Maria Sílvia

Maria Sílvia Correa Moreira Menezes Aguiar (February 16, 1944 – July 26, 2009) was a Brazilian film, stage and television actress.[1]

Sílvia was already a well established film and theater actress by the time she made her television acting debut in the late 1970s.[1] Her role in a telenovela came in 1977 on O Astro (Star) on Rede Globo.[1] One of her most well known telenovela roles was on the Rede Globo show, Alma gêmea (Soulmate), in 2005 in which she played a traditional, elderly Brazilian indigenous woman.[1] Silvia's other telenovela credits included Torre de Babel in 1998, Chocolate com pimenta in 2003, and Páginas da Vida in 2006.[1]

Sílvia appeared in a number of films throughout her career, some of which were directed by Walter Lima Jr, Ruy Guerra, Arnaldo Jabor and Paulo César Saraceni.[1]

Maria Sílvia died of lung cancer on July 26, 2009, in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 65.[1] She was buried on July 27 at the Cemitério São João Batista in Botafogo, neighborhood in the southern zone of Rio de Janeiro.[1]