Arturo Puig

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Arturo Puig
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Puig in 2019.
Born
Arturo José Alberto Puig Petrosini

(1944-11-17) 17 November 1944 (age 76)
Argentina Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nationality Argentina
OccupationActor
Years active1967-present
Spouse(s)Selva Alemán (2001-present)
Partner(s)Selva Alemán (1974-2001)
ChildrenXimena Puig
Juan Puig

Arturo Puig (born 17 November 1944) is an Argentine theatre, television and motion picture 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 , 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 , he worked as a theater director for the first time, in the play Le Prénom, with actors , Jorgelina Aruzzi, , Carlos Belloso and .[2]

Works[]

Cinema[]

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. ^ Jump up to: 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. ^ Jump up to: 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. ^ Jump up to: 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. ^ "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.

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