Javiera Balmaceda
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| Born | Javiera Balmaceda Pascal October 4, 1972 |
| Education | Wesleyan University |
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| Children | 2 |
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Javiera Balmaceda Pascal (born 1972) is a Chilean and American film and television producer, and the head of content for Amazon Prime Video Latin America, Canada, and Australia.[1][2]
Javiera Balmaceda Pascal was born on October 4, 1972 in Chile to Verónica Pascal Ureta (1953–2000), a child psychologist, and José Balmaceda Riera (born 1948), a reproductive endocrinologist.[3][2][4] Balmaceda's paternal grandmother, Juanita Riera Bauzá was the sister of Fernando Riera, a professional association football player and coach.[5] The seventh great-granddaughter of Mateo de Toro Zambrano, Balmaceda is related to the aristocratic Alessandri, Allende, and Balmaceda family.[5][6][7] Balmaceda is the great-niece of Laura Allende, a politician and sister of Salvador Allende, President of Chile, and is the second cousin of Denise Pascal, a Socialist Party politician, and Andrés Pascal Allende, a sociologist, former Secretary General of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left and prominent member of the Chilean Resistance and Solidarity Movement.[8][9]
In 1975, aged 3, Balmaceda's family received political asylum in Denmark before settling in San Antonio, Texas.[1][10] The family later settled in Orange County, California. Balmaceda is the older sister of the actors Pedro Pascal and Lux Pascal, and Nicolás Balmaceda Pascal, a doctor.[1][10] Balmaceda attended Corona Del Mar High School before studying art and economics at Wesleyan University.[1][11]