Laerte Coutinho

Laerte 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.

Born:

Jun 10, 1951

Movie/TV Credits:

13

First Appeared:

In the movie Cartas da Mãe 2003-01-02

Latest Project:

Movie Minha Bateria Está Fraca e Está Ficando Tarde 2020-12-03