Rodolfo Francisco Marabotto (born September 9, 1946), better known in the show business world as Pablo Alarcón, is an Argentine

Argentina

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 actor

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 who has reached international fame.

Biography

Alarcón was born in Pellegrini, Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires Province

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 province

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 . He lived a normal childhood, showing signs of wanting to become an actor since then.

During the 1970s and 1980s, Alarcón participated in a number of Argentine telenovela

Telenovela

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s and films. His participation in these gave Alarcón much popularity across his home country, as he became a favorite of the female audience there. During that decade, he got married to fellow actress Monica Jouvet. Jouvet died in a car accident in 1981.

He reached international celebrity when WAPA-TV

WAPA-TV

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 of Puerto Rico

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 signed him in 1983 to make telenovelas for them. Alarcón starred alongside Camille Carrion in the international hit Vivir Para Ti, which is generally considered by Puerto Rican television critics to be one of the best soap opera

Soap opera

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s ever made in the country. WAPA-TV sold the soap opera to stations in Venezuela

Venezuela

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, Mexico

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, Colombia

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, Chile

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 and other important Latin America

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n markets where Alarcón was not well known before. In addition, since WAPA-TV's transmissions reached the United States Virgin Islands

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 as well, viewers in those islands were able to know Alarcón as well.

While in Puerto Rico, Alarcón met actress Claribel Medina

Claribel Medina

Claribel Medina is a Puerto Rican actress who has acted for soap operas and movies filmed both in her native Puerto Rico and in Argentina.-Training:Medina graduated from the Universidad de Puerto Rico in 1983...

, and the two soon fell in love with each other, beginning a relationship that was both seen with respect and disdain by Puerto Rican television viewers, some of which had problems accepting the fact that Alarcón was 36 at the time while Medina had come out of her teenage period just a few years before. The couple began making the covers of Estrellita

Estrellita

Estrellita is a 1947 Argentine film....

, Teve Guía

Teve Guía

Teve Guía is a Puerto Rican gossip and listings magazine. Published since the 1960s, Teve Guía is written in association with the United States magazine, TV Guide, but has a slightly different format....

, Vea

Vea

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, Artistas and other Puerto Rican entertainment publications. The couple got married in 1985.

Alarcón and Medina continued working on various Puerto Rican television projects, which required for Alarcón to become a full time resident of Puerto Rico. Meanwhile, Alarcón became known around his wife's country for his constant praising of his new home country on the local media. But the Puerto Rican telenovela industry disappeared after 1989, and the Alarcón-Medina couple, apparently forced by work shortage, decided to move to Argentina.

Back in Argentina, Alarcón semi-retired, acting in a small number of soap operas during the first half of the 1990s. Medina became a celebrity there as well, and the couple had two daughters. They were viewed by many in the Argentine and Puerto Rican media as one of show business' strongest couples, but, eventually, they divorced, ending their relationship on friendly terms.

Alarcón continues acting, doing theatre

Theatre

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plays in Buenos Aires.

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