Lucélia Santos
Birthday: Born in 1957-05-20 in Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil
Deathday: Alive
Maria Lucélia dos Santos (Santo André, May 20, 1957) is a Brazilian actress, theater director, and producer. Known for starring in worldwide soap operas, Santos is one of the country's most renowned actresses.
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Malhação
Character: Jackeline Lemos (Jackie)
Malhação is a Brazilian television series for the teenage audience. The soap started in 1995, and was set in a fictional Gym Club called Malhação on Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Through the years the location varied slightly. Although the name of the soap remains the same, it is now set in the Múltipla Escolha High School....
Vereda Tropical
Character: Silvana Rocha
The story revolves around the conflicts within Silvana and Oliva's family—her mother and paternal grandfather—who are fighting for custody of Zeca after the child's father dies....
Sinhá Moça
Character: Maria das Graças Ferreira, a Sinhá Moça
In 1886, in the small town of Araruna, Little Missy rejects the actions of her father—the slave-owning Colonel Ferreira—alongside Rodolfo, an active abolitionist republican with whom she falls in love....
Cidadão Brasileiro
Character: Fausta Gama / Faustina de Assis Aguiar
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Água Viva
Character: Janete
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Guerra dos Sexos
Character: Carolina Carneiro
Cousins Charlô and Otávio once had a romance, but today they detest each other. However, fate plays a trick on them: they will receive a large inheritance, on the condition that they live together....
Ciranda, Cirandinha
Character: Tatiana (Tati)
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Donas de Casa Desesperadas
Character: Suzana Mayer
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Escrava Isaura
Character: Isaura dos Anjos / Elvira
Set in 19th-century Brazil during the waning years of slavery, Escrava Isaura tells the story of Isaura, a white-skinned enslaved woman raised with the manners and education of a noble lady. Though treated with affection by her mistress, Isaura remains legally enslaved and becomes the object of obsessive desire by Leôncio Almeida, the cruel heir to the plantation. After the death of her protector, Isaura falls under Leôncio’s control. Despite his attempts to seduce and dominate her, she resists...
Meu Destino É Pecar
Character: Helena Castro Avelar, a Leninha
The miniseries tells the story of Leninha, who marries Paulo due to a financial agreement made by her father, Dílson. Her life changes when she meets her brother-in-law, Mauricio, during a trip to her husband's farm in the interior of Rio de Janeiro. The two fall in love and become lovers. Leninha then begins to experience a great conflict: social and moral rules impose on her the behavior of a good wife, faithful and companion, but her desire for Maurício speaks louder. Consuelo, mother of Paul...
Locomotivas
Character: Fernanda Cabral
Kiki Blanche is a former star dedicated to her family and her beauty salon, in the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro. In addition to Milena, her legitimate daughter, Kiki raises Fernanda, Paulo, Renata and Regina. The great conflict of the plot is Fernanda's passion for Fábio, a man also loved by Milena....
Feijão Maravilha
Character: Eliana Duarte
Romantic and dreamy, Eliana works at a five-star hotel and becomes involved with unrequited love, a bumbling gang, and a complex police story....
Brasileiras e Brasileiros
Character: Paula
Brasileiros e Brasileiras is a Brazilian telenovela shown in some schedules SBT between November 5, 1990 and May 14, 1991. Writing for the show was done by Carlos Alberto Sofredini and Walter Avancini, who also directed it. The show was a co-production of the Miksom....
Carmem
Character: Carmem
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Ciranda de Pedra
Character: Virgínia
Set in 1940s São Paulo, the story follows Laura, a modern woman devoted to the arts who is oppressed by her husband, Natércio Prado—a wealthy man with traditional views. Amidst marital turmoil, Laura suffers a severe trauma and is even committed to an asylum by her husband. The couple separates, and the family is torn apart: Laura keeps her youngest daughter, Virgínia, while Natércio retains custody of the other daughters, Otávia and Bruna. Frail and penniless, Laura moves into the Vila Mariana ...
Os Trapalhões
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Os Trapalhões was a Brazilian comedy group and also a Brazilian television series created by Wilton Franco. Its members were Dedé Santana, Zacarias, Mussum and their leader Didi Mocó, that was played by Renato Aragão. The name Trapalhões is derived from the Portuguese verb atrapalhar, which means the opposite of helping, to do something the wrong way or to Those that confuse. The name is translated "Tramps" in English DVD subtitles. It was aired by Rede Globo from 1977 to 1999. On March 18, 199...
Chico Anysio Show
Character: cubana
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Malu Mulher
Character: Josineide (Jô)
After her divorce, Malu faces challenges in supporting her daughter and reinventing herself, grappling with loneliness, work, and the search for a new place in the world....
Sangue do Meu Sangue
Character: Júlia Albuquerque Soares Camargo
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Dona Anja
Character: Anja Guimarães Castilhos
Dona Anja is a Brazilian telenovela produced by JPO Produções and originally broadcast by SBT from December 9, 1996, to April 26, 1997. Based on the novel of the same name by Josué Guimarães, it was adapted by Cristianne Fridman and Yoya Wursch, with general direction by Roberto Talma. The telenovela stars Lucélia Santos, Jonas Mello, Angelina Muniz, Danton Mello, Manuela Dias, Giuseppe Oristânio, Luiz Guilherme, and Sérgio Mamberti. Set in 1977 in the countryside of Rio Grande do Sul, the stor...
Movie Credits
Paula
Character: Vera
Psuchological drama about a sucessful businesswoman who has not overcame ghosts of her past....
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
Character: Self
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."...
Lula, the Son of Brazil
Character: Professora
The true story of a working class boy who moves to the nation's financial capital at a young age and becomes one the most influential politicians in Brazilian history....
Kuarup
Character: Lídia
This epic Brazilian film was based on the equally epic novel by Antonio Callado. Set between 1954 and 1964, the film's focus is the saga of Jesuit priest Nando. Fed up with civilization, he ventures deep into Amazon country to live with and work among the Xingu Indians....
The Erection of Toribio Bardelli
Character: Celestine
After the loss of their mother, a dysfunctional family is pressed to re-examine their lives. As father and children come to terms with their own existence, this journey turns into a tender and subtle meditation on grief....
The Seven Vampires
Character: Elisa Machado
A clumsy detective and his secretary are hired to solve the mysterious, vampiresque deaths happening at a nightclub show....
Cute but Ordinary
Character: Maria Cecilia Weneck
The youngest daughter of a rich man has been raped by five black men in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, and her father arranges her marriage to one of his employees in order to save the family’s honor....
Vagas para Moças de Fino Trato
Character: Lúcia
In Vitória, the middle-age piano teacher Gertrudes sublets her apartment to two younger women, the unstable Lúcia and the nurse Madalena. Gertrudes misses and daydreams her former love and has a motherhood relationship with Lúcia; Madalena has a promiscuous life, having one night stand with the most different men every day and her behavior is criticized by Gertreudes; and Lúcia is dreamer that manipulates Gertrudes and expects that the handyman Alfredo becomes her prince charming. Their conflict...
Engraçadinha
Character: Engraçadinha
After the funeral of her father Arnaldo, who committed suicide, Engraçadinha confesses to the priest the motives. On the engagement party of her cousin Sílvio with Letícia, Engraçadinha seduces him in the library, and later she ends her engagement with Zózimo and lies to Letícia, telling that she is pregnant. Letícia decides to tell Arnaldo what happened, and he says that the child can not be born. He exposes dirty secrets to Engraçadinha, and a tragedy is announced....
Fonte da Saudade
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Family Album
Character: Gloria
Follows the decadence of an incestuous oligarch family in a rural Brazilian household through the years during the early 20th century....
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
Character: Self (archive footage)
In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself....
The Dream's Not Over
Character: Lucinha
The routine of a group of brazilian teenagers living in Brasília, Brazil's capital. Their aspirations, dreams and illusions presented in a context of a country that was on the final years of a dictatorship back in the 1980s....
Luz Del Fuego
Character: Luz Del Fuego
Biography of a Brazilian dancer who lived on an island and practiced nudism when it was forbidden by law....
Já Não Se Faz Amor Como Antigamente
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Film in three segments. In the first, father is suspicious about his son's masculinity. The second one shows a Don Juan-like guy who, at church for his own wedding, cannot remember who the bride might be. In the third, a rich husband tries to find the tattooed man he saw escaping through his wife's bedroom window....
Terra Para Rose
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Documentary about the oppression of a group of a families of the MST, the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement, who invaded Anoni Farm, a farm in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in 1985, and Rose, a woman fighting for the right of owning a land and for elementary human rights, and mother of the first baby born in the camping site....
Baixo Gávea
Character: Clara
Clara directs the rehearsals of a theatrical play about Fernando Pessoa while constantly seeking the right man and the love of his life. One of the actresses is the lesbian Ana, who interprets the poet Mário de Sá Carneiro. She is Clara's friend and confidant with whom she shares an apartment. Clara does not perceive Ana's love for her, that always helps her to recover from the disappointments. Unlike the character Sá Carneiro, poet of decadentism, nostalgia, metaphysics and vague, Ana is the pr...
The Serpent
Character: Lígia e Guida
Two sisters live in the same house with their husbands in bedrooms separated by a single wall. One of the sisters, Lígia, is still a virgin. Dissatisfied, she wants to dissolve the marriage and thinks about suicide. To prevent her sister’s suicide, Guida offers her own husband, Paulo, for one night....
Dib
Character: Self
Documentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib Lutfi, considered one of the greatest photographers of Brazilian cinema....
Uma Visita a Holliweger
Character: Irmã Ana Holliweger
An obsessed nun is accused of setting fire to an orphanage and killing more than 50 children in the late 1960s. Some time later, the macabre past returns, bringing to light the last of the secrets....
Casa Grande
Character: Lucélia
As a privileged teenager living in an affluent suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Jean has little to worry about beyond games, grades and girls. But as his overbearing father drags the family into debt, Jean is forced into a change of lifestyle which opens his eyes to the world beyond his 'casa grande' - not least that of the feisty, mixed-race firecracker Luiza. Cultures, classes and generations collide in this engrossing coming-of-age drama from Brazil....
O Sonho de Rose: 10 Anos Depois
Character: Narração
Documentary depicting what happened to the characters in the film Terra para Rose, made by the same director. Shows the life of some 1500 families of landless rural laborers who, for the first time in 1985, occupied an unproductive large landholding, the Annoni plantation in Rio Grande do Sul. After camping out for years in tents, facing down the police and negotiating with the government, the former landless laborers have managed to turn their dream into reality, and are now successful small fa...
O Ibraim do Subúrbio
Character: Adelinha
A poor man from the North Zone of Rio, head of a family, Roy struggles in every way to survive and accepts a job as a professional laugher on a TV station; Casimiro de Abreu de Sousa lives in a fantasy world in which he imagines himself to be part of high society. His daughter's wedding awakens in Casimiro the desire to achieve everything he has always fantasized about....
Amazon - The Awakening of Florestania
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Aiming to address how the environment has been mistreated since the beginning of the 20th century, the production brings back historical characters and compiles testimonies from representatives of diverse groups related to the theme....
Patriamada
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As Cartas de Chico Xavier
Character: Dejanira
Three people accused of murder who were pardoned by the parents of the victims and acquitted by Justice thanks to the letters psychographed by the medium Chico Xavier....
Um Brasileiro Chamado Rosaflor
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Mulher Oceano
Character: Teresa Visser
After relocating to Tokyo, a Brazilian writer begins a new novel, provoked by her experiences in Japan and by one of the last scenes she witnessed in Rio de Janeiro: a female swimmer tearing up the horizon with powerful strokes in the wide, open sea. Those two women apparently share no connection, until their lives start to interfere in one another, strangely linked through the sea. Hannah, the writer, plunges into a journey of self-discovery in Japan, while Ana, the swimmer in Rio de Janeiro, o...
The Egg
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Writer and poet Clarice Lispector investigates and develops the old question of what came first, the egg or the chicken....
Selvagem
Character: Maria
Sofia has a very clear goal: pass the entrance exam, find a job and leave home. However, when the school where she studies is occupied by her friends and classmates, she finds herself in a dilemma between continuing to study alone or sharing her knowledge in transforming the school....
Caso Especial: Romeu & Julieta
Character: Julieta
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