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Overview
- The family announced her death on Sunday, October 18, 2026, saying the actress was 39 and had been battling cancer in recent months.
- Relatives arranged a private wake at the Cemitério Vertical Memorial do Carmo in Rio de Janeiro and asked the public and press to respect their mourning.
- Blanco rose to national fame as Roberta Messi in Record TV’s 2011–2012 Rebelde and sustained a mixed career across television, theatre and music.
- At the time of her death she was credited in the feature film The Fox Sisters, directed by Wagner de Assis, a project filmed in Brazil and the United States.
- Colleagues and public figures posted tributes online while some outlets reported the cancer was colorectal, a detail not uniformly confirmed in the family’s statement.