Maria Flor
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Maria Flor Leite Calaça, usually known as Maria Flor (born on August 31, 1983 in Laranjeiras, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Brazilian actress best known for her role as Rê on the soap opera Malhação. She is the daughter of Renato Calaça, a cinema audio technician and Márcia Leite, who is a screenwriter.
Maria Flor was discovered in 2002, and her first role was in the movie O Diabo a Quatro, filmed in the same year, and released nationwide in Brazil in 2005. It was also her first role as a protagonist in a movie.
She became famous after her role as Rê, a very insecure and innovative character, in Malhação soap opera. This was also her first television role.
She played Tina, a romantic character, in the soap opera Cabocla. To be able to play her character, Maria Flor spent two weeks in a farm learning how to be a peasant.
In the movie Cazuza - O Tempo Não Pára she played a groupie following the rock band Barão Vermelho.
In the movie Quase Dois Irmãos she played a wealthy girl, daughter of a politician, and that gets involved with a drug dealer. She also represented the cast of the movie during the 2005 Créteil International Women's Film Festival.
She played a prostitute in the movie O Diabo a Quatro. In her research to play this character she talked to real prostitutes and strippers. Maria Flor won the best actress award of the Festival de Cuiabá (Cuiabá Film Festival) for her performance in this movie.
In the biographical movie Dois Filhos de Francisco, Maria Flor played Solange, who was the first love of the sertanejo singer Zezé Di Camargo, of the Zezé di Camargo & Luciano duo [1].
She will play Taís Junqueira in the soap opera Belíssima, which is scheduled to start airing in November, 2005. Taís Junqueira is a Brazilian woman working in Greece as a prostitute, after receiving a proposal promising her a job as a ballerina. During the soap opera, her character will try to return to Brazil.[2][3]
Besides working as an actress, Maria Flor starred the Alto Verão campaign of Blue Man, a bikini and Bermuda shorts company.[4]
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[edit] Filmography
| Year | Production | Role |
| 2005 | Belíssima (soap opera) | Taís Junqueira |
| 2005 | Dois Filhos de Francisco (movie) | Solange |
| 2005¹ | O Diabo a Quatro (movie) | Rita de Cássia |
| 2004 | Quase Dois Irmãos (movie) | Juliana |
| 2004 | Cazuza - O Tempo Não Pára (movie) | Unnamed girl |
| 2004 | Cabocla (soap opera) | Tina |
| 2003 | Malhação (soap opera) | Rê |
¹ Movie produced in 2002, but commercially released only in 2005.
[edit] Trivia
- Maria Flor shares a birthday with fellow Malhação actress Fernanda Nobre.
- She loves soap operas, and watched her own soap opera, Cabocla.
- When she was a child, she wanted to be a ballerina and studied ballet.
- One of her favorite music bands is the rock band Los Hermanos.
[edit] References
- ^ Dirce - Globo.com
- ^ Maria Flor vai estrear no horário nobre da Globo - Terra (July 16, 2005)
- ^ Quem Acontece
- ^ Mais Moda
[edit] External links
- Maria Flor at the Internet Movie Database
- Maria Flor Interview at Terra (in Portuguese)
- Interview at Mulheres do Cinema Brasileiro Website (in Portuguese)
