Career
His many works include: Central Station, Midnight, Orfeu and Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum. With Avenida Brasil, Carneiro broke several television audience records in Brazil and abroad, being sold to more than 130 countries. The last episode scored an impressive 56 rating points and an 84% share, with more than 50 million (sic) viewers, becoming the most watched television program of the year.
Avenida Brasil, was considered by Forbes the most-commercially successful telenovela in Brazilian history, with total earnings estimated in $1 billion.
In addition to a nomination to the 41st International Emmy On television, he collaborated with Maria Adelaide Amaral in the script of the miniseries A Muralha (2000), Os Maias (2001) and in the telenovela Desejos de Mulher (2002). His first work as lead author was in Da Cor do Pecado (2004), which was a great success on Brazilian television
In 2006, wrote Cobras & Lagartos. In 2008, he wrote the telenovela A Favorita, her first in primetime.
Avenida Brasil written by he in 2012, became the most exported telenovela of Rede Globo, surpassing Da Cor do Pecado, which was the sales leader for other countries so far.
The novel has been licensed for 150 countries over the past 20 months and dubbed into 19 languages as English, Spanish, Arabic, Greek, Polish, Russian and French. Besides Europe and Latin America, Avenue Brazil has been licensed to more than 58 countries in Africa and Middle East countries as well. He was elected the same year by Época magazine one of the 100 most influential Brazilians of the year.
João Emanuel Carneiro is half brother of actress Claudia Ohana and son of writer, anthropologist and art critic Lelia Coelho Frota.