--- name: "Carmen Miranda" canonical: "https://film.one/person/carmen-miranda" fi1m_id: "carmen-miranda" imdb_id: "nm0000544" tmdb_id: 137907 wikidata_id: "Q121655" roles: [] born: "9 February 1909" died: "5 August 1955" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-22T01:12:16.426408+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Carmen Miranda ## Identity Carmen Miranda - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/carmen-miranda - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** carmen-miranda - **IMDb ID:** nm0000544 - **TMDB ID:** 137907 - **Wikidata ID:** Q121655 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Miranda, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q121655, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000544/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/137907 Actor. Born 9 February 1909 in Marco de Canaveses, Portugal. Died 5 August 1955. ## Details - **Born:** 9 February 1909, Marco de Canaveses, Portugal - **Died:** 5 August 1955 - **Also known as:** Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Miranda, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q121655, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000544/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/137907 ## Biography Carmen Miranda, born Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha, was a Portuguese-born Brazilian singer, dancer and actress. She moved to Brazil as an infant and began her career in Rio de Janeiro as a radio and recording artist in the late 1920s. She rose to fame in Brazil during the 1930s and made her Broadway debut in 1939. Miranda appeared in fourteen Hollywood films between 1940 and 1953, including *Down Argentine Way* (1940), *The Gang's All Here* (1943) and *Scared Stiff* (1953). She was the first South American to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Miranda died in Beverly Hills on 5 August 1955. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *It's All True* (1993), Fi1m 78, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/its-all-true.md) ## Complete filmography (28) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas* (2026), as Dorita (archive footage) (uncredited) - *The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema* (2002), Actor - *Aurora Miranda - A Irmã Notável de Carmen* (2002), Actor - *Bahia de Todos os Sambas* (1996), as (archive footage) (uncredited) - *That's Entertainment! III* (1994), as (archive footage) (uncredited) - *Showbiz Goes to War* (1982), as (archive footage) - *Salsa* (1976), as (archive footage) - *That's Entertainment!* (1974), as (archive footage) (uncredited) - *Isto é Lamartine* (1969), Actor - *Scared Stiff* (1953), as Carmelita Castinha - *Nancy Goes to Rio* (1950), as Marina Rodrigues - *A Date with Judy* (1948), as Rosita Cochellas - *Copacabana* (1947), as Carmen Novarro / Mlle. Fifi - *If I'm Lucky* (1946), as Michelle O'Toole - *Doll Face* (1945), as Chita Chula - *Something for the Boys* (1944), as Chiquita Hart - *Greenwich Village* (1944), as Princess Querida O'Toole - *Four Jills in a Jeep* (1944), as Carmen Miranda - *The Gang's All Here* (1943), as Dorita - *Springtime in the Rockies* (1942), as Rosita Murphy - *Week-End in Havana* (1941), as Rosita Rivas - *That Night in Rio* (1941), as Carmen - *Banana-da-Terra* (1939), as Queen of Bananaland - *Alô Alô Carnaval* (1936), Actor - *Estudantes* (1935), as Mimi - *Hello, Hello, Brazil!* (1935), as Themself - *A Voz do Carnaval* (1933), Actor - *Steps of Life*, Actor ## Gallery - ![Carmen Miranda](https://film.one/media/person/1282124/gallery-a6455a0daf66.jpg) Carmen Miranda — New York Sunday News, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Carmen_Miranda_1941.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Photo of Carmen Miranda published by the New York Sunday News in 1943. Dating is at upper right of uncropped photo.](https://film.one/media/person/1282124/gallery-cd879223cf73.jpg) Photo of Carmen Miranda published by the New York Sunday News in 1943. Dating is at upper right of uncropped photo. — New York Sunday News, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Carmen_Miranda%2C_1943.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Scena Muda v.21, n.1076, 1941 - Carmen Miranda (2021)](https://film.one/media/person/1282124/gallery-9f21271ec524.jpg) Scena Muda v.21, n.1076, 1941 - Carmen Miranda (2021) — A Scena Muda, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Scena_Muda_v.21%2C_n.1076%2C_1941_-_Carmen_Miranda.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Carmen Miranda recebe um grande ramo de rosas de Assis Valente, em sua volta ao Brasil (1954).](https://film.one/media/person/1282124/gallery-757801fa306b.jpg) Carmen Miranda recebe um grande ramo de rosas de Assis Valente, em sua volta ao Brasil (1954). — Autor desconhecido, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Assis_Valente_e_Carmen_Miranda_%281954%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Carmen Miranda](https://film.one/media/person/1282124/gallery-d30e1a7a083f.jpg) Carmen Miranda — Image via TMDB - ![Carmen Miranda](https://film.one/media/person/1282124/gallery-84a62b7d1fb8.jpg) Carmen Miranda — Image via TMDB - ![Carmen Miranda](https://film.one/media/person/1282124/gallery-9dde47d5961b.jpg) Carmen Miranda — Image via TMDB - ![Carmen Miranda on The Ed Sullivan Show. Episode #7.1 (13 Sep. 1953)](https://film.one/media/person/1282124/gallery-4a77b8e75da5.jpg) Carmen Miranda on The Ed Sullivan Show. Episode #7.1 (13 Sep. 1953) — Author of photo unknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Carmen_Miranda_and_Ed_Sullivan%2C_13_September_1953.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/carmen-miranda