Trivia

Considered one of the best actresses of theatre in Brazil.

Irene made her theater debut in 1962 with the plays "Aconteceu em Irkutsk" (It happened in Irkutsk) and "Aonde vais Isabel?" (Where are you going Isabel?). She also worked in many other plays like: "A Ratoeira" of Agatha Christie (1971) and "Afinal uma mulher de negócios" of Fassbinder (1981).

Her husband Edison Paes de Melo is a journalist.

Irene has two sons: Iran (with her first husband, an army officer) and Juliano (with Edson). She was a mother at 21 and 29.

Irene has two grandchildren: Cadu Libonati (Iran's son) and Maria Luiza (Juliano's daughter).

There's a theater named after her: Teatro Irene Ravache in São Paulo, Brazil.

Daughter of Ligia and Carlos Alberto Ravache.

The actor and writer Fabio Porchat called her, inviting her for the movie Entre Abelhas to play his mother, but she thought it was the actor Marcelo Medici pranking a joke on the phone, because he does that a lot.