Maitê Proença
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| Maitê Proença | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 28, 1958 São Paulo  Brazil |
| Occupation | actress |
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Maitê Proença Gallo (b. São Paulo, 28 January 1959) is a Brazilian actress.
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[edit] Biography
Maitê Proença was born in São Paulo, Brazil in 1959. Her grandparents were both Portuguese. As a child, Maitê studied in the American School. She attended the undergraduate psychology programme at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo dropping out a short time later. Between 1977 and 1978 she traveled around the world to Europe, Asia and Africa. She was in more than 30 countries. In 1979 Maitê had a car accident. She was submitted to two surgeries and had to stay in bed for almost a year. Maitê briefly attended a number of courses at the Sorbonne in the end of the 1970s and meet her ex-husband Paulo in 1982. She is divorced from Paulo Marinho, the father of her only daughter, Maria Pratt Marino, born in 1990. She has worked on Brazilian soap operas and films. Her role in the soap opera Dona Beija was her first big TV success in both Brazil and Portugal. She is a writer and has a column in the Brazilian magazine Época. A book was released with the best of her essays. Her mother was Margot Proença, a philosophy and music teacher who died when Maitê was 12. Her father was Eduardo Gallo (died in 1989). She posed for the Brazilian Playboy on February 1987, and in 1996, Maitê posed for Playboy again. In 2005 she published her first book: Entre ossos e a escrita. She has been also a tv host for Video Show (1983), Programa de Domingo (1987) and Saia Justa (2006/2007). In 2006 Maitê wrote her first theater play Achadas e Perdidas. In 2002 she made her debut as a theater producer with the play Buda. She has a younger brother, René Augusto Proença Gallo ("Guto"), born in 1963.[1]
[edit] Controversy
In October 2009 a homemade video circulated the Internet, in which she allegedly expressed jest at the streets and monuments of Portugal and mimicked a statue that spat water located at the Jerónimos Monastery. Proença explored a popular Brazilian prank - the Portuguese jokes (anedotas de português), where the Portuguese people and the Portuguese Brazilian community are always referred to as dumb people. The video, made in 2007, was broadcast in Portuguese TV channels two years after it was first aired in a Brazilian television show, Saia Justa, of which the actress was one of the hosts,[2] and prompted public outrage in Portugal,[3] while the actress has been accused of being lusophobic and showing a lack of knowledge of Portuguese culture and history. She has since then denied the accusation and recorded several apologies,[4] as well as issuing one on her official blog, where she explained that she had no intention of ridiculing Portugal or the Portuguese people. Proença emphasized that she is from recent Portuguese ancestry through both her grandparents (Proença and Gallo families).[5]
[edit] Filmography
[edit] Telenovela
- Sinha Moca (1986)
- Felicidade (1991)
- Dona Beija (1996)
- Gotita de Amor (1998)
- Abrazames Muy Fuerte (2000)
- Faca Sua Historia (2008)
[edit] Films
- Kuarup (1989)
- The Forest (2002)
[edit] References
- ^ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0698458/bio Biography for Maitê Proença], IMDb
- ^ Actriz cai em desgraça
- ^ Maitê Proença - Que tal proibir-lhe a entrada no País?
- ^ Maitê Proença grava pedido de desculpas aos portugueses
- ^ Maitê Proença - official blog
[edit] External links
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