Giovanna Antonelli Prado (Portuguese: [ʒioˈvɐ̃nɐ ɐ̃toˈnɛli]; born 18 March 1976) is a Brazilian actress, television host, and producer.
[3] In 1994, Antonelli debuted as an actress in the soap opera Tropicaliente, screened by Rede Globo broadcast between May and December 1994.
[4] Soon after, she returned to Manchete to act in Tocaia Grande (1995), by Duca Rachid, Mário Teixeira and Marcos Lazarini, as the protagonist Ressú, and in Xica da Silva (1996) by Walcyr Carrasco as the villain Elvira[5] part of a love triangle that had great impact.
In 2001, following the success of Laços de Família, Antonelli played the protagonist Jade, a Muslim divided between love and religious obligations, in the telenovela O Clone by Gloria Perez.
In 2003, Giovanna starred in the miniseries A Casa das Sete Mulheres, by Maria Adelaide Amaral and Walter Negrão, playing Anita Garibaldi.
At that time, she received several accolades for her resourcefulness, originality and the way in which she disengaged herself from the brand of her previous character Jade who had launched her to stardom in Brazil.
[18] She received critical acclaim for acting in a way that erased viewers' memories of the characters with a reputation for being a good girl who had played previously.
[21][22] In 2007, Antonelli returned to TV as Delzuite, the protagonist of the first part of the miniseries, Amazônia, de Galvez a Chico Mendes, by Glória Perez.
[23] In the same year, he was the protagonist in the telenovela Sete Pecados (2007) by Walcyr Carrasco, where her character Clarice lives a love triangle with Dante (Reynaldo Gianecchini) and Beatriz Priscila Fantin).
[26] In 2008, Giovanna showed her comic side, interpreting the clumsy Alma Jequitibá, one of the protagonists in the telenovela Três Irmãs, by Antonio Calmon.
[29] In 2009, Antonelli returned to theaters, in the film Budapest, directed by Walter Carvalho, based on the book by Chico Buarque.
In the plot, Antonelli plays Dora, a humble girl who goes to Búzios to fine a new life and escape her ex-husband who is a bandit and the father of her daughter, Rafaela (Klara Castanho).
[6] In 2011, Antonelli joined the cast of the telenovela Aquele Beijo, by Miguel Falabella, playing the character Cláudia, the protagonist of the plot.
She travels to Cartagena, Colombia, to work and at the airport meets Vicente (Ricardo Pereira), a state prosecutor, who is going to the same place to end the engagement of his beloved.
[39] In 2015 she was invited to participate in the telenovela by João Emanuel Carneiro, A Regra do Jogo,[40] in the role of the villain Athena Terremolinos.
[52] She then began to date director Leonardo Nogueira,[53][54] on 8 October 2010, and gave birth to the twins Antonia and Sophia.