Skank is a Brazilian band from Belo Horizonte. Having begun in 1991, they sold approximately 5,200,000 copies of their albums as of 2004. Initially intending to mix dancehall with traditional Brazilian styles, later the band changed its sonority to music closer to Britpop and local movement Clube da Esquina.
Antônio José da Silva Fagundes Filho is a Brazilian actor, playwright, voice actor, and producer. Renowned for his several performances in stage, film and television, where he frequently works in telenovelas.
Heloísa Perlingeiro Périssé is a Brazilian actress and writer.
Grande Otelo was the stage name of Brazilian actor, comedian, singer, and composer Sebastião Bernardes de Souza Prata. Otelo was born in Uberlândia, and was orphaned as a child. He kept running away from the families that adopted him; only when he took up art did his life become settled.
Antônio Renato Aragão, nicknamed Didi is a Brazilian comedian actor, producer, filmmaker, TV presenter, singer and writer. He is best known as Didi, because of his leading role in the television series Os Trapalhões.
José Lewgoy was a Brazilian actor. He is recognizable to many art-house cinema fans for his role as Don Aquilino in Werner Herzog's 1982 film Fitzcarraldo.
Mauro Alice was a prolific Brazilian film editor who between 1952 and 2005 edited nearly 60 films, including Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), Corazón iluminado (1996) and Carandiru (2003). He was born in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil and was studying chemistry in Santo André, São Paulo, when he began working in the projection room at the Vera Cruz film studio in São Bernardo do Campo. He worked with some of the most important Brazilian directors, including Amácio Mazzaropi, Watson Macedo, Walter Hugo Khouri, Héctor Babenco and Maurice Capovilla. He won the "Coruja de Ouro" award in 1974 for the editing of “Anjo da Noite”.
Ângela Regina Vieira is a Brazilian stage and TV actress. She was also previously a ballet dancer.
Marcos César Simarelli Winter is a Brazilian actor.
Paulo Afonso Miessa, better known by his stage name Paulo Goulart was a Brazilian actor.
Manfried Sant'Anna, known artistically as Dedé Santana, is a Brazilian comedian, best known for his role in the television series Os Trapalhões, where he was one of the four protagonists.
Carlos Henrique Kroeber (1934–1999) was a Brazilian film and television actor.
Lupe Gigliotti was a Brazilian television, stage, and film actress.
Chico Anysio was a Brazilian actor, comedian, writer and composer.
Maria Antônia Gigliotti Campos Maya is a Brazilian actress.
Nizo Neto is a Brazilian stage, television and film actor best known as Mr. Ptolomeu in the series Escolinha do Professor Raimundo. He is the son of actor and humorist Chico Anysio and actress Rose Rondelli. He's also a respected voice actor and radio personality.
Mandala is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by Rede Globo. It premiered on 12 October 1987 and ended on 14 May 1988, with a total of 185 episodes. It's the thirty eighth "novela das oito" to be aired on the timeslot. It is created by Dias Gomes and directed by Ricardo Waddington.
Plínio Marcos de Barros was a Brazilian writer, actor, journalist and playwright, author of several stage plays adapted into film. Called a "Poète maudit" by some, his work features the life and struggles of underground characters, touching themes such as violence, prostitution and homosexuality, and was censored by the military government.
