Sasha Meneghel Szafir Figueiredo (born 28 July 1998) is a Brazilian model.

Biography

Meneghel was born in

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. She is the only child of TV host, singer and businesswoman Xuxa Meneghel and

Luciano Szafir Luciano Lebelson Szafir (born 31 December 1968) is a Brazilian businessman, actor, and former model. Early life Szafir is the son of Gabriel and Betty Szafir. He has a twin sister named Priscila, an older sister named Alexandra and a younger b ...

. She grew up in the spotlight, having her first minutes of life displayed by

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's prime time

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'' Jornal Nacional''. Her birth became the most documented in the history of Brazil, according to magazine Veja. Meneghel appeared in programs presented by her mother including '' Xuxa só para Baixinhos''. In 2009 she starred in her first feature film in '' Xuxa em O Mistério de Feiurinha'', directed by Tizuka Yamasaki. Meneghel was a

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

player for the team of

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. In 2011, she was invited by CBV ( Brazilian Volleyball Confederation) for a period of training with the Brazilian national team Sub-19.

Personal life

In 2016, Meneghel finished high school at the

American School of Rio de Janeiro Escola Americana do Rio de Janeiro (EARJ, the American School of Rio de Janeiro) is a non-profit twin-campus IB World Continuum school located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The school was founded in 1937 as a private, independent, coeducational, non ...

, and then moved to New York and began studying at the

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Filmography

Film

Television

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* 1998 births Living people Models from Rio de Janeiro (city) Brazilian people of Italian descent Brazilian people of Jewish descent Brazilian people of Lebanese descent Brazilian people of Portuguese descent Brazilian people of Polish descent Brazilian people of German descent Brazilian people of Swiss descent Brazilian female models Brazilian film actresses Brazilian women's volleyball players Parsons School of Design alumni Volleyball players from Rio de Janeiro (city) Brazilian expatriates in the United States 21st-century Brazilian sportswomen {{Brazil-model-stub