Where are you?  The actor who played Menino Maluquinho on screen has left his career

Where are you? The actor who played Menino Maluquinho on screen has left his career


The character is the most famous of Ziraldo, cartoonist and author, who died last Saturday, aged 6

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The actor Samuele Costa has gained importance in the interpretation of Crazy guy in the character’s eponymous films in the 1990s. At the time, just 9 years old, he drew crowds wherever he went. The boy remained dedicated to the world of art until the 2000s. With the recent passing of Ziraldoauthor and creator of the emblematic character, the question arises spontaneously: after all, Where is Samuel Costa?

After acting in films Crazy guyin 1995 and 1998, Samuel starred in some productions of Globe. He, for example, was in the cast of the fourth season of Training (1998), in the soap opera My good wish (1998) and in the miniseries Brazilian watercolor (2000). He also joined the Pererê classbroadcast on TV Brasil and TV Cultura, both based on stories by Ziraldo.

Subsequently he decided to change fields, still dedicating himself to the arts, but now behind the camera. At the age of 18 he studied advertising, worked as an intern at the production company 02 Filmes, where he met his partner and, since 2010, he has been one of the owners of Blues Filmes, a production company specializing in digital content.

In his personal life Samuel tends to be discreet, but it is known that he is married. In your profile on Instagram, where he has around 5 thousand followers, is usually not active. The latest publication dates back to 2022.

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Ziraldo's path: remembering the cartoonist's career, famous people and the political struggle
Ziraldo’s path: remembering the cartoonist’s career, famous people and the political struggle

OR cartoonist he died, at the age of 91, on Saturday 6th. On TV Globo, the artist’s family confirmed the news. According to his information, at the time of his death he was sleeping in his house in the Lagoa neighborhood of Rio.

According to Ziraldo’s consultants, he was in poor health after suffering three strokes between 2018 and 2022, Globonews reported. The cause of his death was not revealed.

Born in Caratinga (MG), where he spent his childhood, Ziraldo He became one of the biggest names in children’s literature in the country. A designer since childhood, he graduated in law from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Ufmg) in 1957. In the 1960s he became one of the founders of O Pasquim, a combat vehicle Military dictatorshipin force from 1964 to 1985.

Ziraldo began his career in 1950, at the magazine Once upon a time…and became responsible for a humorous sheet in Folha de Minasthe newspaper where he published his first drawing, at the age of six, in 1939.

In 1960 he also began working for Brazilian newspaper, a vehicle in which he published political arts. Furthermore, in that period, he began writing comics and published the first magazine on the subject Pererê class. The characters Mineirinho, Jeremias, o Bom and Supermãe also appeared during this period.

Five years later, with other comedians, he founded the weekly The Quibbler, with emblematic arts and irreverent characters such as Graúna, Ubaldo and the Fradin. The artists Millôr, Henfil, Jaguar, Tarso de Castro, Sérgio Cabral, Ivan Lessa, Sérgio Augusto and Paulo Francis were part of the publication.

Ziraldo was arrested the next day AI-5, discharged on 13 December 1968. On that occasion he was detained at home and taken to the Copacabana Fort. His first children’s book was published in 1969, the FLITTIand a decade later, in 1979, he devoted himself to children’s literature.

That’s when it arrived Crazy kidin 1980, considered his greatest success and one of the major Brazilian publishing phenomena.

Source: Terra

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