Bárbara Paz

Bárbara Paz

Born: October 17, 1974
in Campo Bom, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
is a Brazilian actress , director and producer .

Biography

Bárbara Raquel Paz was born in Campo Bom , in the Metropolitan Region of Porto Alegre . The youngest of four sisters, at the age of six she lost her father, who was a politician in the city. Her mother had consequences after giving birth to Bárbara and died after seventeen years on hemodialysis . At the age of nine, Bárbara started working, as her father's death caused the family to experience financial difficulties. She started painting plaster sculptures and selling them in the town square, to help buy medicine for her mother. As a teenager, she decided to get her work permit and started working in a shoe factory, where she stayed for two months. She went back to studying in the morning and working in the afternoon, this time in a boutique, where she stayed for two years. She then joined an advertising agency , where she did her first modeling jobs .

After her mother's death in May 1992, Bárbara found herself alone. Only she and her mother lived in the small house, as her sisters had already gotten married. Suffering with memories at home, she didn't want to stay there alone, and in her city there were no prospects for a good future. The following month, she took the money she had saved, and went to live in São Paulo , with some friends, willing to share the rent on an apartment, and try a career in modeling or acting. As soon as she arrived in the city, she got a job as a secretary at a university and took an acting course at the Macunaíma Theater School. Looking for a job in the fashion area, after passing the photography and runway tests, she managed to get agencies to give her some placements, and she modeled for magazines, participated in fashion editorials and exhibition fairs.

In December of the same year, six months after arriving in the capital of São Paulo, he traveled south to spend the end of the year festivities. On Christmas Day, Bárbara and some friends were in a serious car accident after drinking. They hit a tree shortly after leaving the house where they were gathered. She had a major facial trauma that required 400 stitches . Afterwards, she returned to São Paulo but, with the scars left by the accident, she abandoned her modeling career and locked herself up at home. After recovering, she would resume her career. She then decided to study theater at the Antunes Filho Theater Research Center and from there she joined the group Parlapatões

Movies for Bárbara Paz...

Title: Angélica: 50 & Tanto
Character: Self
Released: November 26, 2023
Type: TV
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A Porta ao Lado
Title: A Porta ao Lado
Character: Isis
Released: August 12, 2022
Type: Movie
Everything seems to be going well in the stable relationship between Mari and Rafa, until Isis and Fred move into the apartment next door. The new neighbors make no secret of the fact that they are in an open relationship.
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Title: A Trick of Fate
Character: Úrsula Alves
Released: February 7, 2022
Type: TV
After spending ten years wrongfully imprisoned for the death of his girlfriend Elisa, the illusionist Davi returns to the farm that belongs to his girlfriend’s family under another identity and discovers that her younger sister, Isadora, has become exactly like Elisa. The two fall madly in love, but they will have to fight against nasty Joaquim and other external factors that threaten this great passion.
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Chico Mário - A Melodia da Liberdade
Title: Chico Mário - A Melodia da Liberdade
Character: Voice
Released: June 17, 2021
Type: Movie
Younger brother of Henfil and Betinho, Chico Mário became a great guitarist and discovered in music his way of expressing himself and looking at the world.
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Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
Title: Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
Character: Self
Released: November 26, 2020
Type: Movie
Besieged by cancer and nearing the end, the genius Argentine-Brazilian filmmaker Héctor Babenco (1946-2016) asks Bárbara Paz, his wife, for one last wish: to be the protagonist of his own death.
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Plano B
Title: Plano B
Character: Self
Released: October 2, 2020
Type: Movie
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Por Que Você Não Chora?
Title: Por Que Você Não Chora?
Character: Bárbara
Released: September 17, 2020
Type: Movie
Strong and feminine, "Why don't you cry?" addresses the delicate topic of suicide. Jessica is very closed, Barbara is a time bomb. The two meet when, at the stage of the faculty of psychology, Jessica meets Barbara. The coexistence leads Jessica to question her empty and meaningless life.
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Title: Que História é Essa, Porchat?
Character: Self
Released: August 6, 2019
Type: TV
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Talk to Him
Title: Talk to Him
Character: Bárbara Paz
Released: October 19, 2018
Type: Movie
Dr. Drauzio Varella has a hypothetical conversation with his friend Hector Babenco, a filmmaker who died in 2016. The importance of friendship is addressed in the documentary based on the death of a friend — and shows the decrease in happiness and the irreplaceable void left by this game.
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Title: Harassment
Character: Lorena
Released: September 21, 2018
Type: TV
A group of women gets together on social media to expose the sexual harassment they all suffered from a renowned specialist in reproductive medicine. The saga of perseverance and courage of these women begins when one of them decides to talk and reveal what was until then confined by the doctor’s office walls.
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Title: The Other Side of Paradise
Character:
Released: October 23, 2017
Type: TV
After her marriage becomes a nightmare, the humble small town girl Clara is committed to a psychiatric hospital and prevented from seeing her son growing up. It was all a scheme by her manipulative mother-in-law, who wants to seize her lands and explore their emerald mines. Betrayed and humiliated, Clara bounces back and returns ten years later as a powerful and wealthy woman. Even thirsty for revenge and justice, she never loses her softness to win back her son's trust and maybe find a new love.
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My Hindu Friend
Title: My Hindu Friend
Character: Sofia Guerra
Released: October 22, 2015
Type: Movie
Diego is a film director who, when he is told that he has a malignant disease which could be fatal, marries his girlfriend of many years, says goodbye to his friends and begins a routine of long days of treatment in hospital. While learning to live with the pain and also conversing with death, he meets a Hindu boy who is a fellow patient and who becomes his friend. But one day the boy disappears. Diego is discharged, but his life has changed forever. His marriage fails and, living alone, he begins to wonder whether he may in fact be dying and no one has told him. He tries to find out what happened to his Hindu friend, and eventually meets another woman.
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Depois de Tudo
Title: Depois de Tudo
Character: Manu
Released: October 8, 2015
Type: Movie
Ney and Marcos share an apartment, the passion for music and for the same girl until time tears them apart. A few years later they meet again reviewing their attitudes, emotions and memories.
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Title: Rules of the Game
Character: Nelita
Released: August 31, 2015
Type: TV
Discussing the limits between good and bad, the plot is set in Rio de Janeiro and tells the story of Romero Rômulo (Alexandre Nero), an ex-politician that has a life less obvious then it seems.
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Never Too Old to Meow
Title: Never Too Old to Meow
Character: Carol
Released: May 15, 2014
Type: Movie
Gloria Polk is a decadent writer who decided to return to writing a fiction book after 17 years of absence. One day, she decides to open her home to Carol, a young journalist who lives in his building and is married to her former husband. Excited about the opportunity, Carol realizes that Gloria has an obscure facet which meant that she had great difficulty in relating to other people over the years.
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Title: Tainted
Character: Taís
Released: April 11, 2014
Type: TV
After three years locked up for a crime he didn’t commit, former police officer André Câmara is back on the streets working as a bounty hunter and determined to prove his innocence. Gripping, south American sizzler charting the action from the mean streets of Brazil to the bedrooms of the law enforcers.
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Se Puder... Dirija!
Title: Se Puder... Dirija!
Character: Dra. Márcia
Released: August 30, 2013
Type: Movie
A valet parking attendant borrows a client's car to spend the day with his son, but gets into unexpected trouble.
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Title: Trail of Lies
Character: Edith Sobral Khoury
Released: May 20, 2013
Type: TV
Paloma is a willful woman whose newborn baby is kidnapped by her own brother, Félix, who plans to become sole heir to the family’s fortune. Bruno is an honest man who, during the same night, loses his wife and son in childbirth and miraculously finds Paloma’s child in a dumpster. Destiny will unite their lives in a plot of secrets, revelations, and disputes, with the unpredictable consequences of lives based on a dangerous and surprising network of lies.
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Quinta das Janelas
Title: Quinta das Janelas
Character: Laninha
Released: January 1, 2013
Type: Movie
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Title: Dinossaurs & Robots
Character: Virgínia Lolatto
Released: March 21, 2011
Type: TV
An innovative telenovela set against the backdrop of the discovery of ancient fossils by a top paleontologist and the invention of futuristic robots by a brilliant scientist.
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Title: As Cariocas
Character: Denise
Released: October 19, 2010
Type: TV
"The Cariocas", a series in ten stand-alone episodes, tells the story of ten modern-day women against the beautiful backdrop of Rio de Janeiro and its stunning urban landscapes. Our protagonists are uninhibited, adulterous, vindictive, suicidal, envious, brides, betrayed, deluded. Women with distinct beauty and quaint peculiarities, each one has a particular way of life.
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Paulista
Title: Paulista
Character: Bárbara Paz
Released: October 2, 2009
Type: Movie
Three metropolitan stories entwine in São Paulo. Would-be actress Marina arrives in the city looking for independence, falls madly in love with Justine, a bisexual rock singer, and is swept up into her wild, edgy lifestyle. Marina shares a flat on Avenida Paulista with Suzana, a mysterious transsexual lawyer who begins a relationship with a male colleague who is unaware of her condition. Jay lives a few floors above them. He is a frustrated writer trying to give a meaning to his life by idealizing a stunningly beautiful prostitute, whom he transforms into a sort of muse. Following the frenetic pace of the city, the three "Paulista" characters will experience the euphoria of passion and its downside.
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Title: Seize the Day
Character: Renata Ferreira
Released: September 14, 2009
Type: TV
Helena and Luciana are two supermodels with completely opposite personalities: the first is stormy and spoiled, while the second - being older - is patient and restrained. Their fate changes when Helena becomes involved with Marcos, Luciana's father, an older man recently divorced from a former model, Tereza, who does not accept the end of the marriage.
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Title: Alta Definição
Character: Self
Released: September 12, 2009
Type: TV
In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach.
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Quarto 38
Title: Quarto 38
Character: Luisa
Released: September 19, 2008
Type: Movie
A group of friends find themselves circling in time. Welcome to room 38. Within it's confines time becomes scattered and loops back on it's self, memory becomes useless, and survival carries an entirely different meaning.
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Title: Maria Esperança
Character: Maria Muniz Hurtado
Released: March 26, 2007
Type: TV
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5 Mentiras
Title: 5 Mentiras
Character: A atriz histérica
Released: August 4, 2006
Type: Movie
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What Is It Worth?
Title: What Is It Worth?
Released: May 20, 2005
Type: Movie
Free adaptation of Machado de Assis's short story "Pai Contra Mãe", having some of Nireu Cavalcanti's 18th Century chronicles as inspiration, the film traces parallels between life in during the slavery period and in modern Brazil.
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Manual para Atropelar Cachorro
Title: Manual para Atropelar Cachorro
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
A simple and handy manual to take the boredom under the narration of a sick mind, crazy in any big city. Mojo, a lonely young fanatic about movies and American culture, has dreams that will never come true. After spending his days holed up in a building, he decides to vent his repressed impulses by running over mutton dogs.
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Sexo e a Metrópole
Title: Sexo e a Metrópole
Released: June 18, 2004
Type: Movie
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Amigo Secreto
Title: Amigo Secreto
Character: Suely
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
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O Martelo de Vulcano
Title: O Martelo de Vulcano
Character: Polca
Released: October 10, 2003
Type: Movie
The five youngsters must prevent Nefasto from possessing the mythical Vulcan's hammer who grants an immeasurable power to its owner.
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Produto Descartável
Title: Produto Descartável
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
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Cat's Cradle
Title: Cat's Cradle
Character: Policial Loira
Released: October 21, 2002
Type: Movie
Cristiano, Francisco and Gabriel are three good old friends celebrating their entrance in the University. But in a horror night, the fun gets mixed up with violence.
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Title: Marisol
Character: Marisol Mendes / Verônica Linhares
Released: April 9, 2002
Type: TV
A remake of the Mexican telenovela of the same name.
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Vinte e cinco
Title: Vinte e cinco
Character: Teresa
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
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Title: Casa dos Artistas
Character: Self - Contestant
Released: October 28, 2001
Type: TV
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De Cara Limpa
Title: De Cara Limpa
Character: Nita
Released: November 10, 2000
Type: Movie