Norma Bengell
Born: 1935-09-21 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died: 2013-10-09
Known For: Acting
Biography
Norma Aparecida Almeida Pinto Guimarães d'Áurea Bengell (Rio de Janeiro, February 21, 1935 – Rio de Janeiro, October 9, 2013) was a Brazilian actress, filmmaker, producer, singer and songwriter. Considered one of the greatest muses of Brazilian cinema and theater in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, Norma began her career in the early 1950s, being launched into the artistic world through revue theater by producer Carlos Machado. She acted in 64 films during her career, several of them in Europe.
Filmography
2022
- O Canto Livre de Nara Leão as Self (voice)
2015
- J. Carlos - O Cronista do Rio as Ela mesma
2011
- Glauber Rocha em Defesa do Cinema Brasileiro as Self (archive footage)
2009
- Dzi Croquettes as Self
2008
- As Mulheres no Cinema Brasileiro as Apresentadora
2007
- Toma Lá, Dá Cá as Deise Coturno
- Anabazys: O Terceiro Testamento de Glauber Rocha
2005
- Coisa Mais Linda - Histórias e Casos da Bossa Nova as Self (archive footage)
2003
- Celebrity as Self
- Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth as Self
- Infinitivamente Guiomar Novaes ... (Director)
2002
1997
1996
- O Guarani ... (Director)
1993
- Vagas para Moças de Fino Trato as Gertrudes
1989
- O Sexo dos Anjos as Vera
- Anos 30: Entre Duas Guerras, Entre Duas Artes ... (Thanks)
1987
1984
- Partido Alto as Irene Bessa
- Tensão no Rio as Dona Dolores
- O Filho Adotivo as Maria Rosa
1983
- Tabu as Madame Xavier
- Parabéns pra Você as Mara
1982
- Rio Babilonia as Solange
1981
- Os Imigrantes as Nena Coutinho
- Eros, the God of Love as Ada
- Nuclear Shelter as Lix
1980
- The Age of the Earth as Amazon Queen
1979
- Na Boca do Mundo as Clarisse
- Freedom of Inês Etienne Romeu as Self
- Maria Gladys, Uma Atriz Brasileira as (voice)
1978
- Mulheres de Cinema as Self
1977
- Sea of Roses as Felicidade
- The Abyss as Madame Zero
1976
1973
- Défense de savoir as Juditte
1972
- The Suns of Easter Island as Norma
- The Demiurge
1971
- As Confissões de Frei Abóbora as Paula
- The Murdered House as Nina
- O Capitão Bandeira Contra o Dr. Moura Brasil as Mensageira
- Paixão na Praia
1970
- The Palace of Angels as Dorothy
- OSS 117 Takes a Vacation as Anne
- Of Gods and the Undead as Soledad
1969
- The Angel Was Born as Mulher
- O Último Homem
1968
- I Do Not Forgive... I Kill! as Fedra/Wanda
- Edu, Coração de Ouro as Matilde
- Desesperato
- Before, the Summer as Maria Clara
- Juventude e Ternura
1967
- The Hellbenders as Claire
- A Sombra de Rebecca as Diana
- A Espiã que Entrou em Fria
- Mar Corrente as A Singer
1966
- As Cariocas as Paula Ribeiro de Castro
1965
- Planet of the Vampires as Sanya
- Violence and Love as Anna
- The Reckless as Luciana
- The Captain from Toledo as Myriam
1964
- Men and Women as Mara
- The Constancy of Reason as Ivana
1963
- I cuori infranti as Milena (segment "E vissero felici")
- The Ballad of Husbands
1962
- Mafioso as Marta
- The Given Word as Marli
- The Unscrupulous Ones as Leda
- Carnival of Crime as Model
1961
1960
- Conceição as Dalva
1959
- The Man of The Sputnik as Bê Bê, espiã da França