Most Recent Role: Estella de la Costa on Ghost Whisperer
Alias Name(s): Sônia Braga
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Maringa, Brazil
Birthday: 6-16-1950
Birth Name: Sônia Maria Campos Braga
Alias Name(s): Sônia Braga
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Maringa, Brazil
Birthday: 6-16-1950
Birth Name: Sônia Maria Campos Braga
Sexy, smoldering actress who rose to stardom in her native country through work on a series of lavish soap operas for the Brazilian network TV Globo. She was featured in the films A Moreninha (1969), Captain Bandiera vs. Dr. Moura Brasil (1970) and The Couple (1974), but it wasn't until her role as a woman with two lovers-her husband, who is alive, and her ex-husband, who is a ghost-in Dona...
Most Recent Appearance
Shadow Boxer
Friday 9 December 2005 on CBS
The dead mother of a boxer requests Melinda to assist in getting her son back together with his father. The son is furious because his father caused him not to be able to spend time with his dying mother.
In 2006, Sonia went back to Brazil to star a new role, on a Brazilian Soap Opera, called Páginas da Vida (Pages of Life).
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At the age of 14, Sonia had to leave school to support her family.
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In 1996, she won a Lone Star Film & Television Award for starring in the mini-series Streets of Laredo.
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Sonia won two Gramado Film Festival awards; in 1981 and 2001.
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She received her first Golden Globe nomination (of three) in 1986, for her supporting role performance in a movie titled Kiss of the Spider Woman.
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Sonia: You can keep yourself alive. That's the magic of being an actor.
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Sonia: The only thing I know is that we came from the stars, and that we have the same material as the stars. That's all that I know. Everything else I don't know.
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Sonia: If you take away money, if you take away the houses and things, who are we really? What is love really about? What is it to love each other? Why do we stay together, and why do all the kids split? All these questions I have really deep inside of me.
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Sonia: I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us.
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Other Appearances
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American Family (2002)
Berta Gonzalez (in flashbacks) |
Four Corners
Carlota Alvarez |
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Alias
Elena Derevko |
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American Family (2002)
The Sewing Machine Berta Gonzalez |
American Family (2002)
Pilot Berta Gonzalez |
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CSI: Miami
Identity Dona Marta Cruz |
Family Law
Echoes Beatrice Valdez |
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George Lopez
Meet the Cuban Parents Emilina Palmero |
Ghost Whisperer
Shadow Boxer Estella de la Costa |
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