Claudia Jimenez dies at 63 in Rio and leaves a legacy of unforgettable characters | National Magazine

Actress, comedian, voice actor and screenwriter. Carioca da Jim, Claudia Jimenez was 63 years old. She was the youngest in a family of four sisters.

She began her acting career in amateur theater and was soon invited to television.

“I was doing Opera do Malandro, which was my first professional work in the theatre. Then one day Mauricio Sherman went to see the play and said, ‘Oh, I’m going to take this girl to TV.’ And he took me. And I went to do ‘Viva o Gordo’, which His debut, the show with Jô, the actress recalled in an interview in 1997 with GloboNews.

Chico Anisio was one of the greatest partners of his career. Claudia participated in the “Chico Anysio Show” and in the 1990s worked with him on “Escolinha do Professor Raimundo”. With Dona Cacilda, he became popular with the public.

“Catilda, our lady. With Casilda I bought my first apartment, as I traveled with Casilda for the first time,” he said in an interview.

In 1996, with the advent of Another successful comic “Sai de Baixo” character was born. Edileuza was sharp and did not take home any insults. The duo with Miguel Falabella marked the history of the show. The two forged an ongoing partnership.

Claudia Jimenez participated in several Globo TV series, including “Torre de Babel” in 1998 and “America” ​​in 2005.

conservative in your personal life, Claudia has been married for ten years to personal trainer, Stella Torriau. Even apart from that, they continued to share the same house.

Throughout life, health problems become a challenge. In 1986, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and needed radiation therapy.

“After I had cancer, I started to see life from a completely different perspective. You start to see life is really limited, it’s not a rehearsal,” he said in an interview with Bom Dia Brasil in 1997.

In 1999, he had a heart attack and had to have five side grafts. Three years later, he underwent surgery to replace the aortic valve and, in 2014, had a pacemaker inserted.

They approach me and say, ‘Let’s change the aortic valve. Well let’s go. Let’s do five transfusions. Yeah. Let’s get a pacemaker. Yeah. Then I started enjoying it. ‘I don’t steal anything,’ he joked when talking about health in an interview with Fantástico in 2014.

Claudia Jimenez was taken to hospital in the southern region of Rio and He died Saturday morning of heart failure.. Despite her deteriorating health, she faced her problems with courage and optimism.

For friends and fans, the memory of his playful and spontaneous manner remains, as well as the memory of his talent that will be immortalized in the recordings.

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