Laerte Coutinho
Biography
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
Minha Bateria Está Fraca e Está Ficando Tarde
Bob Spit: We Do Not Like People
Laerte-se
Rindo à Toa: Humor Sem Limites
Consideração do Poema
Lampião da Esquina: Lighting Up Brazilian Press
The City of Pirates
Tie and Red Nail
All Movies (22)
- Desenheiros do Instagram2026 · as Archive footage
- From Nowhere: A Portrait of Valter Hugo Mãe2025 · as Self
- The Known Daughter of Claudia Wonder2024
- Reading Again Graúna2024 · as Self
- Bob Spit: We Do Not Like People2021 · as Laerte / Madame L (voice)
- Minha Bateria Está Fraca e Está Ficando Tarde2020 · as Self
- A Turma do Pererê.DOC2019
- Rindo à Toa: Humor Sem Limites2018 · as Self
- The City of Pirates2018 · as Laerte Coutinho (voice)
- Mapas Afetivos: São Paulo2018
- Casa da Xiclet2017 · as Herself
- Laerte-se2017 · as Herself
- Lampião da Esquina: Lighting Up Brazilian Press2016 · as Self
- Super Oldboy2016
- Tie and Red Nail2014 · as Herself
- Legs Out2012 · as Herself
- Laughter of Others2012 · as Herself
- Consideração do Poema2011
- Malditos Cartunistas2010
- Dossiê Rê Bordosa2008 · as Laerte Coutinho (voice)
- Três Irmãos de Sangue2006 · as Self
- Cartas da Mãe2003
All TV Shows (1)
- Transando com Laerte2015 · as Apresentadora