Actress Jandira Martini, known for her roles in soap operas such as O Clone e Path to the Indies. She was 78 years old. The information was confirmed by actor Marcos Caruso, his friend and frequent collaborator, on social media. The cause of death has not been confirmed. Martini underwent cancer treatment for years.
“My greatest friend and proof that opposites attract and complement each other. My great confidant, advisor and responsible for my biggest laughs. My teacher. You know when you pass by the school you studied at and see that the building has been demolished? That’s how I feel I’m sorry about your departure,” Caruso wrote on Instagram.
The two were close friends and had worked together several times. They wrote, for example, the plays His Excellency the Candidate, Waist Game e Misery Nut. On the SBT channel, they played a couple in the soap opera We were six. As a playwright, Martini wrote nine plays. In cinema, she participated in five feature films.
Jandira Martini was born in the city of Santos, in São Paulo. She began studying theater while studying Philosophy at a Catholic university in Santos. She later entered the School of Dramatic Art at the University of São Paulo.
Martini became known to the general public when she started working on Globo soap operas. It was like Theodora in Sassaricando, still in the 1980s, who had his first major role in Globo soap operas. Played Zoraide El Adib in O Clone (2001) one of the network’s most successful soap operas, and later he also had roles in America (2005), having also given shape to Salomé in Bite and Blowalready in 2011.
In the same year it debuted O Clonealso debuted in the series The Mayans, an adaptation of the novel by Eça de Queiroz co-produced by Globo and SIC and shown simultaneously on both channels. Her role was that of Eugénia Silveira.