[1] Against her family's wishes,[2] Moreno debuted as an actress in 1925's play "El Padrón Municipal", a participation which garnered her praise from critics.
[2] In 1930, she formed an acting and singing troupe, with which she embarked on a tour of South America.
While the most famous movie she participated at was probably 1951's Uno Que ha Sido Marino, (One Who's Been a Sailor), she featured prominently in a number of Chilean films during the 1960s and 1970s, including 1962's "El Cuerpo y la Sangre" ("Body and Blood"), 1964's "El Burocrata Gonzalez" ("Bureaucrat Gonzalez"), 1965's Angelito ("Little Angel") and "Más Allá de Pilpico" ("Beyond Pilpico"), 1968's "Tierra Quemada" ("Burned Ground"), 1969's "Valparaíso mi Amor" ("Valparaiso, my Love"), 1970's "La Araucana" ("The Araucana Girl"), 1971's 'Los Testigos" ("The Witnesses"), "El Afuerino" ("The Outsider") and her last film, "Con el Santo y la Limosna" ("With the Saint and the Alms"), which was also filmed in 1971.
[3] In 1962, she starred in "Dionisio", a play that was produced by Alejandro Sieveking and directed by Eugenio Dittborn.
She had spent months in a hospital, suffering of an unspecified illness that she had contracted while she was participating in a theatrical play named "Homo Chilensis"[2]