Laerte Coutinho
Acting
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.
Known for
2026Desenheiros do Instagram
Archive footage
2025From Nowhere: A Portrait of Valter Hugo Mãe
Self
2024Reading Again Graúna
Self
2021Bob Spit: We Do Not Like People
Laerte / Madame L (voice)
2020Minha Bateria Está Fraca e Está Ficando Tarde
Self
2019A Turma do Pererê.DOC
2018Mapas Afetivos: São Paulo
2018The City of Pirates
Laerte Coutinho (voice)
2018Rindo à Toa: Humor Sem Limites
Self
2017Laerte-se
Herself
2017Casa da Xiclet
Herself
2016Lampião da Esquina: Lighting Up Brazilian Press
Self
2016Super Oldboy
2014Tie and Red Nail
Herself
2012Laughter of Others
Herself
2011Consideração do Poema
2010Malditos Cartunistas
2008Dossiê Rê Bordosa
Laerte Coutinho (voice)
