2017Nominee
Best Performance
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Laerte Coutinho
Actor · Writer
São Paulo, Brazil
June 10, 1951
Biography
Laerte Coutinho, known mainly as simply Laerte, is a Brazilian cartoonist, comic strip artist and screenwriter. Assigned male at birth, she came out in 2009 as a crossdresser and later as a transgender woman. Laerte has collaborated with several publications such as Balão, O Pasquim, and Chiclete com Banana magazines and draws regularly for Folha de S. Paulo newspaper. She has created several comic strip characters, such as Piratas do Tietê (The Pirates of Tietê River). Since the mid 2000s, Laerte's strips became more philosophical and less humour-focused, abandoning fixed characters.
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Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2026Nominee
Best Writing
Overman
2016Winner
Best Performance
Lampião da Esquina: Lighting Up Brazilian Press
Career Highlights
2016Highlight
Best Performance
Super Oldboy
1995Highlight
Best Writing
Super Colosso
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