Marieta Severo
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Brazil
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ian theater, film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
and television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
actress.
Early life
Severo was born on November 2, 1946 in Rio de JaneiroRio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
, Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro (state)
Rio de Janeiro is one of the 27 states of Brazil.Rio de Janeiro has the second largest economy of Brazil behind only São Paulo state.The state of Rio de Janeiro is located within the Brazilian geopolitical region classified as the Southeast...
to Luís Antonio Severo da Costa (an Brazilian army
Brazilian Army
The Brazilian Army is the land arm of the Brazilian Military. The Brazilian Army has fought in several international conflicts, mostly in South America and during the 19th century, such as the Brazilian War of Independence , Argentina-Brazil War , War of the Farrapos , Platine War , Uruguayan War ...
officer) and Lígia Paixão. She studied in Tablado Theater in 1965, and later that year, premiered on her first play Feitiço de Salém.
Career
Severo starred in her first telenovelaTelenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...
in 1966. It was the Rede Globo
Rede Globo
Rede Globo , or simply Globo, is a Brazilian television network, launched by media mogul Roberto Marinho on April 26, 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Organizações Globo, being by far the largest of its holdings...
production of O Sheik de Agadir (The Sheik of Agadir
Agadir
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) in which she played the supporting character of Madelon. In 1978 she played the lead character in the film Chuvas de Verão (Summer Showers). She continued to appear in some television programs and films, but major leading roles did not came until the 1986 films Com Licença, Eu Vou à Luta, A Espera, O Homem da Capa Preta. In 1987, she played Leila Diniz
Leila Diniz
Leila Diniz was a Brazilian television, movie and theatre actress. She died young, at the peak of fame, in an air accident in New Delhi, India. Her liberal ideas and attitudes about sex had raised the discontent of both the feminists and the Brazilian military government of the 1960s.- Biography...
' mother in the biopic of the same name. In 1989, public acclaim came with the telenovela Que Rei Sou Eu?, with Marco Nanini
Marco Nanini
Marco Antônio Barroso Nanini is a Brazilian theater, film and TV actor of Italian descent. Most of his activities have been in comedy. He is in the permanent casting of Rede Globo....
. In 1995, critical acclaim came with the film Carlota Joaquina - Princesa do Brasil, which she also starred with Nanini. She continues to appear with major supporting characters in films like Cazuza - O Tempo Não Pára
Cazuza - O Tempo Não Pára
Cazuza - O Tempo Não Pára is a 2004 Brazilian movie about the life of singer Cazuza. The film is directed by Walter Carvalho and Sandra Werneck. It stars Daniel de Oliveira as Cazuza. The film is based on the book by Cazuza's mother, Lucia Araujo...
and TV shows, but she is perhaps widely known and acclaimed for her role as Nenê, the matriarch of the Silva family in the Rede Globo series A Grande Família
A Grande Família
A Grande Família is a Brazilian television comedy, and is one of the most watched shows in Brazil. The show airs on the Globo Network , and tells the story of a typical lower middle-class family living in a suburb neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro.The family consists of a working father, Lineu, a...
(in which she also stars with Nanini).
She was also the voice for villain Yzma in the Brazilian version of The Emperor's New Groove
The Emperor's New Groove
The Emperor's New Groove is a 2000 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures through Buena Vista Distribution on December 15, 2000. It is the 40th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics...
.
Children and grandchildren
Severo was married from 1966 to 1999 to popular MPBMúsica Popular Brasileira
Música Popular Brasileira or MPB designates a trend in post-Bossa Nova urban popular music. It is not a discrete genre but rather a constellation that combines original songwriting and updated versions of traditional Brazilian urban music styles like samba and samba-canção with contemporary...
singer Chico Buarque de Holanda. They have worked together in his plays Roda Viva and A Ópera do Malandro. The couple had three girls: Sílvia (born 28 March 1969) (actress in Rede Globo
Rede Globo
Rede Globo , or simply Globo, is a Brazilian television network, launched by media mogul Roberto Marinho on April 26, 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Organizações Globo, being by far the largest of its holdings...
's minisseries Amazônia), Helena (born 22 December 1970) and Luísa Buarque de Hollanda (born 17 September 1975). They also have five grandchildren: Irene (Sílvia's daughter), Francisco Buarque de Freitas, Clara Buarque de Freitas and Cecília Buarque de Freitas (Helena's children) and Lia (Luísa's daughter). She is the mother-in-law of actor Chico Díaz and composer Carlinhos Brown
Carlinhos Brown
Carlinhos Brown is a Brazilian musician from Salvador, Bahia. He was born in Candeal Pequeno, a small neighbourhood in the Brotas area of Salvador de Bahia...
.