Tônia Carrero

Tônia Carrero
Born Maria Antonieta de Farias Portocarrero
(1922-08-23)August 23, 1922
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died March 3, 2018(2018-03-03) (aged 95)[1]
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Occupation Actress

Maria Antonieta Portocarrero Thedim (August 23, 1922 – March 3, 2018), known professionally as Tônia Carrero, was a Brazilian actress.[2] She was born and died in Rio de Janeiro.

Career

Tônia Carrero (1970s).

She made her theater debut at the Brazilian Theater of Comedy (TBC) in São Paulo, with the play Um Deus Dormiu Lá em Casa, opposite actor Paulo Autran. Later she formed with her husband Adolfo Celi, and Autran, the Tonia-Celi-Autran Company (CTCA), which in the 1950s and 1960s revolutionized the Brazilian theater scene by performing a wide repertoire from classical pieces by Shakespeare and Carlo Goldoni to avant-garde works such as Sartre.

Selected filmography

References

  1. "Atriz Tônia Carrero morre aos 95 anos". Folha de S.Paulo (in Portuguese). 4 March 2018. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
  2. Prestes a fazer 91 anos, Tônia Carrero está lúcida, mas quase não fala e vive reclusa (in Portuguese)


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