Marta Anderson

Marta Anderson was born on May 20, 1945 in Brazil. Marta Anderson's big-screen debut came with O Padre Que Queria Pecar directed by Lenine Otoni in 1975. Marta Anderson is known for Sem Lenço, Sem Documento directed by Régis Cardoso, Ney Latorraca stars as Marco and Arlete Salles as Das Dores. The upcoming new movie Marta Anderson plays is Massacre in Dinosaur Valley which will be released on Aug 13, 1985.

After winning more than ten beauty contests in the sixties, Marta Anderson, born Sonia Marta Anders to German-Jewish parents in Brazil, decided to try her luck in Rio de Janeiro, the most important city in Brazilian art circuit. She got married to a TV producer, got divorced, and then married a Brazilian business man, just to get divorced again, after one child, Albert, who became a lawyer in Brazil. She starred in many soap operas, many low budget feature films, but her great rise was in Brazilian theatre, when already more than forty years old. She received top billing in several French and English plays in the most luxurious theatres in Rio, including the famous Copacabana Palace. In 1977, she found out she was about to die with cancer. She was thought to survive for no more than sixty days. After a religious experience, that she tells in her latest book, "A Mulher que desafiou a Deus" (The Woman who defied God), she quit her cinema and TV career and became a producer of various theatrical events, and is often connected with many humanitarian and religious causes.