Odete Lara


Odete Lara, was a Brazilian film actress. She appeared in 37 films between 1954 and 1994, including two films shown at the Cannes Film Festival. She was born as an only child to Giuseppe Bertoluzzi and Virgínia Righi, both Italian immigrants from Belluno. Her mother took her own life when she was six, her father did the same when she was eighteen after having suffered from tubercolosis. After her mother's death she was initially put in an orphanage. However sometimes later her godmother brought the girl to her own house. She was married twice, to Antonio Carlos da Fontoura and Oduvaldo Vianna Filho; both marriages ended in divorce.

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