Marília Pêra
January 22, 1943 (81 years old) in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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.
Known For
Credits
- 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 as
- 2010 · A Vida Alheia as Catarina Faissol
- 2009 · Now Boarding as Justina
- 2009 · Dzi Croquettes as Self
- 2008 · Nossa Vida Não Cabe Num Opala as Madame Castilho
- 2008 · Urban Snap-Shots as Magda / Magali
- 2007 · Playing as
- 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 Milu Montini
- 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
- 2000 · Amélia as Amélia
- 1999 · Zorra Total as Elizabeth
- 1998 · Central Station as Irene
- 1998 · Traveller as Ana Lara
- 1998 · Meu Bem Querer as Custódia Alves Serrão
- 1996 · Tieta of Agreste as Perpétua
- 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
- 1990 · Mandacaru as Isadora Camargo
- 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) as
- 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 as
- 1975 · King of the Night as Pupi
- 1975 · Ana, a Libertina as
- 1974 · Supermanoela as Manoela
- 1971 · Bandeira 2 as
- 1971 · O Donzelo as
- 1970 · É Simonal as
- 1968 · The Man Who Bought the World as Rosinha
- 1965 · Rosinha do Sobrado as Rosinha