Isabella Ribeiro Santoni (born 6 May 1995) is a Brazilian actress. She became nationally known as Karina, the main role of the 22nd season of ''

Malhação ''Malhação'' (, ''Young Hearts'' in English) is a Brazilian soap-opera that aired on TV Globo from 4 March 1995 to 3 April 2020. The series is targeted at a teenage audience. Each season runs for about a year with cast members changing every ...

''.

Biography

Isabella Santoni was born in

Nilópolis Nilópolis (, , ) is a municipality in Brazil, located in the Rio de Janeiro state's southwestern region, bordering São João de Meriti, Mesquita and Rio de Janeiro. It is the smallest municipality in Rio de Janeiro state, with a total area of ...

, Rio de Janeiro, to teacher Ana Cristina Ribeiro. She grew up in

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, in the

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, until she was 15 years old. When she decided to become an actress, she tried to enroll in a vacation course at the Casa de Artes Laranjeiras in

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. The minimum age to start the course was 16, but Santoni called the place and convinced them to accept her at 15. Santoni had to make some sacrifices because of her career, one of them was the request to transfer a private school to a public one, since she could not reconcile work with her studies. Even though the teaching conditions were precarious, Santoni was able to be approved for the

Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro The Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro ( pt, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, UNIRIO), is one of the four federally funded public universities in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It has several campuses in th ...

(UniRio) in 2013, where she majored in theater.

Filmography

Television

Series and Webseries

Film

Videoclip

Stage

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* 1995 births Living people People from Nilópolis Brazilian people of Italian descent Brazilian television actresses Brazilian stage actresses Brazilian film actresses Brazilian telenovela actresses {{Brazil-actor-stub