Brazilian actress (1940–2023)
Aracy Balabanian (22 February 1940 – 7 August 2023) was a Brazilian actress.[1]
Biography
Aracy Balabanian was born in Campo Grande, in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Her parents were Armenians Raphael and Esther Balabanyans. They emigrated from Ottoman Empire to Brazil, fleeing from the genocide promoted in that country by the Ottoman Turks.
At the age of fifteen, she moved to São Paulo with her parents and helped raise her seven younger brothers. She passed the entrance exam for Social Sciences and for the Escola de Arte Dramática, coming to abandon the studies of Sociology, another entrance exam that she had taken and had been accepted, to devote herself to the theater. She said that she lived in a time when it was considered ugly for a woman to do theater since women were formerly educated to be housewives and obey their husbands.[citation needed]
Balabanian died in Rio de Janeiro on 7 August 2023, at the age of 83.[2]
Filmography
Television series
- Vila Sésamo (1972–1974).... Gabriela
- Aplauso (1979).... Angélica
- Caso Especial (1993–1994)
- Você Decide (1994)
- Engraçadinha... Seus Amores e Seus Pecados (1995).... Dona Geninha
- Sai de Baixo (1996—2013).... Cassandra Mathias Salão
- Brava Gente (2001)
- Linha Direta Justiça (2003)
- Casos e Acasos (2008).... Amélia
- Queridos Amigos (2008).... Teresa Fernandes Moretti
- Toma Lá, Dá Cá (2008).... Shafika Sarakutian
- Louco por Elas (2012).... Cândida
- Juntos a magia acontece (2019)
Telenovelas
Cinema
- A Primeira Viagem .... Irene (1975)
- Caramujo-Flor .... Woman in black (1998)
- Policarpo Quaresma, Herói do Brasil .... Maricota (1998)
Theatre
- 1963 – Os Ossos do Barão
- 1966 – Oh, Que Delícia de Guerra
- 1968 – Feira Paulista de Opinião
- 1969 – Hair
- 1977 – Brecht, segundo Brecht
- 1980 – À Direita do Presidente
- 1985 – Boa Noite, Mãe
- 1985 – Time and the Conways
- 1988 – Folias no Box
- 1991 – Fulaninha e Dona Coisa
- 1995 – Noite Feliz
- 1998 – Clarice, Coração Selvagem
- 2006 – Comendo Entre as Refeições
Awards and nominations
APCA Awards
Best of the Year – Globe Awards
Contigo! Awards
Press Trophy
Quem Awards
References
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