Gyselle Soares Estevão (born 27 October 1983) is a French-Brazilian actress, columnist and television personality.

Early life

Gyselle Soares was born in

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in the state of

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, but spent her entire childhood in the small town of Timon in the state of

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. Her mother, who was a school teacher and loved France, gave her the name Gyselle, taken from a French novel. At an early age, Gyselle became passionated of dancing, singing and acting. She later took classes of samba and created shows in her town. She did various jobs until the age of 18 to save money for a trip in Europe, where she started in Switzerland working

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to pay classes of

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. A casting director noticed her while she was working as a waitress in a bar at Geneve and proposed her to start a modeling career.

Career

Television career

After a first experience in the fifth season of the reality program ''L'Île de la Tentation'' (French version of '' Temptation Island''), Gyselle took theater classes in

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while pursuing her modeling career. In 2007, she participated at the reality program ''

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'', where she reached the final but losing at 0.30% of the votes. After her success in the program, she appeared in several magazine covers and many fan clubs were created in her country. In 2010, she became the presenter of the television program ''Miss Bikini'' broadcast on

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and where she is a coach for two French women who have to confront ten Brazilians. Gyselle decides at that time to live in France, but continues going back to Brazil for her career. In February 2014, she was the new columnist in ''L'Émission pour tous'' hosted by

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and in the radio program ''On va s'gêner'' on

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. On 23 August 2014, Soares participated in the television game show Fort Boyard.

Acting career

Gyselle Soares started as an actress playing in the comedy

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broadcast on

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, the first Brazilian channel. She then played two roles in the films and ''Natasha''. In 2011, while taking classes at the

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, she briefly appeared in the French series ''Camping paradis'' broadcast on

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, and also has a supporting role in the 2012 comedy film ''Dépression et des potes'' with Ary Abittan and

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