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She starred in the movie Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) alongside William Hurt and Raul Julia. In 1981, she starred in Eu Te Amo directed by Arnaldo Jabor, and won the best actress award at the Gramado Film Festival. In the early 1980s, Braga, who had already made films like Lady on the Bus (1978), decided to devote herself exclusively to the movies. The following year she returned to television in the telenovela Chega Mais alongside Tony Ramos. In 1979, Sonia Braga ventured into children's theater in the play No País dos Prequetés. In the storyline, Braga played an ex-convict who gets out of prison ready to win back the love of her daughter, played by Gloria Pires.
In the late 1970s, Braga gave life to another renowned character in Brazilian television, Julia Matos in Dancin' Days (1978). One of the highlights of the soundtrack of the soap opera is the cover version that Gal Costa recorded of Tigresa, music that Caetano Veloso composed in honor of Braga. The following year she starred in Espelho Mágico as Cynthia Levy. In 1976, Braga participated in the cast of Saramandaia. In 1983, she starred in Gabriela, alongside Marcello Mastroianni. The film was a box office hit in Brazilian cinemas and also had major repercussions internationally. In 1976, she made the film Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands directed by Bruno Barreto, alongside José Wilker and Mauro Mendonça. Braga returned to embody Jorge Amado's characters in the film. Directed by Walter Avancini, the soap opera was a great national and international success, establishing Sonia Braga as a sex symbol. In 1975, Braga starred in the telenovela Gabriela, in an adaptation of Jorge Amado's novel Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon. After, Braga was invited to join the cast of Irmãos Coragem (1970), a soap opera written by Janete Clair, which aired on Rede Globo. Despite the success on stages and acting in soap operas, it was in the television series, Vila Sésamo, displayed in 1972, that Braga became a household name.
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The following year, she was invited to perform in A Menina do Veleiro Azul, a soap opera produced by TV Excelsior, but the network closed before the soap opera aired. In 1968, Braga was in the film O Bandido da Luz Vermelha, and early '70s, appeared in supporting roles in the films A Moreninha and Cléo e Daniel. With some men she was happy, with others she was a woman”. Caetano Veloso, in 1977, wrote the song, Tigresa, in tribute to her, “She tells me she was an actress and worked on Hair. 5, enacting dictatorship in Brazil, the musical ran for 3 years. Sônia was, at first, turned down by director pt:Ademar Guerra, but at the insistence of producer/actor pt:Altair Lima, she joined pt:Antônio Fagundes, pt:Ney Latorraca, and the rest of the cast. In 1968, she was cast in the first Brazilian production of the musical Hair. At 17, she debuted in the play George Dandin in Santo André. Sônia then joined a theater group in Santo André, in the ABC region. At age 14, Braga was invited by director Vicente Sesso to play small roles in children's programs and teleteatros on TV Tupi, including Jardim Encantado. Sônia's brother, Hélio, presented the TV Tupi children's show, Jardim Encantado.
In her teens, she took a job, in the city of São Paulo, at a wedding reception and event catering center, Buffet Torres as a receptionist and typist. When Braga was 8 years old, her father died, and she attended a convent school in the city of São Paulo.
Her parents and her four siblings moved to Curitiba and then to Campinas, São Paulo. Sônia is the aunt of Alice Braga, an actress. Sônia's siblings are Júlio, Ana, Hélio and Maria. Sônia Braga was born on June 8, 1950, daughter of Hélio Fernando Ferraz Braga and Maria Braga Jaci Campos, a costume designer from Maringá.
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