Dira Paes

Brazilian actress

Pablo Baião

(m. 2006)

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Ecleidira Maria Fonseca Paes (born 30 June 1968), known professionally as Dira Paes, is a Brazilian actress and television presenter. Among the numerous awards and nominations she has received, Paes won the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress at the Festival de Brasília for Corisco & Dadá and Anahy de las Misiones, respectively, as well as the Best Actress at the 2013 Grande Prêmio do Cinema Brasileiro for À Beira do Caminho.^[1]^[2]

Biography

Born in Abaetetuba, in the interior of Pará, and raised in Belém, Paes had a very simple childhood with seven siblings. She always wanted to be an actress, despite financial difficulties, she did not give up on her dream. She is of Native Brazilian, Portuguese, and African descent, and identifies herself as Amazonian cabocla.^[3]^[4]

Selected filmography

TV

Carne de Sol (1986)
Ele , O boto (1987)
Araponga (1990)
Irmãos Coragem (1995)
Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos (1998)
Chiquinha Gonzaga (1999)
Força de um Desejo (1999)
A Diarista (2004–2007)
Um Só Coração (2004)
Casos e Acasos (2008)
India – A Love Story (2009)
Zorra Total (2009)
Casseta e Planeta, Urgente (2009)
Ti Ti Ti (2010)
Fina Estampa (2011)
As Brasileiras (2012)
Salve Jorge (2012)
O Rebu (2014)
Amores Roubados (2014)
Criança Esperança (2015–2017)
Babilônia (2015)
Velho Chico (2016)
Segredos de Justiça (2017)

Films

Year	Films	Paper
1985	The Emerald Forest	Kachiri
1987	Ele, o Boto	Corina
1987	Au Bout du Rouleau	—
1990	Corpo em Delito
1994	Obra do Destino
1996	Corisco & Dadá	Dadá
1997	Anahy de las Misiones	Luna
1999	Lendas Amazônicas	—
1999	Castro Alves – Retrato Falado do Poeta	—
2000	Cronicamente Inviável	Amanda
2000	Vida e Obra de Ramiro Miguez	—
2001	O Casamento de Louise	Luiza^[5]
2002	Amarelo Manga	Kika
2002	Lua Cambará – Nas Escadarias do Palácio	Lua Cambará
2003	Noite de São João	Joana
2004	Meu Tio Matou um Cara	Cleia
2005	Celeste & Estrela	Celeste Espírito Santo
	Incuráveis	—
	2 Filhos de Francisco – A História de Zezé Di Camargo & Luciano	Helena Siqueira de Camargo
2006	Baixio das Bestas	Bela
2006	Mulheres do Brasil	Júlia
2007	Ó Paí, Ó	Psilene
2007	A Grande Família – O Filme	Marina
2008	A Festa da Menina Morta	Diana
2010	Ribeirinhos do Asfalto	Rosa
	Matinta	Walkíria
	Amazônia Caruana	Cotinha
2011	Estamos Juntos	Leonora
2011	Sudoeste	Conceição
2012	E Aí... Comeu?	Leila
2012	À Beira do Caminho	Rosa
2013	Os Amigos	Majú
2015	Órfãos do Eldorado	Florita
2015	Mulheres no Poder	Maria Pilar
2016	O País do Cinema	–
2017	Redemoinho	Toninha
2017	Lino – O Filme
2019	Divine Love

References

^ "The Dead Girl's Feast" (PDF). Cannes Film Festival. p. 6. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved March 11, 2014.
^ Fonseca, Rodrigo (November 13, 2013). "Grande Prêmio do Cinema Brasileiro 2013 consagra 'Gonzaga'". O Globo (in Portuguese).
^ "[Guia dos Curiosos]". Guia dos Curiosos. Archived from the original on September 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2017.
^ Cano, Ana Júlia (October 2018). "Dira Paes revela suas opiniões sobre a nação" (in Portuguese).
^ Cinemateca Brasileira, O Casamento de Louise ^[permanent dead link] [em linha]

External links

Media related to Dira Paes at Wikimedia Commons
Dira Paes at IMDb

Candango for Best Actress

1965 — 1969

Fernanda Montenegro (1965)
Helena Ignez (1966)
Rossana Ghessa (1967)
Irene Stefânia (1968)
Helena Ignez (1969)

1970 — 1979

Dina Sfat (1970)
Adriana Prieto (1971)
Elza Gomes (1975)
Zezé Motta (1976)
Lady Francisco (1977)
Anecy Rocha (1978)
Beyla Genauer (1979)
Edna de Cássia (1980)
Lucélia Santos (1981)
Vera Fischer
Nice Marinelli (1983)
Débora Bloch (1984)
Marcélia Cartaxo (1985)
Ana Beatriz Nogueira / Louise Cardoso (1986)
Louise Cardoso (1987)
Imara Reis / Cláudia Magno (1988)
Irene Ravache / Andréa Beltrão (1989)

1990 — 1999

Cristina Prochaska / Joana Fomm (1990)
Marieta Severo / Cláudia Jimenez (1991)
Patrícia Pillar (1992)
Maria Zilda Bethlem / Lucélia Santos / Norma Bengell (1993)
Cláudia Mello (1994)
Denise Fraga / Maitê Proença (1995)
Dira Paes (1996)
Araci Esteves (1997)
Patrícia Pillar (1998)
Fernanda Torres (1999)

2000 — 2009

Luciana Rigueira (2000)
Sabrina Greve (2001)
Débora Falabella (2002)
Ruth Rieser (2003)
Zezeh Barbosa (2004)
Arly Arnaud (2005)
Mariah Teixeira (2006)
Alessandra Negrini (2007)
Female cast of Siri-Ará (2008)
Gloria Pires (2009)

2010 — present

Melissa Dullius (2010)
Denise Fraga (2011)
Maria Luiza Tavares (2012)
Maeve Jinkings (2013)
Dandara de Morais (2014)
Marcélia Cartaxo (2015)
Maria Alice Vergueiro (2016)
Valdinéia Soriano (2017)
Grace Passô (2018)
Anne Celestino (2019)

v t e Cinema Brazil Grand Prize for Best Actress
2001—2009	Denise Fraga (2001) Regina Casé (2002) Juliana Carneiro da Cunha (2003) Marcélia Cartaxo (2004) Débora Falabella (2005) Fernanda Montenegro (2006) Alice Braga (2007) Hermila Guedes (2008) Leandra Leal (2009)
2010—present	Lília Cabral (2010) Glória Pires (2011) Deborah Secco (2012) Dira Paes (2013) Glória Pires (2014) Leandra Leal (2015) Regina Casé (2016) Andreia Horta (2017) Maria Ribeiro (2018)

v t e Gramado Film Festival Oscarito Trophy
1991–1999	Grande Otelo (1991) Walter Hugo Khouri (1992) Anselmo Duarte (1993) Alberto Ruschel (1994) Carlos Manga (1995) Cinédia (1996) José Lewgoy (1997) Nelson Pereira dos Santos (1998) Lucy Barreto / Luiz Carlos Barreto (1999)
2000–2009	Paulo José (2000) Hugo Carvana (2001) Marieta Severo (2002) Milton Gonçalves (2003) Lima Duarte (2004) Glória Menezes / Tarcísio Meira (2005) Antônio Fagundes (2006) Zezé Motta (2007) Walmor Chagas (2008) Reginaldo Faria (2009)
2010–present	Paulo César Pereio (2010) Fernanda Montenegro (2011) Betty Faria (2012) Glória Pires (2013) Flávio Migliaccio (2014) Marília Pêra (2015) Sônia Braga (2016) Dira Paes (2017) Edson Celulari (2018) Lázaro Ramos (2019)