Maria Sílvia Correa Moreira Menezes Aguiar (February 16, 1944 – July 26, 2009) was a 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...

ian 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...

, 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 television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 actress.

Sílvia was already a well established film and theater actress by the time she made her television 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....

 debut in the late 1970s. Her role in a 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"...

 came in 1977 on O Astro (Star) on Rede Globo

Rede Globo

Rede Globo , or simply Globo, is a Brazilian television network, launched by media mogul Roberto Marinho on April 26, 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Organizações Globo, being by far the largest of its holdings...

. On of her most well known telenovela roles was on the Rede Globo show, Alma gêmea (Soulmate), in 2005 in which she played a traditional, elderly Brazilian indigenous woman

Indigenous peoples in Brazil

The Indigenous peoples in Brazil comprise a large number of distinct ethnic groups who inhabited the country prior to the European invasion around 1500...

. Silvia's other telenovela credits inlcluded Torre de babel in 1998, Chocolate com pimenta

Chocolate com Pimenta

Chocolate com Pimenta is a Brazilian novela, cast in the roaring 1920s, starring Mariana Ximenes and Murilo Benício. It was produced and broadcast by Rede Globo in 2003. It was written by Walcyr Carrasco and directed by Jorge Fernando....

in 2003, and Páginas da vida in 2006.

Sílvia appeared in a number of films throughout her career, some of which were directed by Walter Lima Jr, Ruy Guerra

Ruy Guerra

Ruy Alexandre Guerra Coelho Pereira is a film director, screenwriter, film editor, and actor in Brazil. Guerra was born a Portuguese citizen in Lourenço Marques in Moçambique, when it was still a colony of Portugal....

, Arnaldo Jabor

Arnaldo Jabor

Arnaldo Jabor is a Brazilian film director, screenwriter and producer. He directed nine films between 1965 and 1990. His 1973 film Toda Nudez Será Castigada won the Silver Bear at the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival....

 and Paulo César Saraceni.

Maria Sílvia died of lung cancer

Lung cancer

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 on July 26, 2009, in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 65. She was buried on July 27 at the Cemitério São João Batista in Botafogo

Botafogo

Botafogo is a beachfront neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is a mostly middle class and small commerce community, and is located between the hills of Mundo Novo, Dona Marta and São João .- History :Botafogo was named after João Pereira de Sousa Botafogo, who was responsible for the...

, neighborhood in the southern zone of Rio de Janeiro.

Telenovelas

• 1977 - O Astro - Tânia
• 1988 - Olho por Olho - Maria
• 1989 - Kananga do Japão - Brígida
• 1990 - A História de Ana Raio e Zé Trovão - Fifi
• 1993 - Você Decide
  Você Decide
  Você Decide was an interactive television program aired by Brazilian TV Globo between 1992 and 2000. In each episode were enacted special cases with a different ending to be chosen by viewers voting via telephone....
  
  - Marilu
• 1994 - Memorial de Maria Moura - Jove
• 1998 - Torre de Babel - Dirce
• 2000 - Brava Gente
  Brava Gente
  Brava Gente was a television series aired by TV Globo in Brazil between 2000 and 2003, initially as a special year-end. The program was adapted from stories and national stories, and plays by famous playwrights, screenwriters and signed by a number represented by several actors and actresses. The...
  
  - Ivone
• 2003 - Chocolate com Pimenta
  Chocolate com Pimenta
  Chocolate com Pimenta is a Brazilian novela, cast in the roaring 1920s, starring Mariana Ximenes and Murilo Benício. It was produced and broadcast by Rede Globo in 2003. It was written by Walcyr Carrasco and directed by Jorge Fernando....
  
  - Vizinha
• 2005 - Alma Gêmea
  Alma Gêmea
  Alma Gêmea is a Brazilian telenovela that produced and broadcast by Rede Globo in 2005 and 2006. It was written by Walcyr Carrasco and directed by Jorge Fernando. Although the actors speak Portuguese, the program has been dubbed into other languages and syndicated internationally...
  
  - Índia Velha
• 2006 - Páginas da Vida - Marlene
• 2006 - Vidas Opostas
  Vidas Opostas
  Vidas Opostas is a Brazilian telenovela originally aired on Rede Record.-Controversy:Because of scenes involving graphic portrayal of nudity, drugs and violence, Vidas Opostas received a 14 rating from the DJCTQ...
  
  - Mercedes
• 2007 - Caminhos do Coração
  Caminhos do Coração
  Caminhos do Coração is a Brazilian telenovela aired on Rede Record. Created by Tiago Santiago and directed by Alexandre Avancini, it was replaced by a spin-off called Os Mutantes: Caminhos do Coração, airing since June 3, 2008.-Plot:...
  
  - Magda
• 2008 - Chamas da Vida
  Chamas da Vida
  Chamas da Vida is a Brazilian telenovela produced by Rede Record. It premiered on July 8, 2008 and aired until April 28, 2009, at 9:45 p.m. schedule. Created by Cristianne Fridman, the telenovela is written by her in collaboration with Paula Richard, Renata Dias Gomes, Camilo Pellegrini and...
  
  - Miriam
• 2009 - Os Mutantes - Caminhos do Coração - Magda

Films

• 1975 - Joanna Francesa
  Joanna Francesa
  Joanna Francesa is a 1975 French-Brazilian drama film directed by Carlos Diegues and starring Jeanne Moreau, Eliezer Gomes and Carlos Kroeber.-Cast:* Jeanne Moreau - Joanna* Eliezer Gomes - Gismundo* Carlos Kroeber - Aureliano* Ney Santanna - Honório...
  
  
• 1976 - Gordos e Magros
• 1976 - Marília e Marina
• 1976 - A Queda
  A Queda
  A Queda is a 1976 Brazilian drama film directed by Ruy Guerra and Nelson Xavier. It was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize.-Cast:* Nelson Xavier* Hugo Carvana* Cosme dos Santos...
  
  
• 1976 - Assuntina das Amérikas
• 1976 - Perdida
• 1977 - Ajuricaba, o Rebelde da Amazônia
• 1977 - Esse Rio Muito Louco
• 1977 - Anchieta, José do Brasil
• 1977 - Mar de Rosas
• 1978 - O Bandido Antonio Do
• 1978 - Tudo Bem
• 1979 - Amor e Traição
• 1980 - Cabaret Mineiro
• 1981 - Eu Te Amo
• 1982 - Luz del Fuego
• 1983 - Janete
• 1983 - O Mágico e o Delegado
• 1984 - Patriamada
• 1984 - Noites do Sertão
• 1984 - Dois Homens Para Matar
• 1984 - Águia na Cabeça
• 1986 - Ópera do Malandro
• 1987 - Ele, o Boto
• 1988 - Romance
• 1989 - Minas-Texas
• 1995 - Sombras de Julho
• 1995 - Yemanján tyttäret
• 1996 - Como Nascem os Anjos
• 1998 - Amor & Cia
• 2001 - Uma Vida em Segredo
• 2004 - O Diabo a Quatro
• 2005 - Desejo

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