Arturo Puig

Arturo Puig
Puig in 2019
Born
Arturo José Alberto Puig

(1944-11-17) 17 November 1944 (age 80)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
OccupationActor
Years active1967–present
Spouse
Selva Alemán
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(m. 2001)​
Children2

Arturo José Alberto Puig (born 17 November 1944) is an Argentine actor. He has worked in the 1990s success Grande, pá!!!

Biography

Arturo Puig became famous as the lead actor of 1970s telenovelas, such as "Me llaman gorrión" (1972) and "Pablo en nuestra piel" (1977).[1]

He was the lead actor of Grande, pá!, a big success in Argentine television during the 1990s.[2] The TV channel Telefe proposed him to make a remake, but he refused, as the channel did not want to hire the full cast of the original series as Puig proposed.[2]

In the 2000s he has worked sporadically in TV, becoming instead a notable theater actor. He worked in plays such as "El Precio", "Cristales rotos" and "Panorama desde el puente", by Arthur Miller, "¿Quién le teme a Virginia Woolf?" by Edward Albee, and "La vuelta al hogar" by Harold Pinter.[3] In "Rompiendo códigos" he played the British mathematician Alan Turing.[4]

As of 2013, he plays the gay parent of the main character of the Solamente Vos comedy telenovela. He mentioned that he is satisfied that modern television does not use self-censorship on such topics anymore.[1] This is not the first time that Puig played a gay character: besides the play on Alan Turing, he had played another one in Botines, but not under a comedic tone.[4] He also worked in the successful film Tesis sobre un homicidio.[1] Thanks to Gustavo Yankelevich, he worked as a theater director for the first time, in the play Le Prénom, with actors Germán Palacios, Jorgelina Aruzzi, Mercedes Funes, Carlos Belloso and Peto Menahem.[2]

He is married to Selva Aleman, making his mother-in-law the famous actress Carmen Vallejo.[5]

Works

Cinema

  • Los Muchachos de mi barrio (1970)
  • El Veraneo de los Campanelli (1971)
  • He nacido en la ribera (1972)
  • Me gusta esa chica (1973)
  • El Amor infiel (1974)
  • Carmiña: Su historia de amor (1975)
  • Los Días que me diste (1975)
  • La Hora de María y el pájaro de oro (1975)
  • Un Idilio de estación (1978)
  • La Conquista del paraíso (1981)
  • Contar hasta diez (1985)
  • Prontuario de un argentino (1987)
  • Kindergarten (1989)
  • La Frontera olvidada (1996)
  • Lugares comunes (2002)
  • Los Marziano (2011)
  • Tesis sobre un homicidio (2013)

Television

  • Ella, la gata (1968)
  • Nino, las cosas simples de la vida (1971)
  • Así en la villa como en el cielo (1971)
  • Carmiña (1972)
  • Pablo en nuestra piel (1977)
  • El Tema es el amor (1977)
  • Vos y yo, toda la vida (1978)
  • Chau, amor mío (1979)
  • Ceremonia secreta (1981)
  • Barracas al sur (1981)
  • Cuando vuelvas a mí (1986)
  • Mujer comprada (1986)
  • Vínculos (1987)
  • Atreverse (1990)
  • Grande Pá! (1991)
  • Destinos (1992)
  • El Rafa (1997)
  • Primicias (2000)
  • El Precio del poder (2002)
  • Dr. Amor (2003)
  • Hombres de honor (2005)
  • Botines (2005)
  • Solamente vos (2013)

Theatre

Award Nominations

References

  1. ^ a b c "Arturo Puig: "El espectador es mucho más libre que antes"" [Arturo Puig: "The spectator is more free than before"] (in Spanish). Telam. 13 March 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  2. ^ a b c Carolina Amoroso (20 March 2013). "Un artista todoterreno" [An all-terrain artist] (in Spanish). La Nación. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
  3. ^ Pablo Sirvén (8 May 2011). "Arturo Puig, ese gran actor todoterreno" [Arturo Puig, that great all-terrain actor] (in Spanish). La Nación. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  4. ^ a b ""Solamente vos": Arturo Puig sale del closet" ["Solamente vos": Arturo Puig comes out of the closet] (in Spanish). Los Andes. 21 January 2013. Archived from the original on 29 March 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  5. ^ "Selva Aleman y Arturo Puig: 48 años de una historia de amor que creció al ritmo de una telenovela". LA NACION (in Spanish). 25 January 2023. Retrieved 24 September 2024.
  6. ^ "Todos los nominados a los Martín Fierro 2014" [All the nominations for the 2014 Martín Fierro] (in Spanish). La Nación. 15 April 2014. Retrieved 14 April 2014.