Maria do Amaral Ribeiro (born 9 November 1975) is a Brazilian actress, screenwriter and film director.

[2] She also had a part in the film Tolerância, directed by the gaúcho Carlos Gerbase, playing the young Anamaria.

[4][5] The following year, she released her first book titled Twenty-Eight and a Half, bringing together "chronicles, reflections and venting" with autobiographical texts.

[6] She had a son with ex-husband Paulo Betti, João, born in 2003.

[7] She was married to the actor Caio Blat, a union that brought her second son, Bento, born in 2010.