Maria Flor Leite Calaça (born 31 August 1983), usually known as Maria Flor, is a Brazilian actress.
Career She was discovered in 2002, and her first role was in the film O Diabo a Quatro, filmed in the same year, and released nationwide in Brazil in 2005. It was also her first role as a protagonist in a movie. She became famous after her role as Rê, a very insecure and innovative character, in Malhação telenovela. This was also her first television role.
She played Tina, a romantic character, in the telenovela Cabocla. To be able to play her character, Maria Flor spent almost a month in a farm learning how to be a peasant."Malhação não torna você um ator", diz Maria Flor - Terra (retrieved on August 14, 2007) In the movie Cazuza - O Tempo Não Pára she played a groupie following the rock band Barão Vermelho. In the film Quase Dois Irmãos she played a wealthy girl, daughter of a politician, and that gets involved with a drug dealer. She also represented the cast of the film during the 2005 Créteil International Women's Film Festival.
She played a sex-worker in the movie O Diabo a Quatro. In her research to play this character she talked to real-life sex-workers. Maria Flor won the best actress award of the Festival de Cuiabá (Cuiabá Film Festival) for her performance in this film. In the biographical film Dois Filhos de Francisco, Maria Flor played Solange, who was the first love of the sertanejo singer Zezé Di Camargo, of the Zezé Di Camargo & Luciano duo.
She played Taís Junqueira in the telenovela Belíssima, which started airing in November, 2005. Taís Junqueira is a Brazilian woman working in Greece as a prostitute, after receiving a proposal promising her a job as a ballerina. During the telenovela, her character tried to return to Brazil. In 2006, she played Carol in the 2006 film Podecre! Maria Flor at Cineminha and Letícia in the movie Proibido Proibir.Pribido Proibir at Adoro Cinema
Maria Flor played the role of Bel in the 2007 film The Ballroom Her first role as the main character of a telenovela was in the 2007 telenovela Eterna Magia, where she played the role of Nina Sullivan, who is a witch who refuses to use her magical abilities. In 2008, she participated of one episode of the TV series Casos e Acasos, and starred the end of the year special Aline.
Her international career started in the Fernando Meirelles film 360, starring Anthony Hopkins, Rachel Weisz and Jude Law.
Besides working as an actress, Maria Flor starred the summer campaign for Blue Man, a bikini and bermuda shorts factory.Mais Moda
Personal life Maria Flor was born in Laranjeiras, Rio de Janeiro. She is the daughter of Renato Calaça, a cinema audio technician and Márcia Leite, who is a screenwriter.
Filmography YearTitleRoleNotes 1995 Malhação Nininha Marques Macieira Telenovela 2003 Malhação RêTelenovela 2004 Cabocla TinaTelenovela Cazuza - O Tempo Não Pára Unnamed girlFilm Quase Dois Irmãos JulianaFilm 2005 O Diabo a Quatro¹ Rita de CássiaFilmDois Filhos de Francisco Solange FilmBelíssima Taís JunqueiraTelenovela2006 Podecre! CarolFilmProibido Proibir LetíciaFilm 2007 The Ballroom BelFilmEterna Magia Nina SullivanTelenovela 2008 Casos e Acasos FernandaTV seriesAline AlineTV special 2009 Som & Fúria KátiaMiniseries 2009-2011 Aline AlineTV series 2010 Quincas Berro D'Água FilmO Bem Amado VioletaFilm and 2011 Miniseries 2012 As Brasileiras Shirley TV series360 Laura FilmXingu Marina FilmDo Amor Lulu TV seriesA Grande Família Juliana Rebouças TV series 2014 O Rebu Camila Telenovela 2015 Sete Vidas Taís Telenovela 2016 A Lei do Amor Flávia TelenovelaLittle Secret Jeanne Film 2018 3% Samira Television series2024–presentGarota do MomentoAnitaTelenovela
References
External links
Maria Flor Interview at Terra (in Portuguese) Interview at Mulheres do Cinema Brasileiro Website (in Portuguese)