Paty Cofré

Patricia Umerinda Cofré (4 March 1939) is a Chilean humorist, comedian and former vedette.

Career

Beginnings From the age of 16, Cofré worked as a vedette in some revues and theaters in Santiago, such as Bim Bam Bum. In that revue, she began to participate in humorous sketches that gave way to a career as a comedian. In 1962, she replaced Bim Bam Bum star Iris del Valle, who was on medical leave. Del Valle, furious with the success Cofré had achieved, assaulted her during a show, an altercation that made it to the front page of the newspaper La Tercera, and subsequently demanded her departure from the revue.

Film and television She made her debut on television in Sábado gigante on Canal 13 in the late 1980s, as part of the program's sketches. In 1989, she acted alongside comedians such as Jorge Franco and Guillermo Bruce in the film El cartero chifla dos veces (The mailman whistles twice), as the mailman's wife. After a brief stint at TVN, she returned to Canal 13, where she participated in the programs Éxito and Venga conmigo.

Personal life In May 2021, in an interview given on Martín Cárcamo's program De tú a tú, she revealed that she had been a victim of domestic violence by her ex-husband while she was pregnant with their only child.