Gl��ria Menezes

At the age of six she moved from Pelotas, a city in Brazil's extreme south, to S?o Paulo with her family. In 1950, she attended the University of S?o Paulo's (USP) 'School of Dramatic Art' and set up a theater group called 'Jovens Independentes' (Young Independents). She married for the first time at age of eighteen.Her professional career began at S?o Paulo's TV Tupi (Brazil's first television station) in 1959, in the soap opera "Um Lugar ao Sol (1959)", directed by Dion��sio Azevedo.In 1962 she starred in the classic film The Given Word (1962) ('O Pagador de Promessas'), the only Brazilian film to win the 'Palme d'Or' at the Cannes Film Festival in France, and the first South American film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.In 1963, alongside Tarc��sio Meira, she had her first starring role in Brazil's first daily live television soap opera, 2-5499 Ocupado (1963), broadcast by TV Excelsior, now extinct. From this soap opera on, the two act... [Details Intro]