Personal Info
Mafalda Basílio Monteiro dos Santos
Fada Santoro
Acting
Biography
Mafalda Basílio Monteiro dos Santos (29 August 1924 – 15 December 2024) was a Brazilian actress, active in the country's classic era.
Santoro was born in Rio de Janeiro on 29 August 1924. Fada began her career at a very young age, working as a dancer in the Alda Garrido Company and later as a crooner in casinos in the 1940s.
Her debut as an actress in cinema was at the end of the 1930s in the film O Samba da Vida, having made several appearances until becoming established in 1949 in the film A Escrava Isaura, beginning the couple's cinematographic fame alongside the actor Cyll Farney. They l…
Filmography
Movies
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
as Self
Assim Era a Atlântida
O Capanga
as Ângela
Africa Laughs
Nem Sansão Nem Dalila
as Miriam
La delatora
as Celina Rodríguez
Detective
as Dulcínea
Needle in a Haystack
as Mariana
Barnabé, You Are Mine
Burning Sands