Biography

Rubens de Falco was born on October 19, 1931.

He began to attend theatrical shows to the 14 years.

It began his career in 1951, openned the play " Ralé " of Gorki, in TBC and " Antígona " of Sófocles, under Adolfo Celli's direction.

On May 16, 1955 it participated of the first recital of the group " Jograis of São Paulo ", with a show on the poet Fernando Pessoa, in the Teatro Arena. The group made great success with tournées for the whole country and abroad.

The first soap opera was " The King of the Gypsies ", in 1966, in the extinct Tupi Channel. Ever since it participated in several films and dozens of soap operas, but it was marked for the image of villainous that consecrated him in " Escrava Isaura."

Single, Rubens laments not to have had children:

"It would be fantastic to be grandfather! But I don't regret not having married. I never had temper for daily coexistence "

His mother Mrs. Ana, the sisters Jurema and Edith, the six nephews and the twelve nephew-grandsons fill him with caress and they guarantee that he is kind and good-humoured.

The work colleagues agree saying that he is serene and generous outside the sets.

On October 11, 1976, it is going to the air the first chapter of " Escrava Isaura ", an unpretentious adaptation of Bernardo Guimarães' work, done by writer Gilberto Braga.

Occupying the schedule of six o'clock, with a tight budget and fighting with the structure lack, the soap opera obtained an unexpected international projection, open once and for all the doors for Rubens of Falco.

Together with Lucélia Santos, it would be a partnership that marked the Brazilian television. Him like perverse Leôncio, her as Isaura, both were received as popstars through where they passed and they were prominences of the Kiss-flower Samba School, in the carnival of 1992.

Received in Cuba as a king, where the soap opera turned national obsession, Rubens reminds that the character demanded at fifteen daily hours of work from ten. The production let fly audience in more than a hundred countries, it caused impact in China and countries of the European east. Rubens became one of the more famous Brazilian artists in the overseas. He doesn't get to walk in Europe, in China, in Japan, in Russia, without being approached by somebody.

" The success with the foreign public is due a lot to the curiosity in knowing as it will have been an as singular and distant as Brazil country, of as we went by this century and we left the agrarian profile for the industrial "

In Katowice, in Poland, eight thousand people went to the local stadium to a competitions of counterparts of Isaura and Leôncio. Some people were mobilized and they collected the equivalent to 20 réis ( monetary unit during Brazilian Empire) to send to Brazil, to free the slave Isaura.

In Italy, there were safeties in the door of the rooms of the hotel, day and night.

The word farm, before nonexistent in the Russian language, its entered for the dictionary in the version Hispanic " hacienda ".

In full war of Bosnia against the Serbian, a cease-fire was decreed during the exhibition of the chapters.

"The villain is that drive the plot. They are always the best characters. I adore to work and I never worried in doing the thief or the gallant of the history. For me, what mattered it was always the good role "