1. Elke Maravilha was a German-Brazilian actress, model and television personality.
14 Facts About Elke Maravilha
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Elke Maravilha lived in Brazil from her early childhood until her death.
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At the age of 20, Elke Maravilha left home to live in Rio de Janeiro, working as a bilingual secretary, using her fluency in eight languages, many of them learned in her own home environment, as a teacher of French and English.
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Elke Maravilha's father became director of Liquigas corporation and was transferred to Porto Alegre.
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Elke Maravilha returned to live with her family in Porto Alegre between 1966 and 1969, where she attended courses at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul faculties of philosophy, medicine and letters and trained as a translator and interpreter of foreign languages.
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Elke Maravilha took up modeling work at age 24, in 1969, in the same period in which she married a Greek writer, Alexandros Evremidis, the first of her eight marriages.
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Elke Maravilha was arrested under the National Security Law and lost her Brazilian citizenship, although there is no record of her loss of Brazilian citizenship.
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Elke Maravilha was released after six days, following the appeals of artist friends.
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Elke Maravilha held a German passport sometime in the 90s.
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Elke Maravilha was portrayed by Luana Piovani in the 2006 biographical drama film Zuzu Angel.
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Elke Maravilha was portrayed by Gianne Albertoni in Chacrinha: O velho guerreiro, a 2018 film biography about Chacrinha.
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In 2022, Elke Maravilha was portrayed by Maide Mahl in O Rei da TV, a biographical television series about Silvio Santos.
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Elke Maravilha died in Rio de Janeiro on 16 August 2016 of multiple organ failure, from complications of a surgery to treat an ulcer.
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Elke Maravilha recorded the song "Que vontade de comer goiaba", available in the compilation album Dancando em duplo sentido.