Lua Blanco is a Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

ian actress and singer who plays the lead role in the Rede Record

Rede Record

Rede Record de Televisão is a Brazilian television network, founded in 1953 by Paulo Machado de Carvalho, also founder of Rádio Record. Currently it is owned by businessman Edir Macedo, founder and bishop of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God. Since 2007 it is Brazil's second largest...

's telenovela Rebelde.

Biography

Born in São Paulo

São Paulo

São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...

, Lua Blanco is the granddaughter of the musician Billy Blanco, and she is also the sister of the singers and actors Estrela Blanco, Pedro Sol and Ana Terra. She is studying Linguistics

Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....

 at the PUC-Rio university.

Career

Lua Blanco started her acting career in 2008 in the Rede Globo

Rede Globo

Rede Globo , or simply Globo, is a Brazilian television network, launched by media mogul Roberto Marinho on April 26, 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Organizações Globo, being by far the largest of its holdings...

 telenovela Três Irmãs, playing Bia, then appearing in the following year in Malhação

Malhação

Malhação is a Brazilian soap opera for the teenage audience. The soap started in 1995, and was set in a fictional Gym Club called Malhação on Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Through the years the location varied slightly. Although the name of the soap remains the same, it is now set in the...

. Since 2006, she is a member of the band "Lágrima Flor", as a singer. Lua Blanco temporarily left the band to play the lead role, Roberta Messi, in the 2011 Rede Record

Rede Record

Rede Record de Televisão is a Brazilian television network, founded in 1953 by Paulo Machado de Carvalho, also founder of Rádio Record. Currently it is owned by businessman Edir Macedo, founder and bishop of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God. Since 2007 it is Brazil's second largest...

 telenovela Rebelde.

Filmography

Television
Year	Title	Role
2008	Três Irmãs	Bia
2009	Malhação Malhação Malhação is a Brazilian soap opera for the teenage audience. The soap started in 1995, and was set in a fictional Gym Club called Malhação on Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Through the years the location varied slightly. Although the name of the soap remains the same, it is now set in the...	Joe
2010	TV Globinho TV Globinho TV Globinho is a Rede Globo program that used to air on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 6:00 AM, featuring cartoons, such as InuYasha, Dragon Ball Z and GT, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Digimon, Cardcaptor Sakura, Yin Yang Yo!, Sonic X, The Spectacular Spider-Man,...	Herself, TV host
2010	Aventuras do Didi	Grace
2011	Rebelde	Roberta Messi

Theater

Year	Title	Role
2007	Romeu e Isolda	Isolda
2008	Confissões de Adolescente	Natália
2009	O Despertar da Primavera	Mariana

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
2011
	Capricho Awards	National Band	Rebeldes
		Best Fictional Kiss	Roberta and Diego, in Rebelde
		National Singer	Herself
		Best National Actress	Roberta, in Rebelde
		Best Real Couple	Lua and Arthur

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