Teuda Bara

Teuda Magalhães Fernandes (1 January 1941 – 25 December 2025), better known by the stage name Teuda Bara, was a Brazilian actress, one of the founders of the theater company Grupo Galpão.

Life and career Teuda Magalhães Fernandes was born in Belo Horizonte on 1 January 1941. Her father was a fire department major and trombone player, and her mother a nurse and singer; she never attended any formal theater training. She studied Social Sciences at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, where she participated in newspaper theater practices with the academic directorate of the Faculty of Philosophy and Human Sciences. In the 1960s, she left university and embraced the hippie lifestyle.

She worked with director Eid Ribeiro and founded the Fulias Bananas group. He moved to São Paulo, where he acted with José Celso Martinez Correa. In 1982, back in Belo Horizonte, she joined a theater workshop directed by two members of the , George Froscher and Kurt Bildstein, which would become the seed of Grupo Galpão .

In addition to performing in most of the Galpão's shows, she participated in the Cirque du Soleil show K.A. and acted in films such as O Menino Maluquinho, by Helvécio Ratton, Vinho de Rosas, by Elza Cataldo, O Contador de Histórias, by Luiz Villaça, and O Palhaço, by Selton Mello.

Bara died from complications of septicaemia in Belo Horizonte, on 25 December 2025, at the age of 84. The actress had been hospitalized since 14 December, at the Madre Tereza Hospital. 2008 Toma Lá, Dá Cá Dona Juba Episode: "Uma epidemia politicamente correta"

Cinema

Stage 1975 – Bar e Café São Tomé, Criação Coletiva 1976 – Viva Olegário, directed by Eid Ribeiro 1977 – Triptolemo XVII - José Antônio de Souza, directed by Adir Assunção 1978 – A Conquista do Dia - Criação Coletiva, directed by Carlos Rocha 1979 – Ensaio Geral do Carnaval do Povo, directed by José Celso Martinez Corrêa 1979 – Corre Terra - Teatro de Bonecos 1983 – De Olhos Fechados, de João Vianney, directed byFernando Linares 1984 – Ó Prô Cê Vê na Ponta do Pé - Criação Coletiva 1984 – O Agiota, directed by Eduardo Rodrigues 1985 – Arlequim, Servidor de Dois Amores, de Carlo Goldoni, directed by Fernando Linares e Eduardo Moreira 1986 – A Comédia da Esposa Muda que Falava mais que Pobre na Chuva, direção de Paulinho Polika 1986 – Triunfo, Um Delírio Barroco, directed by Carmen Paternostro 1987 – Foi Por Amor, roteiro de Antônio Edson Soares e Eduardo Moreira, directed by Antônio Edson Soares 1988 – Corra Enquanto é Tempo, written and directed by Eid Ribeiro 1990 – Álbum de Família, de Nelson Rodrigues, directed de Eid Ribeiro 1992 – Romeu e Julieta, directed by Gabriel Villela 1994 – A Rua da Amargura, directed by Gabriel Villela 1994 – Um Molière Imaginário, directed by Eduardo Moreira 1999 – Partido, directed by Cacá Carvalho 2001 – Um Trem Chamado Desejo, directed by Chico Pelúcio 2003 – O Inspetor Geral, directed by Paulo José 2009 – Till, a Saga de um Herói Torto, directed by Júlio Maciel

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