
Acting
Feb 21, 1945
Leutkirch im Allgäu, Baden-Württemberg, German
Elke Maravilha
Acting
Biography
Elke Grünupp, known by her stage name Elke Maravilha (Leutkirch im Allgäu, February 22, 1945 – Rio de Janeiro, August 16, 2016), was a German-Brazilian model, judge, presenter and actress. She began to act as a model and mannequin at the age of 24, working with famous stylists of the time and was considered an innovator on the catwalks. Initially discreet, over time she made room for her extravagance.
Feature Films (40)

10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.
Pixote

Shortly after World War II, the city of Rio de Janeiro experiments a period of great cultural, political and economic effervescence, when all the dreams – or nearly all – seem possible. In this exciting scenery of transformation, Paulo discovers love, friendship and sex through his childhood and adolescence in the 1950’s and 1960’s.
Extreme Happiness

Covering the last years of the famous Brazilian fashion designer in her doomed quest for justice, Zuzu Angel follows the case of her activist son Stuart's arrest, torture, murder, and subsequent corpse disposal by the military forces in early 1970s Rio de Janeiro, during the darkest era of Brazilian military regime and media censorship.
Zuzu Angel

In a country town in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, Januária is going to marry the shy and naive Amorim. But in her heart she wants to escape with her dream hero, the cowboy Roy Pereira, and start a new life in Texas.
Minas Texas

Twin brothers arrive in Rio during the Carnival. One is a priest and is going to work in a parish; the other, a drug-dealer, in a business trip to sell cocaine. They’re not aware of each other’s presence. People expecting them always get in touch with the wrong guy.
Si tu vas à Rio... tu meurs

The romanced story of Xica da Silva, a slave that used her "feminine atributes" in order to get power.
Xica

In 1947, Edgar went to visit Usher and his sister Lady Madeleine. He find out that coursed still living in the house after Usher rebuild it. Based on the novel of Edgar Allan Poe.
Heirs of the House of Usher

A Brazilian theatre group that through talent, irony and humour confronted the Brazilian violent dictatorship in the 1970s revolutionising the gay movement worldwide and changing theatre and dance language to an entire generation.
Dzi Croquettes

Upon learning that the school where he learned music is going to be expropriated, a famous singer decides to do a show for the benefit of the institution.
Amante Latino

Reporter Tião, who routinely brings neighbor’s son Zeca along for leisure features, is drawn into investigating mysterious disappearances in the city. He uncovers Dr. Kiriri’s hidden laboratory, where the mad scientist and his secretary Mérilin transform victims into dust and send them to another galaxy. Tião must expose and stop Kiriri before more people vanish.
Elke Maravilha Contra o Homem Atômico
Television & Series (7)

Brazilian version of the reality game show in which a group of houseguests live together 24 hours a day, isolated from the outside world but under constant surveillance with no privacy. Each week a guest is voted out of the house until only the winner remains.
Big Brother Brazil

The big shot Albert returns after three years, reuniting with his family — his parents and his sister. And he gets in touch with some acquaintances, such as his old friend Vitório and a decadent high society woman. And once again Albert, the Rockefeller gets involved with millionaires and opportunists.
The Return Of The Rockefeller

The story takes place in São Paulo, in the late 1920s, and has Mariano's memories as its starting point. Orphaned, he loses the aunt who raised him and ends up in Madame Iara's brothel, where he meets two people who transform his life: Esmeraldo, a gigolo who loves the good life who becomes his master; and the prostitute Guadalupe, known as Lu, a sweet and extremely sensual woman. Esmeraldo is Lu's boyfriend, whom he loves unconditionally. Mariano enters the couple's lives and ends up falling in love with her, thus forming the love triangle that drives the entire narrative.
Memórias de um Gigolô

A successful businesswoman in the music industry sees her life fall apart after a young and mysterious woman starts work as her secretary. The scheming girl is totally obsessed by the famous businesswoman and she tries to steal everything from her, including her career.





