Adriana Esteves

Adriana Esteves
Born	Adriana Esteves Agostinho Brichta 15 December 1969 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Occupation	Actress
Spouse(s)	Totila Jordan Neto (1988–1990) Marco Ricca (1994–2004) Vladimir Brichta (2006–present)
Children	2

Adriana Esteves Agostinho Brichta (born December 15, 1969 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian actress.

She was nominated for an International Emmy Award in 2011, for best actress in a dramatic series for her portrayal of Dalva de Oliveira in the miniseries, Dalva e Herivelto: uma Canção de Amor.^[1]

Biography

Daughter of Regina Esteves Agostinho and Paulo Felipe Agostinho, Adriana began her career as a model and got her first job on television as part of the series, "Star for a Day", on the show Domingão do Faustão.

Her first television appearance was as an extra on the soap opera Vale Tudo. She was also a successful model.^[2] Herdebut novel was released in 1989 with Top Model (1989).^[3]

In 2005, she took on the part of Celinha on the series, Toma Lá, Dá Cá. When the program aired on the Globo in 2007, Adriana, after maternity leave with her second child, reprised her role as Celinha.

While still recording Toma Lá, Dá Cá, Adriana recorded the miniseries, Dalva e Herivelto – Uma Canção de Amor, playing singer Dalva de Oliveira. The miniseries aired in January 2010. In the same year, she starred an the episode of the "A Vingativa do Méier" series As Cariocas.^[4][5]

In 2011, she was cast as Julia, the protagonist of Morde & Assopra, who was part of a love triangle with scientist Ícaro (Mateus Solano) and farmer Abner (Marcos Pasquim).^[6] In 2012, she gained notoriety for interpreting the villain Carminha on the soap opera, Avenida Brasil, written by João Emanuel Carneiro. She received praise from critics and audiences alike for her performance and was enshrined as one of the greatest villains of Brazilian television—only surpassed by Odete Roitman of Vale Tudo, Nazaré Tedesco of Senhora do Destino and Flora of A Favorita.^[7]

Personal life

Adriana's first boyfriend, who later became her husband, was jiujitsu teacher Totila Jordan. They married in 1988 and remained together for two years, divorcing in 1990.

In 1994, she married actor Marco Ricca. A year later, she discovered he suffered from anxiety and panic disorder.^[8] In 2000, they had a son together, Felipe. In 2004, Adriana and Marco parted ways.

After months of separation from Marco, she started dating actor Vladimir Brichta. In February 2006, they married. In the same year, after a few months of marriage, their first son, Vicente, was born.^[9] Adriana became the stepmother of Agnes, born in 1997, who was Vladimir Brichta's daughter from his first wife, singer Gena, who died in 1999 of blood cancer.

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1988	Vale Tudo	Model	Cameo
1989	Top Model	Tininha
1990	Delegacia de Mulheres	Manú	Cameo
	Meu Bem, Meu Mal	Patrícia Melo
1991	Caso Especial	Marina	Caso "Marina"
1992	Pedra sobre Pedra	Marina Farias Batista
	Você Decide		Ep: "Águas Passadas"
	Especial Leandro e Leonardo	Leandro's girlfriend	Cameo
1993	Renascer	Mariana
1994	Você Decide		Ep: "Anjos sem Asas"
1995	Decadência	Carla
	A Comédia da Vida Privada	Maria Helena	Ep: "O Pesadelo da casa Própria"
1996	Didi Malasarte	Lili	Special End of Year
	Razão de Viver	Zilda
1997	Mundo VIP	Herself	Cameo
	A Indomada	Lúcia Helena / Eulália
1998	Mulher	Liliana	Ep: "O Princípio de Tudo"
	Torre de Babel	Sandra da Silva (Sandrinha)
2000	O Cravo e a Rosa	Catarina Batista
2001	Brava Gente	Marina	Ep: "Como Matar um Playboy"
2002	Coração de Estudante	Amélia Mourão (Amelinha)
2003	Kubanacan	Lola Calderón
2004	Senhora do Destino	Nazaré Tedesco (young)	Cameo – Stage 1
2005	A História de Rosa	Rosa	Globo Special 40 Years
	A Lua Me Disse	Heloísa Queiroz
	A Turma do Didi	Herself	Cameo
	Sitcom.br	Mother	Ep: "A dura vida de uma mãe"
	Toma Lá, Dá Cá	Celinha	Special End of Year
2006	Belíssima	Stella Assumpção	Cameo
2007	Toma Lá, Dá Cá	Celinha	92 episodes (2007–2009)
2009	Episódio Especial	Herself	Cameo
2010	Dalva e Herivelto: uma Canção de Amor	Dalva de Oliveira
	As Cariocas	Celi	Ep: "A Vingativa do Méier"
2011	Morde & Assopra	Júlia Freire de Aquino
2012	Avenida Brasil	Carmen Lúcia Moreira de Souza (Carminha)
2015	Felizes para Sempre?	Tânia Drummond
2015	Babilônia	Inês
2016	Justiça

Film

Year	Title	Role
1995	As Meninas	Lorena
1998	Tiradentes	Bárbara
1999	O Trapalhão e a Luz Azul	Juliana
2006	Trair e Coçar É Só Começar	Olímpia
2014	Beleza	Anita[10]

Theater

Title	Role
A Dama e o Vagabundo	Dama
A Falecida
Ponto de Vista	Amy
Only You	Júlia
Auto de Angicos	Maria Bonita

References

1. Brasil recebe 6 indicações para Emmy internacional. Bahia 24/7, 4 de outubro de 2010.
2. "Adriana Esteves: remember os personagens da atria nas novelas". mdemulher. 2012.
3. Rede Globo, Memória Globo, Top Model [em linha]
4. Keila Jimenez (8 June 2010). "Sônia Braga e Daniel Filho voltam à Globo". AdNews. Retrieved 8 June 2010.
5. "Adriana Esteves e Ailton Graça vivem marido e mulher em As Cariocas". 1 September 2010. Archived from the original on 5 September 2010. Retrieved 1 September 2010.
6. João Fernando (14 February 2011). "Após cinch anos afastada, Adriana Esteves volta às novelas". Terra Networks.
7. Sara Paixão (1 March 2012). "'Avenida Brasil': Tony Ramos e Adriana Esteves graham em Guadalupe". Extra. Retrieved March 2012.
10. "Iniciam as filmagens do longa-metragem "Beleza", de Jorge Furtado".

External links

• Adriana Esteves at the Internet Movie Database