Renata Sorrah
Birthday: 1947-02-21 Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Synopsis
Renata Sorrah, the artistic name of Renata Leonardo Pereira Sochaczewski (Rio de Janeiro, February 21, 1947), is an award-winning actress of theater, film and television and Brazilian theater producer, considered one of the best actresses in Brazil. Although she is best known to the public for her work on TV Globo's telenovelas, where she has eternalised great female characters, she has worked in the national theater for more than 40 years and is specialised in dramatic interpretation.
Acting
Executive Order
In a dystopian future, the Brazilian government decrees a measure that forces black citizens to migrate to Africa in an attempt to return to their origins. Seeing themselves in the center of terror, two cousins take refuge in an apartment, where they debate social and racial issues, and share the same yearning for the change of country.
Dente por Dente
A thriller set in São Paulo Brazil, about a private security agent who starts to dream of his teeth falling. Somehow those dreams might be related to a string of mysterious deaths around him. Tormented by his dreams he sets on a journey to investigate, his life, his memory and his subconscious.
Owner of the Story
A 50 year-old woman who analyses her past. She pictures herself when she was 20 years old and she re-creates the story of her life through a game of innumerous possibilities. What if she wouldn't have gone to that ball? What if... instead of meeting the man of her life, with whom she married and had kids, she would have called a girlfriend and they went to the theater? What would be her destiny? What would have happened? In the plot the present talks to the past. A young woman projects her future in a fascinating game between memories and desires.
Madame Satã
A story inspired by the life of one of the most remarkable figures in Brazilian popular culture, João Francisco dos Santos (1900-1976). In turn, bandit, transvestite, street fighter, brothel cook, convict and father to seven adopted children, dos Santos – better known as Madame Satã – was also a notorious gay performer who pushed social boundaries in a volatile time.
