Antônio Fagundes
Birthday: Born in 1949-04-18 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Deathday: Alive
Antônio da Silva Fagundes Filho (Rio de Janeiro, April 18, 1949), better known as Antônio Fagundes, is a Brazilian actor, director, producer, screenwriter and voice actor. Considered one of the most recognized and prolific actors in Brazil, Fagundes gained notoriety for his performances on screen and stage. Fagundes has received numerous awards throughout his career spanning more than five decades, including four APCA Awards, two Molière Awards, two Quality Brazil Awards, and two Press Trophies, in addition to receiving nominations for two Grande Otelo Awards and four Guarani Awards.
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Rainha da Sucata
Character: Caio Szymanski
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Gabriela
Character: Coronel Ramiro Bastos
Naïve and provocative Gabriela is a raggedy migrant worker who arrives in town to mesmerize all with her playful and simple, yet raw sensuality. Set in 1925, the story unravels in Ilhéus, a quiet northeastern coastal city thriving with cocoa crops and aspirations for progress, even though the traditional ways still rule. ...
Alta Definição
Character: Self
In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach....
Amor à Vida
Character: César Khoury
Paloma is a willful woman whose newborn baby is kidnapped by her own brother, Félix, who plans to become sole heir to the family’s fortune. Bruno is an honest man who, during the same night, loses his wife and son in childbirth and miraculously finds Paloma’s child in a dumpster. Destiny will unite their lives in a plot of secrets, revelations, and disputes, with the unpredictable consequences of lives based on a dangerous and surprising network of lies....
Louco Amor
Character: Jorge Augusto
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Mundo da Lua
Character: Rogério Silva
The show features Lucas Silva e Silva, a boy who earns a recorder from his paternal grandfather, Orlando, at the age of 10. Amid the typical problems of moving from childhood to adolescence, Lucas creates stories on the tape recorder from how he would like things to be. He lives at his grandfather's house with his parents, Rogerio, a teacher who works out for three jobs and Carolina, who works in a boutique; the older sister, Juliana; and maid Rosa, who dates Marcelo and talks to broadcaster Ney...
Tá no Ar: A TV na TV
Character: Menudo
A sketch show satirizing Brazilian television programs....
Se Eu Fechar os Olhos Agora
Character: Ubiratan
In a quiet town, two boys find a woman's mutilated body. After becoming suspects at first and realizing there is a mystery behind that murder, they decide to investigate the case with the help of an enigmatic old man. When a vertiginous spiral of violence is triggered, conspiracy begins to emerge and the boys must discover the truth as soon as possible in order not to become the next victims....
Dois Irmãos
Character: Halim
Between the 1920s and 1980s, the plot narrates the trajectory of a Lebanese family focusing on the conflicted relationship of the twin brothers Omar and Yaqub....
O Rei do Gado
Character: Bruno Berdinazzi Mezenga
In the struggle for land a vicious feud erupts between two men, who commit their families to a war without truce. Over two generations they are moved by love and by hatred in this epic saga of love for the land....
A Viagem
Character: Otávio Jordão
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Dois em Cena: Encontro de Gerações
Character:
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Alemão: Os Dois Lados do Complexo
Character: Delegado Valadares
2010: Just as the Brazilian government launch a military-assisted siege on one of Rio de Janeiro’s most notorious and criminally-controlled favelas, the identities of four undercover policemen operating in the slum are accidentally leaked. As violence mounts, the favela’s ruthless boss, orders his men to hunt them down....
Renascer
Character: José Inocêncio (Zé Inocêncio)
Jose Inocencio had innocence only as part of his name, but only those who new him well could notice this. But nobody knew him. He was a storyteller, and he was always the main character in the stories he told. He managed not only to create stories about himself, he managed to create a legend. The story of this powerful cacao farmer; Maria Santa, the beloved wife who died; and their four children is the main theme of 'Renascer'....
Corpo a Corpo
Character: Osmar Pellegrini
Eloá and Osmar's marriage is thrown into crisis when a mysterious man crosses their path. With a thirst for prestige and power, Eloá will face the consequences of her ambition....
Orgulho Além da Tela
Character: Self
From archive images and testimonials of Globo's talents and the public, the documentary traces the chronology of the representation of LGBTQIA+ characters in Brazilian soap operas....
Que História é Essa, Porchat?
Character: Self
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Por Amor
Character: Atílio Novelli
Helena is an independendent woman with strong emotions. More than a dedicated mother, she is also a friend to her daughter. Her daughter is experiencing difficulties in her marriage with Marcelo because of his renewed interest in a formoe girlfriend. Marcelo‘s mother deslikes Helena and would like nothing better to see her son‘s marriage destroyed. Helena starts her life over again when she falls in love at first sight with Atilio, whom she marries. Although of poor health, her daughter wants to...
Vale Tudo
Character: Ivan Meireles
Fátima Accioly is a young, callous woman who wants to be rich and successful at any price. After selling her family's house in the country, she heads to Rio and gets to know dress man César who is unscrupulous himself. Meanwhile, her mother Raquel stays behind without home and money, but finally tries to find her daughter in the big city. Both women come in contact with the rich Roitman family which changes their lives forever....
Carga Pesada
Character: Pedro
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Porto dos Milagres
Character: Félix Guerrero / Bartolomeu Guerrero
Porto dos Milagres is a Brazilian telenovela that was produced and aired by TV Globo from 5 February to 29 September 2001, totaling 203 chapters. It was written by Aguinaldo Silva and Ricardo Linhares and loosely based on two works written by Jorge Amado - The Dead Sea and the discovery of America by the Turks. Had Philip collaboration Miguez, Maria Elisa Berredo, Nadotti Nelson and Gloria Baker, directed by Fabricio Mamberti and Luciano Sabino. Director general Mark and Robert Paul Naar, co-dir...
As Cariocas
Character: Cacá
"The Cariocas", a series in ten stand-alone episodes, tells the story of ten modern-day women against the beautiful backdrop of Rio de Janeiro and its stunning urban landscapes. Our protagonists are uninhibited, adulterous, vindictive, suicidal, envious, brides, betrayed, deluded. Women with distinct beauty and quaint peculiarities, each one has a particular way of life....
Terra Nostra
Character: Gumercindo Telles de Aranha
This top-seller recounts the saga of Italians who immigrated to Brazil during the XIX century, seeking their fortunes in America. The forbidden love between Giulliana and Matteo flowers in the midst of the sweeping changes ushered in by the arrival of these Europeans in Brazilian towns. This great epic has thrilled viewers in more than eighty countries....
Você Decide
Character: Himself
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Meu Pedacinho de Chão
Character: Giácomo Brunneto
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Velho Chico
Character: Afrânio de Sá Ribeiro (Coronel Saruê)
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Tempos Modernos
Character: Leal Cordeiro
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Programa do Jô
Character:
Programa do Jô is a Brazilian late-night talk show broadcast by Rede Globo since April 3, 2000. It is shown after the late-night news bulletin, Jornal da Globo. The program is hosted by Brazilian comedian, author and musician Jô Soares, and follows the format of American talk shows such as Late Show with David Letterman. It began its life as Jô Soares Onze e Meia in 1988 on SBT. Following Jô Soares' return to Globo in 2000, the show was renamed as Programa do Jô, retaining the same format and l...
Duas Caras
Character: Juvenal Ferreira dos Santos (Juvenal Antena)
In the past, as Adalberto Rangel, he met and seduced Maria Paula. With a calculated coldheart, he married her, stole her fortune, then abandoned her, unaware she was pregnant at the time. Ten years later, accompanied by her son Renato, Maria Paula plots to recover her dignity and to find justice by getting revenge against the indignities done to her....
Insensato Coração
Character: Raul Brandã
Insensato Coração is a Brazilian telenovela that first aired on Rede Globo in 2011....
O Dono do Mundo
Character: Felipe Barreto
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Champagne
Character: João Maria de Andrade Galvão
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Labirinto
Character: Ricardo Velasco
Accused of murdering a millionaire, a man manages to escape. Finding help along the way, he starts a struggle to prove his innocence....
Bom Sucesso
Character: Alberto Prado Monteiro
A dreamy seamstress and mother of three's life is turned upside down when she's wrongly diagnosed with a terminal disease along with an actually terminally ill wealthy book publisher....
IndependênciaS
Character: Dom João VI
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O Rei do Gado
Character: Antonio Mezenga
In the struggle for land a vicious feud erupts between two men, who commit their families to a war without truce. Over two generations they are moved by love and by hatred in this epic saga of love for the land....
Mad Maria
Character: Ministro Juvenal de Castro
It tells the story of two contrasting realities in the early 20th century: The construction of a railway in the Amazon rainforest and the glamorous life of Rio de Janeiro, where politicians and big businessmen lived. Consuelo is a young pianist heading toward the Amazon with her husband, Alonso. On the way, the two have an accident, and Alonso ends up losing his life. Alone and helpless, Consuelo gets lost in the middle of the forest, being weak and very sick. However, she ends up being supporte...
Amizade Colorida
Character: Edu
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Avenida Paulista
Character: Alex Torres Xavier
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Dancin' Days
Character: Carlos Eduardo Cardoso (Cacá)
A down-on-her-luck former inmate tries to reconnect with her daughter--to the objections of her sister who raised the girl, meets a millionaire, and transforms into a strong woman, returning to society at Dancin' Days nightclub's opening....
Sandy & Junior: A História
Character: Self
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Engraçadinha... Seus Amores e Seus Pecados
Character: Dr. Bergamini
18 years old Engraçadinha starts a secret love affair with her cousin Sílvio, who's engaged to her best friend Letícia, who is secretly in love with Cutie Pie. Twenty years later, Cutie Pie is a deeply religious married woman who's afraid her teenage daughters might end up making the same mistakes she did in the past....
Angélica: 50 & Uns
Character:
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Saramandaia
Character: Lua Viana
Saramandaia is a Brazilian telenovela originally written by Dias Gomes in 1976. It's considered remarkable because of the Magic Realism (used by the author to subtly criticize the Military Regime of the time) and had 160 chapters. The story centers on the name change that the city undergoes, promoted by the younger citizens and reviled by the older ones. It also focuses on the lives of the city's quirky residents....
Lady Night
Character: Self
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Happy Hour com Mariana Ximenes
Character: Self
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Movie Credits
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
Character: Self
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."...
God Is Brazilian
Character: Deus
God decides to take a vacation, but first He has to find a saint who can rule the universe while He's away. So He goes to the Northeast of Brazil, where He believes there's a very good man for the job. As soon as He comes down to Earth, a young man comes along to help on His quest....
70 Anos Esta Noite
Character:
With the participation of great stars of television drama, the documentary promotes an emotional journey through the great moments of soap operas, celebrating its seven decades on Brazilian TV....
Owner of the Story
Character: Luiz Cláudio
A 50 year-old woman who analyses her past. She pictures herself when she was 20 years old and she re-creates the story of her life through a game of innumerous possibilities. What if she wouldn't have gone to that ball? What if... instead of meeting the man of her life, with whom she married and had kids, she would have called a girlfriend and they went to the theater? What would be her destiny? What would have happened? In the plot the present talks to the past. A young woman projects her futur...
Bossa Nova
Character: Pedro Paulo
After a chance encounter on the elevator, the lives of Mary Ann, a widowed English teacher, and Pedro, a recently divorced man, intersect against the hot backdrop of Rio de Janeiro....
The Lady from the Shanghai Cinema
Character: Lucas
After meeting a beguiling woman in a movie theater, a realtor becomes embroiled in a mysterious plot involving murder, double identities and movies....
Achados e Perdidos
Character: Vieira
A retired cop becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a prostitute....
A Mulher do Meu Amigo
Character: Augusto
Thales, a successful businessman, is in crisis with his profession. He is married to the rich and spoiled Renata, and works with her father, the powerful businessman Augusto. One day, while on vacations at the home of his friends Rui and Pamela, Thales decides that will stop working. This unusual decision affects the lives of everyone around him....
A Noite dos Duros
Character: Fernão
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Fernanda e Nathalia - Amigas de uma Vida
Character: Self (archival footage)
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Go Ahead, Brazil!
Character: Miguel Godói
Mid-1970s. When the military regime's "economic miracle" and the victory of the Brazilian football team on the World Cup serve as a distraction for the persecution of opposition leaders by the political police of the dictatorship. Under this context, Jofre Godoi da Fonseca, an alienated middle-class man, is mistaken for Sarmento, a political activist he met at an airport prior to his assassination. He is then arrested for being "subversive"....
Barbosa
Character: O Viajante
Thirty-eight years after the 1950 World Cup, a man went back in time to prevent the goal that defeated Brazil, destroyed his childhood dreams and ended goalkeeper Barbosa's career....
Paixão Perdida
Character: Marcelo Rondi
A paralized twelve year boy watches his womanizer dad seduce his baby sitter....
The Seven Kittens
Character: Bibelô
Noronha is a low middle-class civil servant who lives with his frustrated wife Gorda and their three elder daughters. The youngest one, virginal Silene, is unexpectedly sent back home. Noronha discovers she has been expelled from boarding school for having killed a female cat and her seven newborns in a hysterical fit. Many dark family secrets will emerge from that episode leading to tragic events....
Tchau, Amor
Character: Paulo
An unemployed radio worker obsessed with suicide meets a rich brat....
God Is Still Brazilian
Character: Deus
God needs to return to Earth when celestial beings rebel against humanity and decide to launch another meteor to exterminate life on the planet....
When I Was Alive
Character: Sênior
After losing his job and the end of his marriage, Júnior returns to his father's house. But that is not his childhood house anymore. His old room has been rented by a young woman and the place feels unwelcome and oppressive. Júnior develops and obsession for his family history, as strange things start happening in the house....
Besame Mucho
Character: Tuca
The story of two couples - Xico and Olga, Tuca and Dina - through 20 years of friendship, from adolescent dreams to maturity frustrations. They meet in a small town in the State of São Paulo, but one of the couples decides to try their luck in the big city. As background, the political events in the 60's and 70's, and how they affect their lives....
Villa-Lobos: A Life of Passion
Character: Heitor Villa-Lobos
The film tells the story of an intuitive, adventurous man who loved his country and being Brazilian. This man fought to be loyal to himself. His music is a transparent portrait of his genius, intuition, freedom, adventure and passion for Brazil....
O Tronco
Character: Juiz Carvalho
Vicente, a tax collector, is sent to a distant region to defy the dominion of Melo, a powerful landowner. When Melo's henchmen burn down the collector's office building, the government retaliates by deploying soldiers, overseen by Carvalho, a hard-headed judge. Carvalho orders the soldiers to invade Melo's land, which prompts the start of a full-blown war....
Angels of the Night
Character: Jorge Tadeu
Many exotic characters meet in São Paulo night, looking for love and adventure: Malu, a model; Mauro, a drag queen; Teddy, a hustler; Guto, a gay reporter; and Marta, an actress....
Gaijin: A Brazilian Odyssey
Character: Tonho
Based on fact, this is the story of the struggles of Japanese immigrants who traveled to and settled in Brazil looking for a better life....
Elas São do Baralho
Character:
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The Next Victim
Character: David
A TV reporter tries to find out who is killing prostitutes in a São Paulo neighbourhood....
Our Lady Of Compassion
Character: Chicó
João Grilo is a backwoodsman who tries to get along at the expense of the powerful in the city, who pretend to be respectful of morals and good customs and hide their sins. But when a band of cangaceiros attacks the small town, everyone has to settle accounts with God and the Devil....
O Menino Arco-Íris
Character:
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Leila Diniz
Character: Ruy Guerra
The life of Brazilian actress Leila Diniz....
Heart and Guts
Character: Guido
Financial problems in a religious school for girls force the government to interfere. While waiting in the conference hall to communicate the fact to the school administrators, the intervenor falls asleep and a crazy dream begins, involving teachers, students and strange characters....
The Body
Character: Xavier
Xavier, a pharmacist, lives peacefully in bigamy with his two women, Carmen and Beatriz, but the harmony breaks down when they find he has another lover, Monique, a nightclub dancer....
Jogo Duro
Character:
A former boxer is hired to take care of an empty house in the Pacaembu neighborhood in São Paulo. The property is for sale and its function is received when purchased. On the first night on the job, he discovers that a woman and a daughter are living clandestinely in one of the mansion's rooms....
Kiss 2348/72
Character: Dr Paulo
Worker Norival's life turns upside down when he is caught kissing his co-worker Catarina during work hours. He is fired for just cause and faces the hardships of the labor lawsuit he filed against the company....
Alemão
Character: Delegado Valadares
Five undercover cops at Complexo do Alemão, one of Rio de Janeiro's most dangerous areas, have their covers blown by drug dealers. Arrested, they wait execution or to be rescued by police forces that would risk expose a larger operation....
Eu Faço... Elas Sentem
Character: Luís
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Eternamente Pagu
Character: Oswald de Andrade
Eternamente Pagu is a biographical film about Patrícia Galvão, best known as Pagu, a Brazilian political, literary and artistic activist. An important figure of the Brazilian Modernism, Pagu was also a militant for the Brazilian Communist Party after she married writer Oswald de Andrade. She broke up with Andrade and, as a journalist was arrested by the Dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas. After she left prison, she abandoned Communism in favor of Trotskyist Socialism, married Geraldo Ferraz, and sta...
MMA - Meu Melhor Amigo
Character:
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Diário de Bordo de uma Viagem à Infância: Mundo da Lua, o Documentário
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The series “Mundo da Lua”, produced by TV Cultura in the 90s in Brazil, returns in another logbook by Lucas Silva e Silva. The documentary “Diário de Bordo de uma Viagem à Infância” is the meeting of those who were in front of and behind the cameras, telling the backstage of the series, and also the fans who followed on TV....
Antonio Meliande - Pau pra toda obra
Character: Himself
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The Great Mystical Circus
Character: Dr. Frederico Kieps
The story of five generations of the Austrian-Brazilian Knieps family, from the inauguration of their family-owned Great Mystical Circus in the 1910s up to the early 21st century, following both the family and the circus from their prime through to their decadence....
Fica Comigo
Character: C.H.
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Doramundo
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A series of murders begins to haunt Cordilheira, a small town near São Paulo, Brazil. The investigations show there is a love triangle involved....
No Coração dos Deuses
Character: Gaspar Correia / Fernão Dias
Following the clues of a map, a boy and some adventurers go into the forest in search of treasure from the pioneers, and end up going back two centuries in time, in search of the legendary Minas dos Martírios....
Boca do Lixo: A Bollywood Brasileira
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A documentary on Boca do Lixo, a dowtown São Paulo square that became a tentpole for film distribution on the early 20th century, becoming, from the 1960s on, a production district for popular eroctic films and for avant-garde directors....
Doces Poderes
Character: Chico Silva
A journalist is placed upon the management of a large broadcasting company to the capital of Brazil at the time of local elections. She must now face ideological and ethical questions, brought back by a left-wing former boyfriend and her own colleagues. At the same time, a free-lancer spy is sent by an obscure figure in politics to manipulate the elections and its media coverage....
Night of the Female
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On the eve of the premiere of a theatrical superproduction in the city of São Paulo, the assembly team performs the last dress rehearsal. But, mysteriously, the four leading actresses are poisoned. Now, the police will investigate each person related to the play to find out who caused the tragedy....
Em Nome da Segurança Nacional
Character: Narrador
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Contra a Parede
Character: Cacá Viana
Less than three months before the presidential elections in Brazil, a renowned newscaster faces an explosive ethical conflict that involves his work at the head of his program and his personal relationship with two presidential candidates named as favorites in the polls....
A Soccer Story
Character: Narrador
Based on Zuza's testimony, the plot narrates the final of the Julio Ramalho Cup, a lowland soccer championship, in 1950. To face the rival team, Zuza had his friend Dico, later nicknamed Pelé....
Um Casal de 3
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Vida, Vida
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In Rio de Janeiro, a successful yet underpaid young accountant lives with his pregnant wife in small apartment in middle class neighborhood of Copacabana. Unsatisfied with their way of life, the couple decides to accept the offer of becoming housekeepers of a rich man's vacation residence in a beach town....
The Adventures of Mario Fofoca
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Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: Carga Pesada: A Grande Viagem - O Filme
Character: Pedro
Bino advises Pedro to get married, but he is reluctant until Rosa calls him and arranges a meeting in Fortaleza. Along the way, adventures chase truck drivers....
Barbosa: 100 anos de perdão
Character: Self
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