- Born
- Birth nameAntônio Renato Aragão
- Nickname
- Didi
- Height5′ 4¼″ (1.63 m)
- Born Antonio Renato Aragão in Ceará, Brazil (1935), Renato Aragão discovered his love for arts early in his life. Although a lawyer, he found his great pleasure in acting and writing and in making people laugh. His funny body language embraces everyone from toddler to grown-ups in his naive humor. Renato Aragão started his artistic life on TV Ceará with a program called Video Alegria, gathering various comedians, until the definitive formation of the group "Os Trapalhões" - Renato Aragão, Dedé Santana, Mussum and Zacaria, in 1975 - Tv Tupi. The program Os Trapalhões figures in the Guiness Book (1997) as the longest-running program broadcast by television in Brazil.
Among the comedy programs Renato Aragão led or took part in, one can highlight: "AEIOURCA" (TV Tupi -1964), "Adoráveis Trapalhões (TV Excelsior - 1965* performing together with Wanderley Cardoso, Ivon Cury and Ted Boy Marino) and "Os Insociáveis" (TV Record - 1972), the program "Os Trapalhões" - (Globo TV Network, 1977-1995; Canal Viva 2000-2018); "A Turma do Didi" (Globo / Canal VIVA, 1995 - 2018).
In cinema, he has a vast list of films: From the film "Na Onda do Iê-Iê-Iê", produced in 1965 to "Os Saltimbancos Trapalhões Rumo à Hollywood", in 2017, we count 51 successes, 7 of them are 10 best box office for national films ever in Brazil. Renato Aragão has also filmed in Morocco and in Hollywood, the Meca of the film industry.
- IMDb mini biography by: Renato Aragão
- SpousesLílian Taranto(1991 - present) (1 child)Marta Rangel(1959 - 1991) (divorced, 4 children)
- ChildrenRicardo AragãoJuliana AragãoRenato Aragão Jr.Paulo Aragão Neto
- ParentsDinorá LinsPaulo Ximenes Aragão
- RelativesFrancisco Paulo Aragão(Sibling)Arizete Aragão(Sibling)Ivete Aragão(Sibling)Jesuíno Aragão(Sibling)José Rufino Aragão(Sibling)
- His characters often end up having a heartbreak
- The character of Didi
- Has 5 children: Paulo (b. 1960), Ricardo (b. 1962), Renato Jr (b. 1968) and Juliana (b. 1977), with Marta Rangel; and Livian Aragão (b. 1999), with Lílian Taranto.
- Climbed the statue of "Christ the Redeemer", in Rio de Janeiro (1991).
- He has 10 grandchildren. The youngest is Júlia (Juliana's daughter), born on June 18th 2007 in Rio de Janeiro.
- His main comedic inspirations are Charles Chaplin's character Carlitos and Oscarito.
- He is Ambassador of Unicef.
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