Francisca Silva was born on March 18, 1992, in
Santiago, Chile. She is the daughter of Daniel Silva and hockey player Francisca Sánchez, and is the eldest of four siblings. In her time as a schoolgirl in the Nazaret School she participated on the athletic team, but a spinal injury when she was only 14 years old forced her to stop. After completing her secondary education in 2010, she studied physical education at the
Universidad Andrés Bello. In 2012 she spent five months in Mexico to enter into modeling, where she did work with the magazine
Vogue Latin America. Later that year she returned to Chile to pursue television acting. ==Career==