Sônia Braga
Her other television and film credits include The Cosby Show (1986), The Milagro Beanfield War (1988), The Rookie (1990), Angel Eyes (2001), Sex and the City (2001), American Family (2002), Alias (2005), Aquarius (2016), Bacurau (2019), and Fatima (2020).At age 14, Braga was invited by director Vicente Sesso to play small roles in children's programs and teleteatros on TV Tupi, including Jardim Encantado.In 1970, Braga was invited to join the cast of Irmãos Coragem, a soap opera written by Janete Clair, which aired on Rede Globo.[9] Despite the success on stage and acting in soap operas, it was in the children's television series Vila Sésamo, broadcast in 1972, that Braga became a household name.Braga returned to embody another Jorge Amado character, starring in the 1976 film Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands directed by Bruno Barreto, alongside José Wilker and Mauro Mendonça.One of the highlights of the soundtrack of the soap opera is the cover version that Gal Costa recorded of Tigresa, music that Caetano Veloso composed in honor of Braga.[18] In 1996, she won the Lone Star Film & Television Award for best supporting actress for her work in Streets of Laredo directed by Joseph Sargent.In 1999, after nearly 20 years away from Brazilian television, the actress made a cameo in the first 15 chapters of the soap opera Força de um Desejo (1999), by Gilberto Braga and Alcides Nogueira, in the role of Helena Silveira, mother of characters Fábio Assunção and Selton Mello.In 2001, she joined the cast of Memórias Póstumas directed by André Klotzel, based on The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Machado de Assis.Braga plays a widow and retired music writer who lives in the titular apartment complex and refuses to leave when developers offer her a buy-out.[24] Braga is a naturalized American, living since 1990 in New York City,[25] while also having two homes in Brazil, an apartment in Rio de Janeiro and a beach house in Niterói.
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