Elizângela do Amaral Vergueiro[1] (11 December 1954 – 3 November 2023), known mononymously as Elizângela, was a Brazilian actress, singer and television presenter who played a lead role in the 1977 telenovela Locomotivas and participated in several other telenovelas and films.

Her parents split up when she was one and a half years old, and so, she had very little contact with her father.

Her mother was a manicurist after the separation, and had to bring up the three daughters alone, with a small pension from the ex-husband.

Going through difficulties, she then began working as a child, at the age of 8.

Elizângela died of a cardiac arrest on 3 November 2023, at the age of 68.