- Mother of an only child, a daughter named Decimar (b. December 24th 1934). The father is Ademar Martins.
- Daughter of Margarida and Manoel Gonçalves Costa.
- She had 6 siblings.
- She has two grandchildren.
- Lived with her husband, Danilo Bastos (a journalist), for twenty years.
- In 1991, she caused a sensation by going topless on a Carnival float. She was 84 at the time.
- Her last interview was for the reporter Danilo Gentili for the TV program 'Custe o Que Custar' (Brazilian version of CQC), 5 days before she died.
- Currently doing her own TV Show "Fala, Dercy!" every Tuesday night at Brazilian SBT TV Station.
- Still active at Globo TV in Brazil.
- She was one of a few famous personalities in Brazil (like Oscar Niemeyer and Barbosa Lima Sobinho) to have reached 100 years-old of age.
- She was a Brazilian actress, comedian and singer.
- Dercy Gonçalves currently holds the record for the longest career as an actress with Guinness World Records (86 years).
- Dercy Gonçalves was biographed in 1994 by Maria Adelaide Amaral. The book was titled Dercy de Cabo a Rabo (a popular expression in Portuguese that means "from the beginning to the end", and in this particular case, "The complete Dercy").
- In her 86-year-long career, she worked in the theater, revues, film, radio and television, becoming famous by her humorous use of vulgar language.
- Her mausoleum, designed by herself in 1991, has the shape of a glass pyramid. The conception is similar to Louvre Pyramid.
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