Maria Flor Leite Calaça (born August 31, 1983), usually known as Maria Flor, is a Brazilian actress.

Career

She was discovered in 2002, and her first role was in the film '' O Diabo a Quatro'', filmed in the same year, and released nationwide in Brazil in 2005. It was also her first role as a protagonist in a movie. She became famous after her role as Rê, a very insecure and innovative character, in Malhação telenovela. This was also her first television role. She played Tina, a romantic character, in the telenovela '' Cabocla''. To be able to play her character, Maria Flor spent almost a month in a farm learning how to be a peasant."Malhação não torna você um ator", diz Maria Flor - Terra
(retrieved on August 14, 2007) In the movie '' Cazuza - O Tempo Não Pára'' she played a groupie following the rock band

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. In the film '' Quase Dois Irmãos'' she played a wealthy girl, daughter of a politician, and that gets involved with a drug dealer. She also represented the cast of the film during the 2005

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. She played a sex-worker in the movie ''O Diabo a Quatro''. In her research to play this character she talked to real-life sex-workers. Maria Flor won the best actress award of the Festival de

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(Cuiabá Film Festival) for her performance in this film. In the biographical film '' Dois Filhos de Francisco'', Maria Flor played Solange, who was the first love of the sertanejo singer Zezé Di Camargo, of the

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duo. She played Taís Junqueira in the telenovela ''

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'', which started airing in November, 2005. Taís Junqueira is a Brazilian woman working in

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as a prostitute, after receiving a proposal promising her a job as a

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. During the telenovela, her character tried to return to Brazil.''Maria Flor vai estrear no horário nobre da Globo'' - Terra (July 16, 2005)
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/ref> In 2006, she played Carol in the 2006 film '' Podecre!'' Maria Flor at Cineminha
/ref> and Letícia in the movie '' Proibido Proibir''.Pribido Proibir at Adoro Cinema
Maria Flor played the role of Bel in the 2007 film '' The Ballroom'' Chega de Suadade at IMDB
/ref> Her first role as the main character of a telenovela was in the 2007 telenovela ''

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'',Flor das Seis - Quem magazine
/ref> where she played the role of Nina Sullivan, who is a witch who refuses to use her magical abilities.
/ref> In 2008, she participated of one episode of the TV series '' Casos e Acasos'', and starred the end of the year special '' Aline''. Her international career started in the Fernando Meirelles film '' 360'', starring

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and Jude Law. Besides working as an actress, Maria Flor starred the summer campaign for Blue Man, a

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and bermuda shorts factory.Mais Moda

Personal life

Maria Flor was born in

Laranjeiras Laranjeiras (, ''orange trees'') is an upper-middle-class neighborhood located in the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Primarily residential, It is one of the city's oldest neighborhoods, having been founded in the 17th century, with th ...

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. She is the daughter of Renato Calaça, a cinema audio technician and Márcia Leite, who is a screenwriter.

Filmography

References

External links

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Maria Flor Interview at Terra
(in

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Interview at Mulheres do Cinema Brasileiro Website
(in Portuguese) {{DEFAULTSORT:Flor, Maria 1983 births Living people Actresses from Rio de Janeiro (city) Brazilian television actresses Brazilian film actresses Brazilian telenovela actresses 20th-century Brazilian actresses 21st-century Brazilian actresses