Maria Gladys

Maria Gladys Mello da Silva is a Brazilian actress with a long career on stage and screen. She started acting in 1959 in the play O Mambembe at the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro. Maria Gladys appears nude from behind in her scene from Rat Fever (2012). She was born on 23 November 1939 in Cachambi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 1964 she starred in Ruy Guerra's Os Fuzis, which won the Silver Bear in Berlin for directing. She is often called the mother of marginal cinema in Brazil. Her part in the resistance against the Brazilian dictatorship sent her into exile in London from 1965 to 1979. She is also the grandmother of actress Mia Goth on her mother's side.