Actor Ruy de Carvalho
The hospitalization of the 98-year-old actor, the oldest active actor in the world, forced the cancellation of the shows of the play “The Mousetrap”, which stars at the Malaposta Cultural Center. “Only when I die will I stop, and that takes a second,” said the actor in 2023.
The actor Ruy de Carvalho98 years old, has been hospitalized since Friday following a mild myocardial infarction but in a stable situation, the actor’s daughter revealed this Sunday to Lusa.
“On Friday, and not feeling very wellour father was hospitalized. After carrying out tests, the doctors detected that he had suffered a mild myocardial infarction, and is in a clear recovery and in a stable situation, but remains hospitalized under observation, as he is three months away from turning 99”, he added. Paula Carvalho.
The actor’s daughter, who stressed that her father is the oldest active actor throughout the world, he did not specify the location or the hospital where the father was hospitalized for reasons of “preservation of intimacy”, adding that “any and all information about the state of health” will be provided by her.
The actor’s hospitalization forced the cancellation of shows of the play that stars at the Centro Cultural Malaposta, in Olival Basto, “The Mousetrap”one of the stories that literature experts consider “one of the most incredible” by the writer Agatha Christie.
On the scene for over 70 years and with box office records all over the world, it is registered in the Guinness Book of Records as the.
It’s the second time that the actor stars in this storyalthough playing different characters. The first time he took to the stage with “The Mousetrap”, in the 1960s, Ruy de Carvalho was paired with actress Maria Dulce. Armando Cortez, João Villaret, Rogério Paulo and Lili Neves (still alive and residing at Casa do Artista) were, among others, the actors with whom he acted at the time.
In this second entry into Agatha Christie’s text, Ruy de Carvalho is played by Paulo Sousa Costain a Yelolowstar production premiered in 2020 and in which the protagonist of “King Lear” starred alongside his grandson Henrique de Carvalho.
After performances were interrupted due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the play has been on the scene since thentouring several Portuguese locations, Madeira and the Azores and venues almost always sold out.
Rui Alberto Rebelo Pires de Carvalho, better known as Ruy de Carvalho, was born on March 1, 1927, in Lisbon. There’s a 83-year career on a path that brings together theater, cinema, radio and television.
He started acting as an amateur at the age of 15.in the play “O Jogo para o Natal de Cristo”, by Luiz Francisco Rebello, premiered at Teatro da Trindade, in Lisbon, by the then Teatro da Mocidade Portuguesa group, directed by Francisco Ribeiro, better known as Ribeirinho. The first time the actor performed was in July 1936, at the age of nine, at the Teatro Municipal da Covilhã.
In 2015, Ruy de Carvalho suffered a fall on the stairs leading to the dressing rooms at the Centro de Artes e Espectáculos in Portalegre.
In February 2023, on the eve of the premiere of the play “Ruy, a historia due”, in an interview with Lusa held in the Taguspark auditorium, in Oeiras, the actor confessed that will continue to work and only for “when I die”.
“Only when I die will I stop, and that takes a second“, said, at the time, Ruy de Carvalho, assuring that only then “the girl watching” will “leave” you.
