Family and friends say goodbye to actress Ilka Soares

Family and friends say goodbye to actress Ilka Soares

Family and friends attended actress Ilka Soares’ wake Victor Chapetta/Agnews

Family and friends followed actress Ilka Soares Victor Chapetta / Agnews

Published on 06/19/2022 15:48

Rio This Sunday, family and friends said goodbye to actress Ilka Soares. The body of the artist, who died this Saturday of lung cancer at the age of 89, was veiled and cremated in the Penitência Cemetery in Caju, Rio’s port area. The grandson of the TV veteran, Thomaz Azulay, attended the ceremony and was one of the first to arrive at the venue.

The stylist even paid tribute to Ilka via Instagram this Saturday the 17th, hours after confirming the artist’s death. “Ilka was a star, and what a beautiful star. Being beautiful is a genetic opportunity, but Ilka wasn’t just beautiful, she was intelligent, and she knew how to use that virtue to her advantage no matter the time and place she was and environment that oppressed women, so be it. What a beautiful development that I’m proud of and sigh to have heard so many chapters. It’s what really inspired me to this art,” he commented.

Thomaz still remembered some stories with his grandmother. “She’s also filled my imagination with fantastic stories that feed my dreamy mind, like flirting with Frank Sinatra, palm reading with Marlene Dietrich, or a gin shot with Sarah Vaughan. Watch a Fellini blockbuster or rerun. I am very grateful and always for growing up with my grandmother’s struggling and glory days. I am also very happy to have returned so much love and so much art. Having her as the star of our 2018 campaign has been one of the greatest personal recognition achievements of my life and career to date. But to say that I was influenced by the career of the movie star who ran Dior, Balenciaga and Dad may sound superficial. I was also very influenced by Grandma Ilka, who worked with the puzzles, the papiermâché, the crossstitch, the brigadeirão, the drawings in soap opera pads… Thank you Grandma for all these delicious and unpretentious courses, it worked too! I wrote that Ilka was a star and I’ll correct: Ilka is and will remain my star.”

Actress Ilka Soares died this morning on Saturday the 17th in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 89. She battled lung cancer. The TV veteran was hospitalized for ten days at the Clínica São Vicente in Gávea, in the South Zone, to treat the disease. Information about the death was confirmed through Instagram by the artist’s grandson, Thomaz Azulay.

Ilka Soares, who would have been 90 this Tuesday, shone on television. His first job at Globo was in Noite de Gala (1966), interviewing celebrities and introducing successful singers. At the station she was also a spokeswoman for the “Jornal de Verdade” (1968). Born in Rio de Janeiro, the artist made her soap opera debut in 1971 in Bráulio Pedroso’s O Cafona, in which she played Vera. She also starred in Bandeira 2 (1971), O Bofe (1972), O Espigão (1974), Anjo Mau (1976), Locomotivas (1977) and Te Contei?. (1978). At the end of the 1970s, Ilka Soares took part in the humorous “Planeta dos Homens” alongside stars such as Jô Soares, Agildo Ribeiro and Paulo Silvino.

Among other successful works of the veteran are the soap operas: Champagne (1983), Corpo a Corpo (1984), Mandala (1987), Top Model (1989), Rainha da Sucata (1990). ), Barriga de Aluguel (1990) and Pecado Capital (1998). In 2006, Ilka starred in A Diarista, a comedy starring Claudia Rodrigues. His last work was in Mandrake (2007), a series produced by HBO Brasil.

Ilka also starred in several films, such as Iracema (1949), Esquina da Illusion (1953), Floradas na Serra (1954), Depois Eu Conto (1956), Pintando o Sete (1960). ). ), Brasa Adormecida (1987), Copacabana (2001), Middle Age Cat (2006) and Vendo ou Alugo (2013).