Regina Casé

Regina Casé is a Brazilian actress and television presenter whose career has spanned theater, cinema, and TV. She won the Moliére Award for best theater actress at 23. On television, she was recognized for Tina Pepper in the soap opera Cambalacho and presented programs such as Brasil legal, Muvuca, and Esquenta!, a Sunday Rede Globo program. Her films include Chuvas de verão, Made in China, and Eu, tu, eles (2000), in which she played Darlene; The New York Times praised the performance and compared her to Anna Magnani, while the film took the Cristal Globe at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where she was also named best actress. In The Second Mother (2015), directed by Anna Muylaerts, she played Val, a woman from Pernambuco; the film won the Panorama Audience Award for Best Fiction Film at the Berlin International Film Festival, and she shared a Best Actress award at Sundance and received a female interpretation prize at Valenciennes.