Maria Flor

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

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.^[1] In the movie Cazuza - O Tempo Não Pára she played a groupie following the rock band Barão Vermelho. 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 Créteil International Women's Film Festival.

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 Cuiabá (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 Zezé Di Camargo & Luciano duo.^[2]

She played Taís Junqueira in the telenovela Belíssima , which started airing in November, 2005. Taís Junqueira is a Brazilian woman working in Greece as a prostitute, after receiving a proposal promising her a job as a ballerina. During the telenovela, her character tried to return to Brazil.^{[3] [4]} In 2006, she played Carol in the 2006 film Podecre! ^[5] and Letícia in the movie Proibido Proibir .^[6]

Maria Flor played the role of Bel in the 2007 film The Ballroom ^[7] Her first role as the main character of a telenovela was in the 2007 telenovela Eterna Magia ,^[8] where she played the role of Nina Sullivan, who is a witch who refuses to use her magical abilities.^[9] In 2008, she participated of one episode of the TV series Casos e Acasos ,^[10] and starred the end of the year special Aline .^[11]

Her international career started in the Fernando Meirelles film 360 , starring Anthony Hopkins, Rachel Weisz and Jude Law.^[12]

Besides working as an actress, Maria Flor starred the summer campaign for Blue Man, a bikini and bermuda shorts factory.^[13]

Maria Flor was born in Laranjeiras, Rio de Janeiro. She is the daughter of Renato Calaça, a cinema audio technician and Márcia Leite, who is a screenwriter.

• Maria Flor at IMDb
• Maria Flor Interview at Terra (in Portuguese)
• Interview at Mulheres do Cinema Brasileiro Website (in Portuguese)

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• Actresses from Rio de Janeiro (city)
• Brazilian television actresses
• Brazilian film actresses
• Brazilian telenovela actresses
• 20th-century Brazilian actresses
• 21st-century Brazilian actresses

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