Fina Estampa

Synopsis

Set in Rio de Janeiro, Fina Estampa centers on Griselda, a tough, hard-working handywoman with a very well-defined set of values. She managed to raise her small children on her own when her husband disappeared. Now she lives with her three adult children and one grandson in a fancy neighborhood where she does odd jobs and is well-known and liked by everyone. However, her life is far from easy. Her daughter Maria Amália is hard-working like herself, but becomes involved with Rafael, a young man with dubious morals. Her son Quinzé was left by his wife, Teodora, who also left behind their small child. Her other son, Antenor, a medical student who is embarrassed by Griselda's humble ways, will do anything to keep her away from his life. He falls in love with Patrícia, the daughter of René, a renowned chef and restaurant owner, and Teresa Cristina, a vain, arrogant, unscrupulous woman whose favorite pastime is tormenting her nutty housekeeper, Crô. René is smitten with Griselda's simple but honorable approach to life, arousing jealousy in Teresa Cristina, who eventually becomes her biggest rival taking revenge to the next level with her manipulative ways. Tensions arise after Griselda wins the lottery and people suddenly turn up, like her "dead" husband, Pereirinha, and her son's ex-wife. She will have to face the excessive ambitions of her son, her rival, and ex-husband, among others.

Cast

Lília Cabral as Griselda da Silva Pereira (Pereirão)

Christiane Torloni as Tereza Cristina Buarque Siqueira de Velmont

Dalton Vigh as Renê Velmont

Carolina Dieckmann as Teodora Bastos da Silva

Malvino Salvador as Quinzé (Joaquim José da Silva Pereira)

Sophie Charlotte as Maria Amália da Silva Pereira

Caio Castro as José Antenor da Silva Pereira

Adriana Birolli as Patrícia Siqueira de Velmont

Paulo Rocha as Guaracy Martins

Marcelo Serrado as Crodoaldo Valério (Crô)

Júlia Lemmertz as Esther Wolkoff Siqueira

Renata Sorrah as Danielle Steiner Fraser

Milena Toscano as Vanessa Tavares Ribas

Eva Wilma as Maria Íris de Siqueira Maciel

Arlete Salles as Vilma Moreira Prado

Dira Paes as Celeste Souza Fonseca

Alexandre Nero as Baltazar Fonseca

Dudu Azevedo as Wallace Mu

Marco Pigossi as Rafael Fernandes

Cris Vianna as Dagmar dos Anjos

Wolf Maya as Álvaro Siqueira

Totia Meireles as Zambeze Siqueira

Guilherme Boury as Daniel

Carlos Casagrande as Juan Guilherme Passarelli

Tania Khalill as Letícia Fernandes Prado

Suzana Pires as Marcela/Joana Coutinho

Juliana Knust as Zuleika

Thaís de Campos as Alice

Mônica Carvalho as Glória Monteiro

Monique Alfradique as Beatriz Lobo

Ana Rosa as Celina

Isabel Fillardis as Doctor Mônica Ramos

Júlio Rocha as Enzo Pereira

Carol Macedo as Solange de Souza Fonseca

Carlos Machado as Ferdinand

Joana Lerner as Luana

Ricardo Blat as Severino

Rafael Zulu as Edvaldo

Eri Johnson as Gigante (Honório)

Rosa Marya Colin as Zilá

Guida Vianna as Isolina

Michelle Martins as Fernanda

Bianca Salgueiro as Carolina Fernandes Prado

Luma Costa as Nanda

Ana Carolina Dias as Deborah

Ítalo Guerra as Reinaldo

Alexandra Martins as Márcia

David Lucas as Renê Velmont Júnior

Guilherme Leicam as Fábio

Vitor David as Leonardo dos Anjos

Marcelo Brou as Pezão (Maurício)

Christian Monassa as Max

Sandro Pedroso as Mandrake

Fábio Keldani as Victor

Carlos Vieira as Fred

Aline Matheus as Clara

Ângela Vieira as Mirna Bello

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