Norton Cândia Nascimento (January 4, 1962 – December 21, 2007) was a Brazil

Brazil

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ian actor

Actor

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Personal life

Nascimento was born in the city of Belém

Belém

Belém is a Brazilian city, the capital and largest city of state of Pará, in the country's north region. It is the entrance gate to the Amazon with a busy port, airport and bus/coach station...

, capital of the state of Pará

Pará

Pará is a state in the north of Brazil. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas and Roraima. To the northwest it also borders Guyana and Suriname, and to the northeast it borders the Atlantic Ocean. The capital is Belém.Pará is the most populous state...

. His wife was actress Kelly Candia. He was a member of the Igreja Renascer em Cristo

Igreja Renascer em Cristo

The Igreja Renascer em Cristo or Reborn in Christ Church , which was founded in São Paulo in 1986 by Estevam Hernandes and Sônia Hernandes...

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Death

Nascimento had suffered several years of failing health, including a reported heart transplant in December 2003 due to an aortic aneurysm

Aortic aneurysm

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. He died in Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo hospital, aged 45, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, from heart failure due to lung problems.

Television credits

• 1981 - Os Imigrantes
• 1992 - De corpo e alma
• 1993 - Fera Ferida .... Wotan
• 1993 - Agosto .... Chicão
• 1995 - A Próxima Vítima .... Sidney Noronha
• 1996 - O Fim do Mundo .... Frei Eusébio
• 1997 - Malhação
  Malhação
  Malhação is a Brazilian soap opera for the teenage audience. The soap started in 1995, and was set in a fictional Gym Club called Malhação on Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Through the years the location varied slightly. Although the name of the soap remains the same, it is now set in the...
  
  .... Fausto
• 1994 - 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....
  
  
• 1999 - Chiquinha Gonzaga .... Joaquim Antônio da Silva Callado Júnior
• 2000 - Aquarela do Brasil .... Bemol
• 2001 - Sai de Baixo
  Sai de Baixo
  Sai de Baixo is a Brazilian sitcom that first aired on Rede Globo....
  
  ... Filipe
• 2001 - Brava Gente .... Marcelo
• 2001 - As Filhas da Mãe .... Investigador Marcelo
• 2001 - A Padroeira .... Zacarias
• 2006 - Papai Noel Existe (especial de fim de ano)
• 2007 - Maria Esperança .... Nocaute (Bento de Jesus)

Film credits

• 1995 - Carlota Joaquina - Princesa do Brasil .... Fernando Leão
• 1998 - Drama Urbano .... Waldo
• 1999 - Até que a Vida nos Separe .... Pedro
• 2004 - Araguaia - A Conspiração do Silêncio .... Osvaldão

External links

• Norton Nascimento obituary (Portuguese)