Aracy Balabanian (22 February 1940 – 7 August 2023) was a Brazilian actress.[1]
Aracy Balabanian | |
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Born | |
Died | 7 August 2023 Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | (aged 83)
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1963–2023 |
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]
Balabanian died in Rio de Janeiro on 7 August 2023, at the age of 83.[2]
Year | Category | Nominee / work | Result |
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1995 | Best Performance by an Actress in Television | A Próxima Vítima | Won |
Year | Category | Nominee / work | Result |
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1995 | Best Actress in a Telenovela | A Próxima Vítima | Won |
2018 | Mário Lago Trophy | — | Won |
Year | Category | Nominee / work | Result |
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2003 | Best Comedy Actress – Television | Sabor da Paixão | Nominated |
Year | Category | Nominee / work | Result |
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1967 | Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Telenovela | O Amor Tem Cara de Mulher | Nominated |
1968 | Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Telenovela | Meu Filho Minha Vida | Nominated |
1969 | Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Telenovela | Antônio Maria | Nominated |
1990 | Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Telenovela | Rainha da Sucata | Nominated |
1996 | Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Telenovela | A Próxima Vítima | Won |
Year | Category | Nominee / work | Result |
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2010 | Best Supporting Actress – Television | Passione | Nominated |