Tamaro's novel of the same name. In 1997 she starred in the La guerra è finita and Brividi blu, and in 2000 in the feature film , directed by Nico Cirasola. In 2005 she starred in the short film Una giornata nera, for which she won Best Actress in the Corti Pluriel 2005 section of the Venice Film Festival. In 2006 she starred in Matteo Rovere's short Homo homini lupus, 2007 winner of the Nastro d'Argento for best short film. In 2008 she portrayed Iris Cantelli in Larry Weinstein's .
On television, she played the lead role in the TV movie Con gli occhi dell'assassino. In 2000, she was cast in the lead role of Caterina Masi in the third season of Incantesimo. She portrayed the same role in the fourth season of Incantesimo in 2001. In 2003 she returned in some episodes of the series' sixth season as a guest star.
Although continuing to work for television and cinema, Chico has increasingly focused her career on theatre since the early 2000s. Among her notable theatrical works is the lead role in The Last Harem, alongside Serra Yılmaz, which ran for a record 10 years.
In 2022 Chico played a minor role in the Italian TV series .
| 1994 | Mario and the Magician | Silvestra | |
| 1996 | Follow Your Heart | Marta | |
| 1997 | |||
| 2005 | Taxi Lovers | Linda | |
| 2006 | Homo homini lupus | Monica Hotmann | Film won Nastro d'Argento for best short film |
| 2008 | Iris Cantelli | ||
| 2012 | Canepazzo | Stefano Costa's Wife | |
| 2017 | Elisa |
| 2000–2003 | Incantesimo | Caterina Masi | Lead role 43 episodes |
| 2001 | Con gli occhi dell'assassino | Laura Monti | Television film |
| 2012 | Un passo dal cielo | Sara Mayer | 1 episode |
| 2013 | Che Dio ci aiuti | Manuela | 1 episode |
| 2006–2018 | Don Matteo | Micol Guarini Sonia Barani Norma Gradi | 3 episodes |
| 2020 | 1 episode | ||
| 2022 | Eva |
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