Cláudia Maria Patitucci Jimenez (18 November 1958 – 20 August 2022) was a Brazilian actress, comedienne and screenwriter. She started her career in 1979 in the TV show ''

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'', but it was from the 1980s onwards that she began to stand out, working with humour in shows such as ''

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'', '' Viva O Gordo'' and '' Chico Anysio Show''. In the 1990s, she stood out in the film '' O Corpo'', playing Bia, a character that won her Best Actress at the Brasilia Film Festival. In the same period, she had a prominent role in the humorous ''

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'' as Cacilda. Later, she joined the cast of ''

Sai de Baixo ''Sai de Baixo'' (a Brazilian Portuguese language, Portuguese slang roughly translated as "get out of the way") is a Brazilian sitcom that first aired on Rede Globo from 1996 to 2002. It followed the lives of the members of a dysfunctional family, ...

'' to play Edileuza; as well, she gave life to the character Glorinha in ''

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''. In 2004, she was the protagonist of '' Sitcom.br'', a feature of ''

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'' until she stood out in the TV show ''

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'', in which she received two nominations for the Contigo! Award 2008 in the categories of Best Supporting Actress and Best Romantic Couple.

Biography

Born in

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the capital of the Rio de Janeiro (state), state of Rio de Janeiro. It is the List of cities in Brazil by population, second-most-populous city in Brazil (after São Paulo) and the Largest cities in the America ...

on 18 November 1958, Jimenez graduated from a normal school with a kindergarten degree and studied

amateur theatre Amateur theatre, also known as amateur dramatics, is theatre performed by amateur actors and singers. Amateur theatre groups may stage plays, revues, musicals, light opera, pantomime or variety shows, and do so for the social activity as well as f ...

at Tijuca Tênis Clube. In 1978, she made her professional theatre debut, playing the prostitute Mimi Bibelô in the first production of '' Ópera do Malandro,'' by

Chico Buarque Francisco Buarque de Hollanda (born 19 June 1944), popularly known simply as Chico Buarque (), is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer, playwright, writer, and poet. He is best known for his music, which often includes social, econom ...

, alongside

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and

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. Producer Maurício Shermann saw her in the play and invited her to go to

TV Globo TV Globo (stylized as tvglobo; , ), formerly known as Rede Globo de Televisão (; shortened to Rede Globo) or simply known as Globo, is a Brazilian free-to-air Television broadcasting, television network, launched by media proprietor Roberto M ...

. Cláudia was invited to participate in the opening of the program '' Viva o Gordo'' and soon joined the cast of the program, where she remained for four years. Simultaneously, she also participated in the program ''

''. Her comic performance caught the attention of

Chico Anysio Chico Anysio (born Francisco Anysio de Oliveira Paula Filho, 12 April 1931 – 23 March 2012) was a Brazilian actor, comedian, writer and composer. Biography Anysio was born in Maranguape, Ceará. He moved with the family to Rio de Janeiro ...

, who invited her to act in several of his programs, such as '' Chico Anysio Show'' and ''

''. Alongside Chico, she played several characters, such as the nymphomaniac Pureza, the sadistic nurse Alda and the flirtatious student Dona Cacilda, a parody of the presenter

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, with the catchphrase ''Beijinho-Beijinho Pau-Pau!''. Jimenez died on 20 August 2022, at the age of 63.

Selected filmography

References

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