Still a vibrant, raven-haired beauty at 66, Braga now lives in New York, but feels a close emotional tie to the country of her birth. She became a soap opera sensation in her native Brazil before achieving even greater fame and fortune in Hollywood. And what I can do best is talking out loud what I feel."īraga is known for her starring turn in a number of popular movies, including "Kiss of the Spider Woman" in 1985 and "Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands," in 1976, as well as numerous television outings. All my life I had this intuitive feeling about what is good, what's fair, what's justice, for my country, for my people and for ourselves. "From that age I learned social problems, I learned about society. "I want for Brazil what I always wanted for Brazil since I was nine," she said. That protest has led some to see the film as subversive, while those on the left have hailed it as an act of political courage.īraga's childhood of poverty and want has led her to press for social progress for Brazil's least fortunate. When "Aquarius" had its debut at the Cannes Film Festival, the cast and crew created a sensation by staging a red carpet protest against Rousseff being suspended from power, holding signs that read "Brazil is experiencing a coup d'etat" and other slogans. "Brazil is not the country I used to know," she continued, speaking at a cinema in Miami's Little Havana district, home to one of America's largest concentrations of Latinos. "It is very hard for people outside of Brazil knowing exactly what's happened and (the) dimension of the danger that we are going through right now," the film star continued.
In her teens, she took a job in the noted Brazilian reception center Buffet Torres as a receptionist.The leftist Rousseff was replaced by her Temer, her vice president and a political rival from the center-right - a change that makes Braga chafe. Braga was 8 years old when her father died, and she moved to a convent school in São Paulo. Braga's family moved to Curitiba and then to Campinas. Her sister Ana's daughter Alice Braga is also an actress. She has two siblings, Ana Júlia and Hélio. Her other television credits include The Cosby Show (1986), Sex and the City (2001), American Family (2002), and Alias (2005).īraga was born to Hélio Fernando Ferraz Braga and Maria Braga Jaci Campos, costume designer of Maringá. For the 1994 television film The Burning Season, she was nominated for an Emmy Award and a third Golden Globe Award.
She also received a BAFTA Award nomination in 1981 for Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (first released in 1976).
She is known in the English-speaking world for her Golden Globe Award nominated performances in Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) and Moon over Parador (1988). Sônia Maria Campos Braga (Portuguese pronunciation: born June 8, 1950) is a Brazilian-American actress.
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