Laerte Coutinho
Actor
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.
Filmography
Bob Spit: We Do Not Like People
as Laerte / Madame L (voice) 2021
The City of Pirates
as Laerte Coutinho (voice) 2018
Dossiê Rê Bordosa
as Laerte Coutinho (voice) 2008
Tie and Red Nail
as Herself 2014
Laughter of Others
as Herself 2012
Legs Out
as Herself 2012
Reading Again Graúna
as Self 2024
Consideração do Poema
2011
Três Irmãos de Sangue
as Self 2006
Lampião da Esquina: Lighting Up Brazilian Press
as Herself 2016
Super Oldboy
2016
Mapas Afetivos: São Paulo
2018
Malditos Cartunistas
2010
Cartas da Mãe
2003
Casa da Xiclet
as Herself 2017
A Turma do Pererê.DOC
2019