Actor
Laerte Coutinho
75 years · São Paulo, Brazil · 21 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 21
Desenheiros do Instagram
2026 · Archive footage
From Nowhere: A Portrait of Valter Hugo Mãe
2025 · Self
The Known Daughter of Claudia Wonder
2024 · Actor
Reading Again Graúna
2024 · Self
Bob Spit: We Do Not Like People
2021 · Laerte / Madame L (voice)
On Hoopla
Minha Bateria Está Fraca e Está Ficando Tarde
2020 · Self
A Turma do Pererê.DOC
2019 · Actor
Rindo à Toa: Humor Sem Limites
2018 · Self
The City of Pirates
2018 · Laerte Coutinho (voice)
Mapas Afetivos: São Paulo
2018 · Actor
Casa da Xiclet
2017 · Herself
Laerte-se
2017 · Herself
Lampião da Esquina: Lighting Up Brazilian Press
2016 · Self
Super Oldboy
2016 · Actor
Tie and Red Nail
2014 · Herself
Laughter of Others
2012 · Herself
Love is All
2011 · Writer
Consideração do Poema
2011 · Actor
Malditos Cartunistas
2010 · Actor
Dossiê Rê Bordosa
2008 · Laerte Coutinho (voice)
Super Colosso
1995 · Writer