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Alice Braga is a renowned Brazilian actress born on April 15, 1983, in São Paulo, Brazil. She gained international fame for her role in the critically acclaimed film “City of God.” Braga has since carved out a successful career in both Brazilian and American cinema, appearing in films like “I Am Legend” and “Elysium,” and TV series like “Queen of the South.” Known for her dynamic performances, Braga is one of the most recognized Brazilian actresses internationally.
Biography:
[bio]Family Info & Education:
Alice Braga Moraes was born in São Paulo, Brazil, and brought up in a Catholic family. She talks familiar English, Portuguese, and Spanish. Her presentation to the universe of acting came at an early age: both her mom, Ana Braga, and auntie, Sônia Braga, are on-screen actresses and Braga regularly went with them to film sets. She started her career by showing up in school plays and ads. Her first business was for yogurt when she was 8 years of age. As a young person, she started seeking roles in TV and motion pictures.
Career Debut:
Braga appeared in a Portuguese-language short called Trampolim (1998) and afterward came back to her tutoring. Her huge break came when she was given a role as Angélica in the widely praised film City of God (2002), for which she got a Best Supporting Actress assignment from the Cinema Brazil Grand Prize. Braga made her English-language debut with a featuring role nearby Brendan Fraser, Mos Def, and Catalina Sandino Moreno in Journey to the End of Night (2006), which debuted at the Fifth Annual Tribeca Film Festival. Next, Braga was cast in the Will Smith blockbuster I Am Legend (2007), the David Mamet film Redbelt (2008) nearby Chiwetel Ejiofor, and the show Crossing Over (2009), featuring Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, and Ashley Judd.
She featured Isabelle in Antal Nimrod’s Predators (2010), which was shot and created by Troublemaker Studios and Robert Rodriguez. After three years, Braga showed up as Frey Santiago in Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium (2013). She featured as Eva in the Brazilian crime drama film Muitos Homens Num Só (2014), as Vania in the Brazilian wilderness film El Ardor, in the Argentine Romance film Latitudes (2014) and Alice Taylor in Kriv Stenders Action-thriller Kill Me Three Times (2014).
Braga stars in the drama series Queen of the South, created for USA Network, an adjustment of Arturo Perez-Reverte’s top of the line novel La Reina del Sur. This denotes Braga’s first huge U.S. TV role. Her past little screen credits were two sections in a non-English arrangement.
Net Worth:
Alice Braga is a Brazilian on-screen actress who has a total assets of $2 Million dollars according to Celebrity Net Worth. She experienced childhood in a showbiz family. Both her mom and her auntie have praised actresses, and she grew up watching them work.
Movies:
| Trampolim (1998) | City of God (2002) | Lower City (2005) |
| Only God Knows (2006) | Journey to the End of the Night (2006) | Drained (2006) |
| The Milky Way (2007) | Rummikub (2007) | I Am Legend (2007) |
| Redbelt (2008) | Blindness (2008) | Crossing Over (2009) |
| Repo Men (2010) | Predators (2010) | The Rite (2011) |
| As Brasileiras (2012) | On the Road (2012) | Elysium (2013) |
| Latitudes (2014) | The Ardor (2014) | Kill Me Three Times (2014) |
| The Duel (2015) | The Shack (2017) | Samantha! (2018-present) |
| Eduardo & Monica (2018) | The New Mutants (2020) (Upcoming) | The Suicide Squad (2021) (TBA) |
Awards:
- Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival Awards
- ACIE Awards
- Sao Paulo Association of Art Critics Awards
- SESC Film Festival Awards
- Verona Love Screen Film Festival Awards
- Cinema Brazil Grand Prize Awards
