Quero é Viver (English title: Life is Life) is a Portuguese telenovela produced by Plural Entertainmenta dn aired from 3 January 2022 to 18 March 2023, replacing Bem me Quer and was replaced by Queridos Papás. It is adapted from the Chilean telenovela Casa de muñecos, and was adapted by Helena Amaral. It is filmed in Lisbon, Oeiras, Cascais and Arrábida.
The novela stars São José Lapa, Rita Pereira, Fernanda Serrano, Sara Barradas and Joana Seixas.
Plot Ana Margarida Rosa Lobo (São José Lapa), an actress at the end of her career, aged 70, feels that she has completed a cycle and believes that she has to make the most of the years of life that she has left, and with that, without giving explanations to no one decides to end her five-decade marriage with Sérgio (Fernando Rodrigues). Ana wants to live and enjoy a freedom she has never experienced by putting her desires, her interests and her dreams first.
Ana's decision to ask Sérgio for a divorce causes a turnaround in the professional and personal lives of her four daughters, Maria, Natália, Olga and Irene. She wants to pass on a legacy to her daughters: it's never too late to change; it is never too late to be happy; it's never too late to learn to love and value yourself. Each new day as if it were the last. And faced with this situation, the family will be tested to the limit and the four women change the way they look at life, questioning the loving relationships that they too have built.
Cast Actor/ActressCharacterSão José LapaAna Margarida Rosa LoboFernanda SerranoNatália Rosa Lobo AndradeJoana SeixasIrene Rosa Lobo AmadoRita PereiraMaria Rosa Lobo FurtadoSara BarradasOlga Rosa Lobo SidónioFernando RodriguesSérgio Telles LoboDiogo InfanteFrederico AndradePedro HossiSantiago AmadoFilipe VargasJosé «Zé» Luís FurtadoTiago FelizardoRodrigo Machado SidónioThiago RodriguesGabriel Menezes de SousaHelena IsabelGraça PiresLeonor SeixasLúcia VazIsaac AlfaiateRaúl PiresSusana ArraisSofia Pombeiro VazLiliana SantosEstrela Godinho / Luísa de JesusMiguel Flor de LimaPastor Dave FormosinhoCléo MaluloIvanilda CostaJoão Nunes MonteiroRómulo PiresFilipa PintoLiliana «Lili» ValenteMargarida CorceiroRita Vieira Menezes de SousaJoão GadelhaFábio MaurícioJoão BettencourtMatias Lobo AndradeDiogo CarvalhoTomás Alcaide de MatosHenrique MelloFernando Vaz
Special Participation Actor/Actress CharacterRita RibeiroVeraMiguel GuilhermeRodolfoCucha CarvalheiroDomingas Amado
Child Cast Actor/ActressCharacterTomás SousaFrancisco Lobo FurtadoMadalena VicenteConstança Lobo FurtadoSalvador PiresSebastião Lobo AmadoLaura SeiçaBeatriz Lobo AmadoLaura LeiteMatilde Lobo CigalaSofia CupidoLeonor Lobo SidónioTomás AndradeLourençoGustavo BenzaRaúl (child)Luís Henrique MatosRómulo (child)Beatriz RosaOlga (child)Matilde SerrãoMatilde SerradorMelissa MatiasMaria (child)
Additional Cast Actor/Actress CharacterRui M. SilvaCarlos Miguel VazDuarte MeloGuilherme Pombeiro VazAna CloeSusana VieiraRui GonçalvesTiagoNélson CabralFaustinoPaula LuizVerónicaCatarina Sousa CamposCláudiaSandra JoséCarmenInês Lapa LopesAna Margarida (Young)Nuno CasanovasSérgio (Young)Joana BrandãoFilipa BatalhaLita PedreiraMafaldaInês AguiarDoraAna MafaldaReginaPompeu JoséQuimCarolina CastelinhoElisDiva O'BrancoTeresaCamila CerqueiraLiaLavínia MoreiraMãe da LiliDaniel VianaLimaVítor Alves da Silva Nuno MesquitelaEric SantosOsvaldoRui Luís BrásDr. FerroSofia NicholsonBelicha
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