# Letícia Sabatella

Letícia Sabatella (born 8 March 1971) is a Brazilian actress and singer.

## Early life and career

Born in Belo Horizonte, Letícia Sabatella was two years old when her family moved from Itajubá (MG) to the mining town of Conceição das Alagoas, going live in the village of Volta Grande Power Plant. There her father worked as an engineer. She has said she learned to appreciate nature in this place full of greenery and people of different nationalities. Today, she lives in Nova Friburgo, a mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro, where she grows organic food cooperative arrangements with employees.
Her political consciousness emerged early in life and was reinforced by the company of people like Frei Betto and Herbert de Souza, who showed her the importance of using her celebrity for something more than making money. Her engagement has become so strong that she went on to live with indigenous people craós (Tocantins) as one of them, and to camp with members of the Landless Workers' Movement to understand their proposals. In addition, she participates in several organizations, is a constant presence in forums, and raises her voice in defense of human rights and the environment. On December 8, 2007, she was in Sobradinho, Bahia, visiting the bishop of Barra, Dom Luiz Flávio Cappio, at San Francisco. The bishop was on a hunger strike for the second time, the first in Cabrobó, Pernambuco, in protest against the transposition of the São Francisco River. Sabatella is part of the non-governmental organization Human Rights Movement.
Her experience with the Indians led her to start a career as a filmmaker. In 2008, she launched the documentary Hotxuá.
In 2009, she played a cruel Yvone in the soap opera India – A Love Story by Glória Perez. In 2012, she it was confirmed that she would star in the movie The Mother War, a foreign film that will have its co-production between the United States and Italy, in which she will play the warrior Anita Garibaldi.
In 2013, she returned to the telenovela in Sangue Bom, in which interpreted Verônica. In 2014, she joined the cast of Sessão de Terapia, playing Bianca Cadore, a professor of literature who seeks therapy to save her marriage to her husband, Tadeu.

## Personal life

On 16 December the same year, Sabatella married the actor Fernando Alves Pinto in São Paulo, after two years of dating, in an intimate ceremony for 350 guests. She is a vegetarian. In 2023, Sabatella disclosed that she had been diagnosed with autism.

## Career
### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1991 | Caso Especial | Rita | "Os Homens Querem Paz" |
| 1991 | O Dono do Mundo | Thaís Arruda Camargo | |
| 1993 | Agosto | Salete | |
| 1994 | 74.5 - Uma Onda no Ar | Luíza Trench | |
| 1995 | Irmãos Coragem | Maria de Lara Barros / Diana / Márcia | |
| 1996 | Caça Talentos | Flora | |
| 1996 | Você Decide | Bárbara | Episode: "Testemunha de Acusação" |
| 1998 | Torre de Babel | Celeste Leme Toledo | |
| 1999 | A Turma do Pererê | | |
| 1999 | Você Decide | | Episode: "Trio em Lá Menor" |
| 2000 | A Muralha | Ana Cardoso | |
| 2001 | Os Maias | | Participation |
| 2001 | Porto dos Milagres | Arlete Palmeirão | First phase |
| 2001 | O Clone | Latiffa Rachid | |
| 2004 | Um Só Coração | Maria Luísa Sousa Borba | |
| 2005 | Hoje É Dia de Maria | Maria | |
| 2005 | Tecendo o Saber | Marília | Episode: "A Cadeirante" |
| 2005 | Hoje É Dia de Maria 2 | Alonsa / Rosicler / Asmodeia | |
| 2006 | JK | Marisa Soares | |
| 2006 | Páginas da Vida | Sister Lavínia Resston | |
| 2007 | Desejo Proibido | Ana Fernandes | |
| 2008 | Som Brasil | Presenter | |
| 2009 | Caminho das Índias | Yvone Magalhães | |
| 2010 | Afinal, o Que Querem as Mulheres? | Flanneur | |
| 2011 | Chico Xavier | Maria | |
| 2012 | As Brasileiras | Monique | Episode: "A Apaixonada de Niterói" |
| 2012 | Guerra dos Sexos | Angelina | Special participation |
| 2013 | Sangue Bom | Verônica Vasquez / Palmira Valente | |
| 2014 | Sessão de Terapia | Bianca Cadore | |
| 2017 | Tempo de Amar | Delfina Leitão | |
| 2020 | Night on Earth | Narrator (Portuguese version) | |

### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1994 | Dente por Dente | | Short film |
| 1997 | Decisão | Laura | Short film |
| 1998 | Bela Donna | Dona Benta | |
| 1999 | O Tronco | Anastácia | |
| 2001 | O Xangô de Baker Street | Esperidiana | |
| 2002 | Durval Discos | Célia | |
| 2003 | Chatô, O Rei do Brasil | | |
| 2006 | Vestido de Noiva | Lúcia | |
| 2007 | Não por Acaso | Lúcia | |
| 2008 | Romance | Ana | |
| 2008 | Hotxuá | Director | |
| 2009 | Flordelis - Basta uma Palavra para Mudar | Eliane | |
| 2010 | Chico Xavier | Maria | |
| 2010 | Amazônia Caruana | Zezé | |
| 2011 | Circular | Cristina | |
| 2013 | The Mother War | Anita Garibaldi | |
| 2019 | Happy Hour | Vera | |