Walcyr Rodrigues Carrasco was born on 1 December 1951, in
Bernardino de Campos,
São Paulo. Writer, playwright and screenwriter, began his professional career as a journalist. His first published book was
Quando Meu Irmãozinho Nasceu. Since then, still in children's literature, he wrote and published several works, among them
A Menina que Queria Ser Anjo,
Cadê o Super-herói?,
Abaixo o Bicho Papão,
Quem Quer Sonhar,
Meu Encontro com Papai Noel and
O Mistério da Gruta. As a playwright, Walcyr Carrasco wrote success stories such as
Batom (1995), which revealed the actress
Ana Paula Arósio, and
Êxtase (1997), for which he received the Shell award for best author. He made his debut writing for television in the late 1980s, with the telenovela
Cortina de Vidro, produced and aired by
SBT. Then, in the
Rede Manchete, wrote three mini-series:
Rosa-dos-Rumos (1990),
O Guarani (1991) and
Filhos do Sol (1991). Hired by
Globo, he worked as a text supervisor on the series
Retrato de Mulher (1993), starring actress
Regina Duarte. Walcyr Carrasco was also, along with Mário Teixeira, the author of the telenovela
Xica da Silva (1996), produced and also aired by the extinct Manchete TV, under the direction of
Walter Avancini. He was required to sign the plot under the alias Adamo Angel at the time because he had been hired by SBT. He wrote Fascinaço (1998) while still a student at SBT. Carrasco returned to work at Globo in 2000, when he also - with Mário Teixeira - signed his first telenovela on the station,
O Cravo e a Rosa (2000). Inspired by the Shakespearean classic
The Taming of the Shrew, with references sought in
A Indomada, Ivani Ribeiro's novel, screened in 1965 by
TV Excelsior, and Sérgio Jockyman's
O Machão, aired in 1974 by
TV Tupi.
O Cravo e a Rosa was a great success at 6:00 pm with
Eduardo Moscovis and
Adriana Esteves in the roles Julião Petruchio and Catarina Batista. Walter Avancini was the director, with whom Walcyr Carrasco would also work on his next work, the telenovela
A Padroeira (2001). Set in the 18th century,
A Padroeira debuted three months after
O Cravo e a Rosa, and starred
Luigi Baricelli and
Deborah Secco in the lead roles, the telenovela turned out to be the latest work by director Walter Avancini, who died in July 2001. Then Walcyr Carrasco was one of the authors of the second version of the series
Sítio do Picapau Amarelo (2001), based
Monteiro Lobato's
novel. He returned to write telenovelas in 2002, replacing - from episode 149 - the author
Benedito Ruy Barbosa ahead of
Esperança (2002). == Filmography ==