Boris Quercia

Boris Quercia Martinic (born 31 August 1967) is a Chilean actor, director, writer, and producer. In theater, he stood out for his performance as Roberto Parra Sandoval in the acclaimed work by . As a filmmaker, his first feature film Sex with Love received several national and international awards. As a television director, Los 80 has become one of the most successful Chilean series since its premiere in 2008. And as a writer he has won the Grand Prix of Crime Fiction in France with his second novel, Perro muerto.

Biography The son of actor Benito Quercia, Boris studied acting at the University of Chile.

He is one of the founders of the Teatro Provisorio company, which later became the , directed by Andrés Pérez, and where he starred in the famed play La negra Ester. Later he joined the company Teatro Sombrero Verde, under the direction of Willy Semler.

In 2010 Quercia published his first novel, Santiago Quiñones, tira. About his writing career, he said in 2013: "I have to find more spaces to devote myself to writing, but it is one of the things that I am most passionate about, and the experience of the novel was very good. I liked it a lot. Furthermore, I think it built a character that I could follow in other instances." This award, which in French is called Grand prix du roman noir, has been given annually since 2009 within the framework of the Beaune International Film Festival.

Quercia plans to create a trilogy with his detective, with whom he also wants to make a television series.