This article examines how life trajectories are narrated in the audiovisual. To do so, based on the considerations on biographies of Bourdieu (1998) and Pena (2004), the text focuses on the works that address the life story of Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel (1889-1971), using the miniseries Coco Chanel (2008), shown by the Lifetime channel, as the main example. This serial fiction narrative is tensioned with films and documentaries about the stylist, aiming to discover recurrences in the way of building this trajectory. The research indicates that the media biographies aim to tell the lives of consecrated agents in fields, reaffirming values traditionally associated with those characters. Thus, convergences are common about what is always emphasized and what is never said in these biographical narratives. The audiovisual works diverge in certain aspects, emphasizing clippings from the poetics of one of them, in aspects such as script and direction.
