Actress Claudia Jimenez died early Saturday morning (20) at the age of 63 in Rio.
the interpreter of Dona Cacildathe “Escolinha do Professor Raimundo” and Edileuzafrom “Sai de Baixo”, was hospitalized at the Hospital Samaritano in Botafogo, in the South Zone.
At the time this report was last updated, the cause of death had not been made public.
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1 of 2 Actress Cláudia Jimenez, in a file photo — Photo: Reproduction/Social Networks
Actress Cláudia Jimenez, in a file photo — Photo: Reproduction/Social Networks
cancer and heart surgeries
In 1986, Claudia went to the doctor because of a persistent cough and discovered that she had cancer, a malignant tumor in the mediastinum, behind the heart. Disillusionment ensued. The diagnosis was not met, and the actress was cured of the disease.
However, the radiation sessions caused him another health problem. Doctors believe the treatment may have compromised her heart tissue, forcing her to do so at least three surgeries in the following years.
2 of 2 Actress Claudia Jimenez interviewed by Fantástico in 2014 — Photo: Globo
Actress Claudia Jimenez interviewed by Fantástico in 2014 — Photo: Globo
The first was in 1999 with five bypasses; the second in 2012 to replace the aortic valve with a synthetic one; and the third in 2014 to insert a pacemaker.
“When I say to my doctor, ‘Oh damn radiotherapy!’ Then he says: “But if it hadn’t been for her, you would have been up there a long time, right?”. And it’s true, I mean, we always have to say thank you instead of whining,” Claudia said in an interview with “Fantástico” in 2014, months after the operation.
“Maturity makes you look more beautiful. Sometimes I realize I’m not cool inside, I’m looking for something to make me feel cool. There are people who say to me, “Oh, how fragile you are”. I say, “Fragile? I’m the strongest person I know. They come to me and say, “Let’s change the aortic valve.” I say, ‘okay, let’s go’. “Let’s do five bypasses”. ‘Okay, let’s go then’. “Place the pacemaker”. ‘OK’. I’ll do anything to stay here,” he said.
Claudia Jimenez is back in the studios after another heart operation
Daughter of a tango singer and traveling salesman and a coconut candy wrapper, Claudia Maria Patitucci Jiménez was born in 1958 in Barra da Tijuca in the western zone of Rio.
She took the normal course with a focus on kindergarten and kindergarten and devoted herself to amateur theater even in her youth.
“I’ve always been a clown, always. At the nuns’ school they paid me a piece of chocolate so I wouldn’t miss going to religion class because it was just fun when I went,” he said.
She made her debut in professional theater in 1978 in the play Opera do Malandro by Chico Buarque, in which the prostitute played Mimi Bibleot.
It was director Mauricio Sherman who brought her to TV Globo. In the 1980s, Claudia took part in the opening of the program “Viva o Gordo” by Jô Soares, bringing the insatiable to life purityYour wife Apollo, from the catchphrase “I’m still dying for this!”, in “Chico City”. “Purity only thought about sex,” Claudia recalled in an interview with “Folha de S.Paulo”.
From 1990 Claudia Jimenez played the outspoken and prominent Dona Cacilda, one of the students of the “Escolinha do Professor Raimundo”, with the “Professor” Chico Anysio. With Cacilda he made another slogan: “Beijinho, beijinho, pau, pau”.
Cacilda, Claudia recalled in 2014, keep her in her heart. “It wasn’t even because of the character, but because of what I was living there. It’s been six years of laughter,” he said.
This report will be updated.