Golpe de Sorte

Golpe de Sorte (Lucky Break) was a Portuguese series which began airing on SIC on 27 May 2019 and ended in 20 February 2021.

Golpe de Sorte
English poster for distribution
Starring	Maria João Abreu Dânia Neto Jorge Corrula Diana Chaves (seasons 2-3) Pedro Barroso (season 4) Madalena Almeida (season 4) Diogo Martins (season 4)
Theme music composer	Rodrigo Leão
Opening theme	"Espiral", Rodrigo Leão
Ending theme	"Espiral", Rodrigo Leão
Composer	Rodrigo Leão
Country of origin	Portugal
Original language	Portuguese
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	238 (list of episodes)
Original release
Network	SIC
Release	27 May 2019 (2019-05-27) – 20 February 2021 (2021-02-20)

The series stars Maria João Abreu, Dânia Neto, Jorge Corrula, Diana Chaves (seasons 2-3), Pedro Barroso (season 4), Madalena Almeida (season 4) and Diogo Martins (season 4).

Plot

The once quiet village of Alvorinha is suddenly put on the map when Maria do Céu (Maria João Abreu) wins the lottery. She is now one of the richest women in the country and everyone celebrates her victory. A hard working widow, dear to everyone in town, up until now she made a humble living selling fruit at the market, to support her two children Bruno (Ângelo Rodrigues) and Telma (Isabela Valadeiro) while helping her parents.

Telma is good-hearted but is naïve and dreams of fame. She will be ecstatic when she realizes she is rich and will be able to satisfy all her materialistic fantasies. She will fall in love with journalist Ricardo (António Camelier). Bruno is the opposite, responsible and hardworking. He will have to deal with several challenges, being the biggest girlfriend Jessica's (Carolina Carvalho) betrayal and finding out if he is the father of the child she carries.

Now that she has money, Céu's goals are to allow her family live a good life and find her missing son Rafael. As a pregnant teen the newborn was taken away from her when childhood sweetheart Zé Luís (José Raposo) and her family were manipulate by Preciosa (Manuela Maria), Zé's mother, to give up the baby for adoption.

Con artists (now Miriam (Dânia Neto) and Jorge (Jorge Corrula)) hear the news and decide their next lucky break is Maria do Céu's millions. They were raised together in a catholic foster home and became professional scammers and fortune hunters. Manipulative and masters of disguise they have been able to get away with their crimes for many years.

One of their biggest score happened in 2006, when they led Fernando Craveiro (Rogério Samora) to bankruptcy. In desperation, the businessman plans to kill the scammers, leaving a letter to his daughter Leonor (Diana Chaves), explaining everything that happened, but dies in a car accident without being able to take revenge. Leonor's world collapses with her father's death and the desire for revenge puts her on a mission to seek those who destroyed her family's life.

Thirteen years later, she finally traces them down in Alvorinha. In her new identity, she is now Alice Barreto. She will team up with Ricardo to expose the charlatans and deal with the jealousy of Miriam, as her plan of approach will be to charm Jorge.

Maria do Céu will welcome Miriam and Jorge into her world. Little does she know she is they will open a pandora's box, while burning a hole in her pocket.

Cast

Main cast

Actor/Actress	Character	Season
		1	2	3	4
Maria João Abreu	Maria do Céu Garcia	Main Protagonist
Dânia Neto	Sílvia Mira/Miriam Barbosa Sousa Vale/Madre Dolores	Main Antagonist			Protagonist
	Andreia Mira	Absent			Main Antagonist
Jorge Corrula	Caio Amaral/Jorge Montalvã/Caio Amaral Garcia	Main Antagonist			Protagonist
Diana Chaves	Leonor Alves Craveiro/Alice Barreto	Co-Protagonist	Protagonist		Absent
Pedro Barroso	José Castro/José Núncio	Absent			Main Antagonist
Madalena Almeida	Lara de Jesus	Absent			Protagonist
Diogo Martins	Fábio Guerreiro	Absent			Protagonist
Manuela Maria	Preciosa Toledo	Co-Antagonist			Co-Protagonist
José Raposo	José Luís Toledo	Co-Protagonist
Carolina Carvalho	Jéssica Toledo/Toledo Garcia	Co-Antagonist		Co-Protagonist
Mariana Pacheco	Rubi Ferraz	Absent			Co-Antagonist

Recurrent Cast

Actor/Actress	Character	Season
		1	2	3	4
Rui Mendes	Natário Garcia	Recurrent
Vítor Norte	Horácio Toledo	Recurrent
Carmen Santos	Lúcia Garcia	Recurrent
Henriqueta Maya	Cremilde Reis	Recurrent
Helena Laureano	Rosanne Toledo	Recurrent
Rosa do Canto	Amália Reis	Recurrent
Ana Bustorff	Madre Rosário	Recurrent			Absent
Ana Guiomar	Patrícia Cruz	Recurrent			Absent
João Paulo Rodrigues	Justino «Tino» Sanganha	Recurrent
Oceana Basílio	Teresa Dantas	Recurrent			Absent
Diogo Amaral	Padre Aníbal Dantas	Recurrent			Absent
Pedro Laginha	Carlos Alberto Nobrega	Recurrent			Absent
Duarte Gomes	Cláudio Toledo	Recurrent			Absent
Cecília Henriques	Graciete Pompeu	Recurrent
António Camelier	Ricardo Assunção	Recurrent		Guest	Absent
João Paulo Sousa	Xavier Reis	Recurrent			Absent
José Carlos Pereira	Vítor «Vitinho»	Additional	Recurrent		Additional
Miguel Raposo	Duarte Godinho/Vasco	Absent	Recurrent	Absent	Additional
Ricardo Carriço	Gonçalo Vasques	Additional	Recurrent	Absent
Sara Norte	Branca Lucena	Recurrent			Additional
Inês Monteiro	Cíntia Novais	Recurrent
Adriane Garcia	Kelly Lazzaro	Recurrent		Guest	Absent
Paulo Matos	Alfredo Nogueira	Absent	Recurrent		Absent
Elsa Valentim	Eugénia Alves Craveiro	Recurrent			Absent
Rúben Gomes	Pedro Albuquerque	Absent			Recurrent
Martinho Silva	Nelson Farias	Absent			Recurrent
Raquel Tavares	Liliana Barroso	Absent			Recurrent
Luís Simões	Renato	Absent			Recurrent
Bernardo Lobo Faria	Paulo	Absent			Recurrent
Rui Dionisio	Rui Estrela/Guilherme Costa	Absent			Recurrent
Carolina Frias	Marina Piedade	Absent			Recurrent
Maria Ana Filipe	Alexandra «Xana» Gaspar	Absent			Recurrent
Sílvia Chiola	Sandra Nolasco	Absent			Recurrent

Guest cast

Actor/Actress	Character	Season
		1	2	3	4
Rogério Samora	Fernando Alves Craveiro	Guest	Absent
Marques d'Arede	Artur Colaço	Guest	Absent
Margarida Carpinteiro	Rosa Jordão	Absent			Guest
Luís Aleluia	Padre Alexandre Bento	Absent			Guest

Child Cast

Actor/Actress	Character	Season
		1	2	3	4
Elgar do Rosário	Fernando Júnior Alves Craveiro Garcia	Absent		Guest	Child
Tomás Sousa	Bruno «Bruninho» Toledo Garcia	Absent			Child
Ana Costa	Carlota Toledo Garcia	Absent			Child

Artistas Convidados

Actor/Actress	Character	Season				Episode
		1	2	3	4
Cristina Ferreira	Herself	Y	N			Episode 3
Ana Malhoa	Herself	Y	N			Episode 22
Marco Paulo	Himself	Y	N			Episode 27
Cláudio Ramos	Himself	N	Y	N		Episode 61
Toy	Himself	N	Y	N		Episode 73
Maria Botelho Moniz	Jogador	N	Y	N		Episode 78
João Baião	Himself	N		Y	N	Episode 114

Series overview

Main article: List of Golpe de Sorte episodes

Season	Episodes		Originally aired
			First aired	Last aired
1	27		May 27, 2019 (2019-05-27)	June 28, 2019 (2019-06-28)
2	52		July 1, 2019 (2019-07-01)	September 9, 2019 (2019-09-09)
3	43		September 15, 2019 (2019-09-15)	November 10, 2019 (2019-11-10)
4	116		September 14, 2020 (2020-09-14)	February 20, 2021 (2021-02-20)

External links

• Golpe de Sorte at IMDb