
Acting
Edwin Luisi
Born
1947-02-11 (79)
Place of birth
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Known for
Acting
Credits
52 titles
Edwin Luisi is a celebrated Brazilian actor whose career spans over five decades. Born in São Paulo, he initially pursued studies in art history and lived in France, where he also learned French. His passion for acting led him to the Escola de Arte Dramática at the University of São Paulo, marking the beginning of a prolific career in the performing arts. Luisi gained international fame for his role as Álvaro in the classic telenovela Escrava Isaura (1976), where he played the romantic hero opposite Lucélia Santos. This role cemented his status as one of Brazil’s leading heartthrobs of the 1970s and 1980s. Throughout his career, he has starred in numerous television productions, including …
Known for
8.4The daily lives of a typical Brazilian middle-class family, that are always very close and tries, in their way, to survive the financial and relationship difficulties.
A Grande Família
2001
6.0Set in 19th-century Brazil during the waning years of slavery, Escrava Isaura tells the story of Isaura, a white-skinned enslaved woman raised with the manners and education of a noble lady. Though treated with affection by her mistress, Isaura remains legally enslaved and becomes the object of obsessive desire by Leôncio Almeida, the cruel heir to the plantation. After the death of her protector, Isaura falls under Leôncio’s control. Despite his attempts to seduce and dominate her, she resists, determined to preserve her dignity and freedom. Her father, Miguel, helps her escape to Recife, where she adopts a new identity and meets Álvaro, a wealthy and principled abolitionist who falls in love with her. Leôncio eventually tracks her down, leading to dramatic confrontations. In the end, Álvaro rescues Isaura by purchasing Leôncio’s debts, securing her freedom and affirming the story’s central themes of justice, love, and resistance against oppression.
Isaura: Slave Girl
1976
8.1The search for a successor provokes the beginning of a clash between two young and talented executives of his group: Daniel Bastos, a lad of simple origins and excellent character, who is not only handsome and charming, but also intelligent and skilled, and Olavo Novaes, an ambitious and unscrupulous man who is ready to fight for the position, at any cost. To fight against Olavo‘s treacherous plans, Daniel will have the help of the sweet and sensitive Paula, a young lady raised as an only child who founds, on the eve of her mother‘s death, that she is adopted and has a family. What Paula does not know is that she has an identical twin sister, the wicked Taís, who is as ambitious and unscrupulous as the man who becomes her main ally, Olavo Novaes. Antenor, for his part, decides on having an heir when he meets the headstrong and honest Lúcia, a woman who will make this cold businessman find true love is and a real reason to live.
Tropical Paradise
2007
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Chico Anysio Show
1982
7.4Twin sisters with contrasting personalities, Ruth and Raquel, rival in the fictional Pontal D'Areia, on the coast of Rio de Janeiro.
Secrets of Sand
1993
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Большая засада
1995
Film credits
2010s · 1 titles
2000s · 4 titles
7.0No synopsis available yet.
O Aleijadinho - Paixão, Glória e Suplício
2000
No synopsis available yet.
Flávio Rangel - O Teatro na Palma da Mão
2009
No synopsis available yet.
A Lenda do Dia e da Noite
2000
8.5Scoundrel João Fausto, a former Portuguese officer, arrives in Tiradentes,in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Using his status of former Imperial Court member, he tries to become lover of both ms. Lima and ms. Rocha, with the intention of taking their money.
As Alegres Comadres
2003
1990s · 6 titles
7.7A movie about a Brazilian entrepreneur who rivalled American's richest man at his time, well-known Rockfeller. Irineu Evangelista de Souza in 1867 had $155.000 contos de reis, meanwhile the Brazilian Governement annual budget was 97.000 contos de reis. The movie shows his life from poverty to riches and back to poverty again, as is common in Brazil, rich people die poor.
Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei
1999
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Adágio ao Sol
1996
5.5No synopsis available yet.
1930 - Tempo de Revolução
1990
5.5For the people of São Paulo, in the early 1930s, Getúlio Vargas's Provisional Government had become a dictatorship. The civil war lasted three months. The conflict resulted in approximately 800 fatalities.
32 – A Guerra Civil
1993
No synopsis available yet.
Amor Índio
1999
5.7The story of Brazilian Antônio José da Silva, a jewish poet, playwright and lawyer living in the 18th Century Lisbon, who managed to avoid Inquisition by converting himself to Catholicism, after being tortured. But his fierce criticism of Portugal's élite led him to persecution and torture, becoming kind of a scapegoat.
The Jew
1996
1980s · 2 titles
9.0Iolanda, a widow who is the matriarch of a large and complicated family, is the hostess of a large party in a mansion that brings back many memories. The celebration is marked by a barbecue with lots of gossip and fun among old friends.
Sonhos de Menina Moça
1988
7.5The story of Domitila de Castro Canto e Melo, the Marquise of Santos, the most famous of the mistresses of Dom Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil.
Marquesa de Santos
1984
Series credits
8.4The daily lives of a typical Brazilian middle-class family, that are always very close and tries, in their way, to survive the financial and relationship difficulties.
A Grande Família
2001
6.0Set in 19th-century Brazil during the waning years of slavery, Escrava Isaura tells the story of Isaura, a white-skinned enslaved woman raised with the manners and education of a noble lady. Though treated with affection by her mistress, Isaura remains legally enslaved and becomes the object of obsessive desire by Leôncio Almeida, the cruel heir to the plantation. After the death of her protector, Isaura falls under Leôncio’s control. Despite his attempts to seduce and dominate her, she resists, determined to preserve her dignity and freedom. Her father, Miguel, helps her escape to Recife, where she adopts a new identity and meets Álvaro, a wealthy and principled abolitionist who falls in love with her. Leôncio eventually tracks her down, leading to dramatic confrontations. In the end, Álvaro rescues Isaura by purchasing Leôncio’s debts, securing her freedom and affirming the story’s central themes of justice, love, and resistance against oppression.
Isaura: Slave Girl
1976
8.1The search for a successor provokes the beginning of a clash between two young and talented executives of his group: Daniel Bastos, a lad of simple origins and excellent character, who is not only handsome and charming, but also intelligent and skilled, and Olavo Novaes, an ambitious and unscrupulous man who is ready to fight for the position, at any cost. To fight against Olavo‘s treacherous plans, Daniel will have the help of the sweet and sensitive Paula, a young lady raised as an only child who founds, on the eve of her mother‘s death, that she is adopted and has a family. What Paula does not know is that she has an identical twin sister, the wicked Taís, who is as ambitious and unscrupulous as the man who becomes her main ally, Olavo Novaes. Antenor, for his part, decides on having an heir when he meets the headstrong and honest Lúcia, a woman who will make this cold businessman find true love is and a real reason to live.
Tropical Paradise
2007
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Chico Anysio Show
1982
7.4Twin sisters with contrasting personalities, Ruth and Raquel, rival in the fictional Pontal D'Areia, on the coast of Rio de Janeiro.
Secrets of Sand
1993
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Большая засада
1995
6.7An orphaned young man raised in the wild by an indigenous shaman is found by his grandfather and returned to his estranged family, where he finds himself as heir to their wealth.
Uga-Uga
2000
8.5No synopsis available yet.
Kananga do Japão
1989
7.0Maria Augusta, Maria José, and Maria da Glória reunite in Rio after studying together in Switzerland and prove their friendship despite many twists and turns, crimes, and romances.
As Três Marias
1980
7.3Follows the story of six young individuals who work hard to achieve their dreams and also dream of loving someone special and being loved as well. Amora, Bento and Fabio were raised at an orphanage at Capo Verde by Gilson and his wife, Selma. They each took their own path in life when Amora was adopted by actress Barbara Ellen, Fabio with a broke family in the countryside and Bento grew up to become a florist in a cooperative with Gilson, Selma and Giane, a childhood friend Who secretly has a crush on him. Amora becomes a famous model and media personality and socialite Who is brattish and vain, and Malú, her adoptive sister is a responsible, simple and down to earth University student who is unloved by Barbara Ellen who considers her a mistake.
Tangled Hearts
2013
6.7Little Missy, daughter of the slave owner Colonel Ferreira, falls in love with the lawyer Rodolfo Fontes. Together they face the difficulties in the campaign for the abolition of slavery.
Little Missy
2006
5.3No synopsis available yet.
Você Decide
1992
7.6To defend the humble Soró Sereno in a traffic accident, the mysterious Ciro Cerqueira, a bus driver, ends up getting involved with the traditional italian family of Mamma Vittoria Cantarelli, owner of a chain of canteens in which he starts to work as an executive, and is torn between the love of the matriarch's granddaughters, the responsible Luísa and the seductive Bruna, a woman who spares no effort to get what she wants.
Pão-Pão, Beijo-Beijo
1983
8.8Herculano Quintanilha, after a failed coup and escape from prison, becomes a magician. He meets Márcio, a conflicted heir, and begins to influence his powerful family.
O Astro
1977
8.7No synopsis available yet.
Dona Beija
1986
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Sétimo Sentido
1982
10.0Antônio is on his deathbed after helping a Black man escape his own father's plantation. Before dying, Antônio asks his father, Judge Queiroz Antunes, to raise the young enslaved boy, Bento, as his own son.
Pacto de Sangue
1989
7.2The cunning Senator Petrônio Paranhos gives an interview to the beautiful journalist Magali Santanna, who is interested only in his affair with Arlete—an ambitious young woman intent on conceiving the older man's child via in vitro fertilization. To land this scoop, Magali agreed to interview the politician in a motel room, a condition he had insisted upon. However, Paranhos suffers a sudden collapse and dies during the interview. Detective Aristênio Catanduva, who had been keeping the senator under surveillance, investigates the case. Known by the codename "Araponga," he is a bumbling figure working for the Federal Police following his long service to the military regime.
Araponga
1990
7.7The famous psychologist Teca falls in love with the widower Renato, father of one of her patients. The romance awakens the jealousy of Stela, who harbors an unhealthy passion for Renato, her brother-in-law.
Ripped Sin
1978
7.7A hardworking market vendor, Mrs. Xepa faces many sacrifices to raise her children alone. However, as they achieve social advancement, they begin to feel ashamed of their mother.
Dona Xepa
1977
No synopsis available yet.
Camomila e Bem-Me-Quer
1972
No synopsis available yet.
Vila do Arco
1975
7.0Salome returns to Sao Paulo from Paris to scandalize a conservative society and her own family with desire to be free. She meets Duda, who is already involved romantically with Salome's mother, Santa
Salomé
1991
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Tudo ou Nada
1986
9.0The central theme of the soap opera is the struggle for political control in the interior of Bahia between the two most powerful *coronéis* (landowning bosses) of the cocoa region: Sinhô Badaró and Horácio da Silveira. Virgílio, an ambitious lawyer, is summoned to the town by Colonel Horácio but ends up becoming involved with Ester, the colonel's wife. Captain João Magalhães is a card sharp who poses as a military engineer, successfully deceiving the entire town. He falls in love with Sinhô Badaró's daughter, Donana. By the end of the story, he reveals that he had only gotten close to the Badarós out of opportunism. After numerous clashes with Sinhô Badaró, Colonel Horácio secures political power in the town of Ferradas, with the acknowledgment of the local population.
Terras do Sem Fim
1981
7.0A doctor falls in love with a patient with a tragic past, amidst the social injustices of the construction of the Madeira-Mamoré railroad in the Amazon.
Mad Maria
2005
8.5The story of Domitila de Castro Canto e Melo, the Marquise of Santos, the most famous of the mistresses of Dom Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil.
Marquesa de Santos
1984
NRColégio Brasil is a Brazilian children's telenovela produced by JPO Produções and broadcast by SBT from May 6 to September 20, 1996. Written by Yoya Wursch and directed by Roberto Talma and José Paulo Vallone, the telenovela was produced in partnership with JPO Produções and had 117 episodes. It stars Giuseppe Oristanio, Maria Padilha, Taumaturgo Ferreira, Patrícia de Sabrit, Paulo Nigro, Ana Kutner, Ittala Nandi, Cláudia Lira, Edwin Luisi, Afonso Nigro, and Fausto Maule. The story takes place at Colégio Brasil, a school where students and teachers experience friendships, conflicts, discoveries, and challenges of adolescence. The plot follows Nair, a strict and bitter school inspector marked by a painful past, and the lives of students who deal with issues such as friendship, relationships, teenage conflicts, sexuality, safe sex, and pregnancy. The telenovela combines drama and comedy while portraying the everyday life of young people in a school environment.
Colégio Brasil
1996
No synopsis available yet.
Canção para Isabel
1976
NRBrutal murders take set during the new production of "Marilia De Dirceu" at the Theatro Municipal in Rio De Janeiro. When Cristina Andreatti, daughter of famous Brazilian musician - Gastão Andreatti, takes the lead role, replacing La Carlota Alencastro, Cristina falls on the hands of a mysterious masked man who claims to be Alfredo do Vale, a musician who was killed in a brutal accident years ago.
O Fantasma da Ópera
1991
7.0In the newsroom of Folha Popular, Waldomiro Pena and his team investigate crimes that are shaking Rio de Janeiro while dealing with the pressure from the new editor Serra and the competition for news.
Plantão de Polícia
1979
No synopsis available yet.
O Cometa
1989
8.0'Abolição' shows how much the liberation of the enslaved transformed the structures of Brazilian society, both in the countryside and in the city, and the changes generated in the lives of black people themselves. The narrative is centered on the period in which the Lei Áurea was about to be signed by Princess Isabel, on May 13, 1888. At that time, the abolitionist theme was widely discussed in urban centers, while in rural areas slavery relations were still established. The enslaved Iná Inerã, spiritual leader and warrior, represents the fight to maintain African identity at any price, paid with her own life, if necessary. Journalist Lucas, in turn, is a freed black man who believes in peaceful integration between whites and blacks.
Abolição
1988
7.5After suffering a plane crash, Leo receives a blood transfusion and, some time later, discovers that he ended up contracting the AIDS virus. Desperate, he does his best to find out the identity of the bearer of the blood he received, and suffers from the prejudice of friends and people close to him.
O Portador
1991
8.5No synopsis available yet.
Tudo em Cima
1985
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Cuecas de Plantão
2010



