Joana Maria Fomm (born September 14, 1939) is a Brazilian actress.

Biography

Joana Fomm was born in

Belo Horizonte Belo Horizonte (, ; ) is the sixth-largest city in Brazil, with a population around 2.7 million and with a metropolitan area of 6 million people. It is the 13th-largest city in South America and the 18th-largest in the Americas. The metropol ...

, but her mother died when she was still a baby and she was adopted by her uncles in

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...

Career

Joana began her acting career at the Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro in 1961, while still a student at Escola de Arte Dramática Martins Pena. She debuted in film in 1962 in '' O Quinto Poder'' by

Alberto Pieralisi Alberto is the Romance version of the Latinized form (''Albertus'') of Germanic ''Albert''. It is used in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The diminutive forms are ''Albertito'' in Spain or ''Albertico'' in some parts of Latin America, Albertin ...

. In 1964, she made her first television appearance on TV Rio in the

telenovela A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America. The word combines ''tele'' (for "television") and ''novela'' (meaning "novel"). Similar drama genres around the world include '' teleserye'' ...

''O Desconhecido'', written by Nelson Rodrigues. She won the APCA Award for Best Actress in Television in 1978, and the

Candango for Best Actress Candango for Best Actress is an award given to movie actresses annually at the Brasilia Film Festival (Festival de Brasília do Cinema Brasileiro). Besides the statuette "Candango" winning receive a prize of R$ 15 000. History The first actr ...

in 1990.

Selected television

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Magnifica 70 ''Magnifica 70'' is a 2015 Brazilian television drama aired on HBO Brasil, that ran for three series from 2015 to 2018. Set in 1970s Brazil, "a staid erotica censor falls in love with a film star, who remimds him of an obsessive love from the p ...

'' (2015–16)

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* Brazilian telenovela actresses People from Belo Horizonte Brazilian television actresses Brazilian film actresses Brazilian stage actresses Living people 1940 births {{Brazil-actor-stub