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{{short description|Italian actress and television personality (born 1966)}}
{{for|the chemical element|selenium}}
{{BLP sources|date=September 2023}}
{{Infobox person
| name               = Selen
| image              = 
| caption            = 
| birth_name         = Luce Caponegro
| birth_date         = {{birth date and age|1966|12|17|df=yes}}
| birth_place        = [[Rome, Italy]]
| death_date         = 
| death_place        = 
| spouse             = 
| occupation         = Actress, [[television presenter]], former [[pornographic actress]]
| years_active       = 1986–present
| other_names        = Selen
| height             = {{convert|1.62|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
}}
'''Luce Caponegro''' (born December 17, 1966), also known by her stage name '''Selen''', is an Italian actress, [[TV presenter|television presenter]], [[Film Director |director]], and former [[pornographic actress]].

==Early life==
Caponegro's father was an Italian industrialist active in the [[petroleum]] industry. As a child, she attended courses in singing, classical dance, and [[Equestrianism|horseback riding]]. After leaving home, she married at the age of 18 and lived in a [[commune (intentional community)|commune]] without running water or a heating system until she was 20.{{cn|date=January 2025}}

==Adult film career==
In her early twenties, she entered the [[adult industry|adult video industry]] with her first pornographic film, ''Orgia di natale,'' directed by Cesare Geromini.<ref name=autogenerated2>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200126102227/http://lafattoria.altervista.org/home/concorrenti/selen.htm Selen – Luce Caponegro<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

Her breakthrough came in 1993, at the age of 27, when director [[Alex Perry]] offered her a role in the film ''Signore Scandalose di Provincia''. It was around this time that she adopted the stage name Selen.

She has been called "Italy's favorite porn star."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://news2000.libero.it/speciali/6442.jhtml |title=<valueof param="titolopagina" valueishtml></valueof> |access-date=2007-02-28 |archive-date=2007-02-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070213145823/http://news2000.libero.it/speciali/6442.jhtml |url-status=dead }}</ref> She made appearances at the [[Hot d'Or]] pornographic festival in [[Cannes]]<ref>[http://www.tgcom.mediaset.it/spettacolo/articoli/articolo121187.shtml Tgcom – Articolo Tgcom<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and at Erotica in [[Turin]], winning 17 prizes during her career as a [[Pornography|pornographic]] actress from 1993 to 1999.<ref>[http://www.nautilus.tv/0211it/spettacolo/cinema/selen.htm Nautilus Web Magazine - Cinema 1/2003<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

Her last [[hardcore pornography|hardcore]] scenes were released in 2000 with the film ''Millennium''. Although her last sex scene was filmed in 1999, she continued to appear in films as clips from her previous work were used in later hardcore films.{{Citation needed|date=December 2022}}

She has stated that she would not return to pornography.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-02-22 |title=Selen against Rocco Siffredi: «On the set, he whipped me so hard that they stopped the scene. Since then no film with him» |url=https://www.unionesarda.it/en/selen-against-rocco-siffredi-on-the-set-he-whipped-me-so-hard-that-they-stopped-the-scene-since-then-no-film-with-him-tfc92eln |access-date=2024-12-04 |website=L'Unione Sarda English |language=en}}</ref>

===Directors===
Selen starred in films by well-known Italian porn directors such as [[Mario Salieri]] (''Dracula, Sceneggiata napoletana, Concetta Licata),'' Silvio Bandinelli (''Il rosso e il nero, Cuore di pietra),'' and [[Joe D'Amato]] (''Selvaggia, Sahara, Selen regina degli elefanti)''. She played the title role in ''Cindy'', directed by [[Luca Damiano]].{{citation needed|date=July 2015}}

==Film and television career==
Caponegro has presented the music programme "Hot."<ref>[http://www.publiweb.com/service/selen_hot.html Selen conduce Hot programma musicale<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1388732/ Luce Caponegro<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> She has made appearances in radio, hosting the show ''Lezioni di Sesso'' (Sex Lessons). Caponegro has also made appearances in theatre and [[advertisements]]. In 2004, she starred in the [[reality television|reality show]] ''La Fattoria''. She has also appeared in ''[[Maurizio Costanzo Show]]'', ''[[Uno Mattina]]'', ''[[Domenica In]]'', ''I Fatti Vostri'' and ''Omnibus''. Caponegro had a part in [[Asia Argento]]'s 2000 film ''[[Scarlet Diva]]'', which won the [[Williamsburg, Brooklyn|Williamsburg Brooklyn]] Film Festival Award for [[Best New Director]].

==Personal life==
Caponegro lived in coastal [[Romagna]]. She has two sons, the first of whom, Kangi, was born in 1988 during her marriage with Fabio Albonetti, which has since ended in [[divorce]]. Her second son, Gabriele, was born in 2006 with her ex-partner [[Nicola Zanon]].<ref>[http://www.tgcom.mediaset.it/gossip/articoli/articolo338040.shtml Tgcom - Selen: "Sono una mamma canguro"<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> In 2006, she graduated from school and expressed a desire to enroll at a university.{{Citation needed|date=December 2022}}

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb name|0783061|Selen}}
* {{iafd name|id=Selen|gender=female|name=Selen}}
* {{afdb name|id=1135|gender=female|name=Selen}}
* {{Egafd name|s00059|Selen}}

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[[Category:1966 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Italian pornographic film actresses]]
[[Category:Italian film actresses]]
[[Category:Participants in Italian reality television series]]