Taís Araújo

Taís Bianca Gama de Araújo Ramos (Portuguese pronunciation: [taˈiʒ biˈɐ̃kɐ ˈɡɐ̃mɐ dʒi aɾaˈuʒu]; born November 25, 1978) is a Brazilian actor, TV host and model.

Described by the media and general public as one of the great Brazilian actresses for her versatility in playing comedic and dramatic characters, in addition to being a very famous celebrity in Brazil.

In 2004, she portrayed Preta in Da Cor do Pecado created by João Emanuel Carneiro and she played Ellen, comic antagonist in the telenovela Cobras & Lagartos in 2006.

Her sixth leading role was playing the journalist Verônica Monteiro in technology oriented television series Geração Brasil, as part of the main trio of the plot, alongside Cláudia Abreu and Murilo Benício.

[3] Taís is still touring the country with the play O Topo da Montanha, which debuted in São Paulo in 2015 and earned her a nomination for the Shell Award for Best Actress.

[8] In 2015, in the matter of the English newspaper The Guardian on the series Mister Brau, the pair Taís Araújo and Lázaro Ramos was quoted like featured in the Brazilian television.

She is also cousin to actor and singer Marcello Melo Jr.[17] During her childhood, she lived with her family in Méier, neighbourhood in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro.

[27] In 2008, she returned to work with João Emanuel Carneiro, in A Favorita; portraying Alicia, daughter of a corrupt deputy played by Milton Gonçalves, who for the second time, consecutively, was his father in a telenovela, the first one in Cobras & Lagartos.

After the end of A Favorita's recordings in January 2009, the actress wrote her first article in the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper, in which she reported the inauguration of President Barack Obama.

[29] The telenovela Viver a Vida was not as successful, and the role of Helena was marked as the biggest failure in Araújo's career, with the total rejection of the character, being criticized by the media and the viewers.

[35] In 2015, alongside Lázaro Ramos, she made her debut in the play the Top of the Mountain that earned her nomination for the contest Shell Prize of Better Actress,[4] and took more than 100 thousand people to the theater.

Her daughter Maria Antônia was born on January 23, 2015, exactly at 8:45 am in the maternity ward of Barra da Tijuca, in the West Zone of Rio; Claudia Araújo—Araújo's sister and obstetrician gynecologist—was one of the doctors who did the surgery.

[43] In 2017 she was invited to participate in a Tedx lecture in São Paulo, telling an audience of about nine thousand people about her experiences in social activism in the struggle for equal rights in society.

In 2004, in the role of Preta, was also the first black protagonist of a telenovela produced by Globo TV in Da Cor do Pecado created by João Emanuel Carneiro