# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/valeria-sarmiento
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:24:33.040Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/valeria-sarmiento"
name: "Valeria Sarmiento"
slug: "valeria-sarmiento"
description: "Valeria Sarmiento is a film editor, director and screenwriter best known for her work in France, Portugal and her native Chile. She has worked both in film and television, directing 20 feature films, documentaries and television series'. She is the widow of Chilean film director Raúl Ruiz (1941-2011) with whom she collaborated for decades as regular editor and co-writer. She has also edited films for Luc Moullet, Robert Kramer and Ventura Pons and is a Guggenheim Fellow (1988)."
tagline: "Film editor, Director, Screenwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Con_valeria_y_Jorge_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1948-10-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.69
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.29006666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0765384/"
    handle:    "nm0765384"
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeria_Sarmiento"
    title: "Valeria Sarmiento"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "فاليريا سارمينتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8)"
    title: "ڤاليريا سارمينتو (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeria_Sarmiento"
    title: "Valeria Sarmiento"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeria_Sarmiento"
    title: "Valeria Sarmiento"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeria_Sarmiento"
    title: "Valeria Sarmiento"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeria_Sarmiento"
    title: "Valeria Sarmiento"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeria_Sarmiento"
    title: "Valeria Sarmiento"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeria_Sarmiento"
    title: "Valeria Sarmiento"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeria_Sarmiento"
    title: "Valeria Sarmiento"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeria_Sarmiento"
    title: "Valeria Sarmiento"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3553698"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/134464"
    title: "Valeria Sarmiento"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump