MarÃlia Pêra was a Brazilian actress hailed as “one of the decade’s [1980s] ten best actresses” by Pauline Kael. Pêra won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress in 1982 for her role in Hector Babenco’s acclaimed Pixote, and received Best Actress awards at the Gramado Film Festival (Triple Award Winner) and at the Cartegena Film Festival for Carlos Diegues’ Better Days Ahead. Other films include Bar Esperança, Angels of the Night and Diegues’ Tieta do Agreste.
MarÃlia Pêra Biography / Wiki
Name | MarÃlia Pêra |
Also Know | |
Gender | Female |
Known For | Acting |
Place of Birth | Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Date of Birth | 1943-01-22 |
Age(as in 2022) | 72 |
Deathday | 2015-12-05 |
MarÃlia Pêra Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
Jogo de Cena | 2007-01-01 | Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurrin… | |
Mixed Blood | Rita la Punta | 1984-10-01 | On the mean streets of New York City, a dog-eat-dog mentality reigns among the destitute citizens. In one of the many abandoned buildings in the neigh… |
Urban Snap-Shots | Magda / Magali | 2008-02-29 | Comedic portrait of middle-aged women in Rio de Janeiro, including overworked housewife Magali and her over-the-top twin sister Magda, psychoanalyst P… |
O Viajante | 1998-11-01 | Fortune takes four human beings to the last frontier of passion. There, where love becomes almost inhuman and divine. As if he was a comet, Rafael, th… | |
Better Days Ahead | Maryalva ‘Mary” Matos | 1989-03-01 | Earning her living by dubbing American TV Series, a woman dreams of becoming an international Hollywood star…. |
Now Boarding | Justina | 2009-12-11 | Wagner is a 22-year old Brazilian guy, who dreams about leaving the country for a better life, until he meets Justina, an experienced woman who turns … |
Bar Esperanza | Ana | 1983-05-19 | A group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro. Among its costumers, we find Ana, an actress, and her husband Zeca, a … |
Angels of the Night | Marta Brum | 1987-01-01 | Many exotic characters meet in São Paulo night, looking for love and adventure: Malu, a model; Mauro, the drag queen; Teddy, the hustler; Guto, the g… |
Pixote In Memoriam | 2007-10-30 | A tribute documentary on Fernando Ramos da Silva, the famous child star of the acclaimed film by Hector Babenco, “Pixote, a Lei do Mais Fraco” (1981)…. | |
Areias Sagradas (Parábola em Ipanema) | 1984-06-06 | … | |
Ana, a Libertina | 1975-09-01 | … | |
MarÃlia Pêra canta Carmen Miranda | Herself – Carmen Miranda | 2006-10-15 | … |
Tieta of Brasil | Perpétua | 1996-08-30 | Just when her family starts believing that she is dead, and that they can expect a rich heritage, Tieta returns from São Paulo to her native village … |
Amélia | Amélia | 2000-01-01 | Fictional story based on Sarah Bernhard’s visit to Brazil in 1905. The actress, experiencing a personal and professional crisis at the time, is induce… |
O Rei da Noite | Pupi | 1975-11-20 | Sought after by several reputable women, a bohemian becomes obsessed with a prostitute…. |
Chico – Brazilian Artist | Narrator | 2015-11-26 | Chico Buarque is a constant presence in Brazil’s art scene and makes up its citizen’s popular culture. This wealth in music, poems, theater and novels… |
The Man Who Bought the World | 1968-01-01 | In a fictitious country, civil servant receives the greatest inheritance in history (ten trillion dollars) and is confined by authorities because he c… | |
Central Station | Irene | 1998-11-20 | An emotive journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search f… |
Vestido de Noiva | Madame Clessy | 2006-11-10 | While in the hospital, after being run over, AlaÃde thinks about her life, specially after the moment she’d found the diary of Madame Clessy, in the … |
O Donzelo | 1971-02-01 | … | |
Jenipapo | Renata | 1995-09-10 | Michael is a U.S. journalist who works for a Brazilian newspaper. One day he is put in charge of interviewing Father Louis Stephen, a famed catholic m… |
Introdução à Música do Sangue | 2015-08-08 | In the interior of Brazil, between the archaic and the contemporary world, a family lives its anguish in an atmosphere of desire and repression. Based… | |
Living the Dream | Vanessa | 2006-01-01 | Living the Dream” is a docudrama about two friends who after being bullied as children become corrupt when growing up because they have been condition… |
O Grande Desbum | 1978-10-31 | … | |
Dzi Croquettes | Self | 2009-10-04 | A Brazilian theatre group that through talent, irony and humour confronted the Brazilian violent dictatorship in the 1970s revolutionising the gay mov… |
Garrincha: Lonely Star | Vanderléia | 2003-07-08 | The life of Brazilian soccer player, Garrincha, considered to be one of the greatest players of all time, with his uniquely original style. He had arc… |
Nossa Vida Não Cabe Num Opala | Madame Castilho | 2008-08-15 | The father of a family of lower middle class of São Paulo dies. But he did not realize this and starts to watch the reactions of his children and the… |
Seja O Que Deus Quiser! | 2002-01-01 | … | |
Antares Incident | Erotildes da Conceição | 1994-01-01 | Film adaptation of the TV Show in 1994, based on the novel of the same name by Érico VerÃssimo. During a general strike in the city of Antares, grav… |
É Simonal | 1970-06-26 | … | |
Pixote | Sueli | 1980-09-26 | 10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen w… |
Tô Ryca! | Madame Claude | 2016-09-22 | Selminha is a lower-class woman who receives a family inheritance, but only if she meets the challenge of spending 30 million reais in 30 days, withou… |
MarÃlia Pêra Production Movies
Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
Now Boarding | Co-Producer | 2009-12-11 | Wagner is a 22-year old Brazilian guy, who dreams about leaving the country for a better life, until he meets Justina, an experienced woman who turns … |
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