Manuel Maria Soares Pêra (16 November 1894 – 11 August 1967) was a Portuguese actor based in
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
.
Biography
Manuel was born in
Carregosa
Carregosa is a civil parish in the municipality of Oliveira de Azeméis
Oliveira de Azeméis () is a city and a municipality located in Porto Metropolitan Area in Portugal. Administratively, the municipality belongs to the District of Aveiro. T ...
,
Oliveira de Azeméis
Oliveira de Azeméis () is a city and a municipality located in Porto Metropolitan Area in Portugal. Administratively, the municipality belongs to the District of Aveiro. The population of the municipality in 2011 was 68,611, in an area of 161.10& ...
,
Aveiro District
Aveiro District ( pt, Distrito de Aveiro, or ) is located in the central coastal region of Portugal. The capital of the district is the city of Aveiro, which also serves as the seat of Aveiro Municipality.
Aveiro District is bordered by the Po ...
, Portugal. He was the father of Brazilian actresses
Marília Pêra
Marília Soares Pêra (22 January 1943 – 5 December 2015) was a Brazilian actress, singer, and stage director. Hailed as "one of the decade's 980sten best actresses" by Pauline Kael, Pêra won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Be ...
and
Sandra Pêra
Sandra Cristina Marzullo Pêra (born September 17, 1954) is a Brazilian actress, singer and theater director.
Family
She is daughter of the actors Manuel Pêra and Dinorah Marzullo and granddaughter of the actress Antonia Marzullo. She is mo ...
, fruits of his marriage to the actress Dinorah Marzullo. He was brother of the Portuguese actor
Abel Pêra (1891-1975) and Joaquim.
Filmography
Cinema
References
External links
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1894 births
1967 deaths
People from Oliveira de Azeméis
Portuguese male film actors
Portuguese emigrants to Brazil
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