Glória Pires

Acting

Glória Pires

Born 1963-08-23 · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Glória Maria Cláudia Pires de Morais, better known as Glória Pires (Rio de Janeiro, August 23, 1963) is a Brazilian actress and businesswoman. Known for playing Maria de Fátima in the hugely successful Vale Tudo (1988) and the twins Ruth and Raquel in the phenomenon Mulheres de Areia (1993). With a respected career in the cinema and television drama industry, she is one of the highest paid actresses in Brazil and very famous throughout Latin America. She won several awards as an actress, most notably two Grande Otelo Awards, a Press Trophy, seven APCA Awards, two Guarani Awards, two Quality Brazil Awards, as well as a Kikito from the Gramado Festival.

Acting credits

Sexa poster
6.0

Bárbara, 60, fed up with society's expectations of aging women, swears off romance to please her son. But when she falls for 35-year-old Davi, she must choose between the role imposed on her or embracing a passionate new love.

Sexa

2025

Reaching for the Moon poster
6.6

In 1951, New York poet Elizabeth Bishop travels to Rio de Janeiro to visit Mary, a college friend. The shy Elizabeth is overwhelmed by Brazilian sensuality. She is the antithesis to Mary’s dashing partner, architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Mary is jealous, but unconventional Lota is determined to have both women at all costs. This eternal triangle plays out against the backdrop of the military coup of 1964. Bishop’s moving poems are at the core of a film which lushly illustrates a crucial phase in the life of this influential Pulitzer prize-winning poet.

Reaching for the Moon

2013

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes poster
6.5

In São Paulo, Brazil, the lonely 40-something guitar teacher Baby lives a tedious life in a low middle-class apartment. She is addicted to her only companions: cigarettes. Baby has a constant conflict with her two sisters, over a couch she inherited from their deceased aunt. When Max, a restaurant musician, moves to the next door apartment, Baby has a crush on him and sees a chance to have a life again. Soon they start having a love affair, and Baby decides to quit smoking. However, her abstinence will be tough to deal with, when she notices Max still misses his ex-wife.

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

2009

Se Eu Fosse Você 3 poster
NR

Two decades after their last body swap, Cláudio and Helena are living a new phase of their lives alongside their daughter Bia, now an adult and married with Aquiles. Everything seems balanced until an unexpected situation shakes up the family dynamic and puts their relationships to the test. When lightning seems to strike the same place again, the whole family is forced to learn to put themselves in each other's shoes, in a very literal way.

Se Eu Fosse Você 3

2026

O Guarani poster
5.9

The forbidden love affair between Peri, an Indian, and the beautiful Ceci, a Portuguese white girl, in the 17th century Brazil.

O Guarani

1996

I, I, I José Lewgoy poster
7.0

Documentary discussing the life and work of José Lewgoy, one of the most important Brazilian actors of all times.

I, I, I José Lewgoy

2011

Vovó Ninja poster
NR

Arlete, who lives as a recluse and has a Zen lifestyle, is preparing to welcome her three grandchildren into her home, after not seeing them for a long time. Arlete doesn't have much intimacy or manners with the children, who are dissatisfied with spending their holidays with their grandmother in a place without internet, full of rules and household chores. After an attempted robbery there, the youngest Davi discovers that his grandmother has unusual abilities and, together with his brothers, does everything to discover what Arlete's secret is.

Vovó Ninja

2024

Tributo: Boni poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tributo: Boni

2024

The Inheritance poster
5.7

Reunited for their mother’s funeral, four sisters – Selma, Regina, Laura and Lúcia – find themselves forced to divide much more than an apartment in Copacabana. While dividing the articles, the sisters compare options, destinies, lifestyles, and expectations. The turbulent sale of the apartment represents a turning point in their lives: they know they have never been so deeply involved as accomplices, or as sisters.

The Inheritance

2001

If I Were You 2 poster
6.1

Claudio and Helena are on the verge of breaking up, until the couple experiences another strange phenomenon that looks to help them understand one another more.

If I Were You 2

2009

If I Were You poster
6.4

The publicist Claudio and the housewife and choral teacher Helena have been married for many years, but they do not understand and respect the feelings and view point of the partner. Claudio sees Helena as a shopper and "little teacher of a choral" and Helena sees Claudio as an insensitive and rough man. On the night before the fiftieth anniversary of Claudio, they changed places with each other.

If I Were You

2006

Primo Basílio poster
5.3

Luísa is a romantic, dreamy and delicate young woman married to Jorge, an engineer, a man of good habits and good economic conditions. They didn't know each other well, but got married and Luísa was a good wife, "she was clean and happy as a bird". Everything get changed when she meets a childhood love, her cousin Basílio. What seemed to be a great adventure will became a nightmare and Luísa will discover the price of her infidelity.

Primo Basílio

2007

Lula, the Son of Brazil poster
5.4

The true story of a working class boy who moves to the nation's financial capital at a young age and becomes one the most influential politicians in Brazilian history.

Lula, the Son of Brazil

2010

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Gloria 50

Show 60 Anos poster
7.8

No synopsis available yet.

Show 60 Anos

2025

Jorge, um Brasileiro poster
5.8

After arguing with his ex-girlfriend, truck driver Jorge hits the road again, while remembering the past and questioning his friendship with his manipulative boss.

Jorge, um Brasileiro

1988

Memories of Prison poster
6.8

In the 1930s, novelist and politician Graciliano Ramos is accused of being a communist sympathizer. He is then arrested and sent to the Ilha Grande prison, where he experiences the disturbing treatment reserved for common prisoners.

Memories of Prison

1984

Nise: The Heart of Madness poster
8.1

After being released from prison, Dr. Nise da Silveira is back at work in a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro where she refuses to employ the new and violent electroshock in the treatment of schizophrenics. Ridiculed by doctors, she is forced to take on the abandoned Sector for Occupational Therapy, where she would start a revolution through paintings, animals and love.

Nise: The Heart of Madness

2016

Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional poster
NR

"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."

Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional

1997

Desapega! poster
4.6

Rita must learn to deal with her increased shopping compulsion after the news that her daughter wants to leave.

Desapega!

2023

The Quartet poster
6.3

The story of two immigrant couples: Teresa and Angelo; Pierina and Massimo. While fighting for survival in the new world, the unexpected love of Massimo and Teresa appears. They react against family and cultural traditions and leave to a new destiny, leaving their partners. Quatrilho is the name of a card game in wich the player have to betray his partner in order to become the champion.

The Quartet

1995

Tributo: Dennis Carvalho poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tributo: Dennis Carvalho

2025

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tristeza em Pó

Drop Dead Gorgeous poster
5.4

Paula, a famous plastic surgeon, applies an experimental formula to herself that promises to completely eliminate cellulite. However, she ends up dying shortly after the test. Now, with the help of a medium, the doctor returns to Earth to try to stop her greedy ex-partner from putting the harmful product on the market.

Drop Dead Gorgeous

2015

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