Arturo Puig
Arturo Puig | |
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 Puig in 2019 | |
| Born | Arturo José Alberto Puig 17 November 1944 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1967–present |
| Spouse |
Selva Alemán (m. 2001) |
| Children | 2 |
Arturo José Alberto Puig (born 17 November 1944) is an Argentine actor. He has worked in the 1990s success Grande, pá!!!
Biography
[edit]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
[edit]Cinema
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Cartas de Amor (2004)
- Panorama desde el puente (2004)
- ¿Quién le teme a Virginia Woolf? (2007)
- El precio (2011)
Award Nominations
[edit]- 2013 Martín Fierro Awards
- Best secondary actor (for Solamente Vos)[6]
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c Carolina Amoroso (20 March 2013). "Un artista todoterreno" [An all-terrain artist] (in Spanish). La Nación. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
External links
[edit]- Arturo Puig at IMDb
- Arturo Puig at cinenacional.com (in Spanish)
