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1954-12-11 · Resende, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · Female

40 series in the catalog

Elizângela do Amaral Vergueiro (11 December 1954 – 3 November 2023), known mononymously as Elizângela, was a Brazilian actress, singer and television presenter who played a lead role in the 1977 telenovela Locomotivas and participated in several other telenovelas and films.

Biography

Elizângela was the youngest of three sisters. Her father was an executive and her mother was a housewife. Her parents split up when she was one and a half years old, and so, she had very little contact with her father. Her mother was a manicurist after the separation, and had to bring up the three daughters alone, with a small pension from the ex-husband. Going through difficulties, she then began working as a child, at the age of 8.

Elizângela died of a cardiac arrest on 3 November 2023, at the age of 68.