Tônia Carrero

Acting

Tônia Carrero

Born — Died

1922-08-23 — 2018-03-03

Place of birth

Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Known for

Acting

Credits

48 titles

Tônia Carrero, stage name Maria Antonieta Portocarrero Thedim (August 23, 1922 – March 3, 2018), was a renowned Brazilian film, theater and television actress. She was the mother of actor Cecil Thiré, and grandmother of actors Miguel Thiré, Luísa Thiré and Carlos Thiré.

Known for

Her Own Destiny poster
7.8

A story about people who succeed in life thanks to nothing but their own efforts. Maria do Carmo is the main character of the telenovela; a mother of five who struggle to be successful in life, but whose most important will be recovering the love of her daughter who was kidnapped when she was just months old.

Her Own Destiny

2004

Sangue do Meu Sangue poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Sangue do Meu Sangue

1969

O Primeiro Amor poster
8.2

Professor Luciano Lima arrives in the fictional town of Nova Esperança to take over as principal of a school. A widower, he hires a governess to take care of his four children: Júnior, Babi, Zizi, and Rui. The professor and the governess, Paula, fall in love, but the romance faces strong resistance from the children, especially Babi, the most rebellious of the four. Luciano also encounters difficulties at the school. His former girlfriend, English teacher Maria do Carmo, does everything she can to steal his position as principal. Meanwhile, a group of maladjusted and rebellious students, led by the biker Rafa, disrupts the school environment and bothers the other students. In this scenario, Giovana, a young psychologist hired by Luciano to help him deal with the rebellious students, emerges. She ends up forming a love triangle with Paula and the professor.

O Primeiro Amor

1972

Uma Rosa com Amor poster
6.7

Serafina is a romantic young woman who dreams of experiencing great love. Claude is a wealthy businessman who is in the country illegally. The two make a deal that will transform their lives.

Uma Rosa com Amor

1972

Sangue do Meu Sangue poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sangue do Meu Sangue

1995

Kananga do Japão poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Kananga do Japão

1989

Film credits

2010s · 5 titles

2000s · 3 titles

1960s · 6 titles

Copacabana Palace poster
5.0

For three days at the Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro, amorous cross-fertilizations are intertwined with petty tricks against the backdrop of the famous carnival festivities. Three (sympathetic) accomplices are beaten to a punch in the hotel vault; three charming stewardesses are looking for entertainment, but their three Carioca host, musicians Tom Jobim, Luiz Bonfá, and João Gilberto, are married; a man, separated from his wife, wants to catch her in the act of adultery.

Copacabana Palace

1962

Esse Rio que Eu Amo poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Esse Rio que Eu Amo

1962

The Violent and the Damned poster
3.5

When chain gang prisoners attack their guards, some of the hardened criminals escape Brazil's infamous Anchieta Prison amidst all the pick-ax carnage. The government dispatches a machine-gun squad to round up the fugitives.

The Violent and the Damned

1962

Carnival of Crime poster
3.0

Mike, an architect, is married to Lin, a beautiful and unfaithful woman. Returning from a trip, he finds she's disappeared. When he tries to locate her, he also learns about her many affairs, and he gets closer to Marina, his efficient assistant, who helps him solve the mystery.

Carnival of Crime

1962

Alias Gardelito poster
6.0

The title of this story is taken from the name of the great Argentine singer Carlos Gardel, the idol of the antihero Toribio portrayed by Alberto Argibay. Toribio's goal in life is to emulate the famous singer and making his own way successfully in the music business. Yet at the same time, he does not stop his illegal means of making ends meet, stealing and petty thievery. Discouraged when his big break never quite materializes, Toribio heads for disaster when he joins up with a large smuggling scheme.

Alias Gardelito

1961

Time of Violence poster
7.5

Wealthy banker Antônio witnesses the murder of a journalist, who got killed for exposing the activities of a gang of smugglers. After they find out about him, Antônio and his wife are both targeted and pursued by the criminals.

Time of Violence

1969

1950s · 5 titles

Quando a Noite Acaba poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Quando a Noite Acaba

1950

É Proibido Beijar poster
6.5

Eduardo wants to become a police reporter. To do so, he unravels a mysterious crime, but fails to get the editor of his newspaper to promote it. He is engaged to Suzy, who works at a nightclub. In charge of interviewing a famous actress, June, gets involved in several embarrassing situations that are created by Suzy and two other reporters, Harry and Steve, who follow June since her arrival in Brazil.

É Proibido Beijar

1954

Bloody Hands poster
7.5

Maos Sangrentas translates to Bloody Hands in English, and that's just what this gruesome Brazilian melodrama delivers. The story begins when a gang of dangerous convicts escape from a penal colony. With the police in hot pursuit, the escapees cut a gory swath through the countryside. As his comrades are killed off one by one, the leader of the group descends into gibbering madness. In contrast to this, a subplot develops involving the least dangerous of the escapees, who murdered his wife in a peak of self-righteous rage and is now seriously in doubt about the wisdom of his deed. Principal scenes reworked in 1962 to make the film The Violent and the Damned (q.v.).

Bloody Hands

1955

Tico-Tico no Fubá poster
7.8

A fictionalized biography of Brazilian composer Zequinha de Abreu (1880–1935), who penned the song "Tico-Tico no Fubá" that became an international hit in the 1940s.

Tico-Tico no Fubá

1952

Appassionata poster
8.0

Sílvia Nogalis, a renowned concert pianist, prefers her career to her marriage. On the night she performs Beethoven's "Appassionata", she learns of the death of her husband, maestro Walter Hauser.

Appassionata

1952

Series credits

Her Own Destiny poster
7.8

A story about people who succeed in life thanks to nothing but their own efforts. Maria do Carmo is the main character of the telenovela; a mother of five who struggle to be successful in life, but whose most important will be recovering the love of her daughter who was kidnapped when she was just months old.

Her Own Destiny

2004

Sangue do Meu Sangue poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Sangue do Meu Sangue

1969

O Primeiro Amor poster
8.2

Professor Luciano Lima arrives in the fictional town of Nova Esperança to take over as principal of a school. A widower, he hires a governess to take care of his four children: Júnior, Babi, Zizi, and Rui. The professor and the governess, Paula, fall in love, but the romance faces strong resistance from the children, especially Babi, the most rebellious of the four. Luciano also encounters difficulties at the school. His former girlfriend, English teacher Maria do Carmo, does everything she can to steal his position as principal. Meanwhile, a group of maladjusted and rebellious students, led by the biker Rafa, disrupts the school environment and bothers the other students. In this scenario, Giovana, a young psychologist hired by Luciano to help him deal with the rebellious students, emerges. She ends up forming a love triangle with Paula and the professor.

O Primeiro Amor

1972

Uma Rosa com Amor poster
6.7

Serafina is a romantic young woman who dreams of experiencing great love. Claude is a wealthy businessman who is in the country illegally. The two make a deal that will transform their lives.

Uma Rosa com Amor

1972

Sangue do Meu Sangue poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sangue do Meu Sangue

1995

Kananga do Japão poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Kananga do Japão

1989

Sassaricando poster
7.3

After becoming a widower, businessman Aparício Varela takes over as president of Tecelagem Abdala and decides to win back the great love of his life, Rebeca.

Sassaricando

1987

Você Decide poster
5.3

No synopsis available yet.

Você Decide

1992

O Cafona poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

O Cafona

1971

Água Viva poster
8.2

Nelson, a fishing champion, and his brother Miguel, a renowned plastic surgeon, compete for the love of Lígia, an ambitious woman who seeks to climb the social ladder by any means necessary.

Água Viva

1980

Cara a Cara poster
7.0

Millionaire Ingrid Von Herbert comes to Brazil to search for her missing son, who was taken from her in Italy by the child's father during World War II. Here, she meets and falls in love with mechanic Fran, but resists this love because she suspects he might be her son. There are other suspicions, but this mystery persists throughout the plot. An unusual event changes the course of the story: Fran's father, Sandro, has his car sabotaged and dies in an accident.

Cara a Cara

1979

Mad Love poster
7.0

The young and rich Patricia, daughter of Ambassador André Dumont's first marriage, is in love with and reciprocated by Luiz Carlos, a poor boy, son of the family's maid, Isolda. Whoever doesn't like to see her with the maid's son is her stepmother, Renata Dumont, André's wife. Renata is an ambitious woman who hides her humble origins and a secret from the past that unites her with Isolda. Career, she married the diplomat André, from a traditional family, with whom she had a son, Lipe.

Mad Love

1983

A Próxima Atração poster
7.0

The story takes place in a mansion in the Jardim América neighborhood of São Paulo. The lonely Rodrigo, a wealthy man from Rio Grande do Sul, lives with seven ambitious women who plan to swindle him out of his fortune: the flight attendants Regina and Cláudia, the showgirl Ciça, Madalena, Dulce, Dinorah, and the manicurist Suzete.

A Próxima Atração

1970

Pigmalião 70 poster
8.0

The soap opera told the story of Fernando Dalba, or Nando, a fruit vendor who works with his mother, the Baroness, and his friends Gino and Guiomar. His life changes after he meets the wealthy widow Cristina Guimarães, owner of a beauty salon, who decides to teach him how to behave like a man of high society. Cristina's intention is to win a bet, but she falls in love with Nando, who is engaged to Candinha.

Pigmalião 70

1970

O Amor é Nosso! poster
7.0

The telenovela tells the story of Pedro, a young singer seeking recognition and success. The son of Celso and Anita leaves his parents' home when he discovers that his brother Claudio has become involved with his girlfriend Selma. The singer then goes to live in a student community, where he meets the siblings Bruno, a composer, and Nina. Pedro and Bruno begin a professional partnership. Nina ends up falling in love with the singer, but is torn between him and the former seminarian Chico.

O Amor é Nosso!

1981

Esplendor poster
8.0

Millionaire Frederico Berger grapples with the trauma of a tragedy. The arrival of his housekeeper, Flávia Cristina, unjustly accused of a crime, transforms everyone's lives.

Esplendor

2000

Caso Especial poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Caso Especial

1971

Cupido Electrónico poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cupido Electrónico

1993