# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maria-gladys
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:04:58.228Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maria-gladys"
name: "Maria Gladys"
slug: "maria-gladys"
description: "Maria Gladys Mello da Silva is a Brazilian actress. Gladys made her acting debut in 1959 with Arthur Azevedo's play O Mambembe at the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro. She earned recognition in the theater world by appearing topless in the publicity poster for the play O Chão dos Penitentes. She is considered the mother of marginal cinema."
tagline: "Brazilian actress"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/ki0jf8dwmF2NJLIh8QjppqaCdod.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1939-11-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.75
  momentum:             8.4862343593566
  historical:           7.66132
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0321664/"
    handle:    "nm0321664"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7_%DA%AF%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%B3"
    title: "ماریا گلادیس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%BA%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "ماريا غلاديس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "ماريا جلاديس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Gladys"
    title: "Maria Gladys"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Gladys"
    title: "Maria Gladys"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Gladys"
    title: "Maria Gladys"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%93%D0%BB%D1%8D%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Мария Глэдис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10325871"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1091459"
    title: "Maria Gladys"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump