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Ivani Ribeiro(1922-1995)

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Ivani Ribeiro
Ivani Ribeiro, Cleide Freitas' pseudonym, began her professional life at the age of 16, at 'Rádio Educadora de São Paulo', singing folk and sambas songs, some of them of her own writing. Her shows were successful, and she experienced being a radio actress.

In the early 1940s, she met her future husband, writer and award-winning announcer Dárcio Alves Ferreira, and together they transferred to 'Rádio Bandeirantes', where she would begin adapting plays, poems, and lyrics for various shows. Hired by the newly opened Tupi TV, she wrote the series 'Eternos Apaixonados' (The Eternal Lovers). Years later, in 1963, she would write her first daily telenovela, Corações em Conflito (1963), an adaptation of one of her own successful stories presented on the radio.

In the late 1960s, she moved to Excelsior TV where she would stand out as the author of the 7:30 p.m. telenovela's time-slot, which led to writing another 13 consecutive popular series, including A Deusa Vencida (1965), that would launch actress Regina Duarte's career. In the next decade, she returned to Tupi TV and released the classics Secrets of Sand (1973), A Barba-Azul (1974), A Viagem (1975), and O Profeta (1977).

in 1982, she debuted at Rede Globo (the second largest network in the world), where her career reached new heights. In November of that year, Final Feliz (1982) would premier, and it would be her only original script for the network. The following years, she would offer old hit stories in new versions, starting with A Gata Comeu (1985), a remake of A Barba-Azul (1974).

She died in 1995, 20 days after her husband's passing, with whom she was married for 53 years.
BornFebruary 20, 1922
DiedJuly 17, 1995(73)
BornFebruary 20, 1922
DiedJuly 17, 1995(73)
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    • 3 wins total

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Regina Duarte, Tarcísio Meira, Glória Menezes, and Edson França in A Deusa Vencida (1965)
A Deusa Vencida
TV Series
  • Writer
Regina Duarte and Gianfrancesco Guarnieri in O Terceiro Pecado (1968)
O Terceiro Pecado
TV Series
  • Writer
A Indomável
TV Series
  • Writer
Os Fantoches (1967)
Os Fantoches
TV Series
  • Writer

Credits

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Writer



  • The Prophet (2006)
    The Prophet
    7.0
    TV Series
    • story
    • 2006–2007
  • Regiane Alves, Sebastião Campos, André Cursino, Jacqueline Dalabona, Genésio de Barros, Lu Grimaldi, Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, Eliana Guttman, Helen Helene, Fausto Maule, Leonardo Medeiros, Miwa Yanagizawa, Karla Muga, Sueli Oliveira, Fernando Pavão, Rafael Prado, Caio Romei, Ícaro Silva, Lui Strassburger, Kiko Mascarenhas, Bruno Bezerra, Talita Cantori, Flávia Pucci, Rodrigo Lombardi, Vancley Pimentel, Vítor Romei, Cristina Bonna, and Gabriela Brito in Meu Pé de Laranja Lima (1998)
    Meu Pé de Laranja Lima
    5.9
    TV Series
    • writer
    • 1998–1999
  • Quem É Você? (1996)
    Quem É Você?
    5.7
    TV Series
    • Writer
    • 1996
  • A Viagem (1994)
    A Viagem
    8.5
    TV Series
    • writer
    • 1994
  • Glória Pires in Secrets of Sand (1993)
    Secrets of Sand
    6.9
    TV Series
    • novel
    • 1993
  • Mário Gomes in O Sexo dos Anjos (1989)
    O Sexo dos Anjos
    7.7
    TV Series
    • writer
    • 1989–1990
  • Maria Zilda Bethlem, Cláudio Cavalcanti, Ary Fontoura, and Paulo Gracindo in Hipertensão (1986)
    Hipertensão
    7.0
    TV Series
    • Writer
    • 1986–1987
  • La invitación (1987)
    La invitación
    7.6
    TV Series
    • story
    • 1987
  • A Gata Comeu (1985)
    A Gata Comeu
    7.9
    TV Series
    • Writer
    • 1985
  • Amor com Amor Se Paga (1984)
    Amor com Amor Se Paga
    8.3
    TV Series
    • Writer
    • 1984
  • Elza Gomes and Oswaldo Louzada in Final Feliz (1982)
    Final Feliz
    7.3
    TV Series
    • Writer
    • 1982–1983
  • Os Adolescentes (1981)
    Os Adolescentes
    5.6
    TV Series
    • Writer
    • 1981–1982
  • O Meu Pé de Laranja Lima (1980)
    O Meu Pé de Laranja Lima
    7.1
    TV Series
    • Writer
    • 1980–1981
  • A Deusa Vencida (1980)
    A Deusa Vencida
    6.2
    TV Series
    • Writer
    • 1980
  • Cavalo Amarelo (1980)
    Cavalo Amarelo
    8.5
    TV Series
    • Writer
    • 1980

Director



  • Maria Isabel de Lizandra and Antônio Fagundes in O Machão - Um Exagero de Homem (1974)
    O Machão - Um Exagero de Homem
    6.7
    TV Series
    • Director
    • 1974–1975

Personal details

  • Born
    • February 20, 1922
    • São Vicente, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Died
    • July 17, 1995
    • São Paulo, SP, Brazil
  • Spouse
    • Dárcio FerreiraJanuary 1942 - June 27, 1995 (his death, 2 children)

Did you know

  • Trivia
    Rede Tupi was the first Brazilian television station to operate a network and was based in the city of São Paulo. Launched on September 18, 1950 by journalist and businessman Assis Chateaubriand, who also controlled several other media outlets, it finally folded on July 18, 1980.
  • Nicknames
    • Valéria Montenegro
    • Arthur Amorim

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