Marpessa Dawn and Breno Mello | Film
The actor Marpessa Dawn, who has died aged 74, played the exotic and mysterious female lead in the 1958 Academy award-winning film Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus). Known throughout her life simply as Marpessa, she would never fulfil the promise of that performance as the doomed Eurydice, on whom the devil has staked a claim, but