Catalina Saavedra Pérez (born 8 January 1968) is a Chilean film, stage and television actress.

She is known to international audiences for playing the title character in the 2009 film The Maid, for which she received several awards and nominations.

She started acting lessons at the age of ten, prompted by her mother's hiring of a private theater arts teacher in Valparaíso.

Saavedra has performed various roles in several soap operas, sitcoms and TV shows on Chilean and German television.

[3] Directed by Fernando Trueba, Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film with Belle Époque.