Elke Maravilha (born Elke Grünupp; 22 February 1945 â€" 16 August
2016) was a German-born Brazilian actress, model and television
presenter.Born in a little town in the German state of
Baden-Württemberg, when she was six when her family emigrated to
Brazil and first settled at a farm in Itabira, in the state of Minas
Gerais. In 1955 her family leased lands in Atibaia in São Paulo
State, dedicating itself to the cultivation of strawberries. Then the
family moved to Bragança Paulista, where they also cultivated the
land. Back in Minas Gerais, she was chosen as Glamour Girl in Belo
Horizonte in 1962. It was during this period that she was naturalized
Brazilian. At the age of 20, she left home to live alone in Rio de
Janeiro, RJ, where she took up employment as a bilingual secretary,
using her fluency in eight languages, many of them learned in her own
home environment, as well as being the youngest teacher of French at
Alliance Française and of English in the União Cultural Brasil-
Estados Unidos. In the meantime her father became director of
Liquigás and was transferred to Porto Alegre. Elke then returned to
live with her family in Porto Alegre between 1966 and 1969, where she
attended courses at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
faculties of philosophy, medicine and letters and she trained as a
translator and interpreter of foreign languages.She began acting as a
model at age 24, in 1969, in the same period in which she married the
Greek writer Alexandros Evremidis, the first of her eight marriages.
At the beginning of her career Elke met the fashion designer Zuzu
Angel, of whom she became friend.
2016) was a German-born Brazilian actress, model and television
presenter.Born in a little town in the German state of
Baden-Württemberg, when she was six when her family emigrated to
Brazil and first settled at a farm in Itabira, in the state of Minas
Gerais. In 1955 her family leased lands in Atibaia in São Paulo
State, dedicating itself to the cultivation of strawberries. Then the
family moved to Bragança Paulista, where they also cultivated the
land. Back in Minas Gerais, she was chosen as Glamour Girl in Belo
Horizonte in 1962. It was during this period that she was naturalized
Brazilian. At the age of 20, she left home to live alone in Rio de
Janeiro, RJ, where she took up employment as a bilingual secretary,
using her fluency in eight languages, many of them learned in her own
home environment, as well as being the youngest teacher of French at
Alliance Française and of English in the União Cultural Brasil-
Estados Unidos. In the meantime her father became director of
Liquigás and was transferred to Porto Alegre. Elke then returned to
live with her family in Porto Alegre between 1966 and 1969, where she
attended courses at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
faculties of philosophy, medicine and letters and she trained as a
translator and interpreter of foreign languages.She began acting as a
model at age 24, in 1969, in the same period in which she married the
Greek writer Alexandros Evremidis, the first of her eight marriages.
At the beginning of her career Elke met the fashion designer Zuzu
Angel, of whom she became friend.
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