Maria Clara Spinelli (1985 - ) civil servant, actress.

Spinelli was raised Assis in São Paulo province, and as an adult became a public servant.

After some theatre work Maria Spinelli was cast as a transsexual lawyer in Quanto Dura o Amor?, 2009 (known as Paulista outside Brazil), and won the Best Actress award at the local Paulinia Film Festival, and again at the Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival and the Monaco Charity Film Festival.

She has since been in several episodes of the Salve Jorge telenovela, again playing a transsexual.

• Moreira (dir & scr). Quanto Dura o Amor?/Paulista. Roberto With Maria Spinelli as Suzana. Brazil 83 mins 2009
  
• "Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival continues today with the L.A. premiere of 'Paulista'". Examiner, February 6, 2010. www.examiner.com/article/hollywood-brazilian-film-festival-continues-today-with-the-l-a-premiere-of-paulista.
  
• "Por que Maria Clara Spinelli é uma atriz diferente das outras?". Virgula, 24 de marco de 2010. http://virgula.uol.com.br/legado/por-que-maria-clara-spinelli-e-uma-atriz-diferente-das-outras.
  
• "'Minha profissão é ser atriz e não transexual', diz a Anita de 'Salve Jorge'". O Dia, 11.04.2013. http://odia.ig.com.br/portal/diversaoetv/minha-profiss%C3%A3o-%C3%A9-ser-atriz-e-n%C3%A3o-transexual-diz-a-anita-de-salve-jorge-1.570940.
  
• Glória Perez (creator). Salve Jorge. With Maria Spinelli as Anita. Brazil Rede Globo 2013.
  

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