Alessandra Maestrini (born May 17, 1977) is a Brazilian actress and singer-songwriter.
Biography
Alessandra was born in
Sorocaba, Brazil, the daughter of Noêmia and Emílio Maestrini. Alessandra liked early music, literature and art in general. As a girl, she used to create scenes, write, sing, dance, draw and direct her friends.
Already living in
Rio de Janeiro
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, she took a vacation course with Cláudia Jimenez and at age 11 she went to the Tablado. She began to study singing at the age of 15. A year later she performed with the Company of Daniel Herz and Suzanna Krueger. At the age of seventeen she won a theater and music scholarship to study at the
University of Evansville
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UE offers more than 80 differ ...
, in
Indiana
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,
USA
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.
Returning to Brazil, she entered the cast of the award-winning musical "As Malvadas" by
Charles Möeller
Charles Möeller (born April 30, 1967) is a Brazilian actor, theatre director, stagecraftsman and costume designer. Alongside his fellow Cláudio Botelho, he is regarded as responsible for the revival of the musical theatre in Rio de Janeiro from t ...
and
Cláudio Botelho
Cláudio Botelho (born November 20, 1964) is a Brazilian actor, singer, composer and translator. Side by side with his fellow Charles Möeller, he is esteemed as Brazil's modern "musical theatre wizard".
He was born in Araguari, Minas Gerais.
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. From then on she did not stop anymore, alternating works between theater, television and
cinema
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Film
* Cinematography, the art of motion-picture photography
* Film or movie, a series of still images that create the illusion of a moving image
** Film industry, the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking
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.
Personal life
In 2014, Alessandra declared herself to be
bisexual in an interview to the magazine
''Caras''.
Filmography
Television
Film
Stage
Discography
Tour
References
External links
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1977 births
Living people
People from Sorocaba
Brazilian people of American descent
Brazilian people of Italian descent
Brazilian television actresses
Brazilian LGBT actors
Brazilian LGBT singers
Actresses from São Paulo (state)
University of Evansville alumni
21st-century Brazilian singers
21st-century Brazilian women singers
21st-century LGBT people
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Brazilian bisexual people
Bisexual actresses