Personal Info
Birth date
1953-08-07 (71 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Tatuí, São Paulo, Brazil
Also known as
-Vera Holtz
Biography
Vera Lúcia Fraletti Holtz (Tatuí, August 7, 1953) is a Brazilian actress and theater director. She began her artistic career in theater in 1975 and, from the early 1980s, she also began acting in cinema and television.
Filmography
Wounded Past
3.5
Overview:
When she was a young girl, Heloisa was harshly torn apart from the love of her life: Pedro, a straightforward romantic young man whose powerful family strongly believes the ends always do justify the means. Because she comes from a very humble background, Pedro's parents set up all kinds of intrigues in order to prevent the couple from fulfilling their seemingly predestined love story. Twenty years later, all it takes is a casual encounter to spark that feeling again and have them fighting against not only Pedro's family tricks, but also Heloisa's mighty and unscrupulous husband.Cabocla
7.6
Overview:
Brasil República, 1918. Luís Jerônimo is a rich young man. Womanizer, spends all night on the street drinking and having fun with prostitutes, the boy finds out that he has an injury to his right lung. Advised by Edmundo Esteves, his doctor, he decides to spend a season at a cousin's farm in the small town of Vila da Mata in Espírito Santo, in search of fresh air, to prevent the disease from developing into tuberculosis.Paraíso Tropical
8.2
Overview:
The search for a successor provokes the beginning of a clash between two young and talented executives of his group: Daniel Bastos, a lad of simple origins and excellent character, who is not only handsome and charming, but also intelligent and skilled, and Olavo Novaes, an ambitious and unscrupulous man who is ready to fight for the position, at any cost. To fight against Olavo‘s treacherous plans, Daniel will have the help of the sweet and sensitive Paula, a young lady raised as an only child who founds, on the eve of her mother‘s death, that she is adopted and has a family. What Paula does not know is that she has an identical twin sister, the wicked Taís, who is as ambitious and unscrupulous as the man who becomes her main ally, Olavo Novaes. Antenor, for his part, decides on having an heir when he meets the headstrong and honest Lúcia, a woman who will make this cold businessman find true love is and a real reason to live.Vamp
7.7
Overview:
After making a Faustian bargain with a vampire for fame, a regretful young singer must find a sacred, lost artifact that might revert the curse.Pride and Passion
7.7
Overview:
At the beginning of the 20th century, a mother dreams of marrying her five daughters to eligible bachelors but marriage is not a priority in Elisabeta Benedito's life. More than finding true love, the strong-willed dreamer and her sisters want to live according to their own choices and to do so they must go against traditional rules and customs. Inspired by Jane Austen's works, this romantic comedy retells classic novels from the point of view of modern and empowered women.Brava Gente
7
Overview:
Brava Gente was a television series aired by TV Globo in Brazil between 2000 and 2003, initially as a special year-end. The program was adapted from stories and national stories, and plays by famous playwrights, screenwriters and signed by a number represented by several actors and actresses. The genres of the stories varied each week with the style of each director or author. Brava Gente in the stories ranged from comedies and dramas. In all 53 episodes were shown, broadcast on Tuesday nights.Desejos de Mulher
5
Overview:
Fashion designer Andréa Vargas finds out the hard way she is adopted. The relationship with her sister Júlia had always been difficult, since childhood, and the antagonism grew when Júlia came between Andréa and her first true love, Diogo. But the worst is still to come: her first assistant in her atelier, Selma, is having an affair with her husband Bruno.A Muralha
8.125
Overview:
A hundred years after Europeans set foot in the New World, Brazil still remains largely unexplored. The Conquest recounts the saga of the earliest adventurers who wandered through these unknown lands. Jesuit priests, adventurers seeking gold, slaves and indigenous tribes were entangled in unceasing battles, at a time when laws were made by the sharp edge of a sword.Corpo a Corpo
9.2
Overview:
Eloá and Osmar's marriage is thrown into crisis when a mysterious man crosses their path. With a thirst for prestige and power, Eloá will face the consequences of her ambition.Chiquinha Gonzaga
7.5
Overview:
It tells the story of Chiquinha Gonzaga, a revolutionary musician who marked the history of music in Brazil, and challenged the social standards of her time. Chiquinha was raised very comfortably and had an excellent education provided by his father, Jose Basileu, who expected his daughter to be a lady of the imperial court. But after listening to songs played in a black yard and influenced by friends, such as composer Joaquim Callado, Chiquinha begins to make compositions mixing polka and lundu. By imposition of her father, Chiquinha is forced to marry Jacinto, with whom she has three children. However, Jacinto forbids her to play, and she decides to separate from her husband, going against social standards. Chiquinha, then, fights for his freedom to play and will live with the great love of his youth, João Batista de Carvalho Jr., with whom he has a daughter, Alice.Top Model
7
Overview:
Maria Eduarda "Duda" Pinheiro is a successful top model. After being hired to model Covery brand clothes, she meets the Kundera brothers, Alex and Gaspar, owners of the company. Gaspar, a former beatnik, is over 40 but still practices surfing, lives in a beach-side house and raises five children: Elvis (named after Elvis Presley), Ringo (Starr), Jane (Fonda), Olívia (Newton-John) and (John) Lennon, all from different mothers who left them with him. Anastácia "Naná" Passos, Duda's friend and mentor, loves him platonically, and rivalizes with Mariza Borges over him. Alex by contrast is a yuppie. He and their mother Morgana have a love-hate relationship and rivalry with his brother over Morgana's attention and the company. Alex begins to love Duda, however she falls in love with Lucas, a graffiti artist who is on the run from the São Paulo police due to his involvement in a crime there. He is also searching for his real father, and thinks it's either Alex or Gaspar.Presença de Anita
7.7
Overview:
Written by Manoel Carlos, “The Presence of Anita” is an amazing story about love, passion and the traps of destiny. Anita is an angel faced teenager who seduces a writer, destroying his family and his life. According to her, nothing is coincidence. Destiny is already written and she cannot change her fate.The Party
8.4
Overview:
A glamorous reception at businesswoman Angela Mahler's mansion attracts high society: businessmen, powerful women, and bons vivants looking for some fun. Unexpectedly, a body is found in the pool and what was a party, becomes a crime scene. Thus begins a frantic hunt for the murderer. Trapped inside the house and in the investigators' crosshairs, all the guests are suspects. The story occurs over a 24-hour period in a web of suspense, ambition, ulterior motive and uncontrollable passion.A Próxima Vítima
7.6
Overview:
A young law student starts to work as a detective, decided to uncover the identity behind a series of murders, as well as who is next.Anything for Love
6.6
Overview:
Helena is an independendent woman with strong emotions. More than a dedicated mother, she is also a friend to her daughter. Her daughter is experiencing difficulties in her marriage with Marcelo because of his renewed interest in a formoe girlfriend. Marcelo‘s mother deslikes Helena and would like nothing better to see her son‘s marriage destroyed. Helena starts her life over again when she falls in love at first sight with Atilio, whom she marries. Although of poor health, her daughter wants to have a baby, believing that by fulfiling her husband‘s dream, she can save her marriage. As fate would have it, mother and daughter fall pregnant at the same time, each giving birth to a boy.Mulheres Apaixonadas
6.5
Overview:
The series surrounds the damaged relationship between a saxophonist and a woman who falls in love for a former boyfriend, whom she had left to marry him.Brazil Avenue
8.113
Overview:
Brazil Avenue is a dynamic, lifelike, and modern telenovela that reveals how unrelenting ambition and inflicted cruelty can change a young girl’s destiny and lead her to seek revenge.Passione
6.7
Overview:
An ambitious young woman with a traumatizing past targets an Italian man, the distant son of a wealthy Brazilian family.Alta Definição
9.3
Overview:
In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach.Desejo
9
Overview:
Set in the early twentieth century and based on real facts, it tells the love story that led to the murder of one of the greatest Brazilian writers: Euclides da Cunha.A Mother's Love
6.4
Overview:
Lurdes is a mother of five who tirelessly seeks for Domenico, a child of hers who was sold by his own father 26 years ago; Thelma is an overprotective mother who finds out she has a terminal illness, and must race against time to make her dreams come true and prepare her son for a life without her presence; Vitória is a successful lawyer who sees the end of her marriage after countless failed attempts to have a baby and decides for adoption, but finds out she is pregnant during the process. In "A Mother's Love", the lives of these women are intertwined while they recognize themselves in the unconditional love provided by motherhood.Acting
2023Aunt Virginia as Virgínia
2023Teatro de Máscaras as Sara
2019Eu, a Vó e a Boi (6 Episodes) as Yolanda "Boi"
2019A Mother's Love (125 Episodes) as Kátia
2018As Quatro Irmãs as Vera Lucia Holtz
2018Carvana as Self (archive footage)
2018Pride and Passion (162 Episodes) as Ofélia Benedito
2017Malasartes (3 Episodes) as Parca Cortadeira
2017Something Like That as Tia Cinthia (voz)
2017Berenice Seeks as Greta
2017Malasartes e o Duelo com a Morte as Cortadeira
2017Café, um Dedo de Prosa as Unknown
2017Neurotic Quest for Serenity as Carol
2016Maresia as Angelina
2016Wounded Past (155 Episodes) as Magnólia Costa Leitão / Maria Noronha (Mág)
2015Meus Dois Amores as Flausina
2015Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: Presença de Anita - O Filme as Marta
2014The Party (36 Episodes) as Vic Garcez
2014Tereza & Tereza as Tereza
2013Saramandaia (56 Episodes) as Dona Redonda
2012Brazil Avenue (179 Episodes) as Lucinda Pereira Oliveira (Mãe Lucinda)
2011Love is All as Cida
2010The True Story of the Ballerina in Red as Self
2010Passione (209 Episodes) as Maria Candelária Lobato (Candê)
2009Alta Definição (1 Episode) as Self
2008Dilemas de Irene (26 Episodes) as Dona Célia
2008Três Irmãs (179 Episodes) as Violeta Áquila
2007Paraíso Tropical (179 Episodes) as Marion Novaes
2006O Cavaleiro Didi e a Princesa Lili as Rainha Valentina
2006Angels of the Sun as Nazaré, the Madam
2005Belíssima (209 Episodes) as Ornela Sabatini
2005História de Amor as Unknown
2005O Nosso Livro as Isabel
2004Bendito Fruto as Virgínia
2004Cabocla (167 Episodes) as Generosa de Oliveira Pinto
2003Apolônio Brasil, Campeão da Alegria as Beggar
2003Mulheres Apaixonadas (203 Episodes) as Santana Gurgel
2002Desejos de Mulher (185 Episodes) as Bárbara Toledo
2001Presença de Anita (16 Episodes) as Marta
2000Brava Gente (1 Episode) as Belzebu
2000Tônica Dominante as Unknown
2000Uga-Uga (221 Episodes) as Santa Karabastos
2000A Muralha (51 Episodes) as Mãe Cândida Olinto
1999Chiquinha Gonzaga (38 Episodes) as Dona Ló
1999O Belo e as Feras (1 Episode) as Unknown
1997Anything for Love (191 Episodes) as Sirléia Batalha Pereira
1996O Fim do Mundo (35 Episodes) as Florisbela Mendonça (Belinha)
1996Nos Tempos do Cinematógrapho as Unknown
1995The Nutty Boy as Professora
1995A Próxima Vítima (203 Episodes) as Quitéria Bezerra (Quitéria Quarta-Feira)
1995Carlota Joaquina, Princess of Brazil as Maria Luísa de Parma
1994O Compadre de Ogum as Tibéria
1994Savage Capitalism as Susana
1993Fera Ferida (210 Episodes) as Querubina Praxedes de Menezes
1993Nightly Diary as Unknown
1992De Corpo e Alma (185 Episodes) as Simone Guedes
1991Vamp (179 Episodes) as Mrs. Alice Negrão Penn Taylor Smith
1990Barriga de Aluguel (243 Episodes) as Dos Anjos
1990Desejo (17 Episodes) as Angélica Ratto
1990Assim na Tela Como no Céu as Pet Shivers
1989Top Model (197 Episodes) as Irma Lamer
1989Que Rei Sou Eu? (185 Episodes) as Fanny
1984Corpo a Corpo (2 Episodes) as Maria Helena
1984Women in Fury as Unknown
Production
2018As Quatro Irmãs ... Executive Producer