Camila Morgado
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ian actress. Daughter of a trader and a housewife, since very early Camila Morgado decided that she wanted to be an actress.
She studied acting with Monah Delacy and went on to graduate from the Casa de Arte das Laranjeiras (CAL). Soon after the end of the course, Camila moved to São Paulo
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in order to study theater with Antunes Filho. She has performed in many plays of famous director Gerald Thomas
Gerald Thomas (theatre director)
Gerald Thomas Sievers, best known as simply Gerald Thomas is a theatre director and playwright who has spent his life in the United States, England, Brazil and Germany. After graduating as a reader of philosophy at the British Museum Reading Room, Thomas began his life in the theater at Ellen...
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In 2003 she obtained the lead role in the miniseries A Casa das Sete Mulheres (Portuguese
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for The House of The Seven Women), playing the character of the sweet Manuela, invited by director Jayme Monjardim
Jayme Monjardim
Jayme Monjardim Matarazzo is a Brazilian TV and film director. He is the only child of André Matarazzo Filho and Maysa Matarazzo....
, appearing for most of the Brazilian audience on television. In 2004 she played Olga Benário Prestes
Olga Benário Prestes
Olga Benário Prestes was a German-Brazilian communist militant.She was born in Munich as Olga Gutmann Benário, to a Jewish family. Her father, Leo Benário, was a Social-Democrat lawyer, and her mother, Eugenie , was a member of Bavarian high-society...
, in the film Olga
Olga (film)
Olga is a 2004 Brazilian film directed by Jayme Monjardim. It was Brazil's submission to the 77th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.-Sinopsys:...
, based on the book written by Fernando Morais and directed by Monjardim.