Gloria menezes e tarcisio meira biography

One of the great names of Brazilian TV, Tarcísio Meira died, aged 85, this Thursday. The actor received a positive diagnosis for Covid on August 6 and did not resist the complications resulting from the virus.

Tarcisio contracted the coronavirus from his year-old wife, Glória Menezes. They had been together since and had completed the Covid vaccination in April. Since then, the couple has been isolated on the family farm, in Porto Feliz, in the interior of São Paulo.

If there was a face at the end of the 20th century that best represented the role of the heartthrob in the country, it was this one from São Paulo, who marked his passage on Brazilian TV playing virile, intelligent and often rich men.

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Brazilian actress

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Soares and the second or paternal family name is Guimarães.

Nilcedes Soares de Magalhães (néeGuimarães; born 19 October ), known professionally as Glória Menezes, is a Brazilian actress.

Life and career

Glória Menezes was born in Pelotas, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Her real name, Nilcedes, is the joining of both her father's name, José Nilo, and her mother's name, Mercedes.

At the age of six, she and her family moved to São Paulo, where she attended University of São Paulo's School of Dramatic Arts and founded a theater group called Jovens Independentes. Her professional career began on São Paulo's TV Tupi in , in the soap opera Um Lugar ao Sol, directed by Dionísio Azevedo. In she appeared in the film O Pagador de Promessas, alongside Leonardo Villar and Anselmo Duarte. In , alongside Tarcísio Meira, she starred in the first daily soap opera on Brazilian television, Ocupado, broadcast by TV Excelsior. It was during this soap opera that the two actors began dating.

The Uruguayan LGBT rights activist Gloria Meneses, named herself after Menezes.

Partial filmography

Tarcisio Pereira of Magalhães Nephew, better known as Tarcísio Meira (São Paulo, October 5, – São Paulo, August 12, ), was a Brazilian actor. Considered one of the greatest actors and heartthrobs of his generation, he made his mark with strong characters in cinema, theater and television. For decades he immortalized television with heroes and villains who marked national television drama.

Biography
Son of Raúl Pompéia Pereira de Magalhães and Maria do Rosário Meira, he descends, through his father, from the rural aristocracy of southern Minas Gerais, with his paternal great-great-grandfather being Lieutenant Colonel Antônio Joaquim Pereira de Magalhães, and through this lineage he is related (by consanguinity or affinity) to the protomartyr of the Inconfidência Mineira, Tiradentes, to the scientist Vital Brazil and to the businessman Oscar Americano, according to the book “Vital Brazil Mineiro da Campanha, uma genealogia brasileira”, written by Lael Vital Brazil. Through his mother he belongs to traditional São Paulo stocks, such as the Arrudas Botelhos, the Paes Lemes, the Cerqueiras Cesares and the Penteados, as reported by Silva Leme in his “Genealogia Paulistana”, in books 2, 3 and 4.

Careers
He made his theater debut in , in the play A Hora Marcada and, in , he already shone in O Soldado Tanaka, invited by Sérgio Cardoso.

His television debut was in Noites Brancas, a TV Tupi teletheater, directed by Geraldo Vietri in In another teletheater on the same channel, Uma Pires Camargo, in , he acted for the first time with Glória Menezes, whom he would marry shortly after and the two became one of the most successful couples on Brazilian television.

He was the heartthrob of the first daily soap opera on Brazilian television, Ocupado (), on Excelsior, alongside his real-life wife, Glória Menezes. He starred in seven more soap operas on the same network until he and Glória moved to Rede Globo, where the

Brazilian actor (–)

Tarcísio Pereira de Magalhães Sobrinho (5 October – 12 August ), known professionally as Tarcísio Meira, was a Brazilian actor.

He was one of the first actors to work in the most popular Brazilian channel Globo. He was born in São Paulo and was the longtime owner of Fazenda São Marcos, a &#;ha cattle ranch in the eastern Amazonian state of Pará. Fazenda São Marcos is located approximately 20&#;km east of Aurora do Pará, off the Belém-Brasília highway.

Life and career

Meira was a descendant of the Portuguese-born landowning family de Magalhães, who had lived in Brazil since the early 18th century; he aspired to a career as a diplomat, but after being rejected by the Rio Branco Institute, he devoted himself entirely to acting, for which he chose his mother's maiden name, Meira, as his stage name. From on, he appeared regularly on the theater stage. His first television role was in in the telenovela Maria Antonieta, and his first appearance in a feature film was in in Casinha Pequenina. Also in , Meira played a leading role in the first daily broadcast telenovela in Brazil, Ocupado.

Meira was married to actress Glória Menezes since Their son together (b. ) also became a well-known actor under the stage name Tarcísio Filho. In , Meira and Menezes were signed by the television network Rede Globo as permanent cast members for telenovelas. Their first telenovela produced by Rede Globo, Sangue e Areia (), based on Vicente Blasco Ibáñez's novel Blood and Sand, enjoyed great public success. Afterwards, Meira and Menezes were also frequently cast as married couples or lovers. In the s, Meira increasingl