Tarcísio Meira

Tarcísio Pereira de Magalhães Sobrinho (5 October 1935 – 12 August 2021), known professionally as Tarcísio Meira, was a Brazilian actor.

He was one of the first actors to work for TV Globo. He was born in São Paulo and was the longtime owner of Fazenda São Marcos, a 5000 ha cattle ranch in the eastern Amazonian state of Pará. Fazenda São Marcos is located approximately 20 km east of Aurora do Pará, off the Belém-Brasília highway.

Life and career Meira was a descendant of the Portuguese-born landowning family de Magalhães, who had lived in Brazil since the early 18th century; he aspired to a career as a diplomat, but after being rejected by the Rio Branco Institute, he devoted himself entirely to acting, for which he chose his mother's maiden name, Meira, as his stage name. From 1957 on, he appeared regularly on the theater stage. His first television role was in 1961 in the telenovela Maria Antonieta, and his first appearance in a feature film was in 1963 in Casinha Pequenina. Also in 1963, Meira played a leading role in the first daily broadcast telenovela in Brazil, 2-5499 Ocupado.

Meira was married to actress Glória Menezes since 1962. Their son together (b. 1964) also became a well-known actor under the stage name Tarcísio Filho. In 1968, Meira and Menezes were signed by TV Globo as permanent cast members for telenovelas. Their first telenovela produced by TV Globo, Sangue e Areia (1968), based on Vicente Blasco Ibáñez's novel Blood and Sand, enjoyed great public success. Afterwards, Meira and Menezes were also frequently cast as married couples or lovers. In the 1980s, Meira increasingly appeared in feature films and television miniseries, but kept working in telenovelas and stage as well.

Death Tarcisio Meira was hospitalized on 6 August with COVID-19. He died from the virus on 12 August 2021, at the Hospital Albert Einstein in São Paulo.

Filmography Film

1963: Casinha Pequenina – Nestor 1965: A Desforra 1969: Máscara da Traição – Carlos Almeida 1970: Verão de Fogo – Killer 1970: Quelé do Pajeú – Clemente Celidônio / Quelé 1970: Amemo Nus (unfinished) 1971: As Confissões de Frei Abóbora 1972: Missão: Matar – José da Silva 1972: Independência ou Morte – Pedro I of Brazil 1974: O Marginal – Valdo 1977: Elza e Helena 1979: República Dos Assassinos – Mateus 1979: O Caçador de Esmeraldas – Capitão-Mor 1980: A Idade da Terra – Military Christ 1981: Eu Te Amo – Ulisses 1981: O Beijo no Asfalto – Aprígio 1982: Amor Estranho Amor – Dr. Osmar / politician 1983: O Cangaceiro Trapalhão 1987: Eu – Marcelo / Father 1989: Solidão, Uma Linda História de Amor 1990: Boca de Ouro – Boca 1994: Boca – Boca 2011: Não Se Preocupe, Nada Vai Dar Certo – Ramon Velasco

Soap operas

1963: 2-5499 Ocupado – Larry 1964: Ambição – Miguel (TV Excelsior) 1965: A Deusa Vencida – Edmundo Amarante (TV Excelsior) 1966: Almas de Pedra – Eduardo (TV Excelsior) 1967: O Grande Segredo – Celso (TV Excelsior) 1967: Sangue e Areia – Juan Gallardo 1968: A Gata de Vison – Bob Ferguson 1969: Rosa Rebelde – Sandro / Fernando de Aragón 1970: Irmãos Coragem – João Coragem 1971: O Homem que Deve Morrer – Ciro Valdez 1973: Cavalo de Aço – Rodrigo Soares 1973: O Semideus – Hugo Leonardo Filho / Raúl de Paula 1975: Escalada – Antônio Dias 1976: Saramandaia – D. Pedro I (special participation) 1977: Espelho Mágico – Diogo Maia 1979: Os Gigantes – Fernando Lucas 1980: Coração Alado – Juca Pitanga 1981: Brilhante – Paulo César 1983: Guerra dos Sexos – Felipe de Alcântara Pereira Barreto 1986: Roda de Fogo – Renato Villar 1990: Araponga – Aristênio Catanduva (Araponga) 1992: De Corpo e Alma – Diogo 1993: Fera Ferida – Feliciano Mota da Costa (special participation) 1994: Pátria Minha – Raul Pellegrini 1996: O Rei do Gado – Giuseppe Berdinazzi (special participation in the first phase) 1998: Torre de Babel – César Toledo 2001: Um Anjo Caiu do Céu – João Medeiros 2002: O Beijo do Vampiro – Bóris Vladesco 2004: Senhora do Destino – José Carlos Tedesco (special participation) 2005: Bang Bang – John McGold (special participation) 2006: Páginas da Vida – Tide (Aristides Martins de Andrade) 2008: A Favorita – Copola 2016: A Lei do Amor – Fausto Leitão 2018: Orgulho e Paixão – Sir George Magnus Williamson (Lorde Williamson) 2020: Os Casais que Amamos – Himself

Series 1984: Meu destino é pecar – Paulo de Oliveira 1985: O Tempo e o Vento – Capitão Rodrigo Cambará 1985: Grande Sertão: Veredas – Hermógenes 1988: Tarcísio & Glória – Bruno Lazzarini 1998: Hilda Furacão – Coronel João Possidônio (participation) 2000: A Muralha – Dom Jerônimo Taveira 2004: Um Só Coração – Antônio de Sousa Borba (Colonel Totonho)