Nuno Leal Maia
Birthday: Born in 1947-10-17 in Santos, São Paulo, Brazil
Deathday: Alive
Nuno Leal Maia (Santos, October 17, 1947) is a Brazilian actor and football coach. Graduated in performing arts at the School of Communication and Arts at the University of São Paulo, his first work was in 1973, participating in the two feature films Anjo Loiro and A Virgem; however, it was in the film Act of Violence, in which he played a prisoner who dismembered women, which earned him the Air France Award for Best Actor. On the other hand, his television debut began in 1976, playing Acioli in the soap opera Estúpido Cupido; but his consecration only came in 1984, as Bertazzo in Vereda Tropical, being elected Best Actor by the APCA Trophy.
TV Credits
Malhação
Character: Prof. Paulo Pasqualete
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: Mário Bertazzo
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A Gata Comeu
Character: Fábio Coutinho
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Agora é Que São Elas
Character: Honório Castro
The synopsis was loosely inspired by an argument by Paulo José called Cidade das Formigas. It was based on what happened in the city of Formiga, in Minas Gerais, where women work for large clothing manufacturers in the country. In Formiga Real, women guarantee a large part of their families' livelihood with this work....
Pátria Minha
Character: Osmar
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O Profeta
Character: Alceu Carvalho
O Profeta is a Brazilian soap opera that was produced and aired by TV Globo between October 16, 2006 and May 11, 2007, and totaled 178 chapters. Thiago Fragoso and Paola Oliveira as the protagonists of the plot, Fernanda Souza, Rodrigo Phavanello, Juliana Didone and Daniel Ávila and co-starring Carol Castro, Dalton Vigh, Samara Felippo, Nívea Maria and Malvino Salvador as antagonists....
História de Amor
Character: Edgar Assunção
Helena is a sweet, honest, sensitive and a warrior woman who faces the premature pregnancy of her daughter Joyce, who in turn is abandoned by her boyfriend, the irresponsible Caio. The biggest problem is the girl's father, Assunção, Helena's ex-husband, who does not accept the situation. Lonely and alone, Helena awakens a passion for the endocrinologist Carlos Alberto, and has her feelings matched. But Carlos is committed to the possessive Paula. The girl's parents, Zuleika and Rômulo, anxiously...
Vamp
Character: Jurandir ("Padre Garotão")
Vamp is a Brazilian telenovela produced and displayed at the time of 19 hours by Rede Globo, July 15, 1991 to February 8, 1992 in 179 chapters....
Duas Caras
Character: Bernardo da Conceição
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....
O Amor Está no Ar
Character: Alcebíades Guimarães Ribeiro (Guima)
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Champagne
Character: Renan
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Suave Veneno
Character: Felisberto Morel (Gato)
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Contos de Verão
Character: Ari Tomé
Cabral is a writer who decides to spend his summer writing a series about love stories. It is then that he begins to look back over his life and his works. He is married to Glorinha, a woman twenty years younger than him, with whom he has a daughter, the young Samanta. Glorinha dreams of having a second child, but Cabral rejects the woman's desire, creating a stalemate between the two....
Top Model
Character: Gaspar Kundera
Maria Eduarda "Duda" Pinheiro is a successful top model. After being hired to model Covery brand clothes, she meets the Kundera brothers, Alex and Gaspar, owners of the company. Gaspar, a former beatnik, is over 40 but still practices surfing, lives in a beach-side house and raises five children: Elvis (named after Elvis Presley), Ringo (Starr), Jane (Fonda), Olívia (Newton-John) and (John) Lennon, all from different mothers who left them with him. Anastácia "Naná" Passos, Duda's friend and ment...
Meu Bem Querer
Character: Inácio Alves Serrão
Meu Bem Querer is a Brazilian telenovela produced and aired by Rede Globo. Written by Ricardo Linhares, with the collaboration of Leonor Bassères, Nelson Nadotti, Maria Elisa Berredo and Glória Barretoentre, monitoring text by Aguinaldo Silva, direction of Luís Henrique Rios, João Camargo and Alexandre Avancini, direction general of Roberto Naar and nucleus of Marcos Paulo and transmitted by August 24, 1998 and January 20, 1999, totaling 179 episodes....
Mandala
Character: Tony Carrado
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Engraçadinha... Seus Amores e Seus Pecados
Character: Dr. Alceu
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....
Pé de Vento
Character: Edmar, o Pé de Vento
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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."...
A Werewolf in the Amazon
Character: Prof. Scott Corman
In search of a powerful hallucinogenic, five friends embark on a dangerous journey deep into the Amazon. But a bad trip isn't the only threat as they discover when they stumble across the hidden camp of the crazed Dr. Moreau and his murderous animal-human hybrid creations....
Lady on the Bus
Character: Carlinhos
Solange is a recently married young woman whose wedding night did not end well. After constant fights with her husband, she decides to live through her sexual frustration by sleeping with strangers she picks up on crowded buses in Rio de Janeiro....
Act of Violence
Character: Antonio Nunes Correia
Antônio Nunes is sentenced to 30 years in jail, after having killed a woman, and becomes known as ripper of women. Infatuated Tânia begins to visit him frequently and hires a lawyer to try to take him out....
As Amantes de Um Homem Proibido
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The Seven Vampires
Character: Detetive Raimundo Marlou
A clumsy detective and his secretary are hired to solve the mysterious, vampiresque deaths happening at a nightclub show....
What Ever Happened to Dulce Veiga?
Character: Rafic
In the 1980s, a journalist sets out to find the whereabouts of a famous singer/actress who disappeared decades earlier. During his search, he goes across several states in what ultimately becomes not only a search for a missing person but a journey of self-discovery....
The Scarlet Scorpion
Character: Guido Falcone
Anjo, a millionaire playboy who moonlights as a crime fighter, leaps into action when his arch-nemesis, the Scarlet Scorpion, kidnaps a beautiful fashion designer....
As Feras
Character: Paulo Cintra
Paulo has a strange relationship with his cousin Sônia, whom he loves since childhood. But she despises him and, being in love with another woman, causes a lot of humiliating situations to him....
Águia na Cabeça
Character: César
A senator having contacts with illegal betting activities is killed by the man who is his right arm, who wanted to get his position. But the power structure resents this disturbance and can fall apart, specially since there's a witness....
Rei do Rio
Character: Tucão
Two friends get rich running an illegal gambling business. But soon they start to compete, and become rivals....
Ao Sul do Meu Corpo
Character: Policarpo
São Paulo, late 30's. Alberto (Paulo César Pereio) is an intellectual and professor who announces to his friend and pupil Polidoro (Nuno Leal Maia) he won a scholarship to study in Paris. In Paris Polidoro receives a letter in which Alberto announces that he married Helena (Ana Maria Nascimento e Silva). Polidoro returns to Brazil in 1945, when there was a strong political agitation against the New State. Alberto invites Polidoro to spend a few days at his home in Campos do Jordão. After reachin...
Cocky
Character: Lírio
Shy countryboy from Itu (a town in Brazil where everything is unusually big) is invited to work in the house of a rich woman, who ends up discovering the boy's hidden (and big) qualities......
O Bom Marido
Character: Borba Gato
An industrial couple spends more than they can afford. In financial trouble, the husband Afraninho devises a strange kind of business, for foreign executives, in which the product is his own wife Malu. They succeed, and soon other couples start doing the same thing, establishing the competition....
O Princípio do Prazer
Character: Jangadeiro
In a financially troubled farm in the 1930's, its depraved owners become attracted to their new handsome and young handyman....
Elas São do Baralho
Character:
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Índia, a Filha do Sol
Character: Sivério
A military man picks up a Native Brazilian woman and heads to a gold panning site where he has undisclosed business to attend to....
Perdoa-Me Por Me Traíres
Character: Gilberto
Glorinha, a middle-class 15 year old girl, always thought her mother Judite had killed herself, and that her father Gilberto has gone crazy as result. Her friend Nair takes her to a high-class bordello, where she wants to work. When uncle Raul, who raised her, discovers her prostitution, he decides to finally tell her all the truth about her parents' story....
Anjo Loiro
Character: Paulo
Armando, a single high-school teacher living a steady life, sees his world crumbles when he falls in love with Laura, the ex-girlfriend of one of his favorite students....
Estação Rock
Character: Diretor do programa Papo de Varanda
Osso experiences three major dilemmas in his life: at the same time as he dreams of being successful in a band made up of unstable and immature young people, he also seeks to get closer to his parents and rebuild a relationship....
Louco Por Cinema
Character:
Movie director gets crazy while shooting a film, and goes to a mental institution. There, he leads a revolt, kidnapping a group of Human Rights activists and demanding a camera as ransom....
Mulher Objeto
Character: Hélio
A story about the fantasies of a married woman who lives in a dream several experiences with partners of both sexes....
Monte Serrat
Character:
Monte Serrat is a short film filmed from the tale Three Lost Treasures, scored by Machado de Assis....
Oceano Atlantis
Character:
In a Rio de Janeiro after the catastrophe, only the hills were immune to a flood that left the asphalt submerged. While the Navy is rationing provisions and some are sacrificing themselves to avoid starvation, a diver goes to the bottom of the sea and finds a submerged civilization there....
Inquietações de Uma Mulher Casada
Character:
Unhappy with her marriage, woman looks for sexual satisfaction by any means....
The Claudia Case
Character: Fernando
Based on the true events that took place in the 70s, in Rio de Janeiro. The body of beautiful girl Cláudia Lessin Rodrigues, actress Márcia Rodrigues's sister, was found in the seashore. After Police investigation, it was found she had been murdered on a party by a rich industrialist's son and his socialite hairdresser buddy, after much sex, alcohol and drugs, specially Mandrax (methaqualone). She'd probably resisted being raped and the killers threw away the body in the water. One of the guys t...
Chão Bruto
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O Escolhido de Iemanjá
Character: Comandante Nelson
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Tainá - An Amazon Legend
Character: Vô Teodoro
The film tells the story of Tainá, a 5 years old orphan Indian girl who dreams of becoming a warrior and discovering her true origin. Along the way, she makes unexpected friends such as Laura, a lost city girl, and Gobi, a nerd Indian boy. They learn to overcome their mutual differences while going through their eventful journey. Taina confronts the ancestral enemy of her family, Jurupari, the incarnation of Evil, who wants to destroy the Forest....
Retorna, Vencedor
Character:
A young man returns to the country and find surprises,...
Gente Fina é Outra Coisa
Character: Alfredinho
Tadeu, a poor lad from the Northeast of Brazil, comes to Rio de Janeiro to try his luck. His good looks and education win him the favor of rich people. In his spare time, he becomes the favorite among lonely and rich ladies. Soon he gets involved in trouble....
A Virgem
Character:
Four couples go to a country seat. One of the girls is still a virgin, and his boyfriend proposes a game which changes the group behavior....
It's Dough That Girls Like
Character: Valdisnei (voice)
After watching an erotic animation in the movie theater, Ana falls in love for the lead character, the "macho man" Valdisnei. She tries to reach him through telephone, and she deceives him through an invitation to an audition. While in the audition, a tragedy happens....
Guerra é Guerra
Character:
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Embalos Alucinantes: A Troca de Casais
Character: Ramon
Sexual adventures of a prostitute's son and a bordello owner, who like to swap women....
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Character: Gabriel
The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs. The other is Molina, a gay window-dresser who fills their lonely nights by spinning romantic fantasies drawn from memories of old movies....
Cada um Dá o Que Tem
Character: Batista
Comedy anthology in three segments, each one involving beautiful and uninhibited women....
Stories Our Cinema Did (Not) Tell
Character: arquivo
Filled with raunchy laughs, this documentary compiles outrageous scenes from sex-comedies that shaped Brazil's "pornochanchada" boom of the 1970s....
Alguém
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Bandidos da Falange
Character:
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Solidão: Uma Linda História de Amor
Character:
Pedro, a poor Portuguese immigrant, comes to Brazil to try to change his life, but ends up getting in trouble. He falls in love with the wife of one of his best friends and marries her; soon after, she cheats on him....
A Hora do Terrir
Character:
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Gabriela
Character: Eng. Rômulo
In 1925, Gabriela, a poor, uneducated, yet charming woman becomes cook, mistress, and then wife of Nacib, a bar owner in Ilhéus, a small Brazilian coastal town run by the local colonels....
How to Hack Your Boss
Character: Almeida
Victor accidentally sends a compromising email to his nagging boss. With the help of his office crush and a clueless friend, he'll try to save his job while having to deal with a rook hacker the porn industry, a children's online game and Smiley, the company mascot....
Olhos Livres
Character: arquivo
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Trópico de Leão
Character: Caronte
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