The actor was hospitalized at the Clínica São Vicente, in the south of Rio de Janeiro
Ney Latorraca He died on the morning of this Thursday 26th, at the age of 80. The information was confirmed by TV Globo, where he had a career and numerous prominent roles. The actor was hospitalized at the Clínica São Vicente, in the south of Rio de Janeiro, and had pulmonary sepsis. He had been suffering from prostate cancer since 2019.
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Born in Santos and graduated from the School of Dramatic Arts of the University of São Paulo (USP), Ney Latorraca saw his work as an actor take a turn in the theater. Alongside Marco Nanini he raced with the phenomenon for 11 years The Mystery of Irma Vapbetween 1986 and 1997.
On television, the artist appeared in Globo’s soap operas and comedy programs, playing the role of the vampire Vlad Vampire (1991) and Barbosa, in Pirate television. In 2000, there lived the iconic Cornélio Valente, from the comic nucleus of the telenovela The carnation and the roseresumed in 2022. Another notable role was that of the failed Eduardo, married to Verinha, and father of the evil Bárbara, played by Giovanna Antonelli, in Of the color of sin, 2004.
It was when he was preparing for the premiere of the musical Vampirein 2017, which Ney Latorraca announced he would slow down. “I don’t want to show my decrepitude. I want to stay at home, rest, travel,” said the actor, 73 at the time.
Since then, he only reversed his decision in 2019, when he participated in the Globo Cine Holliúdy series.
In the theater, the actor starred in the musical Your Neyla in 2022, to celebrate 60 years of career. His appearance, however, was different: from his apartment, Latorraca acted on a large screen with the cast occupying the stage of the theater.
In an interview with Estadao In July this year, the month he turned 80, Ney explained that he was thinking of returning to TV one day. “I’m not retired at all, but it takes good character, something that challenges me, to get me out of the house,” he announced.
For the newspaper he took stock of his career. “I deserve to stay quiet, I have no obligation to please others and I don’t regret anything in life,” he said.
“I mean, I regret having smoked too much, from the age of 15 to 57, and having suffered from my obsession with punctuality, I hate those who come late, I was even early at parties”, he said with good humor it was his trademark.
Source: Terra
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