Joana Ribeiro


Joana Isabel de Alvim Rodrigo Pereira Ribeiro is a Portuguese actress.
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Biography

Joana Ribeiro was born on 25 March 1992 in Lisbon, Portugal to an engineer father and veterinarian mother. She studied first at the Luís Madureira School in Alfragide, and then completed secondary studies in Lisbon. Ribeiro initially studied architecture, but changed her focus to acting. She signed with an agency, Lisbon Elite, and played in the short film Herança do Silêncio.
Ribeiro's breakout role was as Mariana Côrte-Real in the telenovela Dancin' Days for SIC. Her next role was in another SIC telenovela, Sol de Inverno. She was cast as Susan Delgado in Amazon Prime Video's cancelled 2020 The Dark Tower series.
Internationally, she's acted in The Man Who Killed Don Quixote by Terry Gilliam, Fatima by Marco Pontecorvo, Infinite by Antoine Fuqua and The Man Who Fell to Earth by Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet.
She was one of the ten "Shooting Stars" at the Berlin Film Festival in 2020.

Selected filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
2012–13Dancin' DaysMariana Corte-Real
2013–14Sol de InvernoMargarida
2015–16PoderosasLuísa Nogueira
2017Madre PaulaMadre Paula
2017–18PaixãoAna Rita Sobral
2018–19A TeiaDiana Figueiredo
2019–20PrisioneiraTeresa Cunha
2021GlóriaUrsulaRecurring cast
2022The Man Who Fell to EarthLisa Dominguez
2022Das BootInês de Pina
2024The VeilSandrina
2024–25A PromessaVerónica Rocha Morais