Season 1 • Episode 197
LatestMaria Eduarda "Duda" Pinheiro is a successful top model. After being hired to model Covery brand clothes, she meets the Kundera brothers, Alex and Gaspar, owners of the company. Gaspar, a former beatnik, is over 40 but still practices surfing, lives in a beach-side house and raises five children: Elvis (named after Elvis Presley), Ringo (Starr), Jane (Fonda), Olívia (Newton-John) and (John) Lennon, all from different mothers who left them with him. Anastácia "Naná" Passos, Duda's friend and mentor, loves him platonically, and rivalizes with Mariza Borges over him. Alex by contrast is a yuppie. He and their mother Morgana have a love-hate relationship and rivalry with his brother over Morgana's attention and the company. Alex begins to love Duda, however she falls in love with Lucas, a graffiti artist who is on the run from the São Paulo police due to his involvement in a crime there. He is also searching for his real father, and thinks it's either Alex or Gaspar.
Writing
Children named after 60s/70s icons — commitment to bit.
Costume
Late 80s Brazilian fashion: shoulder pads meet beachwear.
Acting
Malu Mader serves face while serving drama.
Creators
Antônio Calmon, Walther Negrão
Malu Mader
Maria Eduarda Pinheiro "Duda"
Nuno Leal Maia
Gaspar Kundera
Cecil Thiré
Alex Kundera
Maria Zilda Bethlem
Mariza Borges Magalhães
Zezé Polessa
Anastácia Passos "Naná"
Evandro Mesquita
Adaílton Pinto de Saldanha "Saldanha / Sal"
Taumaturgo Ferreira
Lucas Pasolini
Alexandra Marzo
Giulia Bonicelli
Eva Todor
Morgana Kundera
Luiz Carlos Arutin
Silas Bonicelli
Jacqueline Laurence
Simone Bourier
Suzana Faíni
Cleide Pinheiro
Jonas Bloch
Jacques Dupont
Denise Del Vecchio
Lia
Suzy Rêgo
Carla
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Top Model arrived as Brazilian telenovelas embraced aspirational urban settings over traditional rural dramas, capturing the country's late-80s economic tension between bohemian freedom and yuppie ambition.
Walther Negrão and Antônio Calmon were known for pop-culture-referencing character names; the Kundera brothers nod to Czech author Milan Kundera, famous for existential love triangles.
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