Actress Léa Garcia dies on the day she would be honored at the festival

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She would be honored today at the Gramado Film Festival

Actress Léa Garcia, aged 90, died this Tuesday (15), in the city of Gramado, in Rio Grande do Sul, where she would be honored today with the Oscarito trophy, the most traditional honor granted since 1990 by the Festival de City cinema. The death was disclosed on the actress’s official Instagram account, which did not report the cause of death.

Léa Garcia has an ancient history with Gramado, conquering Kikitos with Filhas do Vento, Today it has Ragu and Acalanto. The artist had more than 100 productions in her curriculum, including cinema, theater and television.

Alongside names like Ruth de Souza and Zezé Motta, Léa Garcia was one of the first black actresses on Brazilian television.

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With a celebrated career in the arts, she was nominated for the award for best female performance at the Cannes Film Festival in 1957 for her performance in the film Black Orpheus, which, in 1960, would win the Oscar for best foreign film, representing France.

In theatre, one of the outstanding plays he made at the beginning of his career was Orfeu da Conceição (1956), by Vinicius de Moraes.

Her television debut took place at the Grande Teatro da TV Tupi, in the 1950s. At the same station, she also participated in the program Vendem-se Terrenos no Céu, in 1963. She was invited to work at Rede Globo in 1970, when she joined the cast of Assim na Terra como no Céu, by Dias Gomes. The greatest success of her career occurred in the telenovela Escrava Isaura (1976), an audience phenomenon in Brazil and abroad.

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