Suzana Ferreira Alves or Tiazinha ("Auntie") (born

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, August 3, 1978) is a major Brazilian

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. The issue of the Brazilian Playboy that featured Tiazinha is one of the best-selling ones of all times for the Brazilian edition of the magazine. She started as a dancer in the TV-show ''H'' at

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. The "Auntie" character was a dominatrix woman dressed in lingerie that would dance and be part of a game where Suzana would wax male participants in a live stage show. The participants would answer general knowledge questions, if the answer was incorrect they would be punished with waxing; if correct they would be rewarded with money prizes and lap dances from "Auntie". She also released an album and starred her own action adventure TV-series, ''As Aventuras de Tiazinha'' (The Adventures of Tiazinha). Ever since her departure from ''H'' in 2000, Alves has invested in her acting career, mostly on stage. She appeared in four episodes of ''

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'' during 2007.IMDB Alves is married since 2010 to retired tennis player

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, with whom she has a son.

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* * 1978 births Living people People from São Paulo Brazilian actresses {{Brazil-model-stub