


In 1998, she wrote the miniseries Hilda Furacão, based on the novel by Roberto Drummond, with Ana Paula Arósio as the lead.

This initiative to promote social and educational activities became a mark on the work of Perez. lt also presented an important public service campaign: throughout its run, photographs of missing children were shown and, as a result, 64 children were found by their parents. Her fifth telenovela, Explode Coração (1995), detailed the habits of the Romani people. The work was marked by the tragic murder of the author's daughter, Daniela Perez, who was cast in the role of Yasmin. The same year, she wrote single-handedly her first telenovela for the network, Barriga de Aluguel, centred around the couple Ana and Zeca, played by Cassia Kis Magro and Victor Fasano, who can't have children and propose that Clara, played by Claudia Abreu, rent her womb for pregnancy.ĭue to the success both the miniseries and the telenovela obtained, Gloria Perez was then asked to write her first telenovela in primetime: De Corpo e Alma (1992). She went back to Rede Globo in 1990 and wrote Desejo, a drama miniseries about the love triangle between Anna de Assis, her husband, the writer Euclides da Cunha, and the young Dilermando de Assis, starring Vera Fischer, Tarcisio Meira and Guilherme Fontes. Hired by TV Manchete in 1987, she wrote the telenovela Carmem, also set in Rio de Janeiro, starring Lucélia Santos and Paulo Betti. It starred Claudio Marzo, Raul Cortez, Elizabeth Savalla and Betty Faria. Set in Rio de Janeiro, the telenovela revolved around two female characters living in the south and suburbs of Rio. The following year, she shared writing credits with Aguinaldo Silva in Partido Alto. After Clair died of cancer that same year, Perez was tasked with finishing the show, under the supervision of Clair's widower, writer Dias Gomes. The telenovela addressed the backstage of Brazilian politics. The episode was never filmed but the synopsis drew the attention of legendary TV writer Janete Clair, who invited Perez to work as her assistant in 1983 in the telenovela Eu Prometo, starring Francisco Cuoco as Deputy Lucas Cantomaia. In 1979, Perez began her writing career on Rede Globo, writing a synopsis for an episode of the series Malu Mulher. She studied law and philosophy at the University of Brasilia and graduated in history at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She moved with her family to Brasilia, then to São Paulo and finally to Rio de Janeiro, where she married. Glória Maria Rebelo Ferrante ( Brazilian Portuguese: born 25 September 1948) is a Brazilian screenwriter.īorn in Rio Branco, Acre, Gloria is the daughter of lawyer Miguel Jeronimo Ferrante, Italian descendent, and teacher Maria Augusta Rebelo Ferrante, Portuguese descendent, both born and raised in Rio Branco.
