Avenida Brasil returns to the small screen and we will show how 15+ actors are doing today

One of the soap operas that had the most audience in the country began this month to be repeated on “Vale a Pena Ver de Novo” on Rede Globo. To help fans remember, we brought the main characters of this memorable plot. We will also show how they are today and their most recent work on the small screen or big screen. Stay with us and enjoy the TBT of this delicious plot.

O awesome.club You know how much Brazilians love a good telenovela and, with that in mind, we’ve brought you the 16 most important characters in the plot and what they’ve done recently. Don’t forget to check the bonus at the end it shows some interesting curiosities.

Adriana Esteves played Carminha, the villain of “Avenida Brasil” who did everything to get rich. She won 10 of the 11 awards she was nominated for for outstanding work on the plot. Last year, she was one of the protagonists of the Globoplay streaming series “Assédio”, her character Stela is a woman who seeks the doctor Roger Sadala to get pregnant and is raped by him.

The actor, who acted for the first time on the small screen in the soap opera “Fera Ferida”, was in the plot the former footballer Jorge Araújo, better known as Tufão, who married the widow Carminha. His last job was in 2018 when he played Adriano, the mayor of the city of São Miguel, in the series “E se eu closing o Olhos Agora” from the streaming Net Now and he is recording, on Globo, the next soap opera at 9 pm.

Actress Débora Falabella, well known for her work in “Chiquititas” and “Escrava Isaura”, began her career in the 1990s and has already accumulated two dozen awards. In the soap opera “Avenida Brasil” she played the adult Rita, who went to work at the house of the ex-stepmother Carminha under the name of Nina, to take revenge on the vixen who killed her father. Her last work was in the Globoplay series called “Aruanas”, which debuted in July.

Little Mel Maia played the protagonist Ritinha, the orphan girl who was left to live in the dump and was later adopted by Mother Lucinda. Her acting show saw her nominated for 6 awards, winning 3 of them. Today, the brilliant actress is Cássia in the soap opera “A Dona do Pedaço”, a teenager who has problems with her father and ends up getting involved with a pedophile she met on the internet.

Cauã Reymond was Jorginho, one of the protagonists of the plot, who grew up with Rita in the dump and found the girl again later. Son of Carminha, he discovered many secrets of his life throughout the soap opera. The actor, who started as a model at age 18, was, in 2019, the protagonist of the series “Ilha de Ferro”, shown by Globoplay with 12 episodes in two seasons.

The actor, who began his career in the late 1980s, brilliantly played the role of the lover and partner of Carminha, one of the main characters. After many other works on the small screen and big screen, he played, in 2018, the also villainous Sampaio in the soap opera “O Sétimo Guardião”. The character was a henchman of sorts who was able to bury a man alive for money.

Vera Holtz’s character was a charitable woman who lived in the dump and adopted several needy children from the place. She raised Rita, who was dumped in the dump by her stepmother, and had a big secret that was only discovered at the end. Her last and brilliant work on TV was as Ofélia in “Pride and Passion”, a woman who lived looking for good marriages for her daughters, with the help of the matchmaker Ema.

José de Abreu is an actor who has already acted in the extinct Rede Manchete and today is part of the cast of Rede Globo. In this successful plot, he was Nilo, a man who lived in the dump and exploited children to get money without much effort. After this great success, he did great work on TV and in the cinema, and today he is the rich and womanizing businessman Otávio in the 9 pm soap opera, “A Dona do Pedaço”.

Eliane Giardini is a Brazilian actress who began her career at the age of 17. In the telenovela, she was the mother of the main character (Tufão), and had a complicated relationship with her husband and later with her new boyfriend. The magnificent actress recently played an expatriate who left her family in the East to join her love and live in Brazil. An interpretation show in the 6 pm soap opera, “Orphans of the Earth”.

Marcos Caruso played Leleco, a secondary character who was so well done that he stood out in the plot with his good humor and his comings and goings with his wife. Since 2015, this experienced and eclectic actor has played the character Seu Peru in the remake of “Escolinha do Professor Raimundo”, a character originally created for actor Orlando Drummond.

Crucible, character played by Alexandre Borges, lived the adventures with his wife and two mistresses. The actor’s most recent work, which began in the theater in 1985, was the malandro Quinzão in the soap opera “Verão 90”, which ended in July of this year. He was the husband of the authoritarian Mercedes (Totia Meireles) and the father of Quinzinho and Gisela.

Débora Bloch was Verônica, wife of investor Cadinho, and at the beginning of the soap opera, she had no idea that her husband had two mistresses. The actress, who has been acting since the 1980s, worked this year on the Globo series “Segunda Chamada” which premiered now, in October, on Globo. In the plot, she plays Lúcia, a dedicated Portuguese teacher who is emotionally involved with the students’ reality.

Camila Morgado started acting in 2000 in the theater; in 2012 she went to Noêmia in Avenida Brasil, one of the girlfriends of businessman Cadinho. Her most recent work was in the teen soap opera “Malhação: Vidas Brasileiras” in the role of educator Gabi. She also recorded scenes as singer Rita Lee in the series “Hebe”, which has not yet been released, but is expected to premiere in 2020.

Actress and former model Carolina Ferraz played one of the women of the character Cadinho (Alexandre Borges). With a career spanning more than 30 years, she played her last role in the film “A Glória e a Graça” in 2017. On the big screen she is Glória, a transvestite who won at life, but who years later discovers that her sister Graça is on the verge of of death. From then on, they decide to resume the previously broken family relationship.

Actor and dancer from São Paulo, Aílton Graça, who began his career in 2003 in the film “Carandiru”, was Silas in “Avenida Brasil”. In the plot, he loved the hairdresser Monalisa (Heloísa Périssé) and claimed to have a terminal illness so that she would feel sorry for them and they would end up getting married. His last work was in the soap opera “O Sétimo Guardião”, where he played Father Ramiro, a religious man who liked funk music.

The actress from Minas Gerais was a model and at the age of 19 she began her career playing the demure Ana do Véu in the remake of “Sinhá Moça”. In the plot “Avenida Brasil” she was the seductive and uninhibited Suelen who wanted to be famous at any cost. In her latest work, she was Tereza Pugliesi, wife of singer Wilson Simonal (Fabrício Boliveira) in the film “Simonal”, which premiered in August of this year.

It was nominated for 118 awards and won 41 of them; It was Globo’s best-selling soap opera in other countries, no less than 130 countries, and translated into 19 languages; In Argentina, the last chapter of the soap opera (07/07/2014), which was bought by the Argentine broadcaster Telefé, brought together more than 6 thousand people at the Luna Park stadium and had the presence of some actors: “Carmina”, “Jorgito” and “Carlitos”; At least 2 couples formed backstage: Débora Nascimento and José Loreto, Murilo Benício and Débora Falabella; unfortunately all two are separated; The last chapter of the soap opera stopped the country on 10/19/2012: 72% of televisions turned on in homes were broadcasting the soap opera; The opening song of the soap opera “Vem Dançar com Tudo” by Roberto Moura & Lino Krizz had more than 300,000 views on YouTube Globo; The hashtag #Oioioi happened daily, several times a day, on Twitter; Fans reproduced many memes with the phrase: “It’s all Rita’s fault🇧🇷 The makeup of the dumpster characters took up to 2 hours to give the effect of dirt, sweat and yellowed teeth; The dump was a set and was copied from a carioca landfill in the city of Duque de Caxias; Actors like Débora Falabella, Nathalia Dill, Heloisa Périssé and Fabiula Nascimento had to take classes to interpret their characters’ professions well.

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