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 History
2025
Viva Marília as Self (archive footage)
2018Incidente em Antares - O Filme as Erotildes da Conceição
2017All Paulos in the World - Paulo José
2016Tô Ryca! as Madame Claude
2015Chico: Brazilian Artist as Reader (voice)
2013Alô, Dolly! as Dolly Levi
2013Pé na Cova as Darlene Dos Santos
2011Aquele Beijo as Maruschka Lemos de Sá
2011Consideração do Poema
2010A Vida Alheia as Catarina Faissol
2009Now Boarding as Justina / Gilda
2009Dzi Croquettes as Self
2008Nossa Vida Não Cabe Num Opala as Madame Castilho
2008Urban Snap-Shots as Magda / Magali
2007Playing
2007Pixote In Memoriam as Self
2007Duas Caras as Gioconda de Queiroz Barreto
2006Vestido de Noiva as Madame Clessy
2006Marília Pêra canta Carmen Miranda as Herself - Carmen Miranda
2006Snakes & Lizards as Maria Luísa Pasquim Montini ("Milu")
2006JK as Sara Kubitschek
2006Living the Dream as Vanessa
2004Começar de Novo as Marlene Emilinha Teles Oliveira (Janis Doidona)
2004Shades of Sin as Violante
2003Celebridade as Self
2003Garrincha: Lonely Star as Vanderléia
2002Seja O Que Deus Quiser! as Dona Fernanda
2001Os Maias as Maria Monforte
2000Brava Gente as Pola
2000Brava Gente as Amélia
2000Brava Gente as Ana Néri
2000Amélia as Amélia
1999Zorra Total as Elizabeth
1998Traveller as Ana Lara
1998Meu Bem Querer as Custódia Alves Serrão
1998Central Station as Irene
1997Mandacaru as Isadora Camargo
1996Tieta of Agreste as Perpétua Esteves Batista
1996O Campeão as Elizabeth
1995The Interview as Renata
1992Casseta & Planeta, Urgente!
1992Marília Pêra: Elas por Ela as Herself
1990Lua Cheia de Amor as Genuína "Genu" Miranda
1990Rainha da Sucata as Self
1989Top Model as Suzana Pasolini
1989Better Days Ahead as Maryalva 'Mary" Matos
1988O Primo Basílio as Juliana
1987Angels of the Night as Marta Brum
1987Brega & Chique as Rafaela Alvaray (Alfa 1)
1987Black Fragments of Samba - Zezé Motta, The Enchanted Woman as Self
1984Mixed Blood as Rita la Punta
1984Areias Sagradas (Parábola em Ipanema)
1983Bar Esperanza as Anna Moreno
1982Quem Ama Não Mata as Alice
1982Chico Anysio Show as atriz com afasia
1982Chico Anysio Show as Self
1981Chico Total
1980Pixote as Sueli
1980Grandes Nomes as Self
1978O Grande Desbum
1977The Bunglers
1976Planeta dos Homens as Vários Personagens
1975King of the Night as Pupi
1975Ana, a Libertina
1974Supermanoela as Manoela
1972Uma Rosa com Amor as Serafina
1971Bandeira 2 as Noeli
1971O Cafona as Shirley Sexy
1971O Donzelo
1970É Simonal
1969Super Plá as Joana Martini
1968Albert, the Rockefeller as Manuela
1968The Man Who Bought the World as Rosinha
1965Padre Tião as Cidinha
1965A Moreninha as Carolina
1965Rosinha do Sobrado as Rosinha