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Dira Paes is one of the most awarded actresses in Brazilian Cinema and her curriculum has more than 35 feature films. She started her career in the overproduction of Embassy Pictures "The Emerald Forest" (Cannes film Festival), of the diretor John Boorman. At the cinema we can highlight movies such as "Baixio das Bestas" of Claudio Assis (Tiger Award-Rotterdan International Film Festival), "A Festa da Menina Morta" of Matheus Natchergale (Cannes Film Festival-Un Certain Regard) and one of the most seen brazilian movies "Two sons of Francisco" from Breno Silveira.
In total, Dira has 7 tv series, 7 novels and 37 feature films. Her career is based in a successful image and popularity in the main stream of Brazilian teledramaturgy even as in independent and authoral cinema.
Recently Dira played the protagonist of director Gabriel Mascaro new film. At beginings of 2018 she will start filming "Veneza", the first long of Miguel Falabella where she will act with Carmen Maura.
Dira is also know as one of the founders of the NGO Human Rights Movement (MHuD), which has developed a series of activities for peace and human rights. It looks specifically at the problems of slave labor, abuse of children and adolescents, issues of quilombolas, the environment and indigenous peoples.- Actor
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Chowdhury Muhammad Shahriar Emon (19 September 1971 - 6 September 1996), known by his stage name Salman Shah , was a Bangladeshi film and television actor. Referred in the media as the "Prince of Bangladeshi Cinema" and the "First Superstar of Modern Dhallywood", he is commonly regarded as one of the most popular and iconic figures in Bangladesh's film history. Shah appeared in 27 films in a short acting career of three years, most of which were successful. His first feature film Keyamat Theke Keyamat (1993) shot him to stardom. In the following three years Shah appeared in leading roles in a series of commercially successful films, including Bikkhobh, Denmohor, Shujon Shokhi, Shopner Thikana, Ei Ghor Ei Shongsar, Sotter Mrittu Nei and Anondo Osru which established him as one of the most sought after leading men in Bangladeshi cinema. Subsequently, he became the highest paid actor in the industry. Three of his films, Shopner Thikana, Sotter Mrittu Nei and Keyamat Theke Keyamat are among the top ten highest grossing films of all time in Dhallywood box office. Shah appeared in films from a variety of genres such as family dramas, comedies, social and political dramas, action films, rural dramas, coming of age stories, romance and tragedies. He was known for his versatility and ability to play a wide range of characters as a leading young man with his distinctive style of acting and personality. He was popular with every kind of audience. Film analysts give Shah the credit for pioneering a new brand of meaningful cinema and introducing the modern era of leading men with his artistry and fashion. Due to his accomplishments and influence in Dhallywood over time, he has been regarded as one of the greatest and most successful actors in Bangladeshi film industry. Shah's professional achievements, personal life, artistic potential, untimely death and enduring popularity have constantly been the subject of tabloid discussions. The credit of his lasting legacy is given to his facial expressions, screen presence, dialogue delivery, good-looks and fashion sense. Film experts feel that his natural acting, body language, styles to match the characters and fashion-consciousness were way ahead of his time with a touch of modernity. Many of his fashion statements became trends in Bangladeshi pop culture.- Actor
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Lyoto Carvalho Machida known professionally as The Dragon, is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist and karate, signed with Bellator MMA, competing in the Light heavyweight division. He formerly competed for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he was the former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, as well as a UFC Middleweight Championship title challenger. As of May 11, 2021 he is #6 in the Bellator Light Heavyweight Rankings.- Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio DE Souza Vieira DE Oliveira, simply known as Sócrates, was a Brazilian footballer who played as a midfielder. His medical degree and his political awareness, combined with style and quality of his play, earned him the nickname "Doctor Socrates".
Easily recognizable for his beard and headband, Sócrates became the "symbol of cool for a whole generation of football supporters". He is considered to be one of the greatest midfielders of his generation. In 1983, he was named South American Footballer of the Year. In 2004, he was named by Pelé in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players.
Socrates played for Brazil for seven years, scoring 22 goals and representing the nation in two World Cups. He captained the team in the 1982 FIFA World Cup; playing in midfield alongside Zico, Falcão, Toninho Cerezo and Éder, considered one of the greatest Brazilian national teams ever. He also appeared in the 1979 and 1983 Copa América. At club level, Sócrates played for Botafogo-SP before joining Corinthians in 1978. He moved to Italy to play for Fiorentina, returning to Brazil in 1985 to end his career. - Actor
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Lúcio Mauro was born on 14 March 1927 in Belém, Pará, Brazil. He was an actor and director, known for Redentor (2004), Feliz Natal (2008) and Terra Sem Deus (1963). He was married to Ray Luiza Araujo Barbalho and Arlete Salles. He died on 11 May 2019 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.- Caroline Ribeiro was born on 20 September 1979 in Belém, Pará, Brazil. She is an actress, known for Anjo de Mim (1996), Lower City (2005) and Belíssima (2005). She has been married to Paulo Rego since 1996. They have one child.
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He left his hometown as a child, coming to the southeast, where, as a young adult, he had plans to become a diplomat by pursuing a law degree at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), during which period he also participated in amateur theater. in 1947, close to his graduation, he signed up for an audition for the role of 'Hamlet' and, despite many hopefuls, he was selected for the part. On January 6, 1948, at the age of 22, he debuted on stage, to great success. After only three weeks' work as a lawyer, Cardoso opted for the arts, starting one of the greatest careers in 20th century Brazilian theater history.
In 1949 he created, together with his fellow actors from his amateur days, the 'Teatro dos Doze', a theater company that would stage great classics, such as Carlo Goldoni's "Harlequin Servant of two Masters" (Il servitore di due padroni, 1745). In the same year, he joins another group, the 'Teatro Brasileiro de Comédia (TBC)', in São Paulo, where he achieves a new triumph in Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit" (Huis Clos, 1944).
in 1954, together with his wife, they founded the 'Nydia Licia-Sérgio Cardoso Company', presenting a national repertoire such as Rachel de Queiroz's "Lampião" (1953), and Ernani Fornari's "Sinhá Moça Chorou" (1941). The couple also buys the old 'Espéria' Cinema, which would be the company's headquarters. To refurbish the building, Cardoso agrees to appear in the new and incipient medium of television. In 1956, the brand-new stage is inaugurated as 'Teatro Bela Vista', (nowadays, the 'Sérgio Cardoso Theater'), with William Shakespeare's "Hamlet".
Starting in 1964, he appears on Tupi TV's telenovelas, playing heartthrob leading roles to great viewership approval, culminating with his performance on Antônio Maria (1968). In 1969, he moves Globo TV, where he would appear in his only performance shot in color (Meu Primeiro Baile (1972)). Later, on O Primeiro Amor (1972), after 200 episodes already produced, he died unexpectedly, prompting a special appearance of the whole cast, after his last recorded scene aired, with an emotional farewell message and introducing the new actor, who would play Cardoso's role for the remaining 28 episodes.
His death created great commotion in Brazil, and approximately twenty thousand people attended his funeral at São João Batista Cemetery in Rio de Janeiro.- Actress
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Eunice Baía was born on 2 June 1990 in Barcarena, Pará, Brazil. She is an actress and producer, known for Tainá: Uma Aventura na Amazônia (2000), Tainá 2: A Aventura Continua (2004) and Trovão Sem Chuva (2022).- Actress
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Rosamaria Murtinho was born on 24 October 1932 in Belém, Pará, Brazil. She is an actress, known for Nina (1977), The Next Victim (1995) and Primeiro de Abril, Brasil (1989). She has been married to Mauro Mendonça since 1959. They have three children.- Actress
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Dido Freire was born on 4 April 1907 in Belém, Pará, Brazil. She was an actress and writer, known for Carola (1973), The Christian Licorice Store (1971) and Cinéastes de notre temps (1964). She was married to Jean Renoir. She died on 7 May 1990 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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Denoy de Oliveira was born on 30 October 1933 in Belém, Pará, Brazil. He was an actor and writer, known for O Baiano Fantasma (1984), Amante Muito Louca (1973) and Sete Dias de Agonia (1982). He died on 4 November 1998 in São Paulo, SP, Brazil.- Theresa Amayo was born on 13 July 1933 in Belém, Pará, Brazil. She was an actress, known for Capital Sin (1975), Na Corda Bamba (1958) and O Camelô da Rua Larga (1958). She was married to Mário Brasini. She died on 24 January 2022 in Laranjeiras, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Cléa Simões was born on 4 January 1927 in Belém, Pará, Brazil. She was an actress, known for Macumba Love (1960), Deus Nos Acuda (1992) and Woman on Top (2000). She died on 24 February 2006 in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Helio Gracie was born to Gastao Gracie and Cesalina Gracie in Belem do Para, Brazil in . The family had eight children, with five boys and three girls. Helio was the youngest boy, and distinctive for being slim and tall, while the rest were shorter and muscular. As a child, Helio was frail, and forbidden from participating in sports because he would get dizzy from running or going up some stairs. After completing the second grade he convinced his mother to stop sending him to school, attributing it to his condition. When the Gracie family met with a precarious financial situation, they moved from Belem do Para to Rio de Janiero.Helio's oldest brother, Carlos Gracie, opened a Jujutsu academy in Rio de Janeiro in 1925. Carlos was taught Jujutsu, a martial art of Japanese origin, by Mitsuyo Maeda. A Japanese immigrant, Maeda gained a job with the help of Gracie's father, Gastao, in 1914. Carlos would bring brothers Oswaldo, Gastao, Helio, and George to help him operate the school.
Under the guidance of a protective Carlos, who was a trained doctor, Helio's health improved from "The Gracie Diet". The diet consisted of vegetables, raw foods, and consumption of combinations of foods at a set time. Helio understood Jujutsu from observing Carlos instructing in the gym. Once, Carlos was late for an appointment with a student and Helio, aged 16, taught the student. When Carlos arrived, the student requested to work with Helio thereafter, and Carlos agreed. Carlos learned that Helio was secretly sparring in Jujutsu and was adept at it, later becoming his main student. Due to his slim build and weaker disposition, Helio modified Carlos' Jujutsu techniques to make them easier to use, and that was the start of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ). Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a ground-based art which emphasized technique over power, with a philosophy of enabling its practitioner, despite size, to overcome larger opponents. BJJ was later called Gracie Jiu-Jitsu to prevent confusion with Japanese Jiu-Jitsu.
To spread the knowledge of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and prove its efficacy, Carlos Gracie and Hello Gracie would make challenges to opponents in other fight forms, creating the Gracie Challenge. There is a legend that Carlos and Hello once came home to find a robber. They challenged the robber to fight or go to jail. Supposedly the robber, after choosing to fight, shouted for jail after being beaten. Helio once got in trouble for attacking a well-known detractor, Manoel Rufino dos Santos. The man accused the Gracies of winning fights that were fixed. Helio broke his ribs and arms, resulting in a two-and-a-half year jail sentence being imposed. Brazil's President Getulio Vargas, whom liked Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, pardoned him. In his first purported ring bout in 1932, Gracie quickly defeated boxer Antonio Portugal by arm-bar. To refute an article about the supremacy of boxing, Gracie challenged boxers Ezzard Charles, Primo Carnera, and he offered another boxer, Joe Louis, $16,000 to fight him. Gracie also proposed fighting five boxers in the same night. He fought American wrestler Fred Ebert and Wladek Zbyszko which ended in draws.
With the family's growing reputation, one group in particular challenged the Gracies by wanting Japanese fighter Masahiko Kimura to come to Brazil. Helio was eager to fight Kimura, but Kimura was hesitant because he weighed much more and felt the older and smaller man was not on his level. Helio would have to fight two of Kimura's protégés first. An injured Helio fought Kado to a draw. In the rematch, Helio choked Kado unconscious within six minutes. Kimura's other student, Yamaguchi, declined to fight, so Kimura accepted Gracie's challenge. At "The World Championship of Jiu-jitsu" on October 23, 1951, they fought for thirteen minutes at Brazil's Maracana Stadium. A worried Carlos Gracie had agreed to allow Helio to fight Kimura after making him promise to give up the bout if his health was at risk.Kimura snapped Helio's arm and he refused to submit. Carlos threw in a towel and Kimura won. Helio would later say that he was briefly unconscious when Kimura had applied a choke earlier.On May 24, 1957, Hello fought a former student named Waldemar Santana. They fought for three hours and forty minutes at the Brazilian headquarters of YMCA. The fight ended when Santana slammed Gracie to the ground and knocked him out with kicks to his head. Helio Gracie continued studying and practicing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for rest of his life. Rorion Gracie credits him for producing the popular TV show "Vale Tudo on TV". Per 'Relson Gracie,' Helio also produced "Herois do Ringue" ("Heroes of the Ring"). In 1967, Gracie helped established the Federation of Jiu-Jitsu in Brazil, which organized jiu-jitsu competitions. Gracie left the organization out a feeling that the Jiu-Jitsu taught focused on sports instead of real life self-defense scenarios. During UFC 1: The Beginning (1993), Helio Gracie was honored as the first Ultimate Fighter. He had nine children: Rorion Gracie, Relson Gracie, Rickson Gracie, Rolker Gracie, Royler Gracie, Royce Gracie, Rherika Gracie, Robin Gracie, and Ricci Gracie. - Ana Paula Guimarães was born on 5 July 1973 in Belém, Pará, Brazil. She is an actress, known for Xuxa Gêmeas (2006), A Guerra dos Rocha (2008) and Malhação (1995).
- Norton Nascimento was born on 4 January 1962 in Belém, Pará, Brazil. He was an actor, known for The Next Victim (1995), Brazilian Aquarelle (2000) and August (1993). He was married to Kelly Candia. He died on 21 December 2007 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
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Renato Tapajós was born in 1943 in Belém, Pará, Brazil. He is a writer and director, known for Linha de Montagem (1982), Politicas de Saúde no Brasil (2006) and Corte Seco (2014).- Edna de Cássia was born on 31 July 1959 in Belém, Pará, Brazil. She is an actress, known for Iracema - Uma Transa Amazônica (1975), Era Uma Vez Iracema (2005) and Idade da Àgua (2018).
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Arlyson Gomes was born on August 9, 2003 in Bragança, Pará, Brazil. He is a Brazilian journalist, actor, music producer and film director. started his career as a journalist after publishing his first news on his political blog. Over time, he gained a small audience on his social networks, where he began to start his career as a music producer, releasing his first album that became known as "Arlyson Mix". n 2022, Arlyson Gomes became better known after publishing three books. His first publication was "A antithesis Brasileira", widely recognized in the media. Soon after, he released the book "Brasil Um Pais Desconfiado" where he talks about Brazilian politics, and his last publication was "O Limite do Universo" which was released in 2022, where he talks about theories of the limit of the universe.- Director
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Roger Elarrat was born on 2 March 1981 in Belém, Pará, Brazil. He is a director and writer, known for I, Nirvana, Juliana contra o Jambeiro do Diabo pelo coração de João Batista (2012) and Miguel Miguel (2009).- Music Department
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Fafá de Belém was born on 9 August 1956 in Belém, Pará, Brazil. She is an actress, known for Ways of the Heart (2007), The Mutants: Ways of the Heart (2008) and Torre de Babel (1998).- Cinematographer
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Alex Sernambi was born on 11 March 1960 in Belém, Pará, Brazil. He is a cinematographer and assistant director, known for The Man Who Copied (2003), O Sanduíche (2000) and Vênus (2001).- Actor
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Thiago Pinheiro was born on 12 July 1984 in Belém, Pará, Brazil. He is an actor, known for O Príncipe (2002), O Signo da Cidade (2007) and Descolados (2009).- Music Department
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Gaby Amarantos was born on 1 August 1978 in Belém, Pará, Brazil. She is an actress and composer, known for Serial Kelly (2022), Além da Ilusão (2022) and Cabras da Peste (2021).- Gilda Medeiros was born on 20 May 1940 in Belém, Pará, Brazil. She is an actress, known for Riacho do Sangue (1966), O Tesouro de Zapata (1968) and A Arte de Amar Bem (1970).