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Glória Perez

Glória Perez

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Biography

Glória Maria Cláudia Pires de Morais Perez (born in Rio Claro, September 25, 1948) is a celebrated Brazilian screenwriter and television producer. She is best known for creating and writing some of Brazil’s most iconic telenovelas, including The Clone (2001), India: A Love Story (2009), Brave Woman (2012), and América (2005). Her work often explores complex social themes such as cultural identity, drug addiction, and human trafficking, blending melodrama with powerful social commentary. Over her career, she has written and created more than 20 major television productions, earning widespread acclaim and numerous awards. In addition to her writing, Glória Perez has appeared in documentaries and specials, including A Brutal Pact: The Murder of Daniella Perez (2022), which revisits the tragic story of her daughter, actress Daniella Perez.

Known For

A Diarista
7.5

It shows the life and problems of Marinete, a cleaning lady with a short temper. She always ends up depending on her friends, who are distracted by any stupid thing and leave her to solve things on her own.

A Diarista

2004
Hilda Hurricane
8.0

After breaking off her engagement on her wedding day and going directly to a prostitution house, a young model becomes the city's most famous harlot, known as "Hilda Hurricane", in the 50's Brazil. She could do fine if it wasn't for Malthus, a young novice said to be a saint, for whom she falls in love. However, the boy is kept under the strict, severe doctrine of Father Nelson, a conservative priest intolerant even to every minor sin. Things start getting harder when Roberto, Malthus' old friend and a communist reporter (the actual author of the story), tries to interview Hilda and disclosure the real reasons behind her radical change of mind. In the meantime, the middle-classes are terrified by the "leftist threat" in Brazilian politics.

Hilda Hurricane

1998
India: A Love Story
7.5

The daughter of a traditional, rich Indian family falls in love for a Dalit, and "untouchable" man.

India: A Love Story

2009
The Clone
8.1

Human cloning. The Islamic world. Two young people, two different cultures, two different beliefs. An impossible love story that not even time could erase. During a trip to Morocco, Lucas has a forbidden romance with Jade. He returns to Brazil after the death of his twin brother Diogo. A close family friend, scientist Albieri uses this situation to produce the first human clone using cells taken from Lucas. Twenty years later, Jade, Lucas and his clone form an odd love triangle.

The Clone

2001
América
6.7

Sol and Tião are born to different social backgrounds—she to a poor suburban family in Rio, and him to an even poorer family who raised cattle in West São Paulo State. They eventually meet, due to unlikely circumstances, but part again, as she has set as her ultimate priority to reach the United States or bust. While she comes to the U.S. to live as an illegal immigrant, he remains in Brazil and, despite many trials and tribulations, he becomes a successful rodeo cowboy.

América

2005
Explode Coração
6.6

Gypsy traditions set the stage for Explode Coração, which highlighted a new subject at the time: love relationships via the internet. Dara is a young gypsy woman who is proud of her origins, but refuses to be stuck with traditions. She lets her rebellious soul speak louder and breaks a tradition of her people: she refuses to marry Igor, the promised groom. The news falls like a bomb to her parents, Jairo and Lola, and is great for Yanka, her younger sister, in love with the boy. But Igor only has eyes for Dara and fights for that love. Indifferent to the consequences of his decision, Dara meets, in a computer conversation, the businessman Júlio Falcão, who moves her heart. Julio is the man who loves to make money and seduce women. He lives a marriage of appearances with Vera. Separated by the world, people as different as Júlio and Dara cross and fight against all for a love that has old traditions, and Igor and Vera as the biggest obstacles.

Explode Coração

1995
Partido Alto
8.5

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Partido Alto

1984
Edge of Desire
7.2

An ambitious woman who, for love, abandons Law School and ends up in the criminal world. A policewoman who dreams about becominga MMA championwhile fighting organized crime. A young dreamer torn between finding true love and her search for freedom. Written by International Emmy Award winner Gloria Perez, "Edge of Desire" presents three strong-willed women that have one thing in common: the tenacity to fight for what they want.

Edge of Desire

2017
El Clon
7.9

Lucas falls for a young Arab girl named Jade. She is caught between modern values and her Islamic upbringing. They separate and two decades pass. Then a strange turn of luck brings the pair together. Then Jade meets a clone, who is just like Lucas, but twenty years younger. She must choose between the man she loved and the memory she cherishes.

El Clon

2010
The Path
4.1

After having her life course changed by a fake image and losing her childhood sweetheart to greed and power, Brisa, a strong woman, will struggle to rebuild her journey, raise her son, rediscover true love, and discover the truth about her origin.

The Path

2022
Eu Prometo
8.0

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Eu Prometo

1983
Barriga de Aluguel
7.7

Ana and Zeca have a happy marriage, but they can't have children. To fulfill their dream, the couple hires the young Clara as a surrogate mother, which leads them into a legal dispute.

Barriga de Aluguel

1990
Brave Woman
7.2

A moving tale of courage and resilience in the struggle for freedom – this is the role that life has cast for headstrong Morena in Brave Woman. Raised in a poor neighborhood in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, this tough and humble woman will spare no effort to protect her family and gain her independence.

Brave Woman

2012
De Corpo e Alma
7.0

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De Corpo e Alma

1992
Carmem
8.0

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Carmem

1987
Amazônia: De Galvez a Chico Mendes
8.5

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Amazônia: De Galvez a Chico Mendes

2007
Pecado Capital
6.0

Carlão is an honest but hot-tempered taxi driver who discovers a suitcase containing two million reais in his car, the proceeds of a bank robbery. This is the second version of the telenovela, originally aired in 1975.

Pecado Capital

1998
Merciless
6.5

Eduardo Borges is a young man above all suspicion: handsome, smart, and sensitive. However, his perfect man appearance is simply a mask that covers up his fearsome personality: a dangerous psychopath behind a number of crimes that have caught the police’s attention. A cold, conniving, and callous criminal; a serial killer who kills purely out of pleasure.

Merciless

2014
Desejo
8.5

Set in the early twentieth century and based on real facts, it tells the love story that led to the murder of one of the greatest Brazilian writers: Euclides da Cunha.

Desejo

1990
A Brutal Pact: The Murder of Daniella Perez
7.7

In 1992, actress and dancer Daniella Perez was murdered by her co-star, Guilherme de Pádua and his wife, Paula Thomaz, in a cruelly premeditated crime. The untimely death of the 22-year-old, daughter of Brazilian author and producer, International Emmy winner Gloria Perez, shocked the country, gained notoriety and occupied the front pages of national newspapers for years.

A Brutal Pact: The Murder of Daniella Perez

2022