Luce Caponegro

Luce Caponegro, also known by her stage name Selen, is an Italian actress, TV presenter and former pornographic actress. Caponegro's father was an Italian industrialist active in the petroleum industry. She attended courses in singing, classical dance and horseback riding as a child. After leaving home and marrying at the age of 18, she lived in a commune without running water or heating until the age of 20. In addition to Italian, she also speaks French and English. In her early twenties, she first ventured into the adult industry with an amateur hardcore video, also her first, "Orgia di natale" directed by Cesare Geromini. Her breakthrough came in 1993 at the age of 27 when the director Alex Perry offered her a role in the film "Signore scandalose di provincia". It is around this time she adopted the stage name Selen. She has been called Italy's favorite porn star. She's also made appearances at the Hot D'Or pornographic festival in Cannae and Erotica in Turin and won 17 prizes during her career as a famous pornographic actress from 1993 to 1999. Her last hardcore scenes were released in 2000 with the film Millennium. Although her last sex scene was filmed in 1999, she continued to appear afterward in films as clips were used in later hardcore films. She has stated that she would not return to pornography in the future.