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Glória Menezes
Menezes in 2014
Born	Nilcedes Soares Guimarães (1934-10-19) 19 October 1934 (age 90) Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Alma mater	University of São Paulo
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1959–2020
Spouse	Tarcísio Meira ​ ​ (m. 1962; died 2021)​
Children	3 (including Tarcísio Filho)

Nilcedes Soares de Magalhães (née Guimarães; born 19 October 1934), known professionally as Glória Menezes, is a Brazilian actress.^[1]

Glória Menezes was born in Pelotas, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Her real name, Nilcedes, is the joining of both her father's name, José Nilo, and her mother's name, Mercedes.^[2]

At the age of six, she and her family moved to São Paulo, where she attended University of São Paulo's School of Dramatic Arts and founded a theater group called Jovens Independentes.^[3] Her professional career began on São Paulo's TV Tupi in 1959, in the soap opera Um Lugar ao Sol, directed by Dionísio Azevedo. In 1962 she appeared in the film O Pagador de Promessas, alongside Leonardo Villar and Anselmo Duarte.^[4] In 1963, alongside Tarcísio Meira, she starred in the first daily soap opera on Brazilian television, 2-5499 Ocupado, broadcast by TV Excelsior. It was during this soap opera that the two actors began dating.^[2]

The Uruguayan LGBT rights activist Gloria Meneses, named herself after Menezes.^[5]

• Glória Menezes at IMDb