Exactly forty years ago, in October 1976, an unpretentious series was released on the screens about a beautiful slave who suffered the bullying of her master in love with her. Soviet television viewers saw this heart-breaking story after 12 years. And it was thanks to this series that the all-consuming love of soap operas began in the USSR, the first among many of which remained “Slave Izaura”. The actress who played her instantly became famous throughout the world, and this role became her hallmark. We meet: Luselia Santos, who to this day remains the same beauty as four decades ago.
The first of many ...
The Brazilian painting “Slave Isaur”, whose actress Luselia Santus literally woke up famous, is known for opening the way for Soviet viewers to the endless world of TV shows. Santos fell in love with ordinary people. Her fans, absolutely sincerely empathizing with her heroine, really wanted to know her biography. The actress was offered this role at a very young age. At the time of filming, she was barely nineteen years old.
She very carefully and sincerely showed the touching story of a poor girl who walked "through thorns to the stars" for quite some time. Beautiful acting and unusually attractive appearance of Luselia instantly raised her to the podium, consisting of the best actresses of the twentieth century.
Student, beauty ...
The actress who played the slave Isaur was remembered by millions of viewers from her very first role. Despite the fact that she began to master acting from the age of fourteen, taking an active part in various theater productions, such a stunning success was a complete surprise for her. In those years, she was still a student of theater courses in Sao Paulo.
Luselia was born on a warm, quiet day on May 20, 1957 in the suburbs of São Paulo, Santa Terezinha. After her debut role in the play about Don Quixote, the girl was noticed by the theater teacher Eugenio Kusnet, who made her an offer to study at the theater courses.
After the series “Slave Izaura”, whose actress is the heroine of this article, was seen by millions of viewers, the girl Luselia Santus became very popular. The directors endlessly offered her interesting roles in feature films and in TV shows. She was young and very talented. Her career was quite successful. Santos could now choose which television company she would like to work with. Luselia decided to break the contract with one television company Globe and switch to a new job on another channel, Rede Manchete. It was here that she had a lot of interesting roles in the telenovelas "Carmen", "Don Ange" and others.
Life after
The biography of this amazing woman is diverse and interesting. Externally, Luselia now resembles a delicate flower. But inside is a very smart, tenacious, business lady who has managed to do a lot in her life. After this vivid role, the actress worked a lot: she starred and often went on the stage.
In response to public resonance, her “Slave” could only be compared to the shootings for the Brazilian Playboy magazine, which took place four years after the end of work on the series. Then the girl posed naked many more times. She even decided to shoot in erotic films, after which she received the title of "sex symbol" of Brazil. So, little by little the actress built her career. "Slave Izaura" (photo and articles about this series to date are found on the pages of glossy publications not much less often than in the year of publication on the screens of the Soviet Union) is still one of her favorite works in films.
At the same time, Luselia Santos is a rather multifaceted personality. In addition to her many roles - theatrical and cinema - the actress is known in her native country as an active participant in the environmental movement. The beauty is interested in questions of various global world processes and social life. Over time, she became interested in filming her own documentary. It started back in the mid 90s. It was at that time that the Brazilian slave Isaur - actress Luselia Santos - began her large-scale project, which she dedicated to China.
Now she has her own company, which works only on the release of documentary films. Santos has released two paintings about China and East Timor. She really liked these countries many years ago when she visited there with the screening of the TV series about Isaur. But the acting path of Luselia is not abandoned and is now sometimes removed. True, much less than before.
About personal ...
If she managed to get a star role very easily, then her personal life did not work out very well. She was not lucky to meet her soulmate, with whom “both into the fire and into the water”. She married twice, and twice these marriages were dissolved. Her first husband was the conductor, the son of Australian immigrants. In musical circles, he was quite famous. One of his works was the play Guarani staged at the Washington Opera with Placido Domingo. Young spouses had a son. At first everything was fine, but after only four years they divorced.
Not very happy in marriage actress. Slave Izaura (her photo now displays a very interesting woman) decided to try again to create a family. Her chosen one was an acoustic engineer. The second spouse had a rather unusual hobby - spiritualism, to which he also introduced Luselia. But over time, this marriage also broke up, leaving on its pages a fascination with spiritualism.
So the star of the series “Slave Izaura” lives now. Actress, biography which usually does not get on the pages of the press, does not start novels anymore, because it does not believe in relationships. Her only son, Pedro Neshling, is 34 years old, he is also an actor. A few years ago I tried myself as a director, staging a play, one of the roles in which my mother went.