Elena Lucena, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Elena Lucena

Argentine film actress

Date of Birth: 25-Sep-1914

Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Date of Death: 07-Oct-2015

Profession: actor, singer

Nationality: Argentina

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Elena Lucena

  • MarĂ­a Elena Lucena Arcuri (25 September 1914 – 7 October 2015) was an Argentine film actress of the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema (1940–60).
  • She began her career in radio in the 1930s and reached her greatest success with the role of "Chimbela", which was later depicted in film, theater and television.
  • Her extensive film career includes approximately 50 films, including notable performances in Chimbela (1939) and Una noche cualquiera (1951).
  • During the 1940s, she participated in films with comedians like Pepe Arias, Pepe Iglesias "El Zorro", NinĂ­ Gambier, Mirtha Legrand and Carlos Estrada.
  • Her most acclaimed film work occurred in Elvira Fernández, vendedora de tienda (1942) by Manuel Romero, Cinco besos by Luis Saslavsky and La Rubia Mireya for which she received the 1948 Best Comedy Actress Award from the Argentine Film Critics Association. She also performed as a dancer and, beginning in 1960, did several musical comedies.
  • On stage she replaced Libertad Lamarque in Hello, Dolly! and she portrayed the widow of LarraĂ­n de Valenzuela in the Chilean comedy La pĂ©rgola de las flores, which was later made into a movie.
  • Beginning in the late 1960s, she participated in several television roles.
  • Her later performances include the series 099 Central (2002) and the 2010 film Brother and Sister for which she was nominated as Best Supporting Actress and a role in the 2012 TV movie El TabarĂ­s, lleno de estrellas.
  • She had one of the longest careers of Argentine actresses and was one of the last survivors of Argentine cinema from the 1930s.
  • She retired in 2012.

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