Elvira Pagã
Birthday
1920/09/06
Day of death
2003/05/08 (82 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Also know as
Elvira Olivieri Cozzolino
Biography
Elvira Olivieri Cozzolino (6 September 1920 – 8 May 2003), better known by her stage name Elvira Pagã, was a Brazilian vedette, actress, singer, writer, and painter. She was the first Rio Carnival Queen, the first woman to wear a bikini in public, and one of the first women to undergo cosmetic surgery in Brazil. Talented and controversial, she defied the status quo and challenged prevailing sexism with fearless audacity during the Brazilian military dictatorship and the revolutionary 1960s. In h...Read more
Acting
(1948) Vegas Nights
as Self
(1936) Cidade Mulher
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(1949) Carnaval no Fogo
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(1938) Three Argentines in Paris
as Ella misma
(1949) O Dominó Negro
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(1950) A Echarpe de Seda
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(1936) Alô Alô Carnaval
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(1937) The King's Jester
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(2014) Naked Eye
as Self (archive footage)
(1940) Laranja da China
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