"Celebridade" (2003) TV series 2003-2004

User Rating:

8.5/10   

Directors:

Vinicius Coimbra
Amora Mautner

Writers:

Leonor Bassères (co-writer) &
Sérgio Marques (co-writer) ...

Seasons:

1 | unknown

Release Date:

13 October 2003 (Brazil)

Genre:

Romance | Drama

Awards:

4 wins & 10 nominations

Cast

Malu Mader	...	Maria Clara Diniz (209 episodes, 2003-2004)
Cláudia Abreu	...	Laura / ... (199 episodes, 2003-2004)
Fábio Assunção	...	Renato Mendes (194 episodes, 2003-2004)
Deborah Evelyn	...	Beatriz Amorim (187 episodes, 2003-2004)
Marcos Palmeira	...	Fernando Amorim (183 episodes, 2003-2004)
Deborah Secco	...	Darlene Sampaio (174 episodes, 2003-2004)
Júlia Lemmertz	...	Noêmia Assunção (147 episodes, 2003-2004)
Marcelo Faria	...	Vladimir Coimbra (146 episodes, 2003-2004)
Márcio Garcia	...	Marcos Rangel (144 episodes, 2003-2004)
Bruno Gagliasso	...	Inácio Amorim (144 episodes, 2003-2004)
Alexandre Borges	...	Cristiano Reis (140 episodes, 2003-2004)
Ana Beatriz Nogueira	...	Ana Paula Moutinho (134 episodes, 2003-2004)
Juliana Paes	...	Jacqueline Joy (131 episodes, 2003-2004)
Isabela Garcia	...	Eliete Coimbra (117 episodes, 2003-2004)
Juliana Knust	...	Sandra Moutinho (115 episodes, 2003-2004)
Paulo Vilhena	...	Paulo César (110 episodes, 2003-2004)
Taumaturgo Ferreira	...	Nelito Moutinho (105 episodes, 2003-2004)
Nívea Maria	...	Corina Diniz (102 episodes, 2003-2004)
Hugo Carvana	...	Lineu Vasconcelos (85 episodes, 2003-2004)
Henri Castelli	...	Hugo (84 episodes, 2004)

Also Known As:

"Celebrity" (International: English title) (informal title)

Runtime:

Brazil:45 min

Country:

Brazil

Language:

Portuguese

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Brazil:14 | Portugal:M/16

Company:

Rede Globo de Televisão

Quotes:

Marcos Rangel: This is my day of bad luck.
Renato Mendes: When it is that you will learn that suckers doesn't have good day.

Soundtrack:

I Heard It Through the Grapevine

Great Villains

"Celebridade" has the basics soap opera plot: good vs. evil. It's from "Vale Tudo" (a masterpiece!) author Gilberto Braga, who's very talented. It's not his best work ("Vale Tudo", hello!), but it's pretty good.

Here he tells the story of the celebrity Maria Clara Diniz (gorgeous Malu Mader) who just wants to be happy and find a great love (she's so f***ing boring!). Then she and Fernando Amorim (Marcos Palmeira) soon fall in love. But not everything is peace... there's the diabolical Laura (wonderfull played by Claudia Abreu), who pretends to be a good girl who just wants do help Maria Clara, but in fact is plannin' a revenge against her. Laura's beautiful and very charming... she sleeps with everybody to get what see wants: Maria Clara poor! She's helped by boy toy Marcos (Márcio Garcia). There's a lot of clichés, but it's Laura and the other villains who really shine. Besides Laura and Marcos, there's the megalomaniac Renato (Fábio Assunção) who doesn't like Maria Clara either and will fall in love with Laura... but when he finds out that she was playin' him, he will plot against her. There's also Ana Paula (the great Ana Beatriz Nogueira), Maria Clara's sister, who helps everyone who wants to destroy her sister. To finish, there's the crazy Beatriz (Deborah Evelyn), Fernando's ex wife.

With good dialogs, it's on his villains that "Celebrity" has power.... the good guys are boring and boring... and boring!

Mention to the funny performances given by Deborah Secco (Darlene), Juliana Paes (Jaqueline) and Adriana Alves (Palmira).