- Daughter of writer Anibal Machado.
- She was a writer, a director, a teacher and an author of children's plays.
- In 1949 she went to Paris where she lived and studied for one year.
- Founder of Tablado Theater - a theater school - in Rio de Janeiro (1951). Many Brazilian actor studied in Tablado: Malu Mader, Cláudia Abreu, Leonardo Brício, Louise Cardoso, Lúcio Mauro Filho, Andrea Beltrão, Miguel Falabella, Drica Moraes, Maurício Mattar, Marcello Novaes, Felipe Camargo. Tablado formed more than 5 million actors.
- The theater play "Pluft, o Fantasminha" (1955) was her biggest success.
- In 2003, in her tribute, the Brazilian post office decided to make seal with the picture of "pluft".
- Maria Clara grew up in Rio de Janeiro.
- Mother: Aracy Jacob Machado.
- Didin't have children.
- Her mother Aracy died, at the age of 30, after given birth to her 6 child. At the time Maria Clara was 9 years old.
- After her mother died, her father married to Maria Clara's aunt, Selma.
- Had five sisters named Ana Maria, Maria Ethel, Maria Luiza, Maria Celina and Aracy Maria.
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