Paula Migueles Berwanger (born June 26, 1990) is a Spanish–Brazilian actress, model and producer. She is known for portraying

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's Special 'Unsolved Cases File.08 JFK assassination', on demand on

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., and for playing the athlete Corina in

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series 「シロでもクロでもない世界で、パンダは笑う。」 ('Panda laughs in a world that is neither white nor black')

Early life

Berwanger was born in

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, Brazil and moved to Japan with her parents at a young age. She began modeling professionally in Japan at age two until she returned to Brazil, where she started acting.

Career

Berwanger worked on national television shows in Brazil on channels

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and

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, of the Globosat Group. At the age of twenty-five, she moved to New York City where she graduated in acting from the renowned William Esper Studio and produced her first play, Bernard Shaw's

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. She later returned to Japan where she mainly acts in English and Japanese, but also in Portuguese and Spanish. In Japan, Berwanger started playing the regular character Julia in NHK's educational TV show 'おもてなしの基礎英語' (Basic English for Hospitality) in 2018 and since then found a market for playing foreign roles in Japanese television drama series such as 'Sherlock: Untold Stories', on

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, 'Unsolved Cases File.08 JFK assassination', on

and 'Panda laughs in a world that is neither white nor black', on

. Berwanger is also the current producer for the

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in Japan through

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, having produced their

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tour in 2018 and

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tour in 2019.

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