Sônia Maria Campos Braga is a Brazilian actress. She is known in the English-speaking world for her Golden Globe Award–nominated performances in Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) and Moon over Parador (1988). She also received a BAFTA Award nomination in 1981 for Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands. For the 1994 television film The Burning Season, she was nominated for an Emmy Award and a third Golden Globe Award. Her other television and film credits include The Cosby Show (1986), Sex and the City (2001), American Family (2002), Alias (2005), Aquarius (2016), Bacurau (2019), and Fatima (2020). In 2020, The New York Times ranked her #24 in its list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century.
Mariana Ximenes do Prado Nuzzi is a Brazilian actress. Her first role was in the telenovela Fascinação in 1998 where she portrayed the role of Emília Gouveia. In the same year she played the role of Ruth Stern in the film Caminho dos Sonhos. In 2000, she played in Uga-Uga portraying "Bionda". This role rise to prominence as she became widely known in Brazil and internationally. Later in 2001, she offered her services in the Portuguese voice over translation in the Canadian/Chinese animated series Braceface, for the character Sharon Spitz. She later played the protagonist in Cobras & Lagartos in 2006 and Lara in A Favorita, later in 2008. In 2010, she portrayed her first villainous role in the critically acclaimed telenovela Passione. Since 2010 she has appeared in several telenovelas, television series, films and theatre performances. In 2016, she starred the successor of Totalmente Demais, Haja Coração, together with Malvino Salvador.
Luiz Fernando Carvalho is a Brazilian filmmaker and television director, known for works closely linked to literature that constitute a renovation in Brazilian audiovisual aesthetics. He has already brought to the screen works by Ariano Suassuna, Raduan Nassar, Machado de Assis, Eça de Queirós, Roland Barthes, Clarice Lispector, Milton Hatoum, José Lins do Rego and Graciliano Ramos, among others.
Orígenes Lessa, journalist, short story writer, novelist, and a writer of essays. He was elected, on July 9, 1981 for the Chair number 10 of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, succeeding Osvaldo Orico, and was received on November 20, 1981, by the Academy Member Francisco de Assis Barbosa.
Luana Elídia Afonso Piovani is a Brazilian actress, TV host, and former model.
Marília Soares Pêra was a Brazilian actress, singer, and stage director. 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 and at the Cartagena Film Festival for Carlos Diegues' Better Days Ahead. Other films include Bar Esperança, Angels of the Night, and Diegues' Tieta do Agreste.
Regina Maria Loureiro Barreto CaséOMC is a Brazilian actress, screenwriter, director, producer, and television presenter.
Patricia Gadelha Pillar is a Brazilian actress, producer, film director, screenwriter, and television presenter.
Mônica Rodrigues Carvalho is a Brazilian actress and former model.
Nívea Stelmann Leôncio is a Brazilian actress and television presenter.
Mariana Gomes Ferreira Lima-Díaz is a Brazilian actress and producer.
Isis Nable Valverde is a Brazilian actress who played a lead role in the 2010 telenovela Ti Ti Ti and has participated in several other telenovelas.
Bruna Reis Maia, known professionally as Bruna Marquezine, is a Brazilian actress and model. She debuted on television in 2000 as one of the children interviewers for the children's program Gente Inocente. She has been part of the cast of several telenovelas. Throughout her career, she has been awarded the Troféu Imprensa, Contigo Award! 2004, and Young Brazilian Award, among others. She plays Jenny Kord, a love interest for Jaime Reyes in the DC Universe film Blue Beetle (2023).
Juliana Paiva dos Santos is a Brazilian actress.
Tempo de Amar is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by TV Globo. It premiered on 26 September 2017, replacing Novo Mundo and concluded its run on 19 March 2018, being replaced by Orgulho e Paixão. It is created by Alcides Nogueira. The telenovela is based on the works of Rubem Fonseca and features writing collaborations by Tarcísio Lara Puiati and Bíbi Da Pieve. Adriano Melo, Teresa Lampreia and Jayme Monjardim serve as the main directors.
Alessandra Maestrini is a Brazilian actress and singer-songwriter.
José Freixo Loreto is a Brazilian actor. He gained recognition while playing the character Darkson in the telenovela Avenida Brasil.
Miss Brazil World 2008 was the 19th edition of the Miss Brazil World pageant and 3rd under MMB Productions & Events. The contest took place on July 26, 2008. Ten contestants, that competed in both 2006 and 2007 editions were selected to compete in this years contest. Regiane Andrade of Santa Catarina crowned Tamara Almeida of Minas Gerais at the end of the contest. Almeida represented Brazil at Miss World 2008. The contest was held at the Eco Resort in Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Nelma da Costa is a Brazilian actress. She is the only surviving actress from the silent era of Brazilian cinema and the last protagonist of Cinédia.
