Ayola Pinto

Guaratinguetá, São Paulo, 1922 - São Paulo, Brazil, ?

Acrobat, comedian, cyclist, wire walker. As part of the third generation of the Pinto family, she is the daughter of the clown Piolin (Abelardo Pinto) and the comedian Benedita Lopes de França. Her paternal grandfather Galdino Pinto left his potentially successful career in the family's notary office to become a businessman for Circo Piolin-Alcebíades  in the 1910s and 1920s. Ayola started acting out comedies  at the age of 16 ad later worked in the circuses Nerino,  Piolin and Garcia until 1950. She married the acrobatic cyclist and clown Figurinha (Nelson Garcia).

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