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e o q q a baiana tem?...
a baiana tem muita coisa boa, a baiana só não acha jeito de ver seus ídolos nacionais com um perfil mais bacana, fotos legais, álbum responsa... "IMDB Brasil" ... dá uma mão ae pô!
a baiana tem muita coisa boa, a baiana só não acha jeito de ver seus ídolos nacionais com um perfil mais bacana, fotos legais, álbum responsa... "IMDB Brasil" ... dá uma mão ae pô!
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Lima Duarte was born on 29 March 1930 in Sacramento, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He is an actor and director, known for Roque Santeiro (1985), Capital Sin (1975) and Sargento Getúlio (1983).uma foto pro lima aqui gente!!- Actress
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Arlette Pinheiro Esteves da Silva was born on 16th October 1929 in Rio de Janeiro. She adopted the name "Fernanda" because she thought it sounded good. "Montenegro" came after her family doctor.
In late 40s she was translating and adapting famous theater plays to radio. She begun her artistic life in the theater with the play "Alegres Canções nas Montanhas" in 1950. Among her mates was Fernando Torres, who would soon become her husband. Next she use the married name Arlette Pinheiro Monteiro Torres. In the next years she worked with other great actors like Sérgio Britto, Cacilda Becker, Nathália Timberg, Cláudio Corrêa e Castro and Ítalo Rossi.
In the early 60s she moved to São Paulo where she worked on many theater plays and also stared working on television. Her first soap operas was "Pouco Amor Não é Amor". In 1964 she started working for cinema as well. Her first film was "A Falecida". In 1965 her daughter Fernanda Torres was born. She later also became a famous actress.
As time went by, more and more successful soap operas and plays came up and she received many prizes. She was later called "The First Lady of Brazilian Theater". In cinema, after some not very famous films, she worked on "Eles Não Usam Black-Tie" (1981), largely applauded by the critics.
Her success on television and theater continued, but her cinema career, although it never stopped, was largely unnoticed until 1997, when "O Que é Isso, Companheiro?", a nominee for the Oscar of Best Film in a Foreign Language, was released. In 1998 "Central do Brasil" enchanted the world. This film, another nominee for the Oscar, was the highest moment of Fernanda Montengro's cinema career, once she was a nominee for Best Actress. The Oscar was not given to her, but the actress got the Berlin prize. In 1999 she had another great achievement on TV, "O Auto da Compadecida", later cut to a film format and released in the movie theaters.- Paulo Autran was born on 7 September 1922 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was an actor, known for Guerra dos Sexos (1983), A Máquina (2005) and O País dos Tenentes (1987). He was married to Karin Rodrigues. He died on 12 October 2007 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
- Eloísa Mafalda was born on 18 September 1924 in Jundiaí, São Paulo, Brazil. She was an actress, known for Corpo a Corpo (1984), A Grande Família (1973) and Por Amor (1997). She was married to Miguel Teixeira. She died on 16 May 2018 in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Sebastião Bernardes de Souza Prata was born in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais state, but became a famous actor in Rio de Janeiro.
At the National Opera, where he studied, got the nickname "The Little Otelo". Then, he decided to be called "Great Otelo" or in Portuguese, "Grande Otelo".
He acted in theaters, movies and TV. His first movie was "Noites Cariocas" (1935). But he really became known when he started working besides the great star Oscarito.
Otelo was best known by comedy movies, but he could also be a dramatic actor.- Eva Wilma Riefle was the daughter of Otto Riefle, and Luiza Carp, both new immigrants to São Paulo. Otto Riefle was a German metalworker born in Pforzheim, the Black Forest region near Stuttgart, Germany, who in 1929, aged 19, emigrated to Rio de Janeiro, to work at the Levy-Frank metalworking company, but was transferred the next year to São Paulo, where in 1933, during the city's Carnival, he met met Luiza. Luiza Carp was a pianist, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Jewish parents from Kiev, Ukraine., then a soviet socialist republic. Eva was conceived of their union, and the couple married shortly after, before she was born.
Eva Wilma had a daughter and a son with her first husband John Herbert: cinema director Vivian Buckup (b. 1956) and musician John Herbert Junior (b. 1958). Eva had five grandchildren: Miguel (b. 1986) and Mateus (b. 1990) by Vivian; and Gabriela (b. 1987), Francisco (b. 2000), and Vitorio (b. 2006) by John Herbert Junior.pq não tem foto dos brazukas aqui???? - Actor
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Tarcísio Meira was born on 5 October 1935 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. He was an actor and director, known for Roda de Fogo (1986), Pages of Life (2006) and Torre de Babel (1998). He was married to Glória Menezes. He died on 12 August 2021 in São Paulo, SP, Brazil.desisto...- Cleyde Yáconis was born on 14 November 1923 in Pirassununga, São Paulo, Brazil. She was an actress, known for Torre de Babel (1998), Os inocentes (1974) and Paper Wedding Anniversary (2008). She was married to Stênio Garcia. She died on 15 April 2013 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Tony Ramos was born on 25 August 1948 in Arapongas, Paraná, Brazil. He is an actor, known for Se Eu Fosse Você (2006), Torre de Babel (1998) and Cabocla (2004). He has been married to Lidiane Ramos since 17 September 1969. They have two children.uma foto melhor aqui sim...- Renata Sorrah was born on 21 February 1947 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is an actress, known for Her Own Destiny (2004), Madame Satã (2002) and Assim na Terra Como no Céu (1970). She was previously married to Euclydes Marinho, Marcos Paulo and Carlos Vereza.
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Milton Gonçalves was born on 9 December 1933 in Monte Santo, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He was an actor and director, known for Carandiru (2003), A Rainha Diaba (1974) and À Sombra dos Laranjais (1977). He was married to Oda Gonçalves. He died on 30 May 2022 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.- Actress
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Regina Duarte was born on 5 February 1947 in Franca, São Paulo, Brazil. She is an actress and writer, known for Irmãos Coragem (1970), Roque Santeiro (1985) and Never Too Old to Meow (2014). She has been married to Eduardo Lippincott since 2000. She was previously married to Del Rangel, Daniel Filho and Marcos Flávio Cunha Franco.- Actor
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One of the most known and loved film artists in Brazil. He was an actor, director and producer who worked in, at least, 32 movie projects in within 1950 and early 1980's, when he passed away. Despite the fact that his movies were never well accepted by the film critics, his movies always sold out tickets to movie theaters. We can measure his importance through the way he has, until today, influenced filmmakers in Brazil. A museum in his tribute was created in Taubate (Sao Paulo) at the place where it used to be the studio that he built to film his movies. Some in Brazil labeled him as one of the "Fathers" of Brazilian cinema.brincadeira, uma foto aqui!!- Irene Ravache was born on 6 August 1944 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is an actress, known for Amores Possíveis (2001), Passione (2010) and Depois Daquele Baile (2005). She has been married to Edson Paes Melo Filho since 1971. They have one child.
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Ary Fontoura was born on 27 January 1933 in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. He is an actor and writer, known for The Favorite (2008), A Indomada (1997) and Amor com Amor Se Paga (1984).- Laura Cardoso was born on 13 September 1927 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. She is an actress, known for Através da Janela (2000), Terra Estrangeira (1995) and Os Apóstolos de Judas (1976). She was previously married to Fernando Baleroni.
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Paulo Goulart was born on 9 January 1933 in Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil. He was an actor and producer, known for A Dog's Will (2000), Roda de Fogo (1986) and Esperança (2002). He was married to Nicette Bruno. He died on 13 March 2014 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.- Nathália Timberg was born on 5 August 1929 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is an actress, known for O Dono do Mundo (1991), Vendo ou Alugo (2013) and Santa Marta Fabril (1984).
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Raul Cortez was born on 28 August 1932 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. He was an actor and casting director, known for The King of the Cattle (1996), Esperança (2002) and Her Own Destiny (2004). He was married to Tânia Caldas and Célia Helena. He died on 18 July 2006 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.- Actress
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Aracy Balabanian was born on 22 February 1940 in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. She was an actress, known for The Next Victim (1995), Rainha da Sucata (1990) and Nino, o Italianinho (1969). She died on 7 August 2023 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.- Actor
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Carlos Vereza was born on 4 March 1939 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is an actor and writer, known for Memórias do Cárcere (1984), Direito de Amar (1987) and O Trampo (2019).- Actress
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Marília Pêra was born on 22 January 1943 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She was an actress and producer, known for Pixote (1980), Central Station (1998) and Urban Snap-Shots (2008). She was married to Bruno Faria, Nelson Motta, Paulo Villaça, Agildo Ribeiro and Paulo Graça Mello. She died on 5 December 2015 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.- Actor
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Walmor Chagas was born on 28 August 1930 in Alegrete, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. He was an actor and producer, known for São Paulo, Sociedade Anônima (1965), Luz del Fuego (1982) and Asa Branca: Um Sonho Brasileiro (1980). He was married to Cacilda Becker. He died on 18 January 2013 in Guaratinguetá , Brazil.- Actress
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Arlete Salles was born on 17 June 1942 in Paudalho, Pernambuco, Brazil. She is an actress, known for Port of Miracles (2001), Salsa e Merengue (1996) and A Ponte dos Suspiros (1969). She was previously married to Álvaro Reis, Ivan Paulo, Tony Tornado and Lúcio Mauro.- Cláudio Corrêa e Castro was born on 27 February 1928 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was an actor, known for O Dono do Mundo (1991), Cabocla (1979) and Os inocentes (1974). He was married to Ileana Kwasinski. He died on 16 August 2005 in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- The daughter of two Italian actors who moved to Brazil, Renata began her professional life as a ballerina at São Paulo's Municipal Theater.
After settling in the city of Santos, she began her acting career by joining Eva Todor's 'Eva e Seus Artistas' theater company and becoming a well-known vaudeville and comedic performer. In 1946, she made her film debut, eventually becoming one of the top stars at 'Atlântida Cinematográfica', the most successful film production company in Brazil until 1962.
The height of her popularity came between 1967 and 1971, playing the character 'Helena' in the popular, and sometimes full of gags, live tele-theater comedy series A Família Trapo (1967), where she shared the stage with some of the best Brazilian comedians.
In the early 70s, she became a regular cast member for Globo Television, and had a steady stream of telenovela roles and guest appearances.era hermana mas jogou no nosso time. - Actor
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Mauro Mendonça was born on 2 April 1932 in Ubá, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He is an actor and director, known for The Favorite (2008), Evil Angel (1997) and Cabocla (2004). He has been married to Rosamaria Murtinho since 1959. They have three children.- Actress
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Daughter of Maria da Conceição Vieira and army officer, Marius Gonçalves. Her stepmother is Elizette. She has two younger sisters: Suzana Goncalves and Sandra Vieira and two brothers named Sérgio Ricardo Gonçalves and Sérvulo Augusto Gonçalves. She has an only son named Rodrigo with Regis Cardoso. He was onde married to Luciana and they had two sons: Bruno (b. 1996) and Rafael (b. 1998). Since 2014, Rodrigo is married to Ketryn Goetten. Susana is considered one of the best TV actress of her generation.- Actor
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Gianfrancesco Guarnieri was born on 6 August 1934 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He was an actor and director, known for Secrets of Sand (1973), They Don't Wear Black Tie (1981) and The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga (1965). He was married to Vanya Sant'anna and Cecilia Thompson. He died on 22 July 2006 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.- Actress
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Cássia Kis was born on 6 January 1958 in São Caetano do Sul, São Paulo, Brazil. She is an actress, known for Port of Miracles (2001), Chega de Saudade (2007) and Morde & Assopra (2011). She has been married to João Baptista Magro Filho since 3 September 2009. She was previously married to Sérgio Brandão, José Alberto Fonseca and José Luis Tadeu.- Actor
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Antônio Fagundes was born on 18 April 1949 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is an actor and producer, known for Two Faces (2007), O Dono do Mundo (1991) and Port of Miracles (2001). He was previously married to Mara Carvalho and Clarisse Abujamra.- Actress
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Marieta Severo was born on 2 November 1946 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is an actress and writer, known for Big Family (2001), A Dona da História (2004) and Verdades Secretas (2015). She was previously married to Aderbal Freire Filho, Chico Buarque and Carlos Vergara.- Actor
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Reginaldo Faria was born on 11 June 1937 in Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is an actor and writer, known for Quem Tem Medo de Lobisomem? (1975), Barra Pesada (1977) and Lucio Flavio (1977). He has been married to Vânia Dotto Alves since October 2005. He was previously married to Rosa Ventura and Kátia Achcar.- Nívea Maria was born on 7 March 1947 in São Paulo, SP, Brazil. She is an actress, known for Seven Women (2003), The Clone (2001) and Miracle Hands (2010). She was previously married to Herval Rossano, Edson França and Renato Master.
- Osmar do Amaral Barbosa, better known as Osmar Prado, is a Brazilian actor, writer and producer. As one of the most prestigious Brazilian actors, he has won several awards, including two APCA Awards, a Guarani Award, two Brazil Quality Awards, and a Press Trophy. Osmar was married twice. He has three daughters, two from his first marriage with Elizabeth Cosentino Vianna, Janína and Tainá Prado. In 1990, he married Vânia Penteado, with whom he had his third daughter, born in 1994. He participates in the Human Rights Movement.
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She has a son named João (1975) with Daniel Filho. She has 4 grandchildren: Giulia (Alexandra's daughter), twins Valentina and João Paulo and Antônio (João children's). Her father's name is Marçal and he was a army officer. Her mother's name is Elza and she's a housewife. Betty is an only child. She lives in Leblon, Rio de Janeiro and she's Buddhist.
She's won awards as best actress for the movies A Estrela Sobe (1974), Anjos do Arrebalde (1987) and Romance da Empregada (1988). She's also a producer.- Actor
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Francisco Cuoco was born on 29 November 1933 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. He is an actor and producer, known for O Cafona (1971), Redenção (1966) and Treason (1998).- Magalhães began her career on Tupi Broadcasting's radio and TV in 1954, playing small roles and background acting, eventually getting her big break and greater roles and prominent characters. All of this way before the era of videotaping.
Moving to the state to Bahia, after her first marriage in 1960, she did not abandon her craft and joined the theatrical group 'A Barca', formed by former students of a drama school and under the direction of Luís Carlos Maciel, and appeared in great classics on the local station TV Itapoan. Invited by [Glauber Rocha,] himself, she also got a role on the now classic Black God, White Devil (1964), a landmark of Brazil's 'New Cinema' movement, shot in Monte Santo, Bahia.
In 1964 she returned to Rio de Janeiro and gave birth to her only son. The following year, she was back to work when she was invited by Nathália Timberg, one of the great Brazilian stage actresses, to perform in Nelson Rodrigues's 'Vestido de Noiva', directed by Sérgio Cardoso and staged at the Municipal Theater.
In 1966 she was invited by Walter Clark, Globo TV's newly appointed executive producer, to play a romantic role in one of the network' first telenovelas, and in which she would meet actor and future husband Carlos Alberto.
In 1970, the couple went to work for Tupi TV in São Paulo, taking roles in another telenovela. With the end of their marriage the following year, Magalhães returned to Rio and to Globo TV, where she would mostly work for the rest of her career.
At the age of 50, and because of the huge success of her character on Roque Santeiro (1985), she posed nude for a photo spread on one of most popular men's magazine of the time.
She died at 80, leaving the legacy of a six-decade-long career on TV, theatre, and films. - Director
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Daniel Filho - Responsible for triggering an aesthetic revolution in Brazilian TV during the 1970s, he became a Midas of popular cinema in Brazil during the 2000s. He created one blockbuster after another, many adapted from the theatre. The "Se Eu Fosse Você" (If I Were You) franchise (2006-09), featuring Tony Ramos and Gloria Pires - famous for their soap opera roles, sold more than 9 million tickets.
An actor during the 1960s, when he worked on seminal projects of the Cinema Novo period, such as "Os Cafajestes" (The Unscrupulous Ones) (1962) by Ruy Guerra and "Boca de Ouro" (The Golden Mouth) (1963) by Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Daniel Filho cemented himself as a director in 1969 by filming "Pobre Príncipe Encantado", a romantic comedy featuring the successful singer Wanderley Cardoso. Since then, he has continued directing for both cinema and TV, and become known for his snappy dialogue and concise plots.
He directed pieces on the post-hippie youth, such as "O Casal" (1975) and a children's film, "O Cangaceiro Trapalhão" (1983). In the second half of the 1980s and the 1990s, he concentrated on producing, working on "Cidade de Deus" (City of Gold) (2000), amongst others. He returned to directing with "A Partilha" (The Inheritance), in 2001, based on the play by Miguel Falabella, and, since then, has released another eight features, almost always breaking the 1 million ticket mark at the box office.
Born in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil, 1937.- Suzana Faíni was born on 9 March 1933 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. She was an actress, known for Vida Nova (1988), Top Model (1989) and Written in the Stars (2010). She was married to Lívio Rangan. She died on 25 April 2022 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Actor, composer, activist, lawyer, poet and radio broadcaster, the Brazilian Mario Lago was a multi-talented man born in 1911. He was an ardent communist who was imprisoned by the Brazilian government seven times between 1932 and 1969. The Andrew Sisters popularized his song "Aurora" in the 1941 film Hold that Ghost He died in 2012.- Actress
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Glória Pires was born on 23 August 1963 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is an actress and writer, known for Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (2009), Irrational Heart (2011) and O Dono do Mundo (1991). She has been married to Orlando Morais since 1987. They have three children. She was previously married to Fábio Jr..- Actor
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José Wilker de Almeida was born on 20th August 1947 in Juazeiro do Norte, Brazil. He worked as a speaker in a radio there but he later moved to Recife where he started worked in the theatre as a member of "Movimento de Cultura Popular (MPC)". The group not only brought culture to people but also reading, writing and political lessons. During the military repression, however, MPC was made illegal and Wilker moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he started working in cinema. His first film as "A Falecida", starred by Fernanda Montenegro.
In Rio Wilker kept on working in theatre. In 1968 he wrote his own play, "O Trágico Acidente que Destronou Teresa". His next move as a playwright was "A China é Azul", in 1972. In this year he starred "Os Inconfidentes", a movie by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade. Still in 1972 he worked on his first TV series, "O Bofe".
Between 1976 and 1985 he didn't work in theatre, but played important roles in cinema and TV. "Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos" (1976), based on Jorge Amado's novel, is a recordist on Brazilian cinema box office. "Xica da Silva" (1976), "Bye Bye Brasil (1979)", "Bonitinha Mas Ordinária" (based on Nelson Rodrigues' text, 1981), and "O Homem da Capa Preta" (1986) were blockbusters too. His works for TV were very successful too.
In 1989 he worked on two then famous films: "Doida Demais" and "Dias Melhores Virão". In 1992 he was on "Medicine Man", directed by John McTiernan and starred by Sean Connery. In the next five years Wilker worked almost exclusively for Tv. However, in 1996, a compilation of his reviews on cinema was released in a book, "Como Deixar um Relógio Emocionado". In 1997 he came back to the Seventh Art with "O Pequeno Dicionário Amoroso" and "A Guerra de Canudos", where he was the protagonist and producer.
Wilker carried on his acclaimed TV career but in 2000 he worked on Villa Lobos, Uma Vida de Paixões". In 2002 he was on "Dead in the Water" starred by Henry Thomas. He then had three films in a role: "O Homem do Ano" (2003) and "Maria, Mãe de Deus" (2003) and "Redentor" (2004). In 2003 he was elected president of Rio Filmes, a cinema company in Brazil.- Nicette Bruno was born on 7 January 1933 in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She was an actress, known for Éramos Seis (1977), The Big Catch (2017) and Como Salvar Meu Casamento (1979). She was married to Paulo Goulart. She died on 20 December 2020 in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil.
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Hugo Carvana was born on 4 June 1937 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was an actor and writer, known for Vai Trabalhar Vagabundo (1973), Vai Trabalhar, Vagabundo II (1991) and Apolônio Brasil, Campeão da Alegria (2003). He was married to Martha Alencar. He died on 4 October 2014 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.- At the age of six she moved from Pelotas, a city in Brazil's extreme south, to São Paulo with her family. In 1950, she attended the University of São Paulo's (USP) 'School of Dramatic Art' and set up a theater group called 'Jovens Independentes' (Young Independents). She married for the first time at age of eighteen.
Her professional career began at São Paulo's TV Tupi (Brazil's first television station) in 1959, in the soap opera "Um Lugar ao Sol (1959)", directed by Dionísio Azevedo.
In 1962 she starred in the classic film The Given Word (1962) ('O Pagador de Promessas'), the only Brazilian film to win the 'Palme d'Or' at the Cannes Film Festival in France, and the first South American film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
In 1963, alongside Tarcísio Meira, she had her first starring role in Brazil's first daily live television soap opera, 2-5499 Ocupado (1963), broadcast by TV Excelsior, now extinct. From this soap opera on, the two actors began appearing together as a successful working and married couple in over fifteen TV productions.
She is considered one of the main Brazilian actresses, as she has played several outstanding characters during her career on TV, films, and in theater, including the role of 'Doris' in the Brazilian production of Bernard Slade's romantic comedy play 'Same Time, Next Year'. - Actor
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Paulo Betti is one of the most well-known and respected actors in Brazil today. Having earned a "Distinguished Fulbright Fellowship", Paulo began his theatrical career in 1969 with "Zé do Burro", which earned him first acting award. He was the leading man in more than 13 films, including "Lamarca" (1994), "Maua - The Emperor and the King"(1999) and "Guerra de Canudos"(1997) by Sérgio Rezende. "O Toque do Oboé" (1998) won the critic's choice award at the Miami Film Festival in 1999. In "Oriundi" (1999), he starred with Anthony Quinn. Paulo has had significant success on Brazilian TV. His first appearance was in the soap opera "Como Salvar meu Casamento" (1979). His role in "Os Imigrantes" (1981) brought him to the limelight, and he has since been a prominent figure in soap operas, specials, and miniseries for TV Globo. Although he has directed numerous plays, many of them award-winning, he debuted his film directing career with "Cafundó" (2005) a feature-film starring Lázaro Ramos. It received 19 national and international awards, and was launched nationally in Brazilian theaters in 2006 to critical acclaim. In 1992, he founded "Casa da Gávea", a living arts center based in Rio de Janeiro, where he promotes the study and dissemination of various forms of art and culture.- Beatriz Segall was born on 25 July 1926 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She was an actress, known for Vale Tudo (1988), Desmundo (2002) and The Clone (2001). She was married to Mauricio Segall. She died on 5 September 2018 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Paulo José was born on 20 March 1937 in Lavras do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. He was an actor and director, known for The Clown (2011), The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell (2010) and Todas as Mulheres do Mundo (1966). He was married to Zezé Polessa, Carla Camurati, Beth Caruso, Dina Sfat and Kika Lopes. He died on 11 August 2021 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.- Dina Sfat was born on 28 October 1938 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. She was an actress, known for The Brazilwood Man (1982), Selva de Pedra (1972) and Eros, the God of Love (1981). She was married to Paulo José. She died on 20 March 1989 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Claudio Marzo was born on 26 September 1940 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. He was an actor and producer, known for Planet of the Pantanal (1990), O Homem Nu (1997) and Memórias do Medo (1981). He was married to Neia Marzo, Betty Faria, Denise Dumont, Xuxa Lopes and Thaís de Andrade. He died on 22 March 2015 in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.- Actress
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Joana Fomm was born on 14 September 1939 in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. She is an actress and writer, known for Tieta (1989), A Vida Provisória (1968) and Césio 137 - O Pesadelo de Goiânia (1990).- Nuno Leal Maia was born on 17 October 1947 in Santos, São Paulo, Brazil. He is an actor, known for Top Model (1989), Louco Por Cinema (1995) and Vereda Tropical (1984).
- Nair Bello was born on 28 April 1931 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. She was an actress, known for Zorra Total (1999), Kubanacan (2003) and Torre de Babel (1998). She was married to Irineu Souza Francisco. She died on 17 April 2007 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
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Francisco Milani (November 19, 1936 - August 13, 2005) was a Brazilian actor, voice actor, comedian, television director and politician. With a vast career in cinema, theater and TV, he excelled in comedy, directing and acting in classic comedy shows, such as Viva o Gordo and Chico Anysio Show. He was consecrated for playing bad-tempered types, the most memorable being the character "Saraiva", from the humorous Zorra Total.- Natália do Vale was born on 6 March 1951 in Floriano, Piauí, Brazil. She is an actress, known for Pages of Life (2006), Dark Days (2017) and The Next Victim (1995). She was previously married to Vasco Dias and Paulo Ubiratan.
- Rogério Cardoso was born on 7 March 1937 in Mococa, São Paulo, Brazil. He was an actor, known for Hilda Hurricane (1998), A Dog's Will (2000) and Zorra Total (1999). He died on 23 July 2003 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Elizabeth Savalla was born on 23 November 1954 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. She is an actress, known for Trail of Lies (2013), Gabriela (1975) and A Padroeira (2001). She was previously married to Marcelo Picchi.
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Marcos Paulo was born on 1 March 1951 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. He was an actor and director, known for A Indomada (1997), Port of Miracles (2001) and Federal Bank Heist (2011). He was married to Antônia Fontenelle, Flávia Alessandra, Renata Sorrah, Márcia Mendes and Belisa Ribeiro. He died on 11 November 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.- Actress
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Zezé Motta was born on 27 June 1944 in Campos dos Goitacases, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is an actress, known for Xica (1976), Dr. Gama (2021) and Tudo Bem (1978).- Antonio Calloni was born on 6 December 1961 in São Paulo, Brazil. He is an actor, known for Angels of the Sun (2006), The Clone (2001) and Jogo de Xadrez (2014). He is married to Ilse Rodrigues. They have one child.
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Débora Bloch was born on 29 May 1963 in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. She is an actress and director, known for Noites do Sertão (1984), Swingin' Betty (1984) and Sol de Verão (1982). She was previously married to Olivier Anquier and Edgar Moura.- Actor
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Luis Gustavo was born on 2 February 1934 in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for Romeo & Juliet ...Get Married (2005), Elas por Elas (1982) and Beto Rockfeller (1968). He was married to Desirée Vignolli and Mila Moreira. He died on 19 September 2021 in Itatiba, São Paulo, Brazil.- Actress
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Vera Holtz was born on 7 August 1953 in Tatuí, São Paulo, Brazil. She is an actress and producer, known for Tropical Paradise (2007), Brazil Avenue (2012) and Tia Virgínia (2023).- Actor
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José Pereira de Abreu Júnior is a Brazilian actor.Born in the city of Santa Rita do Passa Quatro, in the state of São Paulo, at the age of fourteen he moved to the state's capital, São Paulo city, working as a lab assistant and office-boy for a law firm.
In 1967, while studying law at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, he began his theatrical career at the Teatro da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, with the play Morte e Vida Severina by João Cabral de Melo Neto and Chico Buarque.
A year later, he was starring in movies, but his career came to a quick halt because of his political activism. Abreu was arrested during a meeting of the União Nacional dos Estudantes, belonged to the Ação Popular and gave logistical support to the Vanguarda Armada Revolucionária Palmares, a leftist group that fought against the military regime. He also joined the hippie movement during that time, in contrast with his militaristic actions.
Forced into exile in Europe in 1968, he returned in 1974 to live in Pelotas, state of Rio Grande do Sul, his wife's homeland. They both taught at the federal university in that city, but soon moved to Porto Alegre, where he produced musicals and starred in children's plays. With his wife, he produced the first staging of the musical Os Saltimbancos in that state.
Then, after the success of the movie A Intrusa (The Intruder) (1979), filmed in Uruguaiana, Rio Grande do Sul, he started work as an actor in TV Globo's soap-operas.
In 2006 he partnered with director Luiz Arthur Nunes to create Fala, Zé!, a theatrical monologue in which he critically reflects on his generation, crossing biography and fiction.
In 2011 he played Milton in the soap-opera Insensato Coração; in 2012, the character Nilo in Avenida Brasil; in 2013, the character Ernest in Joia Rara; and in 2015 the villain Gibson Stewart in A Regra do Jogo.- Actress
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Few Brazilian artists leave such a rich, fun and coherent path, in the television, opening space for so many characters, places and mores, like Regina Casé. Winner of the Moliére Award as best theater actress at the age of 23, Regina carries a history of success throughout Brazil, in the theater, cinema and TV, opting to visit every corner of the country with the intention of enriching its culture and people.
In the movies in 2015, Regina stars in the prizewinning movie by Anna Muylaerts, "The Second Mother" ("Que Horas Ela Volta?"). Inspired by the traditional relationship between employees and employers, the movie is a Brazilian production that was exhibited last year in the Carte Blanche session of the Locarno International Film Festival, in Switzerland. This year, it won as Best Fiction Film in Panorama Audience Award, a category of Berlin International Film Festival. The lead actresses Regina and Camila Márdila also conquered the award of Best Actress in the Sundance Film Festival, in the United States, and Regina Casé was equally renowned with the prize for female interpretation in the Valenciennes Film Festival, in France. Acting as Val, a woman from Pernambuco State, she shows in the Brazilian drama the reality of the northeastern home keepers that try to make a living in São Paulo.
Besides the cinema, Regina dedicates part of her time to "Esquenta!", a Sunday TV program displayed by Rede Globo, the biggest TV broadcaster in Brazilian television. The attraction celebrates the differences and looks for similarities between distinct social groups. The space is used to portray the cultures of several Brazilian regions, in addition to enabling the relationship between different social classes and knowing the opinion of these people about various subjects. The confirmation of the program in the broadcaster's grid was an important conquest for the presenter's career.
It's also worth to highlight her performance as presenter of the Globo channel programs "Brasil legal", "Muvuca", "Central da periferia" and Futura channel program "Um pé de que?". As an actress, she was highly recognized by the character Tina Pepper, of the soap opera "Cambalacho", and by her roles in movies like "Chuvas de verão", by Cacá Diegues; "Made in China", by Estevão Ciavatta, and "Eu, tu, eles" (2000), by Andrucha Waddington - in this last one, Regina was Darlene, a northeastern character who touched thousands of spectators in a performance praised by "The New York Times": the American newspaper compared Regina to the Italian actress Anna Magnani. The movie was acclaimed in the show "Um Certo Olhar", in Cannes Film Festival, and conquered the Cristal Globe of best film in the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, of the Czech Republic. The same festival awarded Regina as best actress.- Elias Gleizer was born on 4 January 1934 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. He was an actor, known for Pé na Jaca (2006), Caminho das Índias (2009) and José do Egito (1959). He died on 16 May 2015 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Neusa Borges was born on 8 March 1941 in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil. She is an actress, known for The Clone (2001), A Indomada (1997) and De Corpo e Alma (1992).- Actor
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Stênio Garcia was born on 28 April 1933 in Mimoso do Sul, Espírito Santo, Brazil. He is an actor and assistant director, known for The Clone (2001), Me You Them (2000) and O Dono do Mundo (1991). He has been married to Marilene Saade since 9 May 2009. He was previously married to Cleyde Yáconis and Clarice Piovesan.- Actress
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Louise Cardoso was born on 17 April 1954 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is an actress, known for Leila Diniz (1987), Baixo Gávea (1986) and Sonhos de Menina Moça (1988).- Actor
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Cecil Thiré was born on 28 May 1943 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was an actor and director, known for O Ibraim do Subúrbio (1976), Ainda Agarro Esta Vizinha... (1974) and Araponga (1990). He was married to Nancy Galvão, Carolina Cavalcanti and Norma Pesce Thiré. He died on 9 October 2020 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.- Actress
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Eliane Giardini was born on 20 October 1953 in Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil. She is an actress and director, known for Brazil Avenue (2012), The Clone (2001) and America (2005). She was previously married to Paulo Betti.- Actor
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Tony Tornado was born on 26 May 1930 in Mirante do Paranapanema, São Paulo, Brazil. He is an actor and composer, known for Pixote (1980), Carandiru (2003) and Ouro Sangrento (1977).- Actress
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Fernanda Torres was born on 15 September 1965 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is an actress and writer, known for Terra Estrangeira (1995), Gêmeas (1999) and Normal People (2001). She has been married to Andrucha Waddington since 1997. They have two children. She was previously married to Gerald Thomas.- José Mayer was born on 3 October 1949 in Jaraguaçu, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He is an actor, known for Tieta (1989), Perfume de Gardênia (1992) and Pages of Life (2006). He has been married to Vera Fajardo since 1975. They have one child.
- Eva Todor was born on 9 November 1919 in Budapest, Hungary. She was an actress, known for Locomotivas (1977), The Thorn and the Rose (2000) and Xuxa in Abracadabra (2003). She was married to Paulo Nolding and Luís Iglesias. She died on 10 December 2017 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Armando Bógus was born on 19 April 1930 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. He was an actor and producer, known for O Pintor e a Florista (1964), Pedra Sobre Pedra (1992) and Gabriela (1975). He was married to Irina Greco and Elisabeth Nunes Souza. He died on 2 May 1993 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.- Actress
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Rosi Campos was born on 30 March 1954 in Bragança Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil. She is an actress, known for Shades of Sin (2004), Cara & Coroa (1995) and Crashing Into the Future (2018).- Actor
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Paulo Gracindo was born on 16 July 1911 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was an actor and writer, known for O Bem-Amado (1973), Bandeira 2 (1971) and Gabriela (1975). He was married to Dulce Xavier de Araújo. He died on 4 September 1995 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.- Actress
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Patricia Pillar was born on 11 January 1964 in Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil. She is an actress and producer, known for The Favorite (2008), The King of the Cattle (1996) and Zuzu Angel (2006). She was previously married to Ciro Gomes and Zé Renato.- Actor
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Carlos Zara was born on 14 February 1930 in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. He was an actor and director, known for Secrets of Sand (1973), O Tempo e o Vento (1967) and Dez Vidas (1969). He was married to Eva Wilma. He died on 11 December 2002 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.- Maria Antonietta Farias Portocarrero was born in Rio de Janeiro on August 23, 1922. Her father, Hermenegildo Portocarrero (1894-1959), was a military man and maths teacher with a lifelong interest in show business. A close friend of the great Brazilian actor Procópio Ferreira, he was acquainted with actors, singers and musicians, and for a time was the director of Radio Nacional, the chief radio station in Rio, then capital of Brazil. Tônia had two older brothers, both military men and teachers. At a very early age, she took an interest in dancing and in sports, eventually graduating as a physical education teacher.
In 1940 she married the artist Carlos Thiré, who was already creating the comic books for which he is now recognized as a major name of the early years of comics in Brazil. The young couple's only child, the actor, director and drama teacher Cecil Thiré was born on May 28, 1943. In early 1947, she was invited to appear as one of the schoolgirls in Querida Susana (1947) (aka "Querida Suzana") (literally, "Darling Suzana"), directed by Alberto Pieralisi and starring Anselmo Duarte, who was soon to become the biggest leading man in Brazilian films. In her film debut, she had nothing to do but smile. At her insistence, however, she was given one line. When the film was completed, they asked her how she should be credited. She had no idea. Maria Antonietta Portocarrero surely didn't sound like an actress' name. She was having singing lessons at the time and told her teacher about it. The woman thought for a moment and said, "From 'Antonietta' we take 'Tônia.' By breaking the surname in two and keeping the second half, we get 'Carrero.' Your name is going to be Tônia Carrero." And so it was. For her family and closest friends, however, she has always been Mariinha, the nickname given to her when she was born.
Shortly after the making of "Querida Suzana", Thiré got a scholarship and went to Paris to study art with the famous French painter André Lothe (1885-1962). Tônia accompanied him and, once there, enrolled in an acting course named "Education par les Jeux Dramatiques", directed by the famous actor-director Jean-Louis Barrault. As she likes to recall, half of her classmates were horrified to have among them someone so cheerful and healthy in direct contrast to the somber atmosphere of those post-war years. The other half loved her precisely for that.
In December of 1947, the Thirés came back to Brazil and Tônia started looking for work. In 1948 she was invited by 'Fernando de Barros' to play the sister of his wife Maria Della Costa in his first film as a director, Caminhos do Sul (1949) (lit. "Paths of the South"). When the film was released, in late 1949, the two actresses were praised for their beauty, presence, and adroit acting. Fernando then cast Tônia as the lead in Quando a Noite Acaba (1950) (lit. "When the Night Is Over"), made in 1949, right after "Caminhos do Sul." The story was set in Rio and the film was released in that city first. To the director's great annoyance, when it was later shown in São Paulo the title was changed to "Perdida pela Paixão" (lit. "Lost by Passion"), which, besides being misleading, has often caused the two titles to appear in the filmographies of cast and crew as two different films.
Whatever the title, the film did well and Tônia's performance was hailed as a great accomplishment for its lack of pretense and its amazing blend of intensity and restraint, audiences being very impressed by her awesome death scene at the end. She got the admiration of critics and audiences alike for being a stunningly beautiful woman who didn't rest on that, one critic (Décio Vieira Ottoni) going as far as calling her performance "the best by any actress ever seen in Brazilian films so far."
December 13, 1949 became a historical date for the Brazilian theater. On that day, at Rio's Teatro Copacabana, Tônia Carrero and a young lawyer named Paulo Autran made their joint stage debut in "Um Deus Dormiu Lá em Casa", a comedy by the Brazilian author Guilherme Figueiredo, based on the Greek myth of Amphitryon. In the years to come, Tônia and Paulo would turn into household names for their work, together and separately, in films, on the stage, and on TV. 1949 marked the beginning of a legendary partnership that lasted until 2004 when they were seen acting together for the last time in the TV mini-series One Heart (2004) (lit. "One Heart"), as an elderly couple dining at the restaurant where the young actors and directors who were starting a new phase of the Brazilian theater in São Paulo gathered every night, in the late 1940s, the inside joke being that two of the young actors they saw at a nearby table and talked about were ... Tônia Carrero and Paulo Autran!
The creation of the Vera Cruz film company in late 1949 attracted a great number of actors and Tônia was no exception. In 1952 she was seen in the studio's most lavish production, Tico-Tico no Fubá (1952), about the life of that song's composer, Zequinha de Abreu, played by Anselmo Duarte. Tônia was Branca, the circus ballerina the composer falls in love with. The film represented Brazil in the Cannes Film Festival and, like the composer whose life it portrayed, audiences all over fell in love with the beautiful woman who rode a horse with so much skill and enchanted the whole town where the circus stayed for a while, until finding out that she too had fallen in love with the composer. The director was Adolfo Celi, an Italian actor who had come to Brazil in 1948 and in time became one of the country's most influential directors and drama teachers. During the making of the film, in 1951, they fell in love and decided to stay together. That was the end of Tônia's marriage to Carlos Thiré and Adolfo Celi's relationship with the first lady of the Brazilian theater, the celebrated actress Cacilda Becker.
Soon after the enormous success of "Tico Tico no Fubá," Tônia was seen in Fernando de Barros' Appassionata (1952), a somewhat turgid melodrama in which she played a pianist who is loved by Anselmo Duarte. The film did well in spite of mixed reviews and among all her films remains the one in which, beautifully photographed by British cinematographer Ray Sturgess, she looks more stunning. Her last film for Vera Cruz was É Proibido Beijar (1954) (lit. "Kissing Forbidden"). A light comedy directed by Ugo Lombardi, in which for the third time in a row she acted with Zbigniew Ziembinski, the father-figure of the modern Brazilian theater, the film looks dated today, its biggest asset being once again Tônia's striking beauty.
As it was being made, in 1953, pre-production began for the studio's most ambitious project, a film version of "Ana Terra", one of the segments of Érico Veríssimo's monumental epic novel "O Tempo e o Vento" ("Time and the Wind"). Tônia was to star and Celi to direct. Alas, the film was not to be. Vera Cruz collapsed, its contract players, directors, and technicians disbanded, and all that remains today are the beautiful photographic studies suggesting that Ana Terra could have been Tônia's most emblematic film role. In retrospect, Tônia's greatest moment at Vera Cruz remains the scene in "Tico Tico no Fubá" in which, as the circus caravan moves away from the small town where she had met the composer, she and Ziembinski are seen at the coachman's seat of the leading wagon, talking about how life makes you leave things behind, and how hard it can be to make choices.
With the end of hers and Celi's Vera Cruz tenure, they decided to settle in Rio, where, along with Paulo Autran, they founded the famous Tônia-Celi-Autran theater company. From 1956 to 1961, Celi directed, Tônia and Paulo starred, and some of the best actors of the day joined the cast in carefully selected plays by Shakespeare, Goldoni, Lillian Hellman, Jean-Paul Sartre, Pirandello, George Axelrod, Françoise Sagan, and Brazilian authors such as Osman Lins. The company's success was immense, to the point of extending a tour of the southern states of Brazil to Buenos Aires, where Argentinian audiences didn't seem to mind seeing "Othello" in Portuguese.
However, the theatergoers' gain was the moviegoers' loss. Her Vera Cruz days behind her, Tônia turned down an offer to make films in Italy (she dreaded the idea of being away from her son) and became essentially a stage actress. In 1955 she was seen on the screen once more, opposite Arturo de Córdova in Mãos Sangrentas (1955) (released in the US as "The Violent and the Damned"), a prison melodrama made the year before at another studio by the Argentinian director Carlos Hugo Christensen, and then went on a film hiatus of six years, during which she kept a hectic schedule of theater and TV work.
In 1960, during the company's exceptionally successful Buenos Aires season, she was invited by the illustrious director and actor Lautaro Murúa to play his wife in his own film Alias Gardelito (1961). She completed her scenes in four days at neck breaking speed so as to be able to come back to Rio where she was being expected to fulfill a theater engagement. She couldn't possibly know then that, following its release in 1961, the film she had no idea she would be making when she arrived to Buenos Aires would become a classic of the Argentinian cinema, the big irony being that, since it was never released in Brazil and this was before the VHS/DVD era, she has never seen it.
For a while it looked as if the early 1960s would be the beginning of a new phase of her work as a film actress. Early in 1961, almost back to back, she made two films, both released in 1962. First, Carnival of Crime (1962), a Brazilian-American-Argentinian co-production directed by George Cahan and starring the internationally famous French actor Jean-Pierre Aumont (released in the US in 1964 as "Carnival of Crime", the film is available on DVD). Then, Esse Rio Que Eu Amo (1962) (lit. "My Beloved Rio"), an episode film directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen, in which she played an unfaithful woman in the modern version of a story by Brazil's greatest writer, Machado de Assis.
In 1962, when "Esse Rio que Eu Amo" was released, her delicate performance and great beauty at 38 so much impressed the European producers of Copacabana Palace (1962), about to start shooting in Rio, that they offered her the juicy part of the elegant wife of a jewel thief who acted in the famous hotel of the title. Released the same year it was made, this Italian-French co-production directed by Steno (also known as Stefano Vanzina), and starring the popular Italian actor Walter Chiari, became something of a cult movie of its kind. In 1979, when Adolfo Celi came to Rio to direct her in the theater for the first time after the break-up of their marriage in 1962, he jokingly told Tônia that he had never really stopped seeing her, for every other time he turned on the TV in his Rome home, there she was in "Copacabana Palace."
In 1963 Celi had gone back to Italy, where he became an amazingly active actor in international films, his best remembered role being Emilio Largo, the villain who defies James Bond in Thunderball (1965). In 1964 Tônia married the engineer César Thedim (1930-2000), who was to have a brief career as a film producer. They separated in 1977, and she didn't marry again. Like Paulo Autran, after the end of Tônia-Celi-Autran, she founded a new theater company and went on producing and acting in plays by world-wide famous authors like Ibsen (her Nora in "A Doll's House", in which she was directed by her son, Cecil Thiré, and for which she won an award, stands as one of her stage performances people remember more fondly), Feydeau, Somerset Maugham, and Tennessee Williams, as well as Brazilian authors such as Domingos de Oliveira.
In 1967, during the military regime ("the years of lead") when censorship made life hell for those whose work had to do with theater, cinema, music, and literature, she read a play named "Navalha na Carne" (lit. "Razor in the Flesh"), by a brilliant young Brazilian author named Plínio Marcos, and decided to do it. It told the story of an aging prostitute living with her pimp in the shabby pension of a poor and dangerous neighborhood where she walked the streets every night. She can hardly get clients anymore, the pimp gets mad at her, they go through a ghastly night during which he beats her, takes all her money, humiliates her, and leaves her to her fate. Alone, she cries like hell, than pulls herself together, sits down and very calmly eats a sandwich as the curtain comes down. The play was banned by the censors and couldn't be performed anywhere in Brazil. But Tônia fought for it so ferociously and with so much intelligence that the authorities ended up thinking it wiser not to go against a woman the whole country adored, and she was granted permission to do it.
At the peak of her beauty and charm, Tônia gained weight, stopped having her hair done, developed a heavy walk and a clumsy way to move around, learned how to speak with a most ungracious croaky voice, and, under the clever direction of Fauzi Arap, came up with a performance that has become part of the history of the Brazilian theater, for which she became the first actress to win the prestigious Molière Award by unanimous vote. People went to the theater and for a moment their minds boggled. It took them a while to realize that the woman on the stage really was Tônia Carrero. Needless to say, there was a standing ovation every night.
However, when two years later the play was filmed by Braz Chediak and she was invited to repeat on screen her most famous stage role, she turned it down. As she explained, she had done the play for more than a year, all over Brazil, and it was a marvelous experience. But now she was through with it and had even done another play (Frank D. Gilroy's "The Subject Was Roses", in which she played her own son's mother). Along with the suicidal woman in Terence Rattigan's "The Deep Blue Sea", the prostitute in Plínio Marcos' play had been one of the two most straining roles she had ever played. While acting in both she felt she was using up her emotional energy. Playing the prostitute had been immensely rewarding, but she didn't want to go through it again. She suggested Glauce Rocha, one of Brazil's most gifted actresses, whom she admired and was personally very fond of. Her suggestion was accepted and "Navalha na Carne" became one of the last film credits in Glauce Rocha's sadly short career.
In late 1968 Tônia gave a fine performance as the lead in Hugo Kusnet's Tempo de Violência (1969) (lit. "Time of Violence"), a vigorous film about the risk in politically deranged times of thinking that if you mind your own business you will stay out of trouble. The film got good reviews and did well with the public. The same year it was released, Tônia appeared as an elegant 19th century French courtesan in Sangue do Meu Sangue (1969) (lit. "My Own Blood"), a TV series, or rather a "novela" (the Portuguese word to define a genre that flourished in Brazil in the 1960s and doesn't quite have an equivalent in English speaking countries, the best way to describe it being, "Imagine a mini-series, with daily episodes like all mini-series, but lasting from six to eight months").
It was the beginning of the great phase of her career as a TV actress. In 1970 she did something very few actresses in the world (if any at all) must have done. At the same time as she appeared every night on the stage as Lady MacBeth with Paulo Autran in the title role, she played the lead in Pigmalião 70 (1970), her first "novela" for TV Globo, Brazil's biggest TV studio. Such was her success in it, that all over Brazil, hairdressers had a hard time trying to make room for all the women who wanted to get a "Dona Cristina cut" (her character's name). After a number of Globo "novelas" she became tired of the hoopla and asked to be released from her contract. She decided to concentrate on her work in the theater, which was always phenomenally successful, and eventually make a film, like Mário Carneiro's Gordos e Magros (1976) (lit. "The Fat Ones and the Thin Ones"), made in early 1976 and released in 1977, in which she played the mother of her lifelong friend Carlos Kroeber. Alas, the film got bad reviews and did poorly with audiences.
She did accept to make other things for TV, like specials, or single episodes of shows like "Aplauso" (not to be confused with the 1978 Spanish series of the same title), in which a different repertory play was adapted for TV every week. But she would only make another "novela" in 1980, when author Gilberto Braga invited her to what would become one of his biggest hits, Água Viva (1980) (lit. "Jelly Fish"). At 57 she looked more beautiful than the young stars around her. As an eccentric millionairess who had a bolder, more outgoing attitude to life than people half her age, she won the hearts of a whole new generation who had heard about her but was seeing her for the first time. As a tribute to her, towards the end Braga wrote a highly dramatic scene in which, following a depressive bout triggered by the mysterious death of a dear friend, she took a whole bottle of sleeping pills and, as she played again and again an old recording of a famous French song, went on a long monologue explaining to the people she had loved and lost why she had decided to join them.
When the scene was aired, even her most unabashed fans were taken aback by how intimately and with how much intensity the actress they loved so much could relate to the camera. For some of them the scene brought back memories of her doing Jean Cocteau's "The Human Voice" live on TV, in the 1950s, directed by Adolfo Celi, with whom, she has always been very proud to say, she learned her craft.
The late 1980s and early 1990s were a sad time for the Brazilian film industry. A time of uncertainty when it became extremely difficult to raise money for any kind of project, to the point when (in 1990-91) production practically stopped. For actors, much as they all relished the idea of making films, it became the sort of thing you jump at if it comes your way, but you never count on. With Tônia it wasn't any different. With no film projects in view, at the peak of her prestige as one of the leading figures of the Brazilian theater, she enjoyed very long runs in Rio and São Paulo, as well as touring other Brazilian cities in plays such as Marguerite Duras' "L'Amante Anglaise" (once again with Paulo Autran), John Murrell's "Memoir" (as Sarah Bernhardt, with her son Cecil), William Luce's "Zelda" (as Zelda Fitzgerald), Edward Albee's "A Delicate Balance," Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard," and "As Atrizes" ("The Actresses") by the Brazilian actor and author Juca de Oliveira.
In 1986 she appeared in "Quartett," a strange play by German author Rainer Muller, in which she played Merteuil, the vicious aristocrat of the famous classic "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," as seen many years after the events of that novel. Alone in her mansion, she talked to the ghost of her former lover Valmont (played by Sérgio Britto), in what turned out to be a tragicomic comment on modern life. Under the brilliant direction of Gerald Thomas, she came up with what was hailed as the top of her achievements as a stage actress, for which, once again she was given a Molière Award, now in the honorary category.
By now the Vera Cruz film company ("The Brazilian Hollywood") had become a legend and she was constantly asked if she didn't miss making films. She certainly did and in 1987 gladly took the chance to start again by making three films in a row. Early in the year, she joined a large number of stars (including Paulo Autran, if not with her in the same scene) who played cameo roles in Fogo e Paixão (1988) (lit "Fire and Passion"), co-directed by Marcio Kogan and Isay Weinfeld. Released in 1988, it turned out to be a fascinating film in which the big joke was to see her as a beggar after the endless series of rich, sophisticated women audiences had grown accustomed to see her play, especially on TV. Next she played the male lead's mother in Ruy Guerra's Fábula de la Bella Palomera (1988) (aka "A Bela Palomera"), a Brazilian-Spanish co-production released in 1988.
As soon as it was finished, she filmed Sonhos de Menina Moça (1988) (aka "Best Wishes"), as the matriarch of a large and rich family. An ambitious project by director Tereza Trautman, when it was generally released in 1988 after a round of international festivals, the film was poorly received and hasn't been seen much, the general line being that there were too many script problems. Late in 1988 Tônia played the grandmother telling the story in O Gato de Botas Extraterrestre (1990) (lit. "The Extraterrestrial Puss in Boots"), released in 1990. Directed by Wilson Rodrigues, this well-done film for children was her last in 16 years.
As active as ever in the theater, in 2002 she celebrated her 80th birthday on the stage, in Rio, as the old lady in Friedrich Dürrenmatt's famous play, "The Visit." During the curtain call of the first performance for the general public, after a long standing ovation, having read in the press that it was her very special birthday, the whole audience broke into a warm "Happy Birthday." Being in the cast, the author of this biography was on the stage with the others, and like them has not forgotten the expression of gratitude in the faces of the people who paid her such a spontaneous tribute. She had become what they would like to be at her age. She was a star all right, a very big one, but she was their own, tangible star, and they loved her for that.
In 2004, along with several other people who had known or worked with him, she filmed a series of interviews for Vinicius (2005), a documentary by Miguel Faria Jr. about one of her dearest friends, the poet and composer Vinicius de Moraes. Released in 2005, it turned out to be a wonderful film, getting rave reviews and setting a new box office record for a documentary. While it was still making the rounds, in 2006, Tônia worked for the first time with the young and enormously talented director Laís Bodanzky, who cast her as the old lady who comes with her lifelong companion (wonderfully played by the great Leonardo Villar) to the ballroom of the title in Chega de Saudade (2007).
Among a great number of characters (beautifully played by an impeccable cast), the events of one single evening concentrate on three couples: one very young, one middle-aged, and one elderly. When the film was generally released in 2008 (after a preview in 2007 at the Brasília Film Festival) it became a huge success. Lots of people told they had come back to see it again shortly after the first time, their favorite moment being the scene towards the end, in which, out of jealousy, the cranky old man played by Leo Villar decides to leave without saying goodbye. From the top of the stairs, Tônia stops him calling it a shame to leave like that, not simply because of the bad manners, but especially because of the defeat attitude in life.
He asks her what she expects from him. Her stern face dissolving into a beautiful smile, she says, "Dance with me!" He goes back and they dance. In a long arc shot, as the camera shows the entire cast watching them, it becomes possible to see how moved they all are to witness this absolutely magical moment. Then the camera cuts to Tônia and Leo Villar, as she kisses him saying, "I love you- I love you-"
When the film was released, perhaps because of having done it so many times while watching these two live on the stage, at the peak of their big scene audiences often burst into a very loud applause. At 84, Tônia Carrero, the film actress, had made the best film of her entire career. Just before it was released, in 2007, she made her last stage appearance to date in a play by the Russian author Alexei Arbuzov known in America as "Do You Do Somersaults?" and in England as "Old World." With her on the stage was the much loved actor Mauro Mendonça. The director was none other than her own grandson Carlos Thiré (aka Carlos Artur Thiré), whose sister, 'Luisa Thiré', and younger brother, Miguel Thiré, are also actors. While Tônia's youngest grandson, João Thiré, is pursuing a career in music, her great-grandson Vitor Thiré (Luisa's son) has already made his acting debut in the TV series "Filhos do Carnaval."
Also in 2007, a year tainted by sadness with the death of Paulo Autran, a theater was named after her in Rio, not long after she had been decorated by the Brazilian government (she had already been decorated by the French government, who made her a "Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" for making some of the best French playwrights well-known in Brazil). Then, in 2008, during the ceremony of the prestigious Shell Theater Award she was given a Life Achievement Award, presented to her by her good friend, the cartoonist Chico Caruso, and received a thunderous standing ovation that didn't seem to finish, from an audience of actors, directors, playwrights, producers, designers, journalists and friends who had loved her for longer than they could remember.
But the biggest tribute came every night from the audience that had come to see her on the stage in "Um Barco para o Sonho" (the Arbuzov play). At the end of scene four, she told the doctor played by Mauro Mendonça that, being a circus artist, she had once made a film in Moscow. He wanted to know more about it and she described the one scene she had in the film as being a routine with a horse. Impressed by the passionate way she talked about it, to her big surprise, he invited her out to dinner. The lights went out, circus music started playing, and there she was, at 28, more beautiful than ever, riding her horse around the arena, in a clip from "Tico Tico no Fubá." Those who had seen the film were always very moved. Those who hadn't marveled at her beauty and, like with all movie stars, the way the camera seemed to be caressing her. Invariably, they all burst into applause to the woman who had given so much of herself for both theater and films to be something Brazilians can be so immensely proud of. - Pedro Paulo Rangel was born on 29 June 1948 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was an actor, known for Cego e Amigo Gedeão à Beira da Estrada (2002), O Coronel e o Lobisomem (2005) and The Aspones (2004). He died on 21 December 2022 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Cristina Pereira was born on 9 August 1949 in São Paulo, SP, Brazil. She is an actress, known for The Big Catch (2017), Invisible Life (2019) and Guerra dos Sexos (1983). She was previously married to Rafael Ponzi.
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Flávio Galvão was born on 30 July 1947 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. He is an actor and director, known for Lusitana Paixão (2003), Corpo a Corpo (1984) and Um Dia, O Amor (1975). He was previously married to Elaine Cristina.- Lília Cabral was born on 13 July 1957 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. She is an actress, known for Pages of Life (2006), In Therapy (2009) and Empire (2014). She has been married to Iwan Figueiredo since 1994. They have one child. She was previously married to João Henrique Jardim.
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John's parents were Hans Buckup (b. 1902) and Kitty. He has a brother: Achim (b. 1931) and a sister: Ursula (b. 1934). He's descendant from Germany and English. He studied Law. He has a daughter and a son with actress Eva Wilma: Vivien (b. 1956) and John Herbert Junior (b. 1958). Vivien is a cinema director and has two sons: Miguel and Mateus. John Junior is a musician and has three children: Gabriela, Francisco and Vitorio. John Herbert is married to Claudia Librach (1978-present). They have two boys: Ricardo (b. 1979) and Eduardo (b. 1983).- Walderez de Barros was born on 31 October 1940 in Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil. She is an actress, known for The King of the Cattle (1996), Simplesmente Maria (1970) and Pages of Life (2006). She was previously married to Plínio Marcos.
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Nelson Xavier was born on 30 August 1941 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. He was an actor and writer, known for Chico Xavier (2010), A Queda (1978) and Farewell (2014). He was married to Vya Negromonte, Heloisa Villela and Joana Fomm. He died on 10 May 2017 in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil.- Actress
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Lucélia Santos was born on 20 May 1957 in Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil. She is an actress and producer, known for Engraçadinha (1981), Carmem (1987) and Luz del Fuego (1982).- Actor
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A descendant of Italian immigrants, Nanini is the son of a hotel manager, and moved four times from his native town during his childhood. At the age of ten, he finally settled in Rio de Janeiro.
In the early 1960s, he worked at a bank and a hotel before starting his theatrical career, acting professionally for the first time in 'A Floresta Encantada', a children's play in 1965. In television, he started as a background actor at Rede Globo in 1969. From the 1970s on, he appeared on films and telenovelas, produced by major networks such as Bandeirantes, Tupi and mostly Globo, establishing a successful career in television.
In 1986, he debuted, opposite Ney Latorraca, in the staging of Marília Pêra's production of 'The Mystery of Irma Vep', a great box office success and longest-running play ever produced in Brazil (11 years). This hit play, written by Charles Ludlam, was created for two actors who, between them, play eight characters of both sexes and go through some 35 costume changes during the two-hour show.
In 2001, he starred in Big Family (2001), a remake of the 1973 series. This version was such a success that it ran until 2014, and got a spin-off, A Grande Família: O Filme (2007). in May 2017, he celebrated 50 years of his career, in the play 'Ubu Rei'.
He has lived in domestic partnership with producer Fernando Libonati since 1988.- Actress
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Norma Bengell was born on 21 February 1935 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She was an actress and director, known for Planet of the Vampires (1965), Eternamente Pagú (1987) and The Murdered House (1971). She was married to Gabriele Tinti. She died on 9 October 2013 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.- Actor
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Latorraca, the son of a crooner and a chorus line dancer who both performed in casinos, and godson of the famous actor Grande Otelo, grew up in an artistic environment. Unfortunately, two years after his birth, a presidential decree closed the casinos, and his family lost their main means of survival.
He began his acting career early, at the age of six, making a cameo in a radio soap opera. He then acted in the student theater and had his first professional opportunity in 1964, around the age of twenty, when he was cast in the play 'Reportagem de Um Tempo Mau' by Plínio Marcos. The play however, had only one performance at the Arena Theater, being banned by the Federal Censorship.
After acting in three plays staged by a university group, he decided to attend the School of Dramatic Art in São Paulo, where, for the next three years, he took classes in theater history, body expression, diction and interpretation with notable instructors such as directors Zbigniew Ziembinski and Antunes Filho, among others. During this period, he found parallel jobs to keep up, working at a bank and a women's clothing store. He has also appeared in several plays. His graduation's godmother was actress Marília Pêra.
In the late 60s he started on television in bit-roles, and in the early 1970s, he acted in several prominent theatrical productions. In 1974, he was hired by Rede Globo, Brazil's largest TV production network, as a contract player, performing his first significant role in the telenovela Escalada (1975). His TV career flourished in dramatic and comedic roles for the next 40 years.
In 1986, he began his participation, opposite Marco Nanini, in the staging of Marília Pêra's production of 'The Mystery of Irma Vep', a great box office success and longest-running play ever produced in Brazil. This hit play, written by Charles Ludlam, was for two actors who, between them, play eight characters of both sexes and go through some 35 costume changes that take place during the two-hour show.
In September 2017, shortly before the musical 'Vamp' 's season premiere in São Paulo, he announced that he would retire after that show and would no longer act in television, theater, or cinema. Nonetheless, he still made two more notable TV appearances after that, reprising famous comedic characters 'Barbosa' (TV Pirata (1988)) and 'Count Vlad' (Vamp (1991)).- Actress
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Carla Camurati was born on 14 October 1960 and worked as a biology teacher before she became an actress. Her first film was "O Olho Mágico do Amor" (1981). For this work she got a prize of Best Supporting Actress. She then begun a successful career on television working in soap operas like "Sol de Verão" (1982), "Livre para Voar" (1984) and "Fera Radical" (1988). In 1983 she took photos for Playboy. In 1985 she got a Gramado Prize for her role in "A Estrela Nua". In 1987 she won the Kikito prize for her role in "Eternamente Pagu". In this year she also directed her first film, but her first success as a director was "Carlota Joaquina" (1995). In 2001 Carla directed "Copapcabana", starred by Marco Nanini. According to a recent interview, Carla and Nanini had long conversation and so Carla got interested in "Irma Vap - O retorno", a play Nanini stars with long time friend Ney Latorraca. Carla then decided to adapt the play for the cinema.- Jardel Filho was born on 24 July 1927 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was an actor, known for Assim na Terra Como no Céu (1970), Macunaima (1969) and Coração Alado (1980). He was married to Beth, Myriam Pérsia, Glauce Rocha and Márcia de Windsor. He died on 19 February 1983 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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She was married twice. Her first husband, César Fernandes, is an engineer. Her second husband was the late director Roberto Talma. She has two sons: Rodrigo Bethlem (politician) and Raphael Vieira (filmmaker). Her sons have ten years of difference. Her mother's name is Nilda Bethlem and her father's name was Humberto Bastos (died in 1977). She has a granddaughter named Vitória.- Actor
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Jackson Antunes was born on 28 August 1953 in Janaúba, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He is an actor, known for Renascer (1993), The Dead Girl's Feast (2008) and Theo, além da liberdade (2017). He has been married to Cristiana Britto since 1993. They have one child.- Silvia Bandeira was born on 15 February 1950 in Genève, Switzerland. She is an actress, known for Bar Esperanza (1983), Roda de Fogo (1986) and Rainha da Sucata (1990).
- Cláudio Cavalcanti was born on 24 December 1940 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was an actor and director, known for Astro: An Urban Fable in a Magical Rio de Janeiro (2012), Despedida de Solteiro (1992) and Irmãos Coragem (1970). He was married to Maria Lúcia Frota. He died on 29 September 2013 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Isabela Garcia was born on 11 June 1967 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is an actress, known for Tropical Paradise (2007), Celebrity (2003) and Corpo a Corpo (1984). She was previously married to Carlos Thiré.