Karine Teles

Acting

Karine Teles

Born August 16, 1978 · Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (age 47)

Karine Teles (Petrópolis, August 16, 1978) is a Brazilian actress, screenwriter and filmmaker. One of the most prestigious actresses in Brazilian cinema, she is the winner of several awards, including two Grande Otelo Awards, two APCA Awards, and three Guarani Awards, in addition to having received nominations for an ACIE Award and a Fênix Award.

Known For

CraftCraft · 2011
Craft
6.62011
MovieDrama
Bianca manages a precarious living as a talented but underemployed actress in Rio de Janeiro, performing for private events dressed as movie icons. Troubled by the belief that she has missed her big break, Bianca's situation is upturned by an audition that leads to a rare opportunity.
Feijoada CompletaFeijoada Completa · 2012
Feijoada Completa
2012
MovieComedyDrama
On a Saturday, unhappy with her marriage, Carol gets ready to leave, her husband usually goes to a soccer match and bring his friends back home for lunch. The dish of the day is feijoada. This film is an adaptation of the short story "Feijoada Completa" by Luis Fernando Verissimo, in turn inspired by the homonymous Chico Buarque' song.
The Other EndThe Other End · 2016
The Other End
6.52016
MovieDrama
Diogo (17) has a little quirk: he likes to call his mother's female therapy patients and masturbate while listening to them on the phone. One of these patients is Angela (43), a woman who was just left by her husband When Diogo calls Angela, she thinks it's her husband calling. She starts having a relationship with the silence on the other end of the line. But when she finds out it's Diogo, she's disgusted. She's furious. But, most of all, she's attracted to this person who showed so much interest in her. The only person who called her every day. Diogo helps Angela see that she can have a new beginning and she shows him his way to independence. But they have to face a number of obstacles: There's the age difference, Diogo's mother, and, especially, his own path to adulthood.
#SalveRosa#SalveRosa · 2025
#SalveRosa
6.52025
MovieThrillerDrama
A young influencer decides to investigate her past after fainting at school. What she discovers puts not only her relationship with her overprotective mother at risk, but also her own life.
LovelingLoveling · 2018
Loveling
7.42018
MovieDrama
On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Irene has only a few days to overcome her anxiety and renew her strength before sending her eldest son out into the world.
HopefulsHopefuls · 2015
Hopefuls
5.12015
MovieDrama
Junior, as he’s known, since he’s essentially still a child, seems to be having a tough time getting on in life. He shares cheap lodgings with another fellow and earns money doing strenuous night shifts at a warehouse. It’s no surprise that he lives for football and desperately hangs onto the dream of perhaps every Brazilian kid – to become a famous player. Although he trains hard with his amateur team, he’s not one of the best. He won’t admit to the mounting jealousy he feels as he watches his talented friend doing extremely well on the pitch. What’s more, his prospects don’t look so rosy now that his young girlfriend Carine is pregnant, and he also has to deal with her dominant mother poking her nose in...
The Second MotherThe Second Mother · 2015
The Second Mother
8.02015
MovieDrama
After leaving her daughter Jessica in a small town in Pernambuco to be raised by relatives, Val spends the next 13 years working as a nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo. She has financial stability but has to live with the guilt of having not raised Jessica herself. As Fabinho’s university entrance exams approach, Jessica reappears in her life and seems to want to give her mother a second chance. However, Jessica has not been raised to be a servant and her very existence will turn Val’s routine on its head. With precision and humour, the subtle and powerful forces that keep rigid class structures in place and how the youth may just be the ones to shake it all up.
FifteenFifteen · 2014
Fifteen
3.02014
MovieDrama
Luiza will turn 15. Raquel has some dreams.

Movies

CraftCraft · 2011
Craft
6.62011
MovieDrama
Bianca manages a precarious living as a talented but underemployed actress in Rio de Janeiro, performing for private events dressed as movie icons. Troubled by the belief that she has missed her big break, Bianca's situation is upturned by an audition that leads to a rare opportunity.
Feijoada CompletaFeijoada Completa · 2012
Feijoada Completa
2012
MovieComedyDrama
On a Saturday, unhappy with her marriage, Carol gets ready to leave, her husband usually goes to a soccer match and bring his friends back home for lunch. The dish of the day is feijoada. This film is an adaptation of the short story "Feijoada Completa" by Luis Fernando Verissimo, in turn inspired by the homonymous Chico Buarque' song.
The Other EndThe Other End · 2016
The Other End
6.52016
MovieDrama
Diogo (17) has a little quirk: he likes to call his mother's female therapy patients and masturbate while listening to them on the phone. One of these patients is Angela (43), a woman who was just left by her husband When Diogo calls Angela, she thinks it's her husband calling. She starts having a relationship with the silence on the other end of the line. But when she finds out it's Diogo, she's disgusted. She's furious. But, most of all, she's attracted to this person who showed so much interest in her. The only person who called her every day. Diogo helps Angela see that she can have a new beginning and she shows him his way to independence. But they have to face a number of obstacles: There's the age difference, Diogo's mother, and, especially, his own path to adulthood.
#SalveRosa#SalveRosa · 2025
#SalveRosa
6.52025
MovieThrillerDrama
A young influencer decides to investigate her past after fainting at school. What she discovers puts not only her relationship with her overprotective mother at risk, but also her own life.
LovelingLoveling · 2018
Loveling
7.42018
MovieDrama
On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Irene has only a few days to overcome her anxiety and renew her strength before sending her eldest son out into the world.
HopefulsHopefuls · 2015
Hopefuls
5.12015
MovieDrama
Junior, as he’s known, since he’s essentially still a child, seems to be having a tough time getting on in life. He shares cheap lodgings with another fellow and earns money doing strenuous night shifts at a warehouse. It’s no surprise that he lives for football and desperately hangs onto the dream of perhaps every Brazilian kid – to become a famous player. Although he trains hard with his amateur team, he’s not one of the best. He won’t admit to the mounting jealousy he feels as he watches his talented friend doing extremely well on the pitch. What’s more, his prospects don’t look so rosy now that his young girlfriend Carine is pregnant, and he also has to deal with her dominant mother poking her nose in...
The Second MotherThe Second Mother · 2015
The Second Mother
8.02015
MovieDrama
After leaving her daughter Jessica in a small town in Pernambuco to be raised by relatives, Val spends the next 13 years working as a nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo. She has financial stability but has to live with the guilt of having not raised Jessica herself. As Fabinho’s university entrance exams approach, Jessica reappears in her life and seems to want to give her mother a second chance. However, Jessica has not been raised to be a servant and her very existence will turn Val’s routine on its head. With precision and humour, the subtle and powerful forces that keep rigid class structures in place and how the youth may just be the ones to shake it all up.
FifteenFifteen · 2014
Fifteen
3.02014
MovieDrama
Luiza will turn 15. Raquel has some dreams.
BacurauBacurau · 2019
Bacurau
7.62019
MovieMysteryWestern
Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.
Vida de BalconistaVida de Balconista · 2009
Vida de Balconista
7.52009
MovieComedy
Mateus is a video store clerk that deals with several weird clients everyday while he dreams to be a filmmaker like Tarantino.
OtimismoOtimismo · 2015
Otimismo
2015
Movie
A woman, two men, two children and two dogs holding on to love.
A Vilã das NoveA Vilã das Nove · 2024
A Vilã das Nove
6.82024
MovieDramaComedy
Recently divorced, Roberta is living her best life, until she discovers that someone has turned her biggest secret into the plot of a soap opera — where she is the villain.
O Sol Por ElasO Sol Por Elas · 2024
O Sol Por Elas
2024
MovieDocumentary
Os SobreviventesOs Sobreviventes · 2013
Os Sobreviventes
1.02013
MovieDrama
Caio and Jane had a long relationship but like all good things one day it all comes to an end. With many unsolved issues and some love still there between, they engage in long conversations through the night remembering their past and imagining certain scenarios.
The BeadsThe Beads · 2023
The Beads
5.02023
MovieDrama
Two young women retreat to a remote holiday home. While one of them undertakes a medical abortion, the other quietly cares for her. A snake slithers around them, unnoticed.
Madame SatãMadame Satã · 2002
Madame Satã
6.82002
MovieCrimeDrama
In the favelas of Rio de Janeiro of the 1930s, João Francisco dos Santos is several things — son of slaves, ex-convict, thug, homosexual and adopted father for a number of pariahs. João expresses himself on the stage of a cabaret as Madame Satã.
Pretérito PerfeitoPretérito Perfeito · 2006
Pretérito Perfeito
2.72006
MovieDocumentary
Follows former customers and employees of one of the most famous brothels in Brazil called the Casa Rosa as they come back to the house where it once stood in all its glory. Revisiting the old bedrooms we get to know stories of men and women of all ages and their experiences inside the house. A film about memories, morals and negotiation.
A Wolf at the DoorA Wolf at the Door · 2013
A Wolf at the Door
7.22013
MovieDramaThriller
Love turns to hate and panic breeds suspicion as two parents deal with the kidnapping of their child.
Trouble in Paradise – The Myth of MotherhoodTrouble in Paradise – The Myth of Motherhood · 2024
Trouble in Paradise – The Myth of Motherhood
5.02024
MovieDocumentary
Maternity is instinctive or is it a social construction? How can a period surrounded by expectations of happiness and achievement be, at the same time, such an anticlimax, so exhausting and melancholy? A director-mother talks to other mothers about the maternal instinct, guilt and loneliness, reflecting on the complexities and riches of maternity.
She and IShe and I · 2021
She and I
7.32021
MovieDrama
20 years ago, Bia fell into a coma when her daughter was born, but that hasn't stopped her from being part of the family's daily life for all that time, even if she's unconscious. One day, extraordinarily, Bia wakes up and causes a radical change in the lives of everyone around her. While she needs to relearn how to talk, walk and relate, her adult daughter, her ex-husband and his current wife will have to readjust to a new family configuration, much more complex and full of challenges.
CycloneCyclone · 2025
Cyclone
7.52025
MovieDrama
Dayse, a Brazilian playwright known as Cyclone, wants to study in Paris. Having a career in theater is unthinkable for a woman in São Paulo in 1918. But her director doesn’t want her to go, as he would lose his mistress and ghostwriter. When she becomes pregnant by him, her dream starts to fade. An artist’s struggle for self-determination in a patriarchal society, based on the true story of Daisy Pontes and modernist Oswald de Andrade.
Dead Mother's MudDead Mother's Mud · 2023
Dead Mother's Mud
2023
Movie
Vida, a black trans woman, makes a point of dumping her mother's ashes without anyone's help, not even her girlfriend. In the solitude of her ritual, she is surprised.
HebeHebe · 2019
Hebe
7.12019
MovieDramaHistory
Hebe Camargo is one of the most emblematic entertainments in Brazil. At her 60s, she went on to control her own career and, despite the criticism, the dreadful husband and the powerful and sexist bosses, she revealed herself to the public as an extraordinary woman, capable of overcoming any personal or professional crisis.
Bacurau no MapaBacurau no Mapa · 2019
Bacurau no Mapa
8.02019
MovieDocumentary
Behind the scenes of Bacurau (2019)'s shooting and pre-production. With exclusive images, directors Kléber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles show how they made the film an audience and critical success.

TV Shows

Young HeartsYoung Hearts · 1995
Young Hearts
6.31995
SeriesComedy
Malhação is a Brazilian television series for the teenage audience. The soap started in 1995, and was set in a fictional Gym Club called Malhação on Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Through the years the location varied slightly. Although the name of the soap remains the same, it is now set in the Múltipla Escolha High School.
Anything GoesAnything Goes · 2025
Anything Goes
5.92025
SeriesDrama
The story of a mother and daughter with opposing views on the path to success in life takes the audience on a contemporary journey about character, ethics and honesty.
Que História é Essa, Porchat?Que História é Essa, Porchat? · 2019
Que História é Essa, Porchat?
7.42019
Series
Above JusticeAbove Justice · 2016
Above Justice
7.32016
SeriesDramaCrime
In this realistic and touching series told in an innovative format, seemingly independent plots intertwine to show how justice can sometimes be a personal matter.
PantanalPantanal · 2022
Pantanal
6.32022
SeriesDrama
After the mysterious disappearance of his father, Joventino, the cowboy José Leôncio becomes a wealthy farm owner in Pantanal. Over twenty years have passed and, bitter-hearted because of his father vanishing and the escape of his wife to Rio de Janeiro with his baby, José Leôncio has the chance to make amends with the boy, now a young man raised in the big city with very different values and habits than his own.
Elas por ElasElas por Elas · 2023
Elas por Elas
5.62023
SeriesDrama
"Crossed Paths" tells a history about seven friends who met in their youth at an English course meet again 25 years later; Lara, Taís, Helena, Adriana, Renée, Natália and Carol, each of them has a different personality and origin, but they share a deep affection.
As CanalhasAs Canalhas · 2013
As Canalhas
7.52013
SeriesComedy
HebeHebe · 2019
Hebe
8.42019
SeriesDrama
Between comings and goings in time, over 8 decades, the story of a poor country girl who fulfills the dream of becoming a great star, always in search of her truth.
Filhos da PátriaFilhos da Pátria · 2017
Filhos da Pátria
9.52017
SeriesComedy
The Bulhosa family lands a century later—this time in the 1930s, at the start of the Vargas Era—yet retains the mannerisms and all the eccentricity characteristic of the clan.
September MorningsSeptember Mornings · 2021
September Mornings
7.12021
SeriesDrama
The journey of Cassandra, who starts to see things get on track in her life with a place of her own for the first time, a boyfriend who she loves, Ivaldo, a job as a courier in downtown São Paulo, and fulfilling her dream of being a cover artist of Vanusa, a famous Brazilian singer from the 70s. Her life takes an unexpected turn, however, when her ex, Leide, shows up with Gersinho and claims he is Cassandra’s son.
Fale Mais Sobre Isso, IozziFale Mais Sobre Isso, Iozzi · 2022
Fale Mais Sobre Isso, Iozzi
2022
Series
The Last Days of GildaThe Last Days of Gilda · 2020
The Last Days of Gilda
5.02020
SeriesDrama
Gilda is a free woman, in the most literal sense of the word. She has excellent culinary skills, raises pigs and chickens in the backyard of her home for slaughter and produces recipes capable of enchanting her friends, family and lovers. Her independence bothers the neighborhood, especially Cacilda, wife of Ismael who is running for public office through a party linked to a religious group.
João Sem Deus: A Queda de AbadiâniaJoão Sem Deus: A Queda de Abadiânia · 2023
João Sem Deus: A Queda de Abadiânia
7.02023
SeriesDrama
Based on real events, this three-episode series tells the story of two sisters who arrived in Abadiânia 17 years before João de Deus was arrested. During their time in Abadiânia, one of the sisters is traumatized by the violations, while the other becomes a loyal employee. The sisters' reunion is the factor that drives the story forward, culminating in a surprising twist.