[1] She began acting theatrically in the 1950s, and during the 1980s became one of the first important figures of the then-emerging telenovela industry at Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN) centered around Sonia Fuchs [es].
[4] In 1979, Jiménez starred with Myriam Palacios, Soledad Alonso, and Loreto Valenzuela in the play Tres Marías y una Rosa [es] by David Benavente, directed by Raúl Osorio.
[6][7] The work constitutes a milestone in the history of Chilean theater during the period of the dictatorship, given that it deals with the theme of unemployment of the time and machismo from the point of view of three women settlers who try to overcome poverty by weaving burlap in a workshop given by the Vicariate of Solidarity.
She obtained a starring role in Marta a las ocho, along with Sonia Viveros and Lucy Salgado [es], playing Amneris, a woman characterized by her soft tone of voice, elegance, and taste for opera music.
Among her students were the actors Carolina Fadic, Tamara Acosta, Aline Küppenheim, Álvaro Morales, and Francisca Gavilán.
Jiménez clarified, "What I have tried most to convey to you is that acting is a vocation, an inevitable passion that goes beyond the ego and that harbors a true curiosity about life, a desire to tell, a love for the game".
[15] After a period without major projects, Jiménez regained public favor in 1997 after participating in Oro Verde, again under the direction of Vicente Sabatini, where she gave life to a gossipy woman in charge of a popular hairdresser's in the fictional town of Los Robles in Caburga.
In the telenovela she played the Roma character Mama Pasca Antich, the respected sister of the king of the ethnic colony, who fights against the pain and abandonment of her only son who went to the capital for an unrequited love.
In the melodrama she shared credits with Juan Falcón, Claudia di Girolamo, Héctor Noguera, and Luis Alarcón.
In 2001 she participated in Pampa Ilusión, filmed at Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works, where she played a southern prostitute named La Poroto, who together with her young colleague arrive at the fictional Pampa Ilusión office, hired to work in a clandestine brothel of a blind man who owns the place's only grocery store.
Later came the comedy El circo de las Montini (2002) with Violeta Vidaurre, in which she played a sweet poodle trainer in the circus.
The same year, she made an outstanding appearance in the drama Cárcel de mujeres [es], portraying an elderly inmate and sharing credits with Claudia Di Girolamo and Paulina García.
In 2010, Jiménez was hired by the Dramatic Area of Chilevisión under the direction of Vicente Sabatini, to play María Loreto Erdoíza y Aguirre in the historical bicentennial production Manuel Rodríguez.
In the same year, she participated in Los archivos del cardenal, where she played a country woman looking for her grandson who was arrested and disappeared by the DINA.
The play is based on the book El infarto del alma by Diamela Eltit and Paz Errázuriz, about the theme of possible love within a psychiatric hospital.
[27] In the same year, she performed with Tomás Vidiella and Jaime McManus in the film La memoria de mi Padre, directed by Rodrigo Bacigalupe.
After two years she returned to television, participating in Os Dias Eram Assim (2017) on Rede Globo, performing with the Brazilian actor Renato Góes [pt].
[28] The same year, she starred in the teaser Los Carcamales with Sergio Hernández, Julio Jung, and Fernando Alarcón [es], telling the story of a group of elderly people living in a nursing home facing Alzheimer's and theft of their pensions.