Vanda Lacerda
Birthday: September 10, 1923
Death: July 14, 2001
Wanda Lacerda Pamplona, stage name of Vanda Lacerda (Rio de Janeiro, September 10, 1923 - July 14, 2001), was a Brazilian actress. Considered one of the great ladies of the Brazilian theater. She debuted in 1940 as an actress for Rádio Nacional. With the military coup of 1964, she was fired from Rádio Nacional. She acted in several films and soap operas, but became best known in telenovelas. Among the telenovelas she participated in, she stood out in Minha Doce Namorada (1971), as Sarita Leão, O Espigão (1974), as Urânia Camará, Anjo Mau (1976), as Alzira Noronha, Sinal de Alerta (1978), as Melinda Montenegro, and, after an eight-year hiatus, she returned to the screen in Tudo ou Nada (1987), with a prominent role: the shrew Ema Barroso. In 2000, she narrated the short film Valsa Número Seis (2000), her last work.
