Norma Duval

	Norma Duval
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	Background information
Born as:	Purificación Martín Aguilera
Born	Apr 4, 1956; Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Occupation:	Vedette, actress, TV presenter and businesswoman
Years active:	1973 - present
Nationality:	Spanish

Purificación Martín Aguilera, professionally known as Norma Duval (Barcelona, ✦4 April 1956), is a Spanish vedette, actress, and businesswoman. -- Image / file --

Life

Duval was born in Barcelona on April 4, 1956. Her family moved to Madrid to live in a villa in the Cuatro Vientos Military Colony because of her father's profession. Duval was chosen as Miss Madrid in 1973. She was married to Marc Ostarcevic between 1992 and 2003. In 2020, she participated on the first season of Mask Singer: Adivina quién canta, under the Unicorn mask and revealed itself on the 3rd program.

Career

Norma Duval made her TV debut in 1974 on ¡Señoras y señores! with other known artists in the middle as Ángela Carrasco and Victoria Vera.

She finally consecrated herself as a revue actress. In 1980, she became the first star of the centenary Parisian theater Folies Bergère, very frequented by Toulouse-Lautrec. She was the second Spaniard who managed to be the headliner of the same theater after La Bella Otero. Duval was one of the last stars of the traditional "magazine," a type of show that during those years was in decline and that was maintained mainly thanks to the tourists who visited Paris.

Once in Spain (after becoming a businesswoman), Norma Duval directed and managed different shows with which she toured Spain and abroad. In Mexico and Italy, she achieved great success. Late in the 1980s, and coinciding with the decline of "uncovering" (removing one's clothing), she leaves the world of cinema and dedicates herself exclusively to the theater and her television appearances. She reaps important successes with the zarzuela ^↗ La corte del faraón, which she performed in Valencia in 1993.

After a few years away from the stage, she premiered, in October 2000, the musical The Woman of the Year.