Maria Zilda Bethlem (born October 20, 1951), also known as Maria Zilda, is a Brazilian actress. She is known for the role of Verônica in the
Rede Globo
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telenovela
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''
Vereda Tropical''.
She won the Best Actress Award at the 1993
Brasília Film Festival for her performance in ''Vagas para Moças de Fino Trato'',
also winning the same award at the 2000
Gramado Film Festival
The Gramado Film Festival () is an international film festival held annually in the Brazilian city of Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, since 1973. In 1992, the festival began to award Latin American films produced outside of Brazil. It is the biggest ...
for her role in ''Eu Não Conhecia Tururu''.
Bethlem was married to television director Roberto Talma, with whom she had her younger son, filmmaker Raphael Vieira. She was directed by Raphael Vieira in the 2017 American
feature film
A feature film or feature-length film (often abbreviated to feature), also called a theatrical film, is a film (Film, motion picture, "movie" or simply “picture”) with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole present ...
''Untouched''. She is also the mother of politician Rodrigo Bethlem from a previous marriage. Rodrigo is the father of her granddaughter Vitória.
[ In October 2013, she publicly revealed her marriage, that had occurred in 2008, with the architect Ana Kalil.] In May 2017, she announced that she was separated, during an interview for '' TV Fama''.Maria Zilda fala sobre termino de casamento com arquiteta
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Filmography
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1951 births
20th-century Brazilian actresses
21st-century Brazilian actresses
Actresses from Rio de Janeiro (city)
Brazilian film actresses
Brazilian stage actresses
Brazilian television actresses
Brazilian LGBTQ actresses
Living people
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