Jandira Martini

Acting

Jandira Martini

Born 1944-07-10 · Santos, São Paulo, Brazil

Jandira Lúcia Lalia Martini (10 July 1945 — 29 January 2024) was a Brazilian actress, author, director, and theatrical producer. She began her career on the theatrical stage, having acted in and written several plays, but became best known for her work on television. She is the winner of several awards, including a Molière Award, three APCA Awards, a Mambembe Award, a Qualidade Brasil Award, and a Shell Award.

Acting credits

Será Que Ela Aguenta? poster
4.3

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Será Que Ela Aguenta?

1977

Uma Escola Atrapalhada poster
4.5

A real state agency wants to buy and demolish the traditional school Matheus Rose, to use the lot to build a hotel. The proposition unleashes a feel of distrust among the school students and staff, especially with the arrival of new, mysterious students.

Uma Escola Atrapalhada

1990

10 Hours for Christmas poster
8.3

Three siblings devise a plan to get their divorced parents to spend Christmas together.

10 Hours for Christmas

2020

Olga poster
7.1

Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945) she was arrested and sent to Nazi Germany, where she was put to death in a concentration camp. After World War II began, Vargas decided to uphold the Allies.

Olga

2004

Uma Pitada de Sorte poster
5.4

Pérola is a children's party entertainer who dreams of becoming a renowned chef. She just hasn't gone out yet to fulfill her dream because of wanting to please her mother and family, but her "bit of luck" comes when she is approved to be an assistant to a famous chef on a television show, who, in addition to being famous and successful, is extremely handsome (and seductive), which makes the job easier.

Uma Pitada de Sorte

2022

Chorar de Rir poster
6.2

Nilo Perequê is a successful comedian who stars in a TV show. When he wins the award for best comedian of the year, the comedian decides to radically change his career and devote himself totally to drama, leaving his family and businessman desperate.

Chorar de Rir

2019

Sua Excelência, o Candidato poster
4.8

His name is Orlando Carvalho Lopes. In his forties and a confirmed bachelor, he is the son and grandson of traditional politicians, but has no political experience. His weapons? His name, because it carries weight, and his family, because it has a tradition of honesty. That is why he is the ideal pre-candidate for his party...

Sua Excelência, o Candidato

1991

Behind the camera

Cheating in Chains poster
6.3

Olímpia loves her bosses, Inês and Eduardo. Eduardo loves Inês, his wife, who loves Eduardo, her husband. Inês is a friend of Lígia´s, who loves her husband Cristiano. Cristiano loves Lígia, his wife. Vera loves Cláudio, her husband, who doesnt love Vera. Inês thinks that Eduardo is having an affair with Salete, Cristiano thinks that Lígia is having an affair with Ricco, Vera thinks that Cláudio has an affair with Inês and Eduardo thinks that Inês has an affair with Cláudio. The action takes place in a middle class condo where Olímpia, a clumsy maid, carries out the most unbelievable confusions, making everybody believes that love is a game in which one always cheats.

Cheating in Chains

2006

Romeo and Juliet Get Married poster
6.0

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.

Romeo and Juliet Get Married

2005

Sua Excelência, o Candidato poster
4.8

His name is Orlando Carvalho Lopes. In his forties and a confirmed bachelor, he is the son and grandson of traditional politicians, but has no political experience. His weapons? His name, because it carries weight, and his family, because it has a tradition of honesty. That is why he is the ideal pre-candidate for his party...

Sua Excelência, o Candidato

1991