Totia Meireles
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| name = Totia Meireles
| image = 26 Prêmio da Música Brasileira (18688401066).jpg
| caption = Totia Meireles in 2015
| birth_name = Maria Elvira Meireles
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1958|10|11|df=y}}
| birth_place = Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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| years_active = 1984–present
| occupation = Actress
| spouse = {{Marriage|Jaime Rabacov|1991}}
| children =
| parents = Zulmira Meireles (mother)
José Mauro Meirelles (father)
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Maria Elvira Meireles (born 11 October 1958), better known as Totia Meireles, is a Brazilian actress.{{Cite web |last=ANA PAULA BAZOLLI |date=18 January 2013 |title=Totia Meireles: "Quando fiz 50, achei muito ruim" - Edição 645 (18/01/2013) |url=http://revistaquem.globo.com/Entrevista/noticia/2013/01/totia-meireles-quando-fiz-50-achei-muito-ruim.html |access-date=15 February 2024|publisher=QUEM}} She is known for her various performances on telenovelas, film, and in theatre. She has earned awards for her performances in América, Gypsy, and Salve Jorge.
Biography
Meireles was born in 1958 in Rio de Janeiro. Totia has been her nickname since her childhood, and uses it more than her birthname. Despite being from Rio de Janeiro, she was raised in Cuiabá.{{Cite web |last=Maria Lucia Rangel |date=7 April 2013 |title=Memórias da filha famosa do coronel Meirelles |url=http://www.mt.gov.br/editorias/aniversario-de-cuiaba-294-anos/memorias-da-filha-famosa-do-coronel-meirelles/83678 |access-date=15 February 2024|publisher=Governo do Estado do Mato Grosso}} She is one of eight children to Zulmira Meireles and José Mauro Meirelles, who came from Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais. José was a colonel in the military, who served as a commander in the 9th Battalion of Construction Engineering, based in Cuiabá, which had the objective of building highway BR-163, from Cuiabá to Santarém in the middle of the Amazon rainforest. Colonel Meireles, who for his contributions to the construction project became known as the "Pai da Cuiabá-Santarém", was also the vice-mayor of Cuiabá beginning in 1992, during the Dante de Oliveira government, and became mayor in 1994 as Oliveira ran to be the governor of Mato Grosso.{{cite web|url=https://g1.globo.com/mato-grosso/noticia/2012/08/morre-aos-89-anos-o-coronel-jose-meirelles-ex-prefeito-de-cuiaba.html|title=Morre aos 89 anos o coronel José Meirelles, ex-prefeito de Cuiabá|last=|first=|publisher=G1 MT|date=29 August 2012|access-date=15 February 2024}}
Career
Meireles began her career as a ballet dancer and soon after was discovered as a singer during an audition for a musical Chorus Line, with Cláudia Raia as the protagonist. In 2010, she performed as Mamma Rose in the musical Gypsy, to which her rendition led her to be nominated to the Shell de Teatro Prize.{{Cite web |date=22 March 2010 |title=Prêmio Shell de Teatro elege melhores do Rio na temporada de 2010 |url=http://www.jb.com.br/cultura/noticias/2011/03/22/premio-shell-de-teatro-elege-melhores-do-rio-na-temporada-de-2010/ |access-date=15 February 2024 |publisher=Jornal do Brasil}}
Beginning in the 1990s, she worked through participations in Rede Globo telenovelas and series, such as with secretary Sonia in Mulheres de Areia (1993); Elaine, during the 1995 season of Malhação and the sexologist Cacilda in O Fim do Mundo (1996);{{Cite web |last= |date= |title=Galeria de personagens |url=http://memoriaglobo.globo.com/programas/entretenimento/novelas/o-fim-do-mundo/galeria-de-personagens.htm |access-date=15 February 2024 |publisher=Memória Globo |archive-date=13 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190213183731/http://memoriaglobo.globo.com/programas/entretenimento/novelas/o-fim-do-mundo/galeria-de-personagens.htm |url-status=dead }} along with Matilde in Suave Veneno (1999), the friend of Inês/Lavínia (Glória Pires).{{cite web|URL=http://teledramaturgia.com.br/suave-veneno/|title=Teledramaturgia - Suave Veneno|last=Xavier|first=Nelson|date=|publisher=|access-date=15 February 2024}}
In 2001/2002, she participated in the telenovela O Clone as Laurinda, the friend of Ivete, played by Vera Fischer, from there beginning at that point a partnership with Glória Perez in her productions. In 2005, she acted as Vera Tupã in América.{{Cite web |title=Troféu Super Cap de Ouro :: TV - Premiações Artísticas |url=http://m.tv-premiacoes-artisticas.webnode.com/prêmios-nacionais/trofeu-super-cap-de-ouro/ |access-date=2020-01-25 |website=tv-premiacoes-artisticas.webnode.com}} In the telenovela her character is romantically involved with Jatobá, played by {{ill|Marcos Frota|pt}}.
Meireles, in 2006, performed as Silvana Munhoz, a perfume seller in Saara of Arab background, and the aunt of Duda (Daniel de Oliveira), one of the protagonists of the João Emanuel Carneiro telenovela Cobras & Lagartos. From 2007 to 2008, she participated in the miniseries Amazônia and the series Casos e Acasos.
In 2009, she played the role of Dr. Aída Motta, the romantic partner of Dario ({{ill|Victor Fasano|pt}}), on Caminho das Índias.
In 2011, Meireles worked with Aguinaldo Silva as Zambeze Maciel in Fina Estampa. In 2012, she performed as Wanda in Salve Jorge by Glória Perez,{{Cite web |title='Essa frieza da Wanda me espantou' diz Totia Meirelles |url=http://diversao.terra.com.br/tv/novelas/salve-jorge/essa-frieza-da-wanda-me-assustou-diz-totia-sobre-1-vila-na-tv,dc366601ad9dc310VgnVCM5000009ccceb0aRCRD.html |access-date=15 February 2024|website=Diversão Terra}} that brought more attention in the telenovela to human trafficking, disgruntling the human trafficker Morena (Nanda Costa) and the other traffickers. Her first villain role in novelas was lauded by critics.{{Cite web |title=Velha conhecida do público de TV, Totia Meirelles surpreende com primeira vilã |url=http://kogut.oglobo.globo.com/noticias-da-tv/critica/noticia/2012/12/critica-velha-conhecida-do-publico-de-tv-totia-meirelles-surpreende.html |access-date=15 February 2024 |website=Patrícia Kogut - O Globo}}{{Cite web |title=Totia Meireles vive sua primeira vilã |url=http://tvg.globo.com/novelas/salve-jorge/Bastidores/noticia/2012/10/totia-meireles-vive-sua-primeira-vila-vou-tomar-banho-de-sal-grosso.html |access-date=15 February 2024 |website=Rede Globo}}{{Cite web |title=Totia Meireles fala sobre sua primeira vilã |url=http://papofeminino.uol.com.br/revistas/guia-da-tv/entrevista-totia-meirelles-vive-primeira-vila-na-novela-salve-jorge/ |access-date=15 February 2024|website=Papo Feminino}}{{Cite web |title=Totia Meirelles é o destaque entre os vilões da novela |url=http://nilsonxavier.blogosfera.uol.com.br/2013/02/27/totia-meirelles-a-wanda-de-salve-jorge-e-o-destaque-entre-os-viloes-da-novela/ |access-date=15 February 2024 |website=Nilson Xavier}}
In 2014, Meireles acted as the medic Adriana in Alto Astral.{{Cite web |last=Carla Bittencourt |date=13 December 2014 |title=Totia Meirelles entra em 'Alto astral' como a misteriosa médica Adriana |url=http://extra.globo.com/tv-e-lazer/telinha/totia-meirelles-entra-em-alto-astral-como-misteriosa-medica-adriana-14816638.html |access-date=15 February 2024|website=Extra |publisher=Telinha}} In 2015, she participated in the Brazilian version of the musical Nine from the duo Möeller and Botelho, playing the role of Lilliane la Fleur, a film producer and ex-vedette of the Cabaret Folies Bergère.Carvalho, Eduardo. [http://www.moellerbotelho.com.br/index.php/item/397-novo-musical-de-charles-m%C3%B6eller-e-claudio-botelho-nine-estreia-21-de-maio-no-teatro-porto-seguro-em-s%C3%A3o-paulo "Novo musical de Charles Möeller e Claudio Botelho, 'Nine' estreia 21 de maio, no Teatro Porto Seguro, em São Paulo"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305165054/http://www.moellerbotelho.com.br/index.php/item/397-novo-musical-de-charles-m%C3%B6eller-e-claudio-botelho-nine-estreia-21-de-maio-no-teatro-porto-seguro-em-s%C3%A3o-paulo |date=2016-03-05 }}. Retrieved on 15 February 2024. She starred that November in the musical Mulheres à Beira de um Ataque de Nervos, in São Paulo, as Lúcia, who is seen on the verge of a nervous breakdown when she is abandoned by her husband. The cast included Marisa Orth and {{ill|Juan Alba|pt}} as protagonists. The following year, she was on the cast of the Brazilian version of Cinderella, where she played Lady Tremaine.{{Cite web |date=29 November 2016 |title=Conheça os premiados de Teatro Musical no Prêmio Arte Qualidade |url=https://abroadwayeaqui.com.br/2016/11/29/conheca-os-premiados-de-teatro-musical-no-premio-arte-qualidade-brasil-2016/ |access-date=15 February 2024 |publisher=A Broadway é Aqui}}
Personal life
In 1989, Meireles met Jaime Rabacov, a doctor, to where they became engaged in 1992 and married in 1994. She lived since the 1980s in the Rio de Janeiro neighborhood of Lagoa. Her husband lives on a farm in Miguel Pereira, in a rural part of Rio de Janeiro state. She went there every weekend if she did not have any professional obligations, or every fifteen days, and spent some weeks together, sometimes going to Rio, or for Meireles going there to visit him. The actress has 19 nieces and nephews, 5 great-nieces and great-nephews, and two grandchildren, Santiago and Pilar, her husband's biological grandchildren.{{cite web|url=https://www.uol.com.br/splash/noticias/2022/02/13/totia-meireles-casa-com-medico-apos-30-anos-juntos-mas-morando-separados.htm|title=Totia Meireles casa com médico após 30 anos juntos, mas morando separados|last=|first=|publisher=Splash, UoL|date=13 February 2022|access-date=15 February 2024}}
Filmography
= Television =
= Film =
| class="wikitable"
!Year !Title !Role |
| 1996
|Um Céu de Estrelas |
| 2003
|Apolônio Brasil, o Campeão da Alegria |Namorada de Apolônio |
| 2015
|Divã a 2 |
| 2016
|Mulheres no Poder |
| 2017 |
| 2021
|Um Casal Inseparável |Esther |
Theatre
| class="wikitable"
!Year !Title |
| 1984 |
| 1987
|Noviças Rebeldes |
| 1989 |
| 1990
|Meu Primo Walter |
| rowspan="3"|1993–94 |
| Baixa Sociedade |
| Na Era do Rádio |
| 1996
|Metralha |
| 1997 |
| 1999
|5X Comédia |
| 2000
|Um Caso de Vida ou Morte |
| 2001 |
| 2002 |
| 2005
|Cristal Bacharach |
| 2007
|Garota Glamour |
| 2010 |
| 2013–15
|Uma Luz Cor de Luar |
| 2015
|Nine – Um Musical Felliniano |
| 2015–16
|Mulheres à Beira de um Ataque de Nervos |
| 2016 |
| 2017
|Show - Meu Nome É Totia |
| rowspan="2"|2018
|Show - Meu Nome É Totia |
| Pippin |
| 2022
|Procuro o homem da minha vida, marido já tive |
Awards and nominations
References
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Category:Actresses from Rio de Janeiro (city)
Category:Brazilian television actresses