Biography
Léa Garcia was a Brazilian actress. She was born Léa Lucas Garcia de Aguiar on 11 March 1933 in Rio de Janeiro and died on 15 August 2023 in Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul.
Garcia began her career in the early 1950s with the Teatro Experimental do Negro. Her breakout role came as Serafina in the 1959 film Black Orpheus, an Oscar-winning adaptation of the Orpheus myth set during Rio’s Carnival.
She amassed more than 100 credits in theatre, film and television over seven decades, appearing in telenovelas such as Escrava Isaura (1976) and later films including M8 - When Death Rescues Life (2019).
