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Aracy Balabanian

{{Short description|Brazilian actress (1940–2023)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Aracy Balabanian

| image = Aracy Balabanian cropped.jpg

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| caption = Balabanian in 2015

| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{birth date|1940|2|22|df=y}}

| birth_place = Campo Grande, Mato Grosso, Brazil {{small|(present-day Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil)}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|2023|8|7|1940|2|22|df=y}}

| death_place = Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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| years_active = 1963–2023

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| occupation = Actress

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Aracy Balabanian (22 February 1940 – 7 August 2023) was a Brazilian actress.[http://ego.globo.com/televisao/noticia/2013/06/nao-e-mais-pra-voltar-diz-aracy-balabanian-sobre-sai-de-baixo.html 'Não é para voltar mais', diz Aracy Balabanian sobre 'Sai de Baixo'] {{in lang|pt}}

Biography

Aracy Balabanian was born in Campo Grande, in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Her parents were Armenians Raphael and Esther Balabanyans. They emigrated from Ottoman Empire to Brazil, fleeing from the genocide promoted in that country by the Ottoman Turks.

At the age of fifteen, she moved to São Paulo with her parents and helped raise her seven younger brothers. She passed the entrance exam for Social Sciences and for the Escola de Arte Dramática, coming to abandon the studies of Sociology, another entrance exam that she had taken and had been accepted, to devote herself to the theater. She said that she lived in a time when it was considered ugly for a woman to do theater since women were formerly educated to be housewives and obey their husbands.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}

Balabanian died in Rio de Janeiro on 7 August 2023, at the age of 83.{{Cite web |date=2023-08-07 |title=Aracy Balabanian morre no Rio aos 83 anos |url=https://g1.globo.com/rj/rio-de-janeiro/noticia/2023/08/07/aracy-balabanian-morre-no-rio.ghtml |access-date=2023-08-07 |website=G1 |language=pt-br}}

Filmography

=Television series=

  • Vila Sésamo (1972–1974).... Gabriela
  • Aplauso (1979).... Angélica
  • Caso Especial (1993–1994)
  • Você Decide (1994)
  • Engraçadinha... Seus Amores e Seus Pecados (1995).... Dona Geninha
  • Sai de Baixo (1996—2013).... Cassandra Mathias Salão
  • Brava Gente (2001)
  • Linha Direta Justiça (2003)
  • Casos e Acasos (2008).... Amélia
  • Queridos Amigos (2008).... Teresa Fernandes Moretti
  • Toma Lá, Dá Cá (2008).... Shafika Sarakutian
  • Louco por Elas (2012).... Cândida
  • Juntos a magia acontece (2019)

=Telenovelas=

=Cinema=

  • A Primeira Viagem .... Irene (1975)
  • Caramujo-Flor .... Woman in black (1998)
  • Policarpo Quaresma, Herói do Brasil .... Maricota (1998)

Theatre

  • 1963 – Os Ossos do Barão
  • 1966 – Oh, Que Delícia de Guerra
  • 1968 – Feira Paulista de Opinião
  • 1969 – Hair
  • 1977 – Brecht, segundo Brecht
  • 1980 – À Direita do Presidente
  • 1985 – Boa Noite, Mãe
  • 1985 – Time and the Conways
  • 1988 – Folias no Box
  • 1991 – Fulaninha e Dona Coisa
  • 1995 – Noite Feliz
  • 1998 – Clarice, Coração Selvagem
  • 2006 – Comendo Entre as Refeições

Awards and nominations

=[[Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte|APCA Awards]]=

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1995

| Best Performance by an Actress in Television

| A Próxima Vítima

| {{won}}

=[[Melhores do Ano|Best of the Year – Globe Awards]]=

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1995

| Best Actress in a Telenovela

| A Próxima Vítima

| {{won}}

2018

| Mário Lago Trophy

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| {{won}}

=[[:pt:Prêmio Contigo! de TV|Contigo! Awards]]=

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2003

| Best Comedy Actress – Television

| Sabor da Paixão

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=[[Troféu Imprensa|Press Trophy]]=

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1967

| Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Telenovela

| O Amor Tem Cara de Mulher

| {{nom}}

1968

| Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Telenovela

| Meu Filho Minha Vida

| {{nom}}

1969

| Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Telenovela

| Antônio Maria

| {{nom}}

1990

| Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Telenovela

| Rainha da Sucata

| {{nom}}

1996

| Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Telenovela

| A Próxima Vítima

| {{won}}

=[[:pt:Prêmio Quem|Quem Awards]]=

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2010

| Best Supporting Actress – Television

| Passione

| {{nom}}

References

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External links

  • {{IMDb name|049325}}
  • {{discogs artist|Aracy Balabanian}}

{{São Paulo Association of Art Critics Award for Best Actress}}

{{Troféu Imprensa for Best Actress}}

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Category:1940 births

Category:2023 deaths

Category:People from Campo Grande

Category:Brazilian people of Armenian descent

Category:Brazilian telenovela actresses

Category:Brazilian film actresses

Category:Brazilian television actresses

Category:Ethnic Armenian actresses

Category:20th-century Brazilian actresses

Category:21st-century Brazilian actresses

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