Grande Otelo

Grande Otelo (October 18, 1915 – November 26, 1993) was the stage name of Brazilian actor, comedian, singer, and composer Sebastião Bernardes de Souza Prata.

He died, aged 78, in Charles de Gaulle Airport near Paris and was buried in São Pedro cemetery in Uberlândia, Brazil.

Otelo was the son of Antenor Prata and Maria das Dores de Souza.

According to the actor himself, his career in acting began a few short years after in UIberlândia in 1924 in a circus ring:"To me, the first entry that I made was beautiful because I was already a city clown, with my young age.

Everyone laughed, everyone found it funny..."[4]When the young boy was eight years old, his mother gave him up for adoption and he was taken to São Paulo .

Newspapers of São Paulo and many other cities have called him the greatest artist of the Portuguese language.

He acted in the 1986 version of the soap opera Sinhá Moça (in the role of Bentinho) in addition to participating in the sitcom As Aventuras do Tio Maneco, and in the plays "O Pagador de Promessas" and “A Turma do Pererê”.

In one of his first roles, that of Sebastião in the film Onde Estás Felicidade, Grande Otelo's character is subject to many racial stereotypes.