Juana Viale

Juana Viale (born 15 April 1982) is an Argentine actress and television presenter. She is the granddaughter of Mirtha Legrand and Daniel Tinayre, the great-niece of Silvia Legrand and José A. Martínez Suárez, and the daughter of Marcela Tinayre.

Biography
Juana Viale was born in Buenos Aires on 15 April 1982, the daughter of businesswoman and presenter Marcela Tinayre and Ignacio Viale Del Carril. She is the granddaughter of Mirtha Legrand and Daniel Tinayre, and the great-niece of Silvia Legrand and José A. Martínez Suárez. She has four siblings, including actress Manuela Viale.

She began her acting career in 2003, when telenovela producer Marcelo Tinelli convinced her to play a villain in the second phase of Costumbres argentinas (telenovela).

In 2004, Viale acted in the Telefe series Sangre fría (TV series), starring Mariano Martínez and Dolores Fonzi. In 2005, she appeared in the telenovela Doble vida (telenovela), broadcast by the Argentine channel América. She starred in two chapters of Mujeres asesinas in 2005 and 2008. In cinema, she made her film debut in the film Radio Corazón together with the leading Chilean actress, Claudia di Girolamo. She next acted in El cine de Maite, and was one of the protagonists of The Widows of Thursdays in 2009.

In 2010, she obtained her first leading role, Renata Medina, in Malparida, one of the first Argentine telenovelas in which a protagonist is a villain and murderer.

In 2011, she made her theater debut in the play La celebración, and in cinema she starred in the film La patria equivocada. The following year she appeared in two episodes of La dueña, starring her grandmother, Mirtha Legrand.

In 2013, Viale made a special appearance as a villain in the El Trece sitcom Solamente vos, together with Adrián Suar and Natalia Oreiro. The following year she returned as a guest villain in Mis amigos de siempre. In cinema, she costarred with Florencia Raggi in the movie Mala.

In 2014, she replaced her grandmother on a broadcast of the interview show Almorzando con Mirtha Legrand, making her debut as a host. She also appeared in the Chilean series Sudamerican Rockers, and in Argentina, Las 13 esposas de Wilson Fernández (2014 TV series).

In 2015, she acted in the film Tuya (2015 film), and in the miniseries Malicia (TV series), together with Gabriel Goity, Ana Celentano, and Mario Alarcón.

Viale competed in the dance reality show Bailando por un sueño, where she took fourteenth place after five months of competition. On Netflix, she starred in the series Estocolmo.

In 2018, she starred in Edha, a Netflix series with Andrés Velencoso and Antonio Birabent, among others.

In Chile, she starred in the play La sangre de los árboles, together with the Uruguayan actress Victoria Césperes.

In 2020, her grandmother Mirtha Legrand had to stop working on her programs Almorzando con Mirtha Legrand and La noche de Mirtha because she was a person at risk during the COVID-19 pandemic. Juana Viale replaced her at the helm of both programs that year and the following.

In December 2021, the actress premiered a new series on Amazon Prime Video, titled Causalidad (film).

Personal life
In 2002, a year before entering show business, Viale dated musician Juan de Benedictis, son of the Argentine singer Piero. Their daughter was born on 2003. In 2005, she married Doble vida co-star, Chilean actor Gonzalo Valenzuela. The couple had three children, with a fourth died during childbirth in April 2011. She and Valenzuela divorced in 2014. In 2024, Viale confirmed her relationship with sailor Yago Lange, the son of Santiago Lange, whom she briefly dated.

Theater

 * 2011 – La celebración
 * 2015–2018 – La sangre de los árboles
 * 2016–2017 – Noche corta
 * 2019 – El ardor
 * 2019 – Cuarenta días, cuarenta noches
 * 2023 – Trafico (Madrid)