Mel Lisboa
Acting
Biography
Mel Lisboa Alves (born January 17, 1982) is a Brazilian actress and presenter. She became known for the character Anita of Anita's Presence. became known for playing the title character in the miniseries Presença de Anita (2001). She is the daughter of astrologer Cláudia Lisboa Alves and musician Bebeto Alves. She is the cousin of comedian Rafinha Bastos. She studied cinema at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), in Niterói, but dropped out of the course to pursue a career as an actress. She is not directly related to the Gaucho musician Nei Lisboa. In 2009, the actress declared that she was an atheist in an interview with Tpm magazine. She debuted as an actress in 2001, starring in the Rede Globo miniseries, Presença de Anita, playing Anita, a mysterious and seductive young woman. Due to her character's great sexual appeal, she participated in a sensual shoot for the website Paparazzo. The miniseries earned an average of 30 ratings and was rebroadcast in full in 2002 on TV Globo. In 2002, in the soap opera Escolhas de Mulher , she played Gabriela, a young woman from the countryside and aspiring model. This time her character was not as successful, due to the fixed image of the previous character and the plot's low ratings. The actress, at the time, even realized that she had been dazzled after playing a prominent role, but after playing another with little acceptance, she matured. In 2003, he did his second sensual shoot. This time for Trip magazine. The following year she posed nude for the Brazilian edition of Playboy magazine, in its 29th anniversary edition. In the same year, after having signed a contract with SBT, the contract did not go through, she returned to Rede Globo and acted in the soap opera Como uma Onda, playing Lenita Paiva, a rich and spoiled girl. In 2006, she became a television presenter on the GNT/Rede Globo Sat channel and released the book Mundo Afora — Diário de Bordo de Mel Lisboa, with the plot and photographs of her program. In 2007, she participated in the cast of the soap opera Sete Pecados, in which she played the character Carla, a young woman of humble origins and extremely ambitious with her dubious personality. On April 1, 2010, she signed a contract with Rede Record and the following year she starred in the miniseries Sansão e Dalila, playing Dalila, a seductive woman with a dubious character. Still in 2011, she participated in two more sensual shoots: In Inked magazine, she shows her tattoos and talks about her passion for them. In Maxim magazine, she shows that the lolita phase is literally behind her. She won some awards in her career, including the most important national cinema award, the Kikito, at the Gramado Festival, as best actress for her performance in Sonhos e Deseios, in 2006. In cinema, she participated in films such as A Fortune Teller (The Fortune Teller ). 2003), The Wedding of Romeo and Juliet (2005), Dreams and Desires (2006), and Live (2008). In theater he participated in plays such as Há Vaga Para Moças de Fino Trato (2002), Confessões de Adolescente (2003), Brutal (2003), Luluzinhas (2003), Biting the Lips (2006), A Mulher do Candidato (2008), Cyrano (2009), After the Rain (2010) and Altered Women (2010/2011). In October 2012, she was hospitalized with an intestinal virus and had to cancel the show.
Known For
Written by Manoel Carlos, “The Presence of Anita” is an amazing story about love, passion and the traps of destiny. Anita is an angel faced teenager who seduces a writer, destroying his family and his life. According to her, nothing is coincidence. Destiny is already written and she cannot change her fate.
Presença de Anita
Fashion designer Andréa Vargas finds out the hard way she is adopted. The relationship with her sister Júlia had always been difficult, since childhood, and the antagonism grew when Júlia came between Andréa and her first true love, Diogo. But the worst is still to come: her first assistant in her atelier, Selma, is having an affair with her husband Bruno.
Desejos de Mulher
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Que História é Essa, Porchat?
Como uma Onda is a Brazilian telenovela that was produced and aired by TV Globo from November 22, 2004 and June 18, 2005. Featured Alinne Moraes, Ricardo Pereira, Henri Castelli, Herson Capri, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Kadu Moliterno, Joana Solnado, Hugo Carvana, Laura Cardoso and Mel Lisboa in the lead roles.
Como uma Onda
Beatriz, a spoiled young woman who, after consulting with the fortune teller Custodia, discovers that she needs to change to find happiness and love Dante, an honest man married to Clarice.
Sete Pecados
The soap opera addresses the world of stuntmen with Pat and Moa. They investigate Clarice's death and try to protect the secret of Jonathan's magnesium formula.
Cara e Coragem
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Pecado Mortal
Raised by a kind Kaingang family, adventurous young schoolgirl Luz launches a quest with her firefly companion to learn the truth about her roots.
Luz: The Light of the Heart
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De pé a pá
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As Canalhas
A 1950s housewife goes to Rio de Janeiro to meet up with her husband, only to learn he's deserted her, but decides to stay and open a bossa nova club.
Girls from Ipanema
Samson is a courageous man, strong, fearless, a Hebrew who fights many armies of his people enemies, and savage beasts; also, he keeps to himself the mysterious secret of his strength. He was born as the promise of being the rescuer of his people who were oppressed and persecuted.
Samson and Delilah
After members of the renowned Brazilian Space Research Agency, BRASA, disappear on a mysterious mission to the Moon, strange visions begin to disturb Pereira, an astronaut recently on leave from the organization. Now that his colleagues are in urgent need of rescue, he sees the perfect opportunity to head into space to understand the strange abduction he experienced five years earlier. What he didn't imagine was that he was heading into a trap created by an alien entity capable of putting not only his mind at risk, but also all of humanity.
Astronauta
Rui and Vani, are a couple facing normal discussions, problems and situations such as infidelity and convivency problems, but they solve it with great humor.
Os Normais
In lawless badlands, reclusive Cabeleira sets out to discover the fate of his gunman father and grows to be a feared assassin himself.
The Killer
After the death of former Brazilian president Juscelino Kubitschek in a car accident in August 1976, a journalist decides to investigate the case. The death of another former president, João Goulart, in December of the same year, heightens her suspicions of a conspiracy.
The Condor Conspiracy
Paralyzed from the waist down after an accident, Cássio's relationship with Julia goes through difficulties. Feeling rejected, she starts a new romance. Based on the novel "Lady Chatterley's Lover" by D. H. Lawrence.
Julia's Lover
An infamous serial killer who assaulted and killed several women in the '90s, gets on a collision course with a young journalist eager for the truth and a career-changing article.
The Park Maniac
Intense and visceral, Elis Regina was a protagonist not only in the Brazilian musical scene but also in her own path. She put her heart and soul into the art of singing and living, sailed through different musical genres and faced personal dramas.
Elis: Viver é Melhor que Sonhar
The tomboyish, outgoing Julieta is the daughter of a member of the Palmeiras soccer club board. She is constantly frustrated by what she sees as institutional bias against women in soccer. One day while watching her beloved Palmeiras, she is struck by a handsome man, Romeu, that she sees rooting for the Palmeiras' chief rivals, the Corinthians. After meeting the same man again in the middle of eye exam, Julieta and Romeu quickly become a couple. However, in order to avoid incurring the wrath of her parents, Romeu is forced to pretend to be an adoring Palmeiras fan, an increasingly difficult task for the die-hard Corinthiano.