Award-winning Brazilian actress Débora Bloch is known especially for her roles on telenovelas.  

Bloch was born on May 29, 1963, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, the daughter of actor Jonas Bloch and a descendant of Ukrainian-Jewish immigrants. As a young girl, she went with her father to rehearsals and performances of plays in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. At seventeen, after taking a course at the Ipanema theater, she decided to pursue a career in acting.  

Bloch made her professional debut in 1980 in the play Rasga Coração. She has performed in many plays, including Fica Comigo Esta Noite (1990), for which she was awarded the Shell award for Best Actress; Five Times Comedy (1996); Two Women and a Corpse (2000); and Tio Vanya (2003), for which she won the Quality Brazil award for Best Theatrical Actress in the Drama category.  

Bloch’s telenovela debut occurred in 1981, when she was chosen to play the character Lívia in the telenovela Jogo da Vida. The next year, she joined the cast of Sol de Verão as Clara Porto Machado, a performance that earned her the award for "Best Promising Actress in Television” from the Paulista Association of Art Critics (APCA). In 1986, she played the mechanic Ana Machadão in Cambalacho. Two years later, in 1988, she portrayed a series of different characters on TV Pirata. In 1992, Bloch returned to telenovelas with her performance in Deus nos Acuda. Seven years later, she starred in Andando nas Nuvens.  

In 2009, Bloch played Silvia Cadore, an honest woman betrayed by her husband and best friend in the telenovela Caminho das Índias. In 2011, she played the villain Úrsula in Cordel Encantado. In March 2012, shedebuted as Verônica in Avenida Brasil.  

Bloch made her film debut in 1984 with her role in Noites do Sertão, which earned her the best actress award at the 17th Festival de Brasília do Cinema Brasileiro, at the 17th Brazilian Film Festival in Gramado, and at the 24th Film Festival in Cartagena.  She also starred in Bete Balanço (1984), for which she won the Air France award for best actress; See This Song (1994), for which she won the award for best actress at the Latin American Festival of Rhode Island (USA) and APCA; Bossa Nova (2000); Caramuru – The Invention of Brazil (2001); and À Deriva (2009).  

More recently, Bloch has starred in various Brazilian telenovelas and miniseries, such as Treze Dias Longe do Sol (2018), Diário de Um Confinado (2020), and Mar do Sertão (2022-23).  

Sources:  

“Débora Bloch.” Wikipedia, July 10, 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9bora_Bloch. 

“Debora Bloch.” MemoriaGlobo. Accessed August 11, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20150525140708/http://memoriaglobo.globo.com/perfis/talentos/debora-bloch/trajetoria.htm.