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Lua Blanco Dies at 39 After Battle With Cancer

Her death leaves an unfinished role in Wagner de Assis’s film The Fox Sisters.

Overview

  • Her family announced her death on Sunday, October 18, saying she had been fighting cancer in recent months and confirming the news through a post by her brother Daniel Blanco.
  • The Blanco family asked for privacy and silence during their period of mourning in the social-media message shared by her siblings.
  • Blanco rose to national fame for playing Roberta Messi in Record TV’s 2011 adaptation of Rebelde and later worked across television, theater and music.
  • She was listed in the cast of The Fox Sisters, a Wagner de Assis film shot in Brazil and the United States, a project now left incomplete by her passing.
  • Reports cited Metrópoles that a visitation was scheduled for Monday, October 19, at Cemitério Vertical Memorial do Carmo in Rio de Janeiro and colleagues and fans have posted widespread condolences.