This month, veteran actress Léa Garcia celebrated 83 years of life and 63 of an artistic career

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Note from BW of Brazil: May we always celebrate the lives of our elders! Unfortunate that March 11th passed by without our celebrating the birthday of one of Brazil’s most respected black actresses,  Léa Garcia, who celebrated 83 years of life on that date.

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Garcia in the 2001 novela “O Clone’

Along with Ruth de Souza, Léa’s career represents true longevity in an industry in which Afro-Brazilian actors and actresses are never given their due. Garcia’s appearances on the big and small screen are too numerous to list here but many of our readers outside of Brazil may have become aware of her for the first time in the 1959 classic Orfeu Negro

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Garcia in ‘Orfeu Negro’ of 1959

In 2014 Garcia starred in the important short film O Dia de Jerusa, that was featured at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in France and showed that she still has what it takes as an actress even in her 80s! Congratulations Léa, Happy Belated Birthday and THANK YOU for paving the way for so many Afro-Brazilian actresses. The road to respect and appreciation is still a long ways away for black women in Brazil’s film and TV industry, but it would be difficult to imagine this struggle without your contributions for so many years!

The actress Léa Garcia celebrates 83 years of life and 63 of an artistic career

by Herminia Brandão

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Actress Léa Garcia

This month, the Rio actress Léa Garcia, who is currently artistic director of the Sindicato dos Artistas e Técnicos em Espetáculos de Diversões do Estado do Rio (Sated or Union of Artists and Technicians in Spectaculars of Amusement of the State of Rio) celebrated 83 years of life and 63 of artistic career.

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In the 2014 film ‘O Dia de Jerusa’

She was born in Rio de Janeiro, on March 11, 1933. Léa has participated in 35 novelas (soap operas) and 25 films and has earned awards at various festivals.

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‘A Deusa Negra’ (1978)

Her last appearance in a novela was the opening of  Êta Mundo Bom, currently on the air Globo TV, when she played the midwife of the birth the Candinho character.

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Léa Garcia, as Rosa in ‘Escrava Isaura’ (1976)
Cena em que ela parteira faz o parto do personagem Candinho na novela Êta Mundo Bom!
Scene where she plays the midwife of the birth of the Candinho character in ‘Êta Mundo Bom’ novela
Cena em que a parteira salva o bebe do personagem Candinho na novela Êta Mundo Bom, de ser jogado do penhasco.
Scene in which the midwife saved the baby of the Candinho character in the ‘Êta Mundo Bom’ novela, from being thrown from the cliff.

Source: Jornal da 3a Idade

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