Andréa Maltarolli (28 September 1962 in

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– 22 September 2009 in Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian

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and

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Biography

A graduate in history and media, Andrea Maltarolli joined TV station

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in 1995, and became involved with the fledgling soap opera ''

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''. Aimed at the teenage market, the show became a great success and is still running as of 2009; Andrea Maltarolli continued to work on the program team until 2002. She then collaborated on other popular shows, and developed her first solo venture, telenovela ''

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'', broadcast in Brazil in 179 episodes between February and September 2008. From end of 2008 to mid-2009, she adapted for the theatre the comics "Mulheres Alteradas" created by

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, an Argentine cartoonist. At the time of her death, she was working on the plot of a new series, provisionally titled ''As Quatro Estações''. She wrote the synopsis of the telenovela named ''Alto Astral'' which was broadcast by TV Globo.

Death

Maltarolli died of

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on 22 September 2009, aged 46.Obituary from O Globo (in Portuguese)
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Selected works

Screenwriter

* ''

'' * ''

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'' * ''A Turma do Didi'' * ''Escolinha do Professor Raimundo'' * ''

'' * ''

Alto Astral ''Alto Astral'' (International Title:''Forever and Ever'') is a Brazilian access prime telenovela produced and broadcast by TV Globo. It premiered on November 3, 2014, replacing ''Geração Brasil'' and ended on May 8, 2015 replaced by '' I Love P ...

Theatre

* ''Mulheres Alteradas''

References

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