Cristiana Oliveira

Cristiana Barbosa da Silva de Oliveira (born December 15, 1963, in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian actress,[1] model and businesswoman.[2]

Cristiana Oliveira
Cristiana Oliveira during a fashion event in March 2018.
Born	Cristiana Barbosa da Silva de Oliveira (1963-12-15) December 15, 1963 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Nationality	Brazilian
Occupation	Actress model businesswoman
Spouse(s)	André Wanderley ​ ( m. 1982; div. 1990) Marcos Sampaio ​ ( m. 1994; div. 2002)
Children	2
Website	www.cristianaoliveira.com

Biography

The daughter of Oscar de Oliveira and Eugênia Barbosa da Silva de Oliveira, Cristiana Oliveira is the youngest of a family of nine children with two brothers and seven sisters.[3][4][5] Oliveira was born and raised in a house in Ipanema, Brazil. To help at home she began to work at a flower shop near her residence at ten years of age.[3] Her nickname, since she was a young child, was Krika.

Career

After recording a commercial directed by Walter Salles, she was called by Jayme Monjardim,[3] to audition for TV Manchete for Shock a program broadcasting music clips. She auditioned for the leading role of Dora for the telenovela Kananga do Japão.[6] She was cast as Hannah after actress Bia Seidl quit the role. Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte (APCA) recognized Oliveira's performance in that show.[4]

In 1989, she began recording the Pantanal for Rede Manchete. After reading the synopsis, Oliveira fell in love with the character of Juma, a role initially intended for actress Glória Pires, and offered to play her. The telenovela was a big hit, winning a large audience for TV Globo and becoming a landmark in Brazilian soap operas. Her work won awards in Brazil and abroad. It was one of her most recognized and idolized roles.

In 1992, she was hired by TV Globo as the protagonist for the miniseries Agosto, a role that ultimately came to be played by Vera Fischer. Instead, Oliviera won the part of the protagonist, along with Tarcísio Meira, for the telenovela De Corpo e Alma. In February of that year, she posed nude for the Brazilian edition of Playboy magazine.

In 1994, she took part in the miniseries Memorial de Maria Moura, and then starred in the soap opera Quatro por Quatro, alongside actresses Letícia Spiller, Elizabeth Savalla and Betty Lago.[7] It was her first comic role as a television actress. After the end of the telenovela, she lived in New York City in order to improve her English.

In 2001, she appeared in the first episode of the soap opera Porto dos Milagres. The following year she was in the second season of the telenovela O Clone, in which she was disguised as the villain Alicinha.

In 2011, she had a cameo role as lesbian and convicted drug dealer named Araci Laranjeira in Insensato Coração. Her performance was praised by viewers and critics alike.[8] She had to gain 15 pounds to play the role and was a victim of prejudice from some of the media and the public.[9] In 2012, she played Yolanda in Salve Jorge.[10] In 2014, she returns to TV in the GNT series, Animal, in the role of former delegate and mayor Mariana Gomes.[11] In 2015, it signs contract with Rede Record to integrate the cast of the novel A Terra Prometida.[12]

In 2018, Cristiana returns to the cinema after eleven years since the last film in which she participated, Nossa Senhora de Caravaggio. She is in the cast of Eu sou Brasileiro,[13] by Alessandro Barros; Borderline,[13] by Cibele Amaral; Paixão Nacional,[13] by Teresa Jessouron, and in Uma Carta para Ferdinand,[13] by Anderson and Kleber Dresch.

In 2019, after three years away from television, she will return to soap operas on Topíssima, RecordTV's telenovela, playing Lara, a social climber.[14]

Personal life

At age 13, in 1976, she became addicted to cigarettes, only succeeding in getting rid of dependency in 1998, with the help of Victor Fasano, her friend by profession.

Cristiana was married to photographer André Wanderley, from this union was born Rafaella. In 1994, Cristiana married for the second time, this time with the businessman Marcos Sampaio, with whom she was married for 8 years. In 1999, her second daughter, Antônia, was born.

On February 7, 2013 became grandmother for the first time, with the birth of Miguel, son of Rafaella.[15]

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1989	Kananga do Japão	Hannah
1990	Pantanal	Juma Marruá
1991	Fronteiras do Desconhecido	Billie Frechette	Episode: "Inimigos Públicos"
	Amazônia	Camille / Milla
1992	Amazônia - Parte II	Camille
	De Corpo e Alma	Paloma Bianchi
1994	Memorial de Maria Moura	Marialva
	Quatro por Quatro	Tatiana Tarantino (Maria das Dores Santanna / Raio de Sol)
1996	Salsa e Merengue	Adriana Campos Queiroz
1998	Corpo Dourado	Selena Pereira
1999	Vila Madalena	Pilar Ramirez
2001	Porto dos Milagres	Eulália	First phase
	O Clone	Alicinha
2002	O Olhar da Serpente	Celeste Carvalho Pinto	In Portugal on the SIC channel
2003	Kubanacan	Helena	Episodes: "May 7–8, 2003"
2005	Malhação	Rita Garcia	Season 12
2006	A Diarista	Betty	Episode: "Até Que a Nete os Separe"
2007	Amazônia, de Galvez a Chico Mendes	Carminha	Third phase
	Dança dos Famosos 4	Participant	Domingão do Faustão's reality show
	Sete Pecados	Dra. Margareth
2008	Casos e Acasos	Simone	Episode: "O Colar, O Cachorro e O DVD"
	Faça Sua História	Talita	Episode: "Álbum de Família"
	Casos e Acasos	Bárbara	Episode: "O Parto, o Batom e o Passaporte"
2009	Paraíso	Zuleika Tavares
2011	Insensato Coração	Araci Laranjeira	Episodes: "March 19–April 25, 2011"
2012	Salve Jorge	Yolanda Pereira Gomes
2014	Animal	Mariana Gomes
2016	A Terra Prometida	Mara
2017	Tô de Graça	Drª Verônica	Episode: "Mudança de Sexo"
2019	Topíssima	Lara Lopes Valença

Film

Year	Title	Role
1991	Os Trapalhões e a Árvore da Juventude	Juliana
2006	Gatão de Meia Idade	Sandrão
2007	Nossa Senhora de Caravaggio	Angélica
2018	Eu Sou Brasileiro	Carmem
	Borderline
	Paixão Nacional
	Uma Carta para Ferdinand

References

1. "Cristiana Oliveira". IMDb. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
2. Gabriela Antunes (May 5, 2017). "Cristiana Oliveira investe em loja e dá palestras sobre autoestima". Patrícia Kogut. Globo.com. Retrieved April 4, 2018.
3. "Biografia da atriz Cristiana Oliveira". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2011-10-10.
4. "B I O G R A F I A". Archived from the original on 2016-10-14. Retrieved 2011-10-10.
5. "Carreira da atriz Cristiana Oliveira". Contigo!. Archived from the original on 1 April 2012. Retrieved 19 September 2011.
6. Contigo!. "Carreira da atriz Cristiana Oliveira". Archived from the original on April 1, 2012. Retrieved September 19, 2011.
7. "Lista: Como Griselda de Fina Estampa, elas ganham banho de loja". Globo.com. August 18, 2011. Retrieved December 18, 2011.
8. "Cristiana Oliveira promete vilã "muito pior" que Alicinha". Quem. Globo.com. October 16, 2010. Retrieved December 18, 2011.
9. Globo.com (March 14, 2011). "Cristiana Oliveira engorda 15kg para viver detenta em 'Insensato Coração'". Extra. Retrieved September 19, 2011.
10. http://televisao.uol.com.br/noticias/redacao/2013/05/13/cristiana-oliveira-diz-que-personagem-estava-perdida-em-salve-jorge.htm
11. http://gnt.globo.com/series/animal/materias/com-jeans-botas-e-colete-cristiana-oliveira-comenta-o-estilo-de-sua-personagem-em-animal.htm
12. "Confira o elenco da novela "A Terra Prometida"". Archived from the original on July 1, 2016. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
13. Redação (July 16, 2018). "Cristiana Oliveira relembra sua personagem mais famosa: "A Juma é para sempre"". Cena Pop. Uol. Retrieved November 9, 2018.
14. "Cristiana Oliveira fará 'Topíssima', na Record". Patrícia Kogut. Globo.com. December 19, 2018. Retrieved January 7, 2019.
15. "Nasce o neto de Cristiana Oliveira". Ego. Globo.com. February 7, 2013. Retrieved December 28, 2017.

External links

• Official website
• Cristiana Oliveira on IMDb