Laerte Coutinho
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.
Filmography (23 titles)
MovieDesenheiros do Instagram
Archive footage · 2026
MovieFrom Nowhere: A Portrait of Valter Hugo Mãe
Self · 2025
MovieThe Known Daughter of Claudia Wonder
2024
6.5MovieReading Again Graúna
Self · 2024
8.0MovieBob Spit: We Do Not Like People
Laerte / Madame L (voice) · 2021
MovieMinha Bateria Está Fraca e Está Ficando Tarde
Self · 2020
7.0MovieA Turma do Pererê.DOC
2019
MovieRindo à Toa: Humor Sem Limites
Self · 2018
5.9MovieThe City of Pirates
Laerte Coutinho (voice) · 2018
MovieMapas Afetivos: São Paulo
2018
MovieCasa da Xiclet
Herself · 2017
7.0MovieLaerte-se
Herself · 2017
8.0MovieLampião da Esquina: Lighting Up Brazilian Press
Self · 2016
9.0MovieSuper Oldboy
2016
ShowTransando com Laerte
Apresentadora · 2015
7.4MovieTie and Red Nail
Herself · 2014
Legs Out
Herself · 2012
8.3MovieLaughter of Others
Herself · 2012
9.0MovieConsideração do Poema
2011
MovieMalditos Cartunistas
2010
6.5MovieDossiê Rê Bordosa
Laerte Coutinho (voice) · 2008
Três Irmãos de Sangue
Self · 2006
Cartas da Mãe
2003