At the age of 80, on Tuesday the 3rd, the beloved actress Selva Alemán, with an extensive career and who was the wife of Arturo Puig, passed away.
The sad news was released through the social media account X of the Multiteatro Comafi complex, owned by Carlos Rottemberg, where she and her husband starred in the play Cartas de Amor.
Selva Carmen Giorno (popularized as Selva Alemán) was born on April 30, 1944. Daughter of the actress Carmen Vallejo (1922-2013), she took her stage name from her stepfather, the musician Oscar Alemán, the most virtuoso interpreter of the jazz guitar in history, a pioneer in the insertion of the Hawaiian guitar in tango, around 1927.
Her biological father, Roberto Denegri, was a radio actor. He died when she was nine or ten years old and her mother was already living with Alemán, from whom she took her surname.
In 1959, she participated in the program Historia de Jóvenes, directed by David Stivel and broadcast on Channel 7. From then on, she participated in numerous television series such as Señoritas alumnas, Su comedia favorita, Lo mejor de nuestra vida: nuestros hijos, Alta Comedia, Compromiso, Situación límites, Hombres de ley, La bonita pagina, Atreverse and, more recently, Pequeña Victoria.
In cinema he participated in more than twenty productions from The brutedirected by Rubén W. Cavallotti from a script by Arturo Cerretani based on the novel of the same name, which premiered on May 3, 1962 and starred Susana Campos, Leonardo Favio, Ricardo Trigo and Selva Alemán. Her most recent appearance on the big screen was in the Argentine-Spanish-German co-production Objectsa 2022 thriller film directed by Jorge Dorado and starring Álvaro Morte, China Suárez and Verónica Echegui.
In 1974 she met the actor Arturo Puig at Diana Álvarez’s house, during the first reading of the novel’s scripts. Fernanda, Martin and no one elseSince then, they have been one of the most beloved couples in the entertainment world.
