Marília Pêra

Marília Pêra
Marília Pêra
	Pêra in 2012
Born	Marília Soares Pêra; 22 January 1943; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died	5 December 2015 (aged 72); Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Occupation(s)	Actress, singer, stage director
Years active	1948–2015
Spouses	; Paulo Graça Mello (separated) ; Agildo Ribeiro (sep. 1968) ; Paulo Villaça (m. 1969; sep. 1971) ; Nelson Motta (m. 1972; div. 1980) ; Bruno Faria (m. 1998)
Children	3
Parent	Manuel Pêra (father);
Relatives	Sandra Pêra (sister) ; Abel Pêra (uncle)

Marília Soares Pêra (22 January 1943 – 5 December 2015) was a Brazilian actress, singer, and stage director.

Tieta do Agreste.^[3]

Biography

Marília Soares Pêra (Marilia Pera da Graça Mello, after she married), was born on January 22, 1943, in the neighborhood of Rio Comprido, in Rio de Janeiro.

From 14 to 21 years, works as a dancer in musicals and revue as Minha Querida Lady (1962), starring Bibi Ferreira, and O Teu Cabelo Não Nega (1963) biography of Lamartine Babo, as Carmen Miranda - role that would repeat a few times in her career.^[4] Her father Manoel Pear enrolled her in a classical ballet school and took her to the television, to dance. Perâ participated in programs such as Espetáculos Tonelux, Grande Teatro Tupi, Grande Teatro da Imperatriz das Sedas, Teatrinho Troll and Câmera Um. In 1959, she left school to marry the actor Paulo Graça Mello. At 18, in 1961, she toured Brazil and Portugal with the play Henry Pongetti's Society em Baby-Doll. A year later, starred in the musical Como Vencer na Vida sem Fazer Força alongside Procópio Ferreira, Moacyr Franco and Berta Loran.

Career in television

In 1965, Pêra was hired by director Abdon Torres to join the cast that would usher in the

TV Tupi, the soap opera is considered a landmark of Brazilian television, for his modern language and urban ambiance. Pêra was invited by director Daniel Filho to return to the Globo in 1971, to interpret Shirley Sexy in O Cafona, character that gave him great popularity. Soon after, she played the taxi driver Noeli in Bandeira 2, written by Dias Gomes. The following year, she it was Serafina Rosa Petrone in Uma Rosa com Amor's Vicente Sesso, opposite Paul Goulart. Then she played the main character of the novel Supermanoela (1974), written by Walther Negrão

.

In 1982, Pear played the character Alice in

O Primo Basílio (1988), an adaptation of Gilberto Braga and Leonor Brassères of Eça de Queiroz

's novel, Pêra played the villain Juliana, another remarkable character.

Pêra worked on two telenovelas by Ricardo Linhares: Lua Cheia de Amor (1991), co-written by Ana Maria Moretzsohn and Maria Carmen Barbosa, and Meu Bem Querer (1998). In Band, starred in O Campeão (1982), another novel Linhares, and the headline in Mandacaru (1997), written by Carlos Alberto Ratton. In 2001, Pêra participated of the cast in the miniseries Os Maias, an adaptation Eça de Queiroz's novel.

The actress was part of casts of the telenovelas

Pé na Cova

[One foot in the grave, in an unofficial translation], aired since 2013.

Film career

Internationally, Marília Pêra is best known for her performance in

National Society of Film Critics Awards. The film itself was nominated for the Best Foreign Film Golden Globe, but lost to that year's eventual Best Picture Oscar winner, Hugh Hudson's Chariots of Fire.^[6] Vincent Canby wrote for The New York Times in relation to the film: “The performances are almost too good to be true, but Mr. Da Silva and Miss Pera are splendid.”^[7] A former street kid, Fernando Ramos da Silva returned to the streets a few years after Pixote was released. He was killed by police – following an alleged shootout – at age 19 on Aug. 25, 1987.^[8]

Highlights of her movie career include

Jogo de Cena (2007). Her last film work was in Polaroides Urbanas in 2008.^[9]

Death

Pêra died at her apartment in Rio de Janeiro from lung cancer at the age of 72.^[10]

Awards

Year	Organisation	Category	Work	Country	Result
1982	National Society of Film Critics Awards	Best Actress	Pixote	United States	Won
1982	Boston Society of Film Critics Awards	Best Actress	Pixote	United States	Won
1983	Gramado Film Festival	Best Actress	Bar Esperança	Brazil	Won
1983	Associação Paulista de Críticos de Artes	Best Actress	Quem Ama Não Mata	Brazil	Won
1984	Associação Paulista de Críticos de Artes	Best Actress	Bar Esperança	Brazil	Won
1987	Gramado Film Festival	Best Actress	Anjos da Noite	Brazil	Won
1988	Troféu Imprensa	Best Actress	Brega & Chique	Brazil	Won
1988	Associação Paulista de Críticos de Artes	Best Actress	Brega & Chique	Brazil	Won
1991	Cartagena Film Festival	Best Actress	Dias Melhores Virão	Colombia	Won
1991	Associação Paulista dos Críticos de Artes	Best Actress	Dias Melhores Virão	Brazil	Won
1997	Associação Paulista dos Críticos de Artes	Best Supporting Actress	Tieta do Agreste	Brazil	Won
2000	Cinema Brazil Grand Prize	Best Actress	O Viajante	Brazil	Won
2001	Prêmio Qualidade Brasil	Best Actress in a Special Project	Os Maias	Brazil	Nominated
2005	Prêmio Contigo! de TV	Best Supporting Actress	Começar de Novo	Brazil	Nominated
2006	Prêmio Qualidade Brasil	Best Actress in Television	JK [pt]	Brazil	Nominated
2007	Miami Brazilian Film Festival	Best Actress	Polaróides Urbanas	United States	Won
2007	Prêmio Contigo! de TV	Best Supporting Actress	Cobras & Lagartos	Brazil	Nominated
2008	Prêmio Contigo! de Cinema	Best Actress	Polaróides Urbanas	Brazil	Nominated
2008	Prêmio Contigo! de TV	Best Supporting Actress	Duas Caras	Brazil	Won