Carmen Silva
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Carmen Silva who was often credited as Carmem Silva, was a Brazil
ian television
, stage
and film
actress. She was best known in recent years for her role on the Brazilian telenovela
, Mulheres Apaixonadas
in which she played Flora de Souza Duarte, the wife of Leopoldo Duarte (Oswaldo Louzada
). Mulheres Apaixonadas was created by Manoel Carlos.
, Rio Grande do Sul
, Brazil
on April 5, 1916. Her acting
career only began in earnest in 1939 when she took a job at Rádio Cultura in Pelotas. She worked at the station, as well as others, in various capacities, until she moved to Sao Paulo
, where she joined Radio Tupi. She also worked on Rádio Record
with Janete Clair
. The two wrote programs aimed at a female audience.
Silva's career switched to the newly popular medium of television during the 1950s. She began acting in soap operas and telenovelas during the decade, including A Próxima Atração, Ossos do Barão, Sinal de Alerta, as well as the miniseries
, O Primo Basílio
. She also founded her own theater company in Rio Grande do Sul during the 1960s.
Silva hit a career highlight when she joined the popular Brazilian telenovela
, Mulheres Apaixonadas
, in 2003. She played an elderly character, Flora de Souza Duarte, while Brazilian actor Oswaldo Louzada
portrayed her husband, Leopoldo Duarte, on the soap opera. Their characters often suffered ill treatment at the hands of their granddaughter, Dóris, who was played by actress Regiane Alves
.
Carmen Silva last acting role was the in 2007 film, Valsa para Bruno Stein (Waltz for Bruno Stein), which was shown at the 2007 Festival de Gramado
film festival
.
Carmen Silva died of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome
at the Hospital Mãe de Deus in age of 92 in Porto Alegre
, Brazil, on April 21, 2008. She had been hospitalized since April 1, 2008, for treatment of her illness. Silva was buried at the Irmandade Arcanjo São Miguel e Almas cemetery in Porto Alegre.
Sadly, Oswaldo Louzada, who played her television husband on Mulheres Apaixonadas, also died from multiple organ dysfunction syndrome
, the same disease that afflicted Silva, on February 22, 2008.
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
ian television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
, stage
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
and film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
actress. She was best known in recent years for her role on the Brazilian telenovela
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...
, Mulheres Apaixonadas
Mulheres Apaixonadas
Mulheres Apaixonadas is a Brazilian soap opera which originally aired on Rede Globo from February 17, 2003 until October 11, 2003. A total of 203 episodes were created for the series.- Cast :*Christiane Torloni - Helena Ribeiro Alves...
in which she played Flora de Souza Duarte, the wife of Leopoldo Duarte (Oswaldo Louzada
Oswaldo Louzada
Oswaldo Louzada was a Brazilian actor. He was also known as Louzadinha....
). Mulheres Apaixonadas was created by Manoel Carlos.
Biography
Silva was born Maria Amália Feijó in PelotasPelotas
Pelotas is a Brazilian city and municipality , the third most populous in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. Pelotas is located 270 km from Porto Alegre, the capital city of the state, and 130 km from the Uruguayan border...
, Rio Grande do Sul
Rio Grande do Sul
Rio Grande do Sul is the southernmost state in Brazil, and the state with the fifth highest Human Development Index in the country. In this state is located the southernmost city in the country, Chuí, on the border with Uruguay. In the region of Bento Gonçalves and Caxias do Sul, the largest wine...
, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
on April 5, 1916. Her acting
Acting
Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play....
career only began in earnest in 1939 when she took a job at Rádio Cultura in Pelotas. She worked at the station, as well as others, in various capacities, until she moved to Sao Paulo
São Paulo
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
, where she joined Radio Tupi. She also worked on Rádio Record
Rádio Record
Rádio Record is a Brazilian radio station based in São Paulo, Brazil. It is part of the Central Record de Comunicação and operates in the frequency 1000 kHz AM...
with Janete Clair
Janete Clair
Janete Clair was a Brazilian television, radio play, and novel writer born in Conquista, Minas Gerais, Brazil. TV series in Brazil continued to be based on her work fifteen years after her 1983 death from cancer in Rio de Janeiro. She was the wife of writer Alfredo Dias Gomes.-External links:...
. The two wrote programs aimed at a female audience.
Silva's career switched to the newly popular medium of television during the 1950s. She began acting in soap operas and telenovelas during the decade, including A Próxima Atração, Ossos do Barão, Sinal de Alerta, as well as the miniseries
Miniseries
A miniseries , in a serial storytelling medium, is a television show production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. The exact number is open to interpretation; however, they are usually limited to fewer than a whole season. The term "miniseries" is generally a North American term...
, O Primo Basílio
O Primo Basílio
O Primo Basílio is one of the greatest realist novels of the Portuguese author José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, also known under the modernized spelling Eça de Queirós. He worked in the Portuguese consular service, stationed at 53 Grey Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, from late 1874 until April 1879...
. She also founded her own theater company in Rio Grande do Sul during the 1960s.
Silva hit a career highlight when she joined the popular Brazilian telenovela
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...
, Mulheres Apaixonadas
Mulheres Apaixonadas
Mulheres Apaixonadas is a Brazilian soap opera which originally aired on Rede Globo from February 17, 2003 until October 11, 2003. A total of 203 episodes were created for the series.- Cast :*Christiane Torloni - Helena Ribeiro Alves...
, in 2003. She played an elderly character, Flora de Souza Duarte, while Brazilian actor Oswaldo Louzada
Oswaldo Louzada
Oswaldo Louzada was a Brazilian actor. He was also known as Louzadinha....
portrayed her husband, Leopoldo Duarte, on the soap opera. Their characters often suffered ill treatment at the hands of their granddaughter, Dóris, who was played by actress Regiane Alves
Regiane Alves
Regiane Kelly Lima Alves , better known as Regiane Alves, is a Brazilian film and television actress and a former fashion design model. His first role was as Ana Clara, the main protagonist in the SBT soap opera Fascinação...
.
Carmen Silva last acting role was the in 2007 film, Valsa para Bruno Stein (Waltz for Bruno Stein), which was shown at the 2007 Festival de Gramado
Festival de Gramado
The Gramado Film Festival is an international film festival held annually in the Brazilian city of Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, since 1973. Since 1992 it also gives awards to Latin American films produced outside Brazil...
film festival
Film festival
A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. More and more often film festivals show part of their films to the public by adding outdoor movie screenings...
.
Carmen Silva died of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome
Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome
Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome ', previously known as multiple organ failure or multisystem organ failure , is altered organ function in an acutely ill patient requiring medical intervention to achieve homeostasis...
at the Hospital Mãe de Deus in age of 92 in Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre is the tenth most populous municipality in Brazil, with 1,409,939 inhabitants, and the centre of Brazil's fourth largest metropolitan area . It is also the capital city of the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The city is the southernmost capital city of a Brazilian...
, Brazil, on April 21, 2008. She had been hospitalized since April 1, 2008, for treatment of her illness. Silva was buried at the Irmandade Arcanjo São Miguel e Almas cemetery in Porto Alegre.
Sadly, Oswaldo Louzada, who played her television husband on Mulheres Apaixonadas, also died from multiple organ dysfunction syndrome
Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome
Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome ', previously known as multiple organ failure or multisystem organ failure , is altered organ function in an acutely ill patient requiring medical intervention to achieve homeostasis...
, the same disease that afflicted Silva, on February 22, 2008.
Filmography
- 2007 - Valsa para Bruno Stein
- 2005 - Café da Tarde
- 2003 - A Festa de Margarette
- 2002 - Lembra, Meu Velho?
- 1997 - Até Logo, Mamãe
- 1990 - O Gato de Botas Extraterrestre
- 1983 - Idolatrada
- 1982 - Amor de Perversão
- 1977 - Contos Eróticos (episódio As três virgens)
- 1975 - Guerra Conjugal
- 1974 - The Hand That Feeds the DeadThe Hand That Feeds the DeadThe Hand That Feeds the Dead is a 1974 Italian horror film directed by Sergio Garrone and starring Klaus Kinski. In this film, a 19th-century doctor finds a laboratory in his basement and starts dabbling in reanimation.-Cast:* Klaus Kinski - Prof...
- 1970 - Elas (episódio O Artesanato de Ser Mulher)
- 1958 - O Grande Momento
- 1957 - Rebelião em Vila Rica
- 1955 - Carnaval em Lá Maior
- 1949 - Quase no Céu
- 1946 - El Ángel desnudo
Television
- 2006 - A DiaristaA DiaristaA Diarista was a Brazilian sitcom directed by José Alvarenga Jr. and written by Aloísio de Abreu and Bruno Mazzeo. The series premiered on April 13, 2004 at 11:00 PM and was aired from 2004 to 2007 on Tuesday nights on Rede Globo.-Plot:It shows the life and problems of Marinete , a cleaning lady...
(seriado - episódios Aquele da Chuva e Marinete Não Chega!) .... Dona Gilda - 2003 - Zorra TotalZorra TotalZorra Total is a Brazilian television comedy broadcast by Globo Network. It was launched on March 25, 1999 and has aired on Saturdays, at 10p.m., ever since May 1999....
.... Flora de Sousa Duarte - 2003 - Mulheres ApaixonadasMulheres ApaixonadasMulheres Apaixonadas is a Brazilian soap opera which originally aired on Rede Globo from February 17, 2003 until October 11, 2003. A total of 203 episodes were created for the series.- Cast :*Christiane Torloni - Helena Ribeiro Alves...
.... Flora de Sousa Duarte - 1988 - O Primo BasílioO Primo BasílioO Primo Basílio is one of the greatest realist novels of the Portuguese author José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, also known under the modernized spelling Eça de Queirós. He worked in the Portuguese consular service, stationed at 53 Grey Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, from late 1874 until April 1879...
.... Dona Virgínia Lemos (miniseries) - 1984 - Meus Filhos, Minha Vida .... Ana (SBT)
- 1983 - Sabor de Mel .... Jojô (Rede Bandeirantes)
- 1982 - Campeão .... Joana (Rede Bandeirantes)
- 1982 - Ninho da Serpente .... Maria Clara (Rede Bandeirantes)
- 1981 - Baila Comigo
- 1981 - Os Adolescentes (Rede Bandeirantes)
- 1980 - Pé de Vento .... Noca (Rede Bandeirantes)
- 1979 - Cara a Cara .... Milú (Rede Bandeirantes)
- 1978 - Sinal de Alerta .... Coló
- 1977 - Locomotivas .... Adelaide
- 1975 - A Viagem .... Dona Isaura (TV Tupi)
- 1974 - Ídolo de Pano .... Pauline de Clermon (TV Tupi)
- 1973 - Os Ossos do Barão .... Melica
- 1973 - Vidas Marcadas (Rede Record)
- 1973 - Venha Ver o Sol na Estrada .... Vovó Tonica (Rede Record)
- 1973 - Vendaval (Rede Record)
- 1972 - Quero Viver .... Carmela (Rede Record)
- 1972 - Bel-Ami (TV Tupi)
- 1972 - Signo da Esperança (TV Tupi)
- 1971 - Minha Doce Namorada .... Dona Nina
- 1970 - A Próxima Atração .... Dona Saudade
- 1970 - Pigmalião 70 .... Condessa Cavanca
- 1958 - Cela da Morte
External links
- Folha Online: Oswaldo Louzada dies in Rio at 95 (Portuguese)