Laerte Coutinho

Born: 1951-06-10

Laerte Coutinho, known mainly as simply Laerte, is a Brazilian cartoonist, comic strip artist and screenwriter. Assigned male at birth, she came out in 2009 as a crossdresser and later as a transgender woman. Laerte has collaborated with several publications such as Balão, O Pasquim, and Chiclete com Banana magazines and draws regularly for Folha de S. Paulo newspaper. She has created several comic strip characters, such as Piratas do Tietê (The Pirates of Tietê River). Since the mid 2000s, Laerte's strips became more philosophical and less humour-focused, abandoning fixed characters.


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Laerte-se

as Herself
Released: 2017-05-18

In this film, Laerte conjugates the body in the feminine, and scrutinizes concepts and...

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Consideração do Poema

as uncredited
Released: 2011-03-03

Carlos Drummond de Andrade's poetry is read by exponents of Brazilian culture, such as Chico...

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Tie and Red Nail

as Herself
Released: 2014-03-01

Several characters realize their personal way to build their own identity from the choice of...

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The City of Pirates

as Laerte Coutinho (voice)
Released: 2018-08-17

A film director faces a complex situation in the production of his new film: Laerte, the...

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Dossiê Rê Bordosa

as Laerte Coutinho (voice)
Released: 2008-03-01

Envy? Ego issues? Malice? In 1987, Angeli, one of the most important cartoonists in Brazil,...

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Minha Bateria Está Fraca e Está Ficando Tarde

as Self
Released: 2020-12-03

As the Sars-Covid 19 pandemic increased, Rubiane Maia was in Folkestone, England, and Tom...

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Lampião da Esquina: Lighting Up Brazilian Press

as Herself
Released: 2016-08-18

Inspired by the US paper “Gay Sunshine”, in April of 1978 appeared in Brazil – during the...

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Bob Spit: We Do Not Like People

as Laerte / Madame L (voice)
Released: 2021-11-11

Bob Spit, a comic book character, lives in a post-apocalyptic desert inside the mind of his...

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A Turma do Pererê.DOC

as uncredited
Released: 2019-10-03

Marked in history as the first Brazilian comic book, totally in nuclei, Turma do Pererê is...

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Rindo à Toa: Humor Sem Limites

as Self
Released: 2018-11-09

A portrays of the period in which Brazilian humor had fewer limits (1986-2003), free from...

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Super Oldboy

as uncredited
Released: 2016-01-01

Bil is an elderly man who works as an office boy for a firm in São Paulo, as he does not pay for...

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Mapas Afetivos: São Paulo

as uncredited
Released: 2018-05-14

An emotional geographic reading of the city of São Paulo, created through hundreds of love...

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Laughter of Others

as Herself
Released: 2012-01-12

There are limits to jokes? What is the politically incorrect humor? A joke has the power to...

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Casa da Xiclet

as Herself
Released: 2017-10-17

Xiclet is a plastic artist who settled in São Paulo in the early years 2000 and has since...

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Transando com Laerte

as Apresentadora
First aired: 2015-06-02

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