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Acting

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Gender

Female

Birthday

1943-01-22

Deathday

2015-12-05 (72 years old)

Place of Birth

Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Marília Pêra

Biography

Marília Soares Pêra (Rio de Janeiro, January 22, 1943 — Rio de Janeiro, December 5, 2015) was a Brazilian actress, singer and theater director. Throughout her career, she won around 80 awards, acting in 49 plays, 29 soap operas and more than 20 films. 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.

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Acting

2025

Viva Marília as Self (archive footage)

2023

Xuxa, O Documentário as Self (Archive footage)

2018

Incidente em Antares - O Filme as Erotildes da Conceição

2017

All Paulos in the World - Paulo José as Self

2016

Tô Ryca! as Madame Claude

2015

Chico: Brazilian Artist as Reader (voice)

2013		Alô, Dolly! as Dolly Levi
2013		Pé na Cova as Darlene Dos Santos

2011		Aquele Beijo as Maruschka Lemos de Sá
2011		Consideração do Poema

2010

A Vida Alheia as Catarina Faissol

2009		Now Boarding as Justina / Gilda
2009		Dzi Croquettes as Self

2008		Nossa Vida Não Cabe Num Opala as Madame Castilho
2008		Urban Snap-Shots as Magda / Magali

2007		Playing
2007		Pixote In Memoriam as Self
2007		Duas Caras as Gioconda de Queiroz Barreto

2006		Vestido de Noiva as Madame Clessy
2006		Marília Pêra canta Carmen Miranda as Herself - Carmen Miranda
2006		Cobras & Lagartos as Maria Luísa Pasquim Montini ("Milu")
2006		JK as Sara Kubitschek
2006		Living the Dream as Vanessa

2004		Começar de Novo as Marlene Emilinha Teles Oliveira (Janis Doidona)
2004		Shades of Sin as Violante

2003		Celebridade as Self
2003		Garrincha: Lonely Star as Vanderléia

2002

Seja O Que Deus Quiser! as Dona Fernanda

2000		Brava Gente as Pola
2000		Brava Gente as Amélia
2000		Brava Gente as Ana Néri
2000		Amélia as Amélia

1999

Zorra Total as Elizabeth

1998		Traveller as Ana Lara
1998		Meu Bem Querer as Custódia Alves Serrão
1998		Central Station as Irene

1997

Mandacaru as Isadora Camargo

1996		Tieta of Agreste as Perpétua
1996		O Campeão as Elizabeth

1995

Jenipapo as Renata

1992

Marília Pêra: Elas por Ela as Herself

1990		Lua Cheia de Amor as Genuína "Genu" Miranda
1990		Rainha da Sucata as Self

1989

Better Days Ahead as Maryalva 'Mary" Matos

1988

O Primo Basílio as Juliana

1987		Angels of the Night as Marta Brum
1987		Brega & Chique as Rafaela Alvaray (Alfa 1)
1987		Black Fragments of Samba - Zezé Motta, The Enchanted Woman as Self

1984		Mixed Blood as Rita la Punta
1984		Areias Sagradas (Parábola em Ipanema)

1983

Bar Esperanza as Anna Moreno

1982

Quem Ama Não Mata as Alice

1980		Pixote as Sueli
1980		Grandes Nomes as Self

1978

O Grande Desbum

1976

Planeta dos Homens as Vários Personagens

1975		King of the Night as Pupi
1975		Ana, a Libertina

1974

Supermanoela as Manoela

1972

Uma Rosa com Amor as Serafina

1971		Bandeira 2 as Noeli
1971		O Cafona as Shirley Sexy
1971		O Donzelo

1970

É Simonal

1969

Super Plá as Joana Martini

1968		Beto Rockfeller as Manuela
1968		The Man Who Bought the World as Rosinha

1965		Padre Tião as Cidinha
1965		A Moreninha as Carolina
1965		Rosinha do Sobrado as Rosinha

Crew

2005

Transamerica as Thanks

Directing

1992

Marília Pêra: Elas por Ela as Stage Director

Production

2009

Now Boarding as Co-Producer

1987

Angels of the Night as Associate Producer

Writing

1992

Marília Pêra: Elas por Ela as Screenplay