Bete Mendes
Acting
Biography
Bete Mendes, stage name of Elizabeth Mendes de Oliveira (Santos, May 11, 1949), is a Brazilian actress and politician. She began her artistic career on TV Tupi, until moving to Rede Globo, where she played several prominent roles such as O Rebu (1974), O Casarão (1976) and Sinhazinha Flô (1977).
Born: May 11, 1949
Place of Birth: Santos, São Paulo, Brazil
Known For
Albert, the Rockefeller
Albert, the Rockefeller is a Brazilian telenovela produced by TV Tupi and aired from November 4, 1968 to November 30, 1969. It was created by Cassiano Gabus Mendes, written by Bráulio Pedroso and directed by Lima Duarte and Walter Avancini.
Bravo!
A widowed conductor rediscovers love when he meets a young woman from the countryside, but doubts about his music make him question his competence and distance himself from the woman he loves.
Super Plá
After a fall, intelligent young Plácido becomes a little slow. As an adult he works at a bank and his keen intelligence returns when he drinks the soft drink "Super Plá". Other side stories include the love relationship between Baby Stompanato and Joana Martini, and the life of Majô Prado, a neurotic millionairess and prominent personality living in São Paulo.
Victims of the Day
Elder and Daiane are a couple in the midst of an urban war: while he fights to survive, their first child is about to be born.
Pé de Vento
Seven Women
When the men go to war, the women also battle. This tale takes place in the XIX century, during a terrible civil war. Italy’s revolutionary leader Garibaldi must choose between two loves: a sweet aristocratic lady or a brave woman who leaves her husband to accompany him into battle. This super-production recounts the saga of women who do not go to war but must bear pain, solitude and new passions while their husbands and fathers fight the battles.
Quatro por Quatro
A traffic accident causes four women's destinies to intertwine. In the series, the four enter a pact of revenge against the men who hit them and caused them to suffer. Auxiliadora struggled to help her husband Alcebíades prosper, but when he leaves her for a younger woman, is thrown out of the house. The shy Tatiana was engaged to Fortunato, who failed to show up at their wedding. The Babalu hurricane caught mechanic Raí in bed with another woman. Abigail, a preppy psychologist who is struggling in a failing marriage, decides superficially to continue it but revolts against her husband, Gustavo, who humiliates her in public at a congress. Gustavo has custody of Ângela, a girl who longs to know her true father, Bruno. Her mother died in the childbirth, traumatizing him.
They Don't Wear Black Tie
Otavio is an idealistic union leader trying to organize workers at a factory to resist the company's exploitative practices. His son, Tião, one of the employees, is more of a realist and doesn't want to risk losing his job by striking. This clash of perspectives puts the father and son at odds. Fortunately, Tião's mother, Romana, is on hand to act as a moderator between the two opinionated men.
Anos Rebeldes
Mini series about the 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, when a politically engaged student falls in love with a left wing journalist's daughter who doesn't care for politics. The romance follows 15 years of Brazilian history, since President João Goulart deposition by military reactionary forces, until the first signs of restoration of democracy, in the 1980s.
Tieta
Inspired on Jorge Amado's romance "Tieta do Agreste", the plot is set on the fictional city of Santana do Agreste, at Brazil's northwest, and has as main theme Tieta's life turnarounds. Twenty-five years after being chased out of town by her father Zé Esteves, she returns to her home town seeking revenge against everyone who mistreated her and laugh at her face in the past.
Filmography
as Barbina Leite
as Elizabete
as Arlete
as Dona Deise
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Ernestina
as Luíza Alves
as Self
as Olívia Soares
as Florzinha dos Reis
as Zuleica Alencar
as Júlia
as Maria da Piedade Batista Azevedo Conti (Piedade)
as Irmã Natércia
as Francisca Gonzaga
as Edite
as Dona Ana Joaquina Gonçalves da Silva
as Dona Benta
as Olga
as Diva
as Donana
as Fátima de Almeida Pasquim
as Antonia Moura
as Carmem Simeone Rocha
as Carmem
as Emília Amoedo
as Self
as Aída Pires
as Self
as Patrícia
as Maria Valéria Terra
as Self (archive footage)
as Maria
as Elsa Maia
as Jerusa
as Terezinha (Tê)
as Vera
as Flor
as Vânia (3º período)
as Lia Di Lorenzo
as Sílvia
as Eva
as Renata
as Rosana
as Titina
as Renata