Elke Maravilha (née Grünupp;[1] 22 February 1945 – 16 August 2016) was a German-Brazilian actress, model and television personality.
She returned to live with her family in Porto Alegre between 1966 and 1969, where she attended courses at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul faculties of philosophy, medicine and letters and trained as a translator and interpreter of foreign languages.
During the Brazilian military dictatorship in 1972, Maravilha was arrested for contempt at Santos Dumont Airport in Rio de Janeiro for tearing up posters of Stuart Angel Jones, her friend Zuzu's son, claiming that he had already been killed by the regime.
[19] Maravilha died in Rio de Janeiro on 16 August 2016 of multiple organ failure, from complications of a surgery to treat an ulcer.
[20] Maravilha recorded the song "Que vontade de comer goiaba", available in the compilation album Dançando em duplo sentido.