Acting

Lú Mendonça

Born

1951-07-29 (75)

Place of birth

Natividade, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Known for

Acting

Credits

17 titles

Known for

Pages of Life poster
6.5

Nanda must rethink her plansof studying in Amsterdam when she discovers she is pregnant. After losing the support of her boyfriend Léo, the young girl decides to return home, where she suffers a serious accident and dies.However, Helena, her doctor, is able to save her new-born twins: Francisco and Clara. Unfortunately, Clara suffers from Downs Syndrome. Helena feels a strong emotional tie to Clara and adopts her.Years later, the twins’father Léo, a young and wealthy businessman, returns to the scene, wanting to gain custody of the children.However, Helena and Alex fight to the end to retain guardianship of the twins, whom they have raised with such love.

Pages of Life

2006

Secrets of Sand poster
7.4

Twin 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

Pátria Minha poster
8.1

Four stories intertwine, revolving around moral dilemmas of life in society. A secret unites student Alice and mega-businessman Raul Pelegrini, who are major ideological opponents.

Pátria Minha

1994

Old River poster
7.9

A great love story, a family rivalry that spans generations: the telenovela narrates the love for the São Francisco River, which is revealed in the feelings between Maria Tereza and Santo.

Old River

2016

Lua Cheia de Amor poster
7.5

The determined Genuína dreams of the return of Diego, the father of her children Rodrigo and Mercedes, who reject their mother's origins. Diego reappears with a different identity and changes Genu's destiny.

Lua Cheia de Amor

1990

Pedra Sobre Pedra poster
6.6

To get revenge on her ex-fiancé Murilo Pontes, Pilar marries his rival, Jerônimo Batista. 25 years later, Pilar and Murilo deal with the passion between their children, Marina and Leonardo.

Pedra Sobre Pedra

1992

Film credits

Series credits

Pages of Life poster
6.5

Nanda must rethink her plansof studying in Amsterdam when she discovers she is pregnant. After losing the support of her boyfriend Léo, the young girl decides to return home, where she suffers a serious accident and dies.However, Helena, her doctor, is able to save her new-born twins: Francisco and Clara. Unfortunately, Clara suffers from Downs Syndrome. Helena feels a strong emotional tie to Clara and adopts her.Years later, the twins’father Léo, a young and wealthy businessman, returns to the scene, wanting to gain custody of the children.However, Helena and Alex fight to the end to retain guardianship of the twins, whom they have raised with such love.

Pages of Life

2006

Secrets of Sand poster
7.4

Twin 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

Pátria Minha poster
8.1

Four stories intertwine, revolving around moral dilemmas of life in society. A secret unites student Alice and mega-businessman Raul Pelegrini, who are major ideological opponents.

Pátria Minha

1994

Old River poster
7.9

A great love story, a family rivalry that spans generations: the telenovela narrates the love for the São Francisco River, which is revealed in the feelings between Maria Tereza and Santo.

Old River

2016

Lua Cheia de Amor poster
7.5

The determined Genuína dreams of the return of Diego, the father of her children Rodrigo and Mercedes, who reject their mother's origins. Diego reappears with a different identity and changes Genu's destiny.

Lua Cheia de Amor

1990

Pedra Sobre Pedra poster
6.6

To get revenge on her ex-fiancé Murilo Pontes, Pilar marries his rival, Jerônimo Batista. 25 years later, Pilar and Murilo deal with the passion between their children, Marina and Leonardo.

Pedra Sobre Pedra

1992

Corpo Santo poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Corpo Santo

1987

Olho por Olho poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Olho por Olho

1988

Perdidos de Amor poster
8.0

Maria Luísa Ferreira de Albuquerque Caldas is a wealthy young woman living in a mansion in Alto Leblon. She belongs to an aristocratic Rio de Janeiro family and is engaged to Pedro Henrique Oliveira Andrade Neto. Together they form the perfect "rich kid and socialite" couple: beautiful, rich, charming, and modern. Her father is Fabiano Caldas, a nearly bankrupt businessman, but with a lot of airs, who relieves his tensions by squandering money he doesn't have on mistresses, further worsening the situation. Her mother is Eleonora, a very classy woman, but blind to the world and reality.

Perdidos de Amor

1996

Tudo ou Nada poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tudo ou Nada

1986

Riacho Doce poster
7.6

In a fishing village, Grandma Manuela, gifted with mystical powers, protects her grandson Nô from love. But the arrival of Eduarda completely changes the young man's destiny.

Riacho Doce

1990

Padre Cícero poster
8.8

When accused of disobeying Church norms and having his priestly rights suspended, Father Cícero intensifies his political activity in fulfilling his pastoral mission.

Padre Cícero

1984

Lampião e Maria Bonita poster
8.0

Lampião becomes the target of relentless persecution after the kidnapping of a foreigner. Alongside Maria Bonita, he faces challenges and persecution in the last months of his life in the cangaço.

Lampião e Maria Bonita

1982

Rabo de Saia poster
7.0

The miniseries is set in the late 1920s and tells the story of traveling salesman Quequé, who maintains three families in different fictional cities in the Northeast. Eleuzinha, from Nova União, in Pernambuco, is her husband's inseparable companion, with whom she has four children: Iraíldes, Maninho, Laide and Lili. It is with Eleuzinha that Quequé feels at ease, exercising his more liberal side.

Rabo de Saia

1984

Sombras de Julho poster
8.0

A tragedy happens when a cruel farmer forces his son to kill his best friend, son of a rival farmer's, in ambush. The crime brings about serious consequences for the two families, involved in a land dispute in Minas Gerais, a Brazilian state.

Sombras de Julho

1995