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Beleza Pura
''Beleza Pura'' ( en, Pure Beauty) is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by TV Globo. It premiered on 18 February 2008, replacing '' Sete Pecados'', and ended on 12 September 2008, replaced by ''Três Irmãs''. It is written by the Andrea Maltarolli, with the collaboration of Emanoel Jacobina, Ricardo Hoffstetter, Daisy Chaves, Flávia Bessone, and João Brandão. It stars Edson Celulari, Regiane Alves, Christiane Torloni, Carolina Ferraz, Humberto Martins, Reginaldo Faria, Zezé Polessa, and Kadu Moliterno. Cast * Edson Celulari as Guilherme Medeiros * Regiane Alves as Drª. Joana da Silva * Christiane Torloni as Sônia Amarante / Estela Fonseca * Carolina Ferraz as Norma Gusmão * Humberto Martins as Dr. Renato Reis * Werner Schünemann as Tomás Fonseca Guimarães * Reginaldo Faria as Dr. Olavo Pederneiras / Copacabana * Zezé Polessa as Ivete dos Santos * Kadu Moliterno as Dr. Gaspar Saldanha * Maria Clara Gueiros as Suzy * Leopoldo Pacheco as Raul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telenovela
A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America. The word combines ''tele'' (for "television") and ''novela'' (meaning "novel"). Similar drama genres around the world include '' teleserye'' (Philippines), ''téléroman'' (Canada, specifically Quebec), and '' sinetron'' (Indonesia). Commonly described using the American colloquialism Spanish soap opera, many telenovelas share some stylistic and thematic similarities to the soap opera familiar to the English-speaking world. The significant difference is their series run length; telenovelas tell one self-contained story, typically within the span of a year or less whereas soap operas tend to have intertwined storylines told during indefinite, continuing runs. This makes them shorter than most other television series, but still much longer than a miniseries. This planned run results in a faster-paced, more concise style of melodrama compared to a typical soap opera. Episodes o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ísis Valverde
Isis Nable Valverde (born 17 February 1987) is a Brazilian actress who played a lead role in the 2010 telenovela ''Ti Ti Ti'' and has participated in several other telenovelas. Biography Valverde was born in Aiuruoca, Minas Gerais. She moved to Belo Horizonte to study when she was 15 years old. She starred in several advertisements when she was 16 years old, and moved to Rio de Janeiro at the age of 18 to study theater. She has Italian grandparents. Career She played a mysterious character named Ana do Véu (''Ana of the Veil'') in the 2006 Rede Globo telenovela ''Sinhá Moça''. Valverde played her first villain in the 2007 telenovela ''Paraíso Tropical'', a prostitute named Telma. The actress played a sexy manicurist named Rakelli in the 2008 telenovela ''Beleza Pura''. Valverde played Camila in the 2009 telenovela ''Caminho das Índias'', her character falls in love to Ravi, an Indian character played by Caio Blat. She played a lead role for the first time in the 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luciano Huck
Luciano Grostein Huck (born 3 September 1971) is a Brazilian TV host and entrepreneur. From 2000 to 2021, he hosted the TV show '' Caldeirão do Huck'', aired every Saturday on Brazilian network TV Globo, and also broadcast to 114 countries, via Globo International. In september 2021, Huck left his saturday show to host ''Domingão com Huck'' (former Domingão do Faustão) on Sundays. Huck is also the founder of Joá Investments, an investment fund focused on technology and lifestyle start-up companies, that only makes partnerships with companies committed with sustainability and with the preservation of the environment. Among Joá's investments, there are Cataratas, that focus on sustainable tourism, Tembici, a bike-sharing and bike-parking system, and also Agrade Investments that works with start-ups in the USA. Early life Huck was born in São Paulo, the son of the lawyer Hermes Marcelo Huck and the urban planner Marta Dora Grostein, and half-brother of the film director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Rocche
Ellen Rocche (born July 19, 1979) is a Brazilian model. Career She began her career on the Sunday TV program ''Qual é a música?'' (literally, "What's the music?") with Silvio Santos on the Brazilian channel SBT. She has also acted in some chapters of the Globo program '' Zorra Total''. She joined the cast of a reality show based loosely on the Dutch Big Brother, dubbed ''Casa dos Artistas'', in which famous people ("B" celebrities, in lieu of the usual anonymous participants) were locked together in a house and then gradually voted out. Rocche later refused to take part in a similar reality show by Rede Record, ''A Fazenda'' - where B-lister celebrities lived in a farm - to sign a contract with Rede Globo. Ellen Roche was also featured on the Dream Girl Cam for the Venice Online website, and played a Brazilian version of the Lara Croft character, to promote the game ''Tomb Raider III ''Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft'' is an action-adventure video game develo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Márcia Cabrita
Márcia Martins Alves (20 January 1964 – 10 November 2017), known professionally as Márcia Cabrita, was a Brazilian film, television and theater actress known mostly for her comedic roles. Biography Márcia Martins Alves was born in Niterói on January 20, 1964, to a family of Portuguese descent, being the second of two sisters. She took acting lessons during her youth, and made her debut in television in 1992, on Rede Globo's miniseries ''As Noivas de Copacabana''. In 1997 she made her breakthrough as the maid Neide Aparecida in the sitcom ''Sai de Baixo'', but left the series in 2000 after getting pregnant with her daughter. After a one-year break, she returned to television in 2001, acting in series such as ''Brava Gente'' and ''telenovelas'' such as ''Desejos de Mulher'' and ''Sete Pecados''. In 2004 she debuted as a film actress on Xuxa Meneghel's ''Xuxa e o Tesouro da Cidade Perdida''; they collaborated again on 2006's '' Xuxa Gêmeas''. In 2010 she was diagnosed with o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Gladys
Maria Gladys Mello da Silva (born 23 November 1939), known as Maria Gladys, is a Brazilian actress. Biography Gladys was born in the Cachambi neighborhood, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. At the age of three she contracted infantile paralysis and, at fifteen, became pregnant. She moved with her family to the Grajaú neighborhood, where her first son, Glayson, was born; his father was soon to disappear in the world. In the new neighborhood, Gladys knew Erasmo Carlos, Carlos Imperial, Tim Maia and Roberto Carlos, whom she began to date. It was at this time that Gladys became one of the official dancer of the program ''Clube do Rock'', organized by Carlos Imperial. In the late 1950s, Gladys decided to do theater and moved with the family to Copacabana, in the south zone of Rio. In 1959, she debuted with the play "O Mambembe" by Arthur Azevedo, in the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro, next to Fernanda Montenegro, Fernando Torres, Sérgio Britto and Ítalo Rossi. At the same t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanessa Lóes
Vanessa Lóes de Melo Lacerda (born 26 November 1971) is a Brazilian actress. She is married to actor Thiago Lacerda, with whom she has three children. Lóes is the granddaughter of actress Lídia Mattos Lídia Mattos (10 October 1924 – 22 January 2013) was a Brazilian actress whose career spanned radio, theater, television and film. Mattos was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1924. She had four children with her husband, actor Urbano Lóes. She mad .... Filmography Television References External links * 1971 births Brazilian film actresses Brazilian television actresses Actresses from Rio de Janeiro (city) Living people {{Brazil-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Abujamra
André Cibelli Abujamra (born May 15, 1965) is a Brazilian score composer, musician, singer, guitarist, actor, and comedian of Lebanese and Italian origin. Both his father, Antônio Abujamra, and cousin, Clarisse Abujamra, are actors. Film work Abujamra has worked on nearly 30 films in his career since entering the Cinema of Brazil in 1988, and has composed the soundtracks to acclaimed Brazilian films such as '' Durval Discos'' (2002), '' Carandiru'' (2003), and '' Cafundó'' (2005). He has also had several minor roles in Brazilian films and has written soundtracks for Brazilian TV channel Eurochannel. Band work He was singer and guitar player for a band called Karnak. They have released three CDs: ''Karnak'' (1995), ''Universo Umbigo'' (1997), and ''Estamos Adorando Tóquio'' (2000). Alongside Maurício Pereira he is also part of the experimental rock duo Os Mulheres Negras. His album ''Omindá'' was ranked as the 17th best Brazilian album of 2018 by the Brazilian edition o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adriana Birolli
Adriana Birolli Ferreira (born 25 November 1986), known professionally as Adriana Birolli, is a Brazilian actress. She was born in Curitiba, Paraná. Selected filmography * ''Faça Sua História'' (2008) * ''Beleza Pura'' (2008) * ''Viver a Vida'' (2009) * ''Fina Estampa'' (2011) * '' Império'' (2014) * ''Belaventura ''Belaventura'' is a Brazilian telenovela produced by Casablanca and broadcast by RecordTV. Created and written by Gustavo Reiz. It premiered on July 25, 2017, replacing the rerun of '' A Escrava Isaura'', and ended on January 26, 2018, replaced b ...'' (2017) References External links * 1986 births Living people Actresses from Curitiba Brazilian television actresses Brazilian telenovela actresses {{Brazil-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafael Cardoso
Rafael Cezar Cardoso (born 17 November 1985) is a Brazilian actor. Career He began his career in television, playing small parts on specials on RBS TV in Rio Grande do Sul. His first appearance on national television was in 2008, when he played a character in the soap opera Beleza Pura ''Beleza Pura'' ( en, Pure Beauty) is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by TV Globo. It premiered on 18 February 2008, replacing '' Sete Pecados'', and ended on 12 September 2008, replaced by ''Três Irmãs''. It is written by the .... In November 2009 Cardoso appeared in his first feature film, Do Começo ao Fim, as the character Thomas, younger half-brother of Francisco. Filmography Television Film Internet Music Video References External links * Living people Brazilian male telenovela actors Brazilian male film actors Brazilian male television actors 21st-century Brazilian male actors 1985 births {{Brazil-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bianca Comparato
Bianca de Souza Mendes Comparato (born 19 November 1985) is a Brazilian actress and film director. She has starred in '' Como Esquecer'' in 2010, as well as ''A Menina sem Qualidades'' and '' Somos tão Jovens'', both in 2013, the latter for which she won the Grande Prêmio do Cinema Brasileiro as Best Supporting Actress for her role of Carmem Teresa. In 2016, she starred in the Netflix series '' 3%'', gaining international attention and acclaim for her portrayal of the series' character, Michele. Early life Comparato was born in Rio de Janeiro, the daughter of the writer Doc Comparato and older sister of actress and presenter Lorena Comparato. She is of Portuguese and Italian descent. At age 16, Comparato attended a three-month course at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, as a prize given by the British School of Rio de Janeiro, for standing out in the theatre course. She returned to Brazil determined to quit school to devote herself to her artistic career, but was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monique Alfradique
Monique de Araújo Alfradique (born April 29, 1986) is a Brazilian actress. Biography Monique was born in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on April 29, 1986. Her desire to become an actress began with children's theater and advertising campaigns. Career She began her career on a television show for kids, aired by TV Globo called, Xuxa. She was on the show from 1999 to 2002. After appearing in ''Malhação'' and ''Agora É que São Elas'', two Brazilian series, she got the leading role in the Brazilian soap opera ''A Lua Me Disse''. In 2004, together with Giselle Policarpo, she starred in the André Prado comedic film ''Loucuras a Dois''. In 2006, while working on the play "A Mentira" by the Brazilian playwright, Nelson Rodrigues, she was offered the starring role in the television show ''Malhação'', as the villainous Priscilla,. She worked on the show for a year and a half, and then moved on to play Fernanda in another TV Globo soap opera, '' Beleza Pura''. She later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |