Marília Pêra
Born: 1943-01-22 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died: 2015-12-05
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2026
- Viva Marília as Self (archive footage)
2018
- Incidente em Antares - O Filme as Erotildes da Conceição
2016
- I'm Rich! as Madame Claude
2015
- Chico: Brazilian Artist as Reader (voice)
2013
- Pé na Cova as Darlene Dos Santos
- Alô, Dolly! as Dolly Levi
2011
- That Kiss as Maruschka Lemos de Sá
- Consideração do Poema
2010
- A Vida Alheia as Catarina Faissol
2009
- Dzi Croquettes as Self
- Elas Cantam Roberto Carlos as Self
- Now Boarding as Justina / Gilda
2008
- Urban Snap-Shots as Magda / Magali
- Nossa Vida Não Cabe Num Opala as Madame Castilho
2007
- Two Faces as Gioconda de Queiroz Barreto
- Toma Lá, Dá Cá as Ivone/Madame Madelon
- Playing as Actress
- Pixote In Memoriam as Self
2006
- Snakes & Lizards as Maria Luísa Pasquim Montini (Milu)
- JK as Sara Kubitschek
- Living the Dream as Vanessa
- Vestido de Noiva as Madame Clessy
- Marília Pêra canta Carmen Miranda as Herself - Carmen Miranda
2005
- Transamerica ... (Thanks)
2004
- Shades of Sin as Violante
- Começar de Novo as Marlene Emilinha Teles Oliveira (Janis Doidona)
2003
- Celebrity as Self
- Garrincha: Lonely Star as Vanderléia
2002
- Aurora Miranda - A Irmã Notável de Carmen
- Seja O Que Deus Quiser! as Dona Fernanda
2001
- Os Maias as Maria Monforte
2000
- Brava Gente as Pola
- Garotas do Programa as humorista
- Amélia as Amélia
1999
- Zorra Total as Elizabeth
1998
- My Sweetheart as Custódia Alves Serrão
- Central Station as Irene
- O Viajante as Ana Lara
1997
- Mandacaru as Isadora Camargo
1996
- O Campeão as Elizabeth
- Tieta of Agreste as Perpétua Esteves Batista
1995
- The Interview as Renata
1992
1990
- Rainha da Sucata as Self
- Lua Cheia de Amor as Genuína "Genu" Miranda
1989
- Top Model as Suzana Pasolini
- Better Days Ahead as Maryalva 'Mary" Matos
1988
- Cousin Bazilio as Juliana
1987
- Brega & Chique as Rafaela Alvaray (Alfa 1)
- Angels of the Night as Marta Brum
- Black Fragments of Samba - Zezé Motta, The Enchanted Woman as Self
1984
- Mixed Blood as Rita la Punta
- Areias Sagradas (Parábola em Ipanema)
1983
- Bar Esperanza as Anna Moreno
1982
- Chico Anysio Show as atriz com afasia
- Quem Ama Não Mata as Alice
1981
1980
- Grandes Nomes as Self
- Pixote as Sueli
1978
1977
1976
- Planeta dos Homens as Vários Personagens
1975
- King of the Night as Pupi
- Ana, a Libertina
1974
- Supermanoela as Manoela
1973
- The Return Of The Rockefeller as Manuela (flashback)
1972
- Uma Rosa com Amor as Serafina
1971
- O Cafona as Shirley Sexy
- Bandeira 2 as Noeli
- O Donzelo
1970
1969
- Super Plá as Joana Martini
1968
- Albert, the Rockefeller as Manuela
- The Man Who Bought the World as Rosinha
1965
- Um Rosto de Mulher as Elizabeth
- Rosinha do Sobrado as Rosinha
- Padre Tião as Cidinha
- A Moreninha as Carolina