Acting
Laerte Coutinho
Birth Date
June 10, 1951
(75 years old)
Place of Birth
São Paulo, Brazil
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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.
Photos
Laerte-se
Herself
2017
Cartas da Mãe
2003
Lampião da Esquina: Lighting Up Brazilian Press
Self
2016
Super Oldboy
2016
Rindo à Toa: Humor Sem Limites
Self
2018
The Known Daughter of Claudia Wonder
2024
Três Irmãos de Sangue
Self
2006
Reading Again Graúna
Self
2024
Mapas Afetivos: São Paulo
2018
Tie and Red Nail
Herself
2014
Bob Spit: We Do Not Like People
Laerte / Madame L (voice)
2021
Desenheiros do Instagram
Archive footage
2026
Laughter of Others
Herself
2012
Transando com Laerte
Apresentadora
2015 • 2 episodes
The City of Pirates
Laerte Coutinho (voice)
2018
From Nowhere: A Portrait of Valter Hugo Mãe
Self
2025
Dossiê Rê Bordosa
Laerte Coutinho (voice)
2008
A Turma do Pererê.DOC
2019
Malditos Cartunistas
2010
Consideração do Poema
2011