# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maria-luisa-mendonca
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:08:56.481Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maria-luisa-mendonca"
name: "Maria Luísa Mendonça"
slug: "maria-luisa-mendonca"
description: "Maria Luísa Mendonça is a Brazilian actress. She debuted in television by acting in the 1993 telenovela Renascer in the role of an intersex woman, Buba. Debuting in cinema with Quem Matou Pixote?, her first most prominent role in films was in Foolish Heart, for which she was nominated for Best Actress at the 1st Grande Prêmio Cinema Brasil and at the Silver Condor Award."
tagline: "Brazilian actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marialuisamendonca.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1970-01-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.27
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.268112
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0579201/"
    handle:    "nm0579201"
sources:
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    title: "Maria Luísa Mendonça"
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    title: "마리아 루이자 멘돈사"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Maria Luísa Mendonça"
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    title: "Maria Luísa Mendonça"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Maria Luísa Mendonça"
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    title: "Maria Luísa Mendonça"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Мендонса, Мария Луиза"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump