Laerte Coutinho
Actor · WriterLaerte 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.
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Desenheiros do Instagram
2026
Archive footage
From Nowhere: A Portrait of Valter Hugo Mãe
2025
Self
Reading Again Graúna
2024
Self
The Known Daughter of Claudia Wonder
2024
Bob Spit: We Do Not Like People
2021
Laerte / Madame L (voice)
Minha Bateria Está Fraca e Está Ficando Tarde
2020
Self
A Turma do Pererê.DOC
2019
Mapas Afetivos: São Paulo
2018
The City of Pirates
2018
Laerte Coutinho (voice)
Rindo à Toa: Humor Sem Limites
2018
Self
Laerte-se
2017
Herself
Casa da Xiclet
2017
Herself
Lampião da Esquina: Lighting Up Brazilian Press
2016
Self
Super Oldboy
2016
Tie and Red Nail
2014
Herself
- Legs Out
Legs Out
2012
Herself
Laughter of Others
2012
Herself
Consideração do Poema
2011
Malditos Cartunistas
2010
Dossiê Rê Bordosa
2008
Laerte Coutinho (voice)
- Três Irmãos de Sangue
Três Irmãos de Sangue
2006
Self
- Cartas da Mãe
Cartas da Mãe
2003
