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name: "Yvonne Bezerra de Mello"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/yvonne-bezerra-de-mello"
fi1m_id: "yvonne-bezerra-de-mello"
imdb_id: "nm1253950"
tmdb_id: 55082
roles: []
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T18:08:50.488247+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."
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# Yvonne Bezerra de Mello

## Identity

Yvonne Bezerra de Mello

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/yvonne-bezerra-de-mello
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** yvonne-bezerra-de-mello
- **IMDb ID:** nm1253950
- **TMDB ID:** 55082
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1253950/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/55082

Actor. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

## Details

- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1253950/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/55082

## Biography

Yvonne Bezerra de Mello is a Brazilian social activist, artist and educator. She has worked for decades with street children and adolescents in Rio de Janeiro who have experienced violence and trauma.

She founded the Projeto Uerê school, which provides specialised education and support using her Uerê-Mello methodology. Bezerra de Mello appears as herself in the documentaries *Warrior of Light* (2001) and *Bus 174* (2002).

She was among the first on the scene after the 1993 Candelária massacre and knew Sandro do Nascimento, the perpetrator of the 2000 bus hijacking depicted in *Bus 174*.

*Sources: imdb.com, theguardian.com, g1.globo.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Bus 174* (2002), Fi1m 82, as Herself — [page](https://film.one/film/bus-174.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Interview with Yvonne Bezerra De Mello* (2025), Actor

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