Luiz Fernando Guimarães

Acting

Luiz Fernando Guimarães

Born

1949-11-28 (76)

Place of birth

Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Known for

Acting

Credits

51 titles

Luiz Fernando Guimarães (Rio de Janeiro, November 28, 1949) is a Brazilian actor and comedian.

Known for

Three Graces poster
8.1

Gerluce became pregnant as a teenager and, just like her mother, Lígia, she raised her child alone. Now, Gerluce watches her daughter Joélly become the third generation of the family to go through the same situation. Besides the impact that teenage pregnancy brings to the whole family, the three Marias das Graças must deal with Lígia’s worsening health.

Three Graces

2025

Uga-Uga poster
6.7

An 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

Brava Gente poster
8.3

Brava Gente was a television series aired by TV Globo in Brazil between 2000 and 2003, initially as a special year-end. The program was adapted from stories and national stories, and plays by famous playwrights, screenwriters and signed by a number represented by several actors and actresses. The genres of the stories varied each week with the style of each director or author. Brava Gente in the stories ranged from comedies and dramas. In all 53 episodes were shown, broadcast on Tuesday nights.

Brava Gente

2000

Crashing Into the Future poster
5.2

The Sabino Machado family, their slaves and entourage spend years frozen in the ocean after a shipwreck in 1886. They wake up gradually, one by one, and must learn to deal with the technology and the human idiosyncrasies of the present times. Among cultural and temporal shocks, "the frozen ones" encounter improbable friendships, romances and greedy people, while fighting prejudices that not even time was able to eradicate.

Crashing Into the Future

2018

The Enchanted Tale poster
8.1

The Enchanted Tale is an epic telenovela encircled by castles, kings and outlaws that tells a majestic love story between Azucena and Jesuino: two noble spirited young people who are unaware of their true origins. Beautiful Azucena and her hero Jesuíno go through many adventures in their determination to stay together.

The Enchanted Tale

2011

De Quina Pra Lua poster
8.0

For 30 years, José João Batista—better known as Zezão—worked for the same company. After being forced into retirement by the board, he is left bitter and resentful, only to win a major lottery prize. However, he never collects the winnings, as he is struck and killed by a vehicle beforehand; the winning ticket ends up being buried with him. Angelina, Zezão’s wife, and their four children—Pedro, Jesus, André, and Maria de Fátima—search everywhere for the ticket, until Angelina has a vision of her late husband. In the vision, he reveals that he was buried with the ticket, which was tucked into the pocket of his suit jacket. Angelina then decides to exhume Zezão’s body. When the coffin is opened, the family discovers the corpse wearing only his underwear and concludes that the ticket has been stolen. This sets the stage for the soap opera's main plot: the search for the missing ticket.

De Quina Pra Lua

1985

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina poster
5.0

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.

Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina

2021

Quem é Morto Sempre Aparece poster
8.0

A charming con man and a debt-ridden doorman see the death of a millionaire as their chance to get rich. But the perfect scam turns into a series of disasters for the duo.

Quem é Morto Sempre Aparece

2025

The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus poster
9.0

For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to historical chronology but soon starts to move backwards and forward. The various pasts – the 60s, the 80s, the 2000s – comment on each other in a way that sheds light on Bressane’s themes and obsessions, which become increasingly apparent and finally, a whole idea of cinema reveals itself to the curious and patient viewer. Will Bressane, from now on, rework The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus when he makes another film? Is this his latest beginning? Why not, for the eternally young master maverick seems to embark on a maiden voyage with each and every new film!

The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus

2023

Falas da Vida poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Falas da Vida

2025

2010s · 7 titles

2000s · 3 titles

1990s · 3 titles

1980s · 8 titles

The Seven Kittens poster
6.1

Noronha is a low middle-class civil servant who lives with his frustrated wife Gorda and their four eldest daughters. The youngest one, virginal Silene, is unexpectedly sent back from boarding school after killing a female cat and her seven newborns in a hysterical fit. Many dark family secrets will emerge from that episode leading to tragic events.

The Seven Kittens

1980

Engraçadinha poster
5.4

After the funeral of her father Arnaldo, who committed suicide, Engraçadinha confesses to the priest the motives. On the engagement party of her cousin Sílvio with Letícia, Engraçadinha seduces him in the library, and later she ends her engagement with Zózimo and lies to Letícia, telling that she is pregnant. Letícia decides to tell Arnaldo what happened, and he says that the child can not be born. He exposes dirty secrets to Engraçadinha, and a tragedy is announced.

Engraçadinha

1981

O Grande Mentecapto poster
6.5

Geraldo Viramundo is a nice guy with absurd ideas. Viramundo becomes a priest, politician, soldier, and revolutionary in his quest for freedom and justice. A wanderer and playful character, he travels through various cities in search of his beloved Marília. He sees the world through the eyes of the underprivileged, and it is with prostitutes, beggars, and the insane that he embarks on a great march to the Palace of Liberty in Belo Horizonte, where the seat of the state government is located.

O Grande Mentecapto

1989

Bar Esperanza poster
6.2

A group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro.

Bar Esperanza

1983

Brás Cubas poster
6.5

Irreverent adaptation of great writer Machado de Assis's masterpiece "Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas" ("Brás Cubas's Posthumous Memories"). A dead man tells about his love life and adventures, specially his affair with Virgília, a dubious married woman.

Brás Cubas

1985

Assaltaram a Gramática poster
NR

Through performatic acts and some exposition, a group of poets of that 1980's generation make great use of words, poems and rebellious acts criticizing the then current generation and its lack of admiration for the poetic works that were being created.

Assaltaram a Gramática

1984

Dedé Mamata poster
4.4

Dede (Guilherne Fontes) is a Brazilian teen who lives with his middle-class grandparents who are members of the local communist party. When his grandmother dies, his grandfather's health soon fades to the point where he can't speak or walk. The local party officials ask Dede to continue to family tradition and take over his grandfather's position of social authority, but when Dede is introduced to cocaine by his best friend Alpino (Marcos Palmeira), the attraction to drugs is more appealing to him than political activism.

Dedé Mamata

1988

Areias Escaldantes poster
6.0

In the near future, in the country of Kali, a group of young terrorists carry out robberies, kidnappings and murders under the orders of a mysterious big boss known as "Entity" and are pursued by the pompous and inefficient Special Police.

Areias Escaldantes

1985

1970s · 4 titles

Series credits

Three Graces poster
8.1

Gerluce became pregnant as a teenager and, just like her mother, Lígia, she raised her child alone. Now, Gerluce watches her daughter Joélly become the third generation of the family to go through the same situation. Besides the impact that teenage pregnancy brings to the whole family, the three Marias das Graças must deal with Lígia’s worsening health.

Three Graces

2025

Uga-Uga poster
6.7

An 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

Brava Gente poster
8.3

Brava Gente was a television series aired by TV Globo in Brazil between 2000 and 2003, initially as a special year-end. The program was adapted from stories and national stories, and plays by famous playwrights, screenwriters and signed by a number represented by several actors and actresses. The genres of the stories varied each week with the style of each director or author. Brava Gente in the stories ranged from comedies and dramas. In all 53 episodes were shown, broadcast on Tuesday nights.

Brava Gente

2000

Crashing Into the Future poster
5.2

The Sabino Machado family, their slaves and entourage spend years frozen in the ocean after a shipwreck in 1886. They wake up gradually, one by one, and must learn to deal with the technology and the human idiosyncrasies of the present times. Among cultural and temporal shocks, "the frozen ones" encounter improbable friendships, romances and greedy people, while fighting prejudices that not even time was able to eradicate.

Crashing Into the Future

2018

The Enchanted Tale poster
8.1

The Enchanted Tale is an epic telenovela encircled by castles, kings and outlaws that tells a majestic love story between Azucena and Jesuino: two noble spirited young people who are unaware of their true origins. Beautiful Azucena and her hero Jesuíno go through many adventures in their determination to stay together.

The Enchanted Tale

2011

De Quina Pra Lua poster
8.0

For 30 years, José João Batista—better known as Zezão—worked for the same company. After being forced into retirement by the board, he is left bitter and resentful, only to win a major lottery prize. However, he never collects the winnings, as he is struck and killed by a vehicle beforehand; the winning ticket ends up being buried with him. Angelina, Zezão’s wife, and their four children—Pedro, Jesus, André, and Maria de Fátima—search everywhere for the ticket, until Angelina has a vision of her late husband. In the vision, he reveals that he was buried with the ticket, which was tucked into the pocket of his suit jacket. Angelina then decides to exhume Zezão’s body. When the coffin is opened, the family discovers the corpse wearing only his underwear and concludes that the ticket has been stolen. This sets the stage for the soap opera's main plot: the search for the missing ticket.

De Quina Pra Lua

1985

Cambalacho poster
8.4

The story follows the lives of Naná and Gegê, a pair of con artists. Gegê is the uncle of Tina Pepper, a Tina Turner fan who dreams of becoming a famous singer.

Cambalacho

1986

Vereda Tropical poster
7.8

The story revolves around the conflicts within Silvana and Oliva's family—her mother and paternal grandfather—who are fighting for custody of Zeca after the child's father dies.

Vereda Tropical

1984

Armação Ilimitada poster
7.9

Partners Juba and Lula are up for any challenge. Living together, they embark on adventures and radiate vitality. Everything changes when they meet and fall in love with young reporter Zelda Scott.

Armação Ilimitada

1985

TV Pirata poster
8.0

TV Pirata was a weekly Brazilian comedy show aired on Rede Globo between 1988 and 1990, being re-aired monthly in 1992. Some of the writers later went on to form the comedy troupe Casseta & Planeta. The show was first aired in April 1988 to fill a gap on Rede Globo's Tuesday night prime time line-up and its comedy was inspired by sketch comedy shows such as Saturday Night Live and Monty Python's Flying Circus with a no-nonsense approach to Brazilian comedy; however, it mixed a new style of comedy with elements of Brazilian culture such as football, politics, pop culture, telenovelas, economics and celebrities. No well-known figure or member of any economical or social class was spared from the show's cutting edge humor. The premise of the show was a TV studio being invaded by pirates who took over the programming department and put a tape on the air with some "unusual" programming. Another new element to Brazilian audiences was the performers, who weren't the usual comedic actors, but dramatic actors doing more comedic roles.

TV Pirata

1988

A Comédia da Vida Privada poster
8.5

Amidst romances, missed connections, family crises, and situations that feel all too familiar, "Comédias da Vida Privada" transforms the everyday lives of the Brazilian middle class into stories brimming with humor, wit, and relatability.

A Comédia da Vida Privada

1994

Decadence poster
8.2

Expelled from the mansion where he was raised, driver Mariel becomes wealthy as a religious leader, while the Tavares Branco family goes into financial ruin.

Decadence

1995

Minha Nada Mole Vida poster
7.0

The turmoils of a messy entertainment television host, his production team, and his dysfunctional family.

Minha Nada Mole Vida

2006

Astral Journey poster
7.7

Two celebrities with the same zodiac sign embark on an astral journey to the past, present and future led by Angélica and astrologers Paula Pires and Vítor diCastro.

Astral Journey

2021

Astral Journey poster
7.7

Two celebrities with the same zodiac sign embark on an astral journey to the past, present and future led by Angélica and astrologers Paula Pires and Vítor diCastro.

Astral Journey

2021

Divertics poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Divertics

2013

Os Normais poster
7.8

A "normal" couple are living a "normal" life together, but they have many complaints about themselves and each other.

Os Normais

2001

Dicas de um Sedutor poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Dicas de um Sedutor

2008

Brasil Legal poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Brasil Legal

1994

Suíte Magnólia poster
8.0

One place, in two eras: in 2020, three heirs of an abandoned property decide to recover it. In 1985, the property was the scene of passions, episodes of violence and solidarity adventures.

Suíte Magnólia

2024

Comediantes que Amamos poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Comediantes que Amamos

2022

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Asdrúbal trouxe o Trombone

2017