Francisca Merino

María Francisca Rosa Merino Garrido (born 9 May 1973), known as Pancha Merino, is a Chilean actress and television presenter. Her most prominent roles have been on Canal 13 series, including , and . Biography Francisca Merino started appearing in commercials at age 14 and has been financially independent ever since. She studied theater at the schools of in Chile and Juan Carlos Corazza in Spain. She made her acting debut in 1995 on the Canal 13 telenovela , but she achieved greater popularity the following year when she portrayed Cathy Winter, the protagonist of Adrenalina. In 1999, she starred with Jorge Zabaleta in the TV series Cerro Alegre, playing Beatriz León Thompson, a young upper-class woman in the city of Viña del Mar.