Marta Anderson

After winning more than ten beauty contests in the sixties, Marta Anderson, born Sonia Marta Anders to German-Jewish parents in Brazil, decided to try her luck in Rio de Janeiro, the most important city in Brazilian art circuit. She got married to a TV producer, got divorced, and then married a Brazilian business man, just to get divorced again, after one child, Albert, who became a lawyer in Brazil. She starred in many soap operas, many low budget feature films, but her great rise was in Brazilian theatre, when already more than forty years old. She received top billing in several French and English plays in the most luxurious theatres in Rio, including the famous Copacabana Palace. In 1977, she found out she was about to die with cancer. She was thought to survive for no more than sixty days. After a religious experience, that she tells in her latest book, "A Mulher que desafiou a Deus" (The Woman who defied God), she quit her cinema and TV career and became a producer of various theatrical events, and is often connected with many humanitarian and religious causes.