Vanessa Mendes da Silva Lima (born 29 March 1983), best known as Vanessa Giácomo, is a Brazilian actress and screenwriter.

[1][2][3] Giácomo made her television debut in Cabocla in 2004 at the age of 20,[4] where she met and fell in love with actor Daniel de Oliveira.

[5] She appeared with Eriberto Leão in Sinhá Moça in 2006.

[6] She and Oliveira married and she gave birth to their first son in January 2008.

[7] She resumed work after the birth, filming O Menino da Porteira with singer Daniel,[8] and received an offer to take part in a film on Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian national who was mistaken for a terrorist and shot dead by police in London in 2005.