Sônia Braga

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Sônia Maria Campos Braga (Brazilian Portuguese: [snj mai]; born 8 June 1950) is a Brazilian-American actress. She is well-known in the English-speaking world for her Golden Globe Award-nominated appearances in Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) and Moon over Parador (1988). Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands was also nominated for a BAFTA Award in 1981 (first released in 1976). She was nominated for an Emmy Award and a third Golden Globe Award for her 1994 television film The Burning Season. Michelle's other television and film credits include The Cosby Show (1986), Sex and the City (2001), American Family (2002), Alias (2005), Bacurau (2016), Fatima (2020). The New York Times ranked her #24 on its list of the 50 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century in 2020.

Early life

Sônia Braga was born on June 8, 1950, the granddaughter of Hélio Fernando Braga and Maria Braga Jaci Campos, a Maringá costume designer. Jlio, Ana, Hélio, and Maria are among Sônia's siblings. Sônia is Alice Braga's aunt, an actress. Her parents and her four children followed Curitiba and then to Campinas, So Paulo. Braga's father died when she was eight years old, and she attended a convent school in San José Paulo. Buffet Torres, a wedding reception and event catering center, worked in S.o. Paulo, as a receptionist and typist in her youth.

Personal life

Braga had a friendship with actor Robert Redford in the 1980s. Braga had a friendship with Pat Metheny.

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Career

Jardim Encantado, Sônia's brother, appeared on the television Tupi children's show. Braga was invited by director Vicente Sesso to appear in children's programs and teleteatros on TV Tupi, including Jardim Encantado at age 14. Sônia joined a Santo André theater company, which is also in the ABC zone. She debuted in Santo André's play George Dandin at the age of 17.

She appeared in the first Brazilian production of the musical Hair in 1968. Sônia came first, but director pt:Ademar Guerra dismissed her, but she joined pt:Antóntóntey Latorraca and the remainder of the cast. Despite Institutional Act No. 1, we do not know what is supposed to be the case. The musical, which was enacting tyranthood in Brazil, lasted for three years. Caetano Veloso wrote the song Tigresa in honor of her mother, Tetano Veloso. "She tells me she was an actress and worked on Hair. She was content with some guys, but with others she was a woman"...

Braga appeared in the film O Bandido da Vermelha, and in the early 1970s, she appeared in supporting roles in the films A Moreninha and Cléo e Daniel. She was invited to appear in A Menina do Veleiro Azul, a soap opera produced by TV Excelsior, but the network didn't return before the soap opera aired. Despite the success on stage and acting in soap operas, it was in Vila Séamo, a children's television series, that Braga became a household name. Braga was invited to participate in the cast of Irmos Coragem (1970), a soap opera directed by Janete Clair that appeared on Rede Globo.

Braga appeared in the telenovela Gabriela, a Spanish translation of Jorge Amado's book Gabriela, Clove, and Cinnamon in 1975. The soap opera, directed by Walter Avancini, was a huge national and international success, establishing Sonia Braga as a sex symbol. On film, Braga reprised to portray Jorge Amado's characters. Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, directed by Bruno Barto, appeared alongside José Wilker and Mauro Mendonça in 1976. The romantic comedies were a box office success in Brazilian cinemas but they also had sweeping repercussions around the world. She appeared in Gabriela in 1983, alongside Marcello Mastroianni.

Braga appeared in the cast of Saramandaia in 1976. Cynthia Levy appeared in Espelho Mágico the following year. Gal Costa's cover version of Tigresa is one of the soap opera's highlights, as well as Caetano Veloso's tribute to Braga. Julia Matos in Dancin' Days (1978), Braga's late 1970s, was introduced in Brazil to another well-known figure in Brazilian television, Julia Matos. Braga was portrayed by Gloria Pires as an ex-convict who comes out of jail to regain her daughter's affection. In 1979, Sonia Braga performed in the No Pa's dos Prequetés, a children's theater. In the telenovela Chega Mais with Tony Ramos, she returned to television the following year.

Braga, who had already produced films like Lady on the Bus (1978), decided to dedicate herself solely to the movies in the early 1980s. She appeared in Eu Te Amo directed by Arnaldo Jabor in 1981 and received the Best Actor award at the Gramado Film Festival. She appeared in the film Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) with William Hurt and Raul Julia. Her contribution led to her Golden Globe award for best supporting actress, and its popularity has resulted in her international success. She left Brazil for a career in the United States, where she lived for 14 years. She obtained American citizenship in 2003.

Braga was the first Brazilian woman to host a category at the Oscars. Goldie Hawn named her as one of the world's most glamorous actresses before starring Michael Douglas in the best short film ever made. Braga was honoured for several prestigious awards in the United States. She was nominated for the third time for the best supporting actress in The Burning Season (1994). In 1995, she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for The Burning Season, but she lost to Shirley Knight. Chico Mendes, a Brazilian activist, is chronicled in the film. In 1996, she was named best supporting actress for her role in Streets of Laredo directed by Joseph Sargent, winning the Lone Star Film & Television Awards as best supporting actress for her role in Streets of Laredo. Director Nicolas Roeg invited her to star in the film Two Deaths alongside Patrick Malahide that same year. In Tieta of Agreste (1996), directed by Carlos Diegues, Braga took the lead.

In 1999, after nearly 20 years away from Brazilian television, Helena Silveira, mother of characters Fábio Assunço and Selton Mello, made a cameo in the first 15 chapters of the soap opera Força de um Desejo (1999), directed by Gilberto Braga and Alcides Noveda. She appeared on Carmen Miranda's biography of Bras Cubas in 2001. In Gramado Film Festival, she received the Kikito award for best supporting actress for her role in this film.

Braga appeared in Angel Eyes, a romantic drama film directed by Luis Mandoki and starring Jennifer Lopez in 2001. She appeared in American Family, a PBS series created by Gregory Nava that follows the lives of a Latino family in Los Angeles in 2002.

She returned to work in Globo's telenovela Páginas da Vida in 2006, as the female sculpturer Tônia. In 2010, she appeared in the miniseries As Cariocas and in 2011, she made a cameo in the Tapas & Beijos collection.

In the sixth season of the series Royal Pains, Braga appeared in a recurring role. Braga's scenes were shot on location in Mexico and her episodes were broadcast in August 2014.

Rosario Dawson's mother appeared in Netflix's Marvel show Luke Cage as Rosario Dawson's mother, for the most part.

When it premiered at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, Sonia Braga received rave reviews for her film Aquarius. Braga, a widow and former music journalist who lives in the titular apartment building and refuses to leave when developers give her a buy-out. Despite the fact that the film did not receive an Academy Award for Braga, it did compete for Best Foreign Film at France's Cesar Awards and the Independent Spirit Awards.

Braga is ranked in the top five in IndieWire's top Actress poll in 2016. The New York Times ranked her #24 in its list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century in 2020.

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