Fernanda Vasconcellos

Vasconcellos worked as a model starring in several TV commercials and as a dancer in SBT's Fantasia show before becoming an actress.^[1] Fernanda played the lead role of Betina in the 2005 season of Malhação working with actor Thiago Rodrigues.^[1] After leaving Malhação, she played an art student character named Nanda in the 2006 Globo telenovela Páginas da Vida. This was her second time as Thiago Rodrigues' love interest.^[1] Vasconcellos won the Best Newcomer Actress Award for this performance.^[1] Next, she played the lead role of Clara in the 2007 telenovela Desejo Proibido. Set in a fictional 1930s city located in Minas Gerais state, her romantic interest was a character played by Murilo Rosa.^[1]

In the 2010 telenovela Tempos Modernos, Vasconcellos again played a character romantically involved opposite actor Thiago Rodrigues, in what would be the third time in her career. She played the lead as Nelinha.^[1] Vasconcellos plays the lead role in the 2011 Globo telenovela A Vida da Gente as a tennis player named Ana Fonseca.^[2] She plays one of the lead roles in the 2013 Globo telenovela Sangue Bom as Malu, a college student rejected by her famous mother.^[3]