Name
Marcélia Cartaxo
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1963-10-27 (63 years old)
Place of Birth
Cajazeiras, Paraíba, Brazil
Biography
Marcélia de Souza Cartaxo (Cajazeiras, October 27, 1963) is a Brazilian actress and director, who gained notoriety in the film A Hora da Estrela, based on the novel by Clarice Lispector. She has won several awards in her career, including two Grande Otelo awards, three Guarani Awards, a Kikito from the Gramado Festival, four Candango Trophies from the Brasília Festival, as well as the Silver Bear for best actress at the Berlin Film Festival.
Known For
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Macabéa has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a j...
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In northern Brazil, Hermila patiently waits for her husband. However, he has abandoned her...
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In a small village in the hinterland, three stories of love and desire are changing the em...
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Antônio Martins, respected theatrical critic, is a very rational man. But a chance meetin...
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In São Paulo, in the late 1960s, the convent of the Dominican friars became a trench of r...
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A man falls in love with a teenage girl, who is exploited by her own grandfather, who some...
- 2021 A Praia do Fim do Mundo as Helena
- 1997 Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional as Self
- 2009 O Sonho de Inacim
- 2020 Candango: Memoirs from a Festival as Self (archive footage)
- 2013 Alexandre e Outros Heróis as Das Dores
- 2010 Agreste
- 2024 Batalha de Flores
- 2015 Moído
- 2024 Umbilina e Sua Grande Rival as Umbilina
- 1988 Soul's Boundary
- 2013 Trampolim do Forte as Dona do Céu
- 1990 Cesium-137 as Mulher de Vavá
- 1986 Hour of the Star as Macabéa
- 2002 Madame Satã as Laurita
- 2006 Love for Sale as Marcelia
- 2007 Baptism of Blood as Nildes
- 1986 Brasa Adormecida
- 2006 Bog of Beasts
- 2015 Big Jet
- 2014 The History of Eternity as Quercia
- 2005 What Is It Worth? as Adélia
- 2017 New Amsterdam as Francisco Coelho's Wife
- 2006 The Invisible Friend as Conceição
- 1988 Sonhei com Você as Marcela
- 1995 Sixteen-Oh-Sixty
- 1998 For All - O Trampolim da Vitória as Miloca
- 2017 Nova Iorque as Madrasta
- 2019 Pacarrete as Pacarrete
- 2019 A Ética das Hienas
- 2003 Wrath Time as Cícera
- 2010 Coconut Sweet as Maria
- 2019 Familiar Environment
- 2019 Acqua Movie as Katia
- 2019 Faixa de Gaza
- 2000 Amélia as Dona Abadia
- 2005 Delicate Crime
- 2020 She Who Lives Upstairs as Luzia
- 2020 Helen as Dona Graça
- 2019 O Seu Amor de Volta (Mesmo que ele não queira)
- 2022 The Mother as Maria
- 1998 The Patriot as Sinhá Chica
- 1994 Dente Por Dente
- 2025 Lispectorante as Glória Hartman
- 1994 A Árvore de Marcação
- Soon Nossos Caminhos
- 2025 Gravidade as Joana
- Soon Marcélia
- 2006 O Caso Morel as Creuza
- 1987 Salvar o Brasil
- 2026 State of Fear as Dona Ângela
- 2007 Stone of the Kingdom ( 4 episodes ) as Tia Filipa
- 2016 World’s End ( 5 episodes ) as Mazé
- 2025 Guerreiros do Sol ( 45 episodes ) as Generosa Alencar
- 2023 Cangaço Novo ( 8 episodes ) as Zeza (Syzélia)
- 2013 O Canto da Sereia ( 1 episode ) as Salete
- 2016 Old River ( 172 episodes ) as Josefa (Zefa)
- 1997 Mandacaru ( 259 episodes ) as Amália
- 2007 Forbidden Desire ( 155 episodes ) as Tonha
- 1991 Amazônia ( 162 episodes ) as Das Dores
- 1990 A História de Ana Raio e Zé Trovão ( 251 episodes ) as Antônia
- 2023 Cangaço Novo ( 7 episodes ) as Zeza
- 1995 Большая засада ( 236 episodes ) as Vangé
- 1993 Guerra Sem Fim ( 86 episodes ) as Suely
