Danuza Leão | |
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![]() Leão in 1969 | |
Born | Danuza Lofego Leão July 26, 1933
Itaguaçu, Brazil |
Died | June 22, 2022
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | (aged 88)
Occupation | Writer |
Danuza Lofego Leão (July 26, 1933 – June 22, 2022) was a Brazilian model, socialite, journalist, writer, and actress.
She had a minor role in Glauber Rocha's 1967 FIPRESCI Award winning film Entranced Earth.
She has released several books.
She was a columnist for the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper for twelve years until she was fired in 2013 [1] a few months after generating controversy by declaring in her column that New York was no longer fun when "even the porter" could travel [2] and that domestic servants were better off without the rights proposed by the "Domestic PEC". [3] [4]
She is the older sister of singer Nara Leão and was married to Samuel Wainer, founder of the newspaper Última Hora with whom she had three children: plastic artist Débora "Pinky" Wainer, [5] film producer Bruno Wainer [6] and journalist Samuel Wainer Filho, who died as a result of a car crash in 1984. [7] Danuza died from respiratory failure in Rio de Janeiro on 22 June 2022 at the age of 88. [8]
Danuza Leão | |
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![]() Leão in 1969 | |
Born | Danuza Lofego Leão July 26, 1933
Itaguaçu, Brazil |
Died | June 22, 2022
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | (aged 88)
Occupation | Writer |
Danuza Lofego Leão (July 26, 1933 – June 22, 2022) was a Brazilian model, socialite, journalist, writer, and actress.
She had a minor role in Glauber Rocha's 1967 FIPRESCI Award winning film Entranced Earth.
She has released several books.
She was a columnist for the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper for twelve years until she was fired in 2013 [1] a few months after generating controversy by declaring in her column that New York was no longer fun when "even the porter" could travel [2] and that domestic servants were better off without the rights proposed by the "Domestic PEC". [3] [4]
She is the older sister of singer Nara Leão and was married to Samuel Wainer, founder of the newspaper Última Hora with whom she had three children: plastic artist Débora "Pinky" Wainer, [5] film producer Bruno Wainer [6] and journalist Samuel Wainer Filho, who died as a result of a car crash in 1984. [7] Danuza died from respiratory failure in Rio de Janeiro on 22 June 2022 at the age of 88. [8]