Mirtha Legrand Celebrates Her 96th Birthday: Her Life In 96 Photos

Mirtha Legrand turns 96

Rosa Maria Juana Martinezknown to all as Mirtha Legrand, is 96 years old. His name is synonymous with the Argentinian show of today and always and he has crossed different generations with his charisma. Throughout his career he has participated in more than 30 films, ten plays and animated his television program for more than five decades, and is preparing for season number 55. In this album of his life, he looks back on his childhood with his brothers, his marriage to Daniel Tinayre and their children, some of their most iconic films and their most iconic paintings, which have received the most important personalities in entertainment, politics and sport.

With his siblings José María and Silvia and their mother, Rosa Suárez

José, escorted by Silvia and Mirtha

A photo from his childhood

With his sister

In 1940 he starred in “Educando a Niní”, with Niní Marshall

From then on, he built a successful career in film and then he would come to television

On holiday

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With Goldie

After the death of his father, José Martínez, he moved with his mother and sister to Buenos Aires.

The twins Mirtha and Silvia Legrand, during their youth

Throughout his career he has worked in more than 30 films

The diva posed for a photo during her youth

With her friends Olga Zubarry and Libertad Leblanc

In love, with Daniel Tinayre

A scene from “You Must Educate Niní”, featuring Goldie and Niní Marshall

During the filming of “La casta Susana” (1944), with Juan Carlos Thorry

A photo from “La Doctora no quiere tangos” (1949), with Mariano Mores

dance at an event

An old photo with his colleague Ángel Magaña

A scene from “A Kiss on the Neck” (1946)

In the Spanish film “Doña Francisquita” (1953)

With his colleague Luis Sandrini. They starred in the movie

With his colleague Luis Sandrini. They starred in the film “The cicada is not an insect” (1963), directed by Daniel Tinayre, among other titles

Mirtha Legrand, in her early years as an actress

Mirtha Legrand in the film “With pleasure to rage” (1965)

With Cordovan actor Tito Gómez

In 1945, she married director Daniel Tinayre

A sexy picture

Mirtha signs the contract for the first year of his program on Channel 9, in 1968, under the watchful eye of Alejandro Romay and Samuel Yankelevich

Sing along with her sister

With his sons

A scene of Mirtha in “La Patota” (1960)

He has participated in more than 30 films

The first broadcast of his show dates back to 1968

With their children, Daniel and Marcela

Another image with their children (Gente magazine)

During one of their lunches, shortly after the arrival of color television in Argentina

Dancing with the love of his life, Daniel Tinayre

Another memory of the diva

Mirtha with Alejandro Romay, the television czar

At the Kromos gallery with Daniel Tinayre, in the 1960s

With Tato Bores

He is an icon of television in the world

An old image of Mirtha Legrand

A historic lunch for the diva with Ástor Piazzola, Graciela Alfano, Diego Maradona, Claudio Levrino, Thelma Biral and Jairo

“Chiquita” with Julieta and Palito Ortega

Mirtha in her program with Xuxa

The diva, smiling, playing golf

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“Lunch with Mirtha Legrand” with Sergio Renan, Raffaella Carrà, Jorge Porcel and Norma Aleandro

Mirtha, genuine

On his show with Pinky and Mónica Cahen D’Anvers

Another photo of the diva’s intimacy

La Chiqui with Romay and Carlos Menem

Accompanied by her son at the funeral of her husband, Daniel Tinayre

Lina Rosa Díaz, a former employee, was accused of the millionaire theft of the jewels of the diva

An Argentinian diva

In his program, with Jairo

With Carlos Calvo, Alejandro Romay, Grecia Colmenares and Enrique Pinti

In a broadcast of his show

The diva, smiling

Work in Mar del Plata

In 2005, with Diego Maradona as a guest on his show (Télam)

Mirtha, in an advertisement

With Soledad Silveyra

At the 2011 Martín Fierro Awards Ceremony

With her friend Susana Giménez

In “La Dueña”, the novel in which he starred in 2012 for El Trece

The return of the diva with her lunches at El Trece in 2014, after 34 years

With his daughter Marcela and grandchildren Juana and Nacho Viale at a ceremony on Mauricio Macri’s first day as president

The diva with her grandchildren, Juana and Nacho Viale

Mirtha Legrand and Juanita Viale

Mirtha Legrand and Nacho Viale, her grandson and producer (Verónica Guerman)

Splendid, during the 2015 Martín Fierro Awards ceremony, when she received the statuette for her broadcast in the “General Interest / Magazine” category.