Vanda Lacerda
Born: 1923-09-10 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died: 2001-07-14
Known For: Acting
Biography
Wanda Lacerda Pamplona, stage name of Vanda Lacerda (Rio de Janeiro, September 10, 1923 - July 14, 2001), was a Brazilian actress. Considered one of the great ladies of the Brazilian theater. She debuted in 1940 as an actress for Rádio Nacional. With the military coup of 1964, she was fired from Rádio Nacional. She acted in several films and soap operas, but became best known in telenovelas. Among the telenovelas she participated in, she stood out in Minha Doce Namorada (1971), as Sarita Leão, O Espigão (1974), as Urânia Camará, Anjo Mau (1976), as Alzira Noronha, Sinal de Alerta (1978), as Melinda Montenegro, and, after an eight-year hiatus, she returned to the screen in Tudo ou Nada (1987), with a prominent role: the shrew Ema Barroso. In 2000, she narrated the short film Valsa Número Seis (2000), her last work.
Filmography
1999
- Luna Caliente as Maria
1995
1991
- Meu Marido as D. Edite
1987
- Carmem as juíza
- Imagens do Inconsciente: A Barca do Sol as Narradora
- Images of the Unconscious as Narrator (voice)
- No Reino das Mães - Adelina Gomes as Narrator
1986
- Tudo ou Nada as Ema
1982
1981
- Family Album as Rute
1979
1978
- Sinal de Alerta as Melinda
1977
1976
- Anjo Mau as Alzira Noronha
1974
- O Espigão as Urânia Camará
- The Star Rises as Dona Manuela
1973
1972
- Saint Bernard as Dona Glória
- Uma Rosa com Amor as Joana
1971
- Minha Doce Namorada as Sarita
1970
- Assim na Terra Como no Céu as Marieta
1969
- Killed the Family and Went to the Movies as Mãe de Regina
1968
- A Gata de Vison as Srª West
- O Santo Mestiço as Madre Emanuela
1967
- Face To Face as Raul's Mother
1965
- The Deceased as Madame Crisálida