We were lucky to catch up with Heidi Gala Lukas recently and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Heidi Gala thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. What did your parents do right and how has that impacted you in your life and career?

My mother, Adriana Pelegrini, is an actress, singer, dancer and a journalist student. She has participated in many important TV shows from Argentina such as Los simuladores, La Niñera (Argentinean version of “The Nanny”), among others. She has also written and starred in her own plays. She has worked with many prestigious actors from Argentina, Antonio Gasalla, etc.
My father is a journalist, a musician and a film critic. He has interviewed many international celebrities like Hugh Jackman, Jane Fonda, Hugh Grant, and national celebrities, Mercedes Sosa, Charly García and many others.
My grandfather from my dad’s side was a hungarian classical pianist who came to Argentina with his band called “The Viennese Bohemians”.
The best things that they could have ever done was to involve me into their jobs in the healthiest and most interesting aspects.
I have always appreciated my mum’s honesty and my father’s perseverence, with those qualities, I could learn how to survive in an industry in which people can let you down easy, and in which one has to insist and be patient in order to get closer to our dreams.

Heidi Gala, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I have always wanted to be an actress, singer and a model, they are my passions. I live in a house full of artists, since my sister Cindy Fos, is a singer and an actress as well as my mum.
The only things we ever talk about in my family, are cinema, theatre, music and fashion, and we enjoy these topics fondly, we love all of these things, sometimes it even hurts to love them so much.
I am still learning and trying to get more into this industry, I have acted in musical theatre in the school of Valeria Lynch, I have always been the main character in school plays. I also studied acting in the school of Javo Rocha in APTRA (Association of Argentine Television and Radio Journalists).
Most recently I’ve been working more as a model, since I studied at the models academy “Anama Models”, and I was working for a brand called “Bellissima Profesional” which is for hair products. I would be the brand’s image in different events and runways, in places like the Paseo La Plaza theatre and the theatre Premier both in Corrientes Avenue. I also modeled in TV in an argentinian channel called “Ciudad Magazine” in the program “Mi Mejor Versión” hosted by Vani Balena.
I have acted in two university shorts one for students of Fundación Universidad de Cine (FUC) and another one for students from Universidad de Palermo (UP).
I have also worked with the production of two music videos for Cindy’s new singles, which were directed by CrazyFolios and EL Vinos. One in Hollywood and the other one in Miami.
Finally, I had a band called Línea D, for one year in which I was the singer, and we played in different places from Buenos Aires, such as Villa Adelina and Rincón Casa in San Cristobal.
Apart from all of my artistic interests, I am studying Traductorado Público (Lingustics, translation) in one of the most important universities of the world Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA).

Is there something you think non-creatives will struggle to understand about your journey as a creative?

I think being and artist, can be very painful but if you play your cards right it can be incredibly rewarding. However, I do not think this is the hard aspect of being an artist, or the biggest misunderstanding about it.
I think that people who are not in this field will never understand how much it hurts to find art and beauty in the smallest things, to have so much sensibility to the point where everything moves you, to not being able to picture a life in which art is not involved because that would be an absolute tragedy, even if it turns out to be a successful future.
Art in any form, is having to watch people who do not appreciate it so much be in the spot that you wish were yours, and even worse, having to watch them fail.
It is that last grain of hope in which you can not help but beg for being taken in.
Like being dramatic for every little thing, and meaning every second of it.
Art is the most beautiful thing that God has given us, and even though everybody wants to be an artist, and every person has a little bit of art in them, it is hard to understand when an artist does not want to do anything else, when they are prepared to put their whole lives into it.

What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?

I would love to have a great audience in which I could maybe inspire or help those around me with the things that I know. I would love to have more knowledge first, about being an artist and about inspiring.
I would absolutely love to make a living out of this career and to participate in many films with my favourite directors like Juan José Campanella, Damian Szifrón, (who both have been interviewed by my father as well) Quentin Tarantino, Greta Gerwig, and so many others I dream of.
But what I would love the most, would be to share all of this with my family.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: @heidi.gala
• Linkedin: Heidi Gala
• Youtube: Heidi Gala Lukas

Image Credits

Chris Beliera, Jorge Camacho, Cindy Fos