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Leandra Leal is known for:

  • The Man Who Copied
    André, 19, lives in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and works as a photocopier operator. He likes to see his neighbor Sílvia with a pair of binoculars. She works selling clothes. Becoming attracted to her, he tries to get nearer, and goes to her shop to buy something, but finds out that he can't afford it. So he puts the photocopier to other uses, and begins to envisage fishy schemes to earn some money.
  • Bingo: The King of the Mornings
    1980s. Brazilian television exploding in color and auditorium programs not so politically correct. In the middle of this fervor, Augusto Mendes, a young rising actor, seeks his place in the sun. From porn studios to soap operas, he finally finds success and fame when he becomes "Bingo", a TV host clown from one of the audience leader TV shows for children. It turns out that behind the rice powder and red nose, nobody knows who he is.
  • Cazuza: Time Doesn't Stop
    Inspired by the moving book “Só as Mães São Felizes”, by Lucinha Araújo, Cazuza's mother, the film covers a little more than 10 years of the singer’s crazy and brief life – from the beginning of his career in the Circo Voador venue, in 1981, to the huge success and the apotheosis of his shows with the Barão Vermelho band, his solo career, his relations with his parents, friends, lovers and passions, and the courage he had to face his final years, with HIV, until his death, in 1990.

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Biography

Leandra Rodrigues Leal Braz e Silva (Rio de Janeiro, September 8, 1982) is a Brazilian actress, author, director, producer and singer. she started in theater at the age of seven and on television at the age of eight, when she participated in the last episode of the soap opera Pantanal, in which her mother also worked. Between 1994 and 1996 she was in the youth tv series Confissões de Adolescente, on TV Cultura, playing Mariana, initially a rival of the character Carol and later one of her best friends. At the same time, in 1995, she was in Explode Coração with the character Yanka, a gypsy who falls in love with her older sister's suitor. She was awarded nationally and internationally, at just 13 years old, for her performance in A Ostra e o Vento, her first film, where she starred alongside great actors, such as Lima Duarte and Fernando Torres. In the film, she took on the role of a girl who fell in love with the wind.