Xuxa

Quick Facts

Full Name	Xuxa
Occupation	TV Actress
Date Of Birth	Mar 27, 1963(1963-03-27)
Age	61
Birthplace	Santa Rosa
Country	Brazil
Horoscope	Aries

Xuxa Biography

Xuxa is one of the most popular and richest TV Actress who was born on March 27, 1963 in Santa Rosa, Brazil. Brazilian TV star and model who won Latin Grammy Awards for Best Latin Children’s Album in 2002 and 2003. She also won an Extra Television Special Award in 2011.

She has dated famous athlete Pele and singer Michael Jackson. She began dating Junno Andrade in 2013.

Maria da Graça Xuxa Meneghel (Portuguese pronunciation: [maˈɾia da ˈgɾasa ˈʃuʃa mẽneˈgɛw] ; born 27 March 1963) is a Brazilian television host, film actress, singer, model and businesswoman. Her various shows have been broadcast in Portuguese, English, and Spanish worldwide. She is a two-time winner of the Latin Grammy Award for Best Children’s Album, and is also known for her epithet, the “Queen of Children”.

Xuxa began her television career with the Clube da Criança on Rede Manchete in the early 1980s. She became a national superstar when she moved to Rede Globo in 1986 for the Xou da Xuxa. She was the first Brazilian to appear on Forbes Magazine’s list of richest artists in 1991, taking 37th place with an annual gross income of US$19 million.

She and her family moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1970. She has a daughter named Sasha.

Xuxa Net Worth

Xuxa is one of the richest TV Actress from Brazil. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Xuxa 's net worth $160 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She began a career in modeling at age 16 after being discovered by a publishing company.

She was named the richest woman in Brazil, being worth over $1 billion.

Maria da Graça Meneghel was born in Santa Rosa, Rio Grande do Sul, to Luiz Floriano Meneghel and Alda Meneghel (née Alda Flores da Rocha). Xuxa is of Italian, Polish, German and Swiss descent. Her paternal great-grandfather emigrated to Brazil at the end of the 1800s from the northern Italian town of Imer, in the Autonomous Province of Trento. In 2013, Xuxa obtained Italian citizenship by descent.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Xuxa height 5 feet 9 inches Xuxa weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Xuxa Dating?

According to our records, Xuxa married to Junno Andrade , Luciano Szafir. As of December 1, 2023, Xuxa’s is not dating anyone.

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At 15 years she was discovered by a modeling agency, and began her professional career as a model at 16. During this time period Xuxa modeled in Brazil and the United States for both fashion and men’s magazines, such as Playboy, and began a famous love affair with Brazilian football star Pelé. In 1984, she was hired as a model by Ford Models.

Facts & Trivia

Xuxa Ranked on the list of most popular TV Actress. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Brazil. Xuxa celebrates birthday on March 27 of every year.

On 30 June 1986, Xou da Xuxa debuted on TV Globo, a daily program with her name. The attraction was shown from Monday to Saturday on the morning of the station. The program has spanned generations. Xuxa arrived on a pink ship, which awakened in the children the dream of flying beside her. Children from all over Brazil ran to have breakfast with the song “Quem Qué Pão?”. The actress would end the show with the famous “Xuxa kiss”, For the kiss, Xuxa would put on bright lipstick and kiss the children participating in the show and children in the audience on the cheek, leaving the imprint of her lipstick. In addition to entertainment, the presenter has always passed positive messages to the public, such as “Want, Power and Reach!”, “Believe in Dreams”, “Drugs do Bad” and many others. The program came to an end on 31 December 1992, after 2000 editions. At Christmas 1986, the hostess received her eighth platinum record, a prize awarded to every 250,000 copies sold. The album Xou da Xuxa, from the record company Som Livre, had sold more than two million copies so far, achieving by then the South American record for a single album. Xuxa sold more than Brazilian singer Roberto Carlos that year. In the following years, the presenter still released six more albums of the series, such as Xou da Xuxa 2 and 3, which established themselves as the best- selling albums in Brazil so far, with 2.7 and 3.3 million copies sold, respectively. With the recorded songs, it left in tours by Brazil that were seen by millions of people.

Why did Xuxa get Cancelled?

In 1992, the program was in dispute to be created by MTM Enterprises , who had different ideas of a show for the Brazilian children’s hosts. However, Xuxa considered the idea of MTM was more interesting, and ended up getting the company in the end.

What happen to Xuxa?

In 1993, Xuxa hosted an English-language series in the United States titled Xuxa (which was produced by MTM Enterprises). However, it did not achieve the popularity she had enjoyed throughout Brazil, Latin America and Spain, and was cancelled after one season due to low ratings.

What nationality is Xuxa?

Brazilian

How old is Xuxa?

59 years (March 27, 1963)

How old is Silvio Santos?

91 years (December 12, 1930)