Marieta Severo
Marieta Severo da Costa is a Brazilian stage, film and television actress. She is best known to youth audiences as the archetypal mother figure in popular sitcom A Grande Família, as well to mature audiences for portraying villains in telenovelas.
Early life
Severo was born on November 2, 1946, in Rio [de Janeiro], Rio de Janeiro to Luís Antonio Severo da Costa and Lígia Paixão. She studied in Tablado Theater in 1965, and later that year, premiered on her first play Feitiço de Salém.Career
Severo starred in her first telenovela in 1966. It was the Rede Globo production of O Sheik de Agadir in which she played the supporting character of Madelon. In 1978 she played the lead character in the film Chuvas de Verão. She continued to appear in some television programs and films, but major leading roles did not came until the 1986 films Com Licença, Eu Vou à Luta, A Espera, O Homem da Capa Preta. In 1987, she played Leila Diniz' mother in the biopic of the same name. In 1989, public acclaim came with the telenovela ''Que Rei Sou Eu?, with Marco Nanini. In 1995, critical acclaim came with the film Carlota Joaquina - Princesa do Brasil, which she also starred with Nanini. She continues to appear with major supporting characters in films like Cazuza - O Tempo Não Pára and TV shows, but she is perhaps widely known and acclaimed for her role as Nenê, the matriarch of the Silva family in the Rede Globo series A Grande Família.She was also the voice for villain Yzma in the Brazilian version of The Emperor's New Groove''.