Top Model

Top Model

1989 · 1 season · 197 eps · ★ 7.2 · Soap, Drama

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Maria Eduarda "Duda" Pinheiro is a successful top model. After being hired to model Covery brand clothes, she meets the Kundera brothers, Alex and Gaspar, owners of the company. Gaspar, a former beatnik, is over 40 but still practices surfing, lives in a beach-side house and raises five children: Elvis (named after Elvis Presley), Ringo (Starr), Jane (Fonda), Olívia (Newton-John) and (John) Lennon, all from different mothers who left them with him. Anastácia "Naná" Passos, Duda's friend and mentor, loves him platonically, and rivalizes with Mariza Borges over him. Alex by contrast is a yuppie. He and their mother Morgana have a love-hate relationship and rivalry with his brother over Morgana's attention and the company. Alex begins to love Duda, however she falls in love with Lucas, a graffiti artist who is on the run from the São Paulo police due to his involvement in a crime there. He is also searching for his real father, and thinks it's either Alex or Gaspar.

Created by Walther Negrão, Antônio Calmon

Network: TV Globo

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Malu Mader Maria Eduarda Pinheiro "Duda"
Nuno Leal Maia Gaspar Kundera
Cecil Thiré Alex Kundera
Maria Zilda Bethlem Mariza Borges Magalhães
Zezé Polessa Anastácia Passos "Naná"
Evandro Mesquita Adaílton Pinto de Saldanha "Saldanha / Sal"
Taumaturgo Ferreira Lucas Pasolini
Alexandra Marzo Giulia Bonicelli
Eva Todor Morgana Kundera
Luiz Carlos Arutin Silas Bonicelli
Jacqueline Laurence Simone Bourier
Suzana Faíni Cleide Pinheiro

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