Maria Alice Vergueiro
Acting
Biography
Maria Alice Monteiro de Campos Vergueiro (São Paulo, January 19, 1935 — São Paulo, June 3, 2020) was a Brazilian pedagogue, university professor and theater actress with an extensive career on stage, in cinema and on television.
Born: January 19, 1935
Place of Birth: São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Known For
Muito Prazer
Two contrasting social groups get in touch: three architects and three street urchins, all struggling for survival.
Retrato de Mulher
The Body
Xavier, a pharmacist, lives peacefully in bigamy with his two women, Carmen and Beatriz, but the harmony breaks down when they find he has another lover, Monique, a nightclub dancer.
Rosinha
A short film about love and sexuality in the old age, and the struggle to overcome social conventions.
Tapa na Pantera
Meet a Brazilian lady who uses marijuana for more than thirty years and shares her experiences with the drug.
Ato II Cena 5
The theater, the actress, the actor: a love-hate relationship, a dispute, performances, the stage and life.
Sassaricando
Scent of Gardenias
Daniel is a taxi driver who’s married to Adalgisa. When she starts acting in low-budget movies, he forbids her from seeing their son, Joaquim. For more than a decade, Daniel nurtures a feeling of revenge for his ex-wife, which gains strength when their now adult son finds his mother in full professional decay.
Chronically Unfeasible
Filmed over a five-year period, Chronically Unfeasible dissects Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as models to illustrate political, sociological and economic disparities between Brazil's upper and lower classes.
Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina
In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: the aesthetic influence of José Celso Martinez Corrêa's company extends from Tropicalism to the renewal of Brazilian audiovisual languages from the 1960s onwards. The film revisits a story that it involves personalities such as Caetano Veloso, Glauber Rocha, Lina Bo Bardi, Chico Buarque and Zé do Caixão, brings together scenic art, ecology, architecture and sexuality, and mixes art and life in the search for a Brazilian based language.
Filmography
as Madre
as Rosinha
as Herself
as Síndica
as Rabsicocha / Leda J.
as Smoker
as Atriz
as Alice
as Passageira no táxi
as Lucrécia Abdala Varela
as Dona Matilde
as Dona Cesarina
as Mãe