Maria do Amaral Ribeiro (born 9 November 1975) is a Brazilian actress, screenwriter and film director.
Biography
She worked in soap operas such as ''
A Escrava Isaura'', playing the beautiful Malvina, and also ''Luz do Sol'', playing Zoé. She also had a part in the film ''Tolerância'', directed by the ''gaúcho'' Carlos Gerbase, playing the young Anamaria.
In 2014, she returned to Globo, in the 9pm soap opera Empire. The following year, she released her first book titled Twenty-Eight and a Half, bringing together "chronicles, reflections and venting" with autobiographical texts.
Personal life
She had a son with ex-husband
Paulo Betti
Paulo Sérgio Betti (born 8 September 1952) is a Brazilian actor, playwright, and stage director. He also works occasionally as film producer and director.
Biography
Paulo Sérgio Betti was born on 8 September 1952 in Rafard, a small town in t ...
, João, born in 2003. She was married to the actor
Caio Blat
Caio Blat de Oliveira (born 2 June 1980) is a Brazilian actor.
Biography
Blat was born in São Paulo, Brazil. He studied law at the University of São Paulo, the largest and one of the most prestigious universities in Brazil, but dropped out be ...
, a union that brought her second son, Bento, born in 2010. In 2015, the couple separated, but soon after reunited. In 2017, the ten-year marriage came to an end.
She has stated that she is
bisexual
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.
She is a
third cousin of
rock
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* Rock music, a genre of popular music
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singer
Dinho Ouro Preto
Fernando de Ouro Preto (April 27, 1964), better known as Dinho Ouro Preto, is a Brazilian singer and songwriter. He is the lead singer of the band Capital Inicial, brother of musician Ico Ouro Preto, and half-brother of fellow musician Dado Vil ...
,
lead singer
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of the band
Capital Inicial
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History
The band has recorded fourteen studio albums, five live albums and six DVDs in their 40-ye ...
.
Career
In television
In films
References
External links
*
1975 births
Living people
Actresses from Rio de Janeiro (city)
Brazilian telenovela actresses
Brazilian film actresses
Brazilian stage actresses
Brazilian women screenwriters
Brazilian bisexual actresses
Brazilian bisexual writers
Bisexual women writers
Bisexual screenwriters
Brazilian LGBTQ screenwriters
Brazilian feminists
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