Lúcia Alves (actress)

Lúcia Alves da Silva (4 October 1948 – 24 April 2025) was a Brazilian actress.^[1]

Alves was born in Rio de Janeiro on 4 October 1948. Although she became well established in her career on television, she began her career in movies in the middle of the 1960s with a role in the 1965 J. B. Tanko film Um Ramo para Luíza. Despite her success on television, she would continue to work in theatre and film as well.

She made her debut on telenovelas around this time, in particular with the 1969 TV Tupi novela Enquanto Houver Estrelas, directed by Mário Brasini, but she would become famous for her role as Potira in Irmãos Coragem, written by Janete Clair, in 1970. She married confectionist Fred Schleisinger on 29 July 1973, in a ceremony that had Zilka Salaberry and Edney Giovenazzi as godparents. After the marriage, Alves had gone on to play the role of protagonist in Helena, in 1975, an adaptation by Gilberto Braga based on the romance of the same name by Machado de Assis, and Veroca, from Plumas & Paetês, written by Cassiano Gabus Mendes in 1980.

In films, during the 1970s, she would perform in another film directed by Tanko, Pedro Camargo's Pais Quadrados, Filhos Avançados, Estranho Triângulo, and, O Homem da Cabeça de Ouro, by Alberto Pieralisi.

In the 1980s, she acted in Tortura Cruel, directed by Tony Vieira, as well as in Lua Cheia, by Alain Fresnot. After participating in just 1 film in the 1990s, that being Fica Comigo by Tizuka Yamasaki, Alves would return to acting in many projects in the 2000s. She acted in Quase Dois Irmãos, by Lúcia Murat, and with a major success in Bendito Fruto (2004), by Sérgio Goldenberg, as hairstylist Telma. For her role, Alves received the award for Best Supporting Actress at the Festival de Brasília 2004, her first award.

In 2007, Alves became part of the cast of Sob Nova Direção and made a special participation in the series Toma Lá, Dá Cá.

In 2009, she was hired by SBT to participate in the novela Uma Rosa Com Amor. Inspired by the 1972–1973 drama by Vicente Sesso, the new version was written by Tiago Santiago, with a collaboration by Renata Dias Gomes. The novela, directed by Del Rangel, debuted in March 2010.

Alves was the daughter of banker Almir Alves da Silva and psychologist Edy Pinheiro Alves. She was married for about 30 years to Fred Schlesinger, with whom they had a daughter.^[2]

Alves died on 24 April 2025, at the age of 76. She had been hospitalized ten days prior, and was receiving treatment for pancreatic cancer.^[3]

• Lúcia Alves at IMDb