Luisa Arraes

Luisa was born on August 15, 1993, in Rio de Janeiro, daughter of filmmaker Guel Arraes and actress Virginia Cavendish, both from Recife. She is the paternal granddaughter of Ceará politician Miguel Arraes, former governor of Pernambuco.^[2][3]

Since childhood, she had direct contact with dramaturgy, making her professional debut in a small role in the film Lisbela e o Prisioneiro, directed by her father and whose cast included her mother.^[4] In which she played the bridesmaid at Lisbela's wedding, played by Debora Falabella. In 2011, she wrote and acted in the play Queda Livre.^[5] From 2012 until the following year, Luisa took part in three seasons of Louco por Elas, a series starring Deborah Secco and Eduardo Moscovis, where she played Bárbara, a moody teenager full of insecurities.^[6] In 2013, she participated in the film A Busca, where she performed a scene with actor Wagner Moura.

However, it only became known after the romantic Laís Pimenta played it, in Babilônia, a soap opera on TV Globo, at 9:00 pm. In the plot, the actress from Rio formed a romantic pair with actor Chay Suede, becoming one of the highlights of the soap opera. She was the daughter of Aderbal Pimenta (Marcos Palmeira) with Maria José (Laila Garin), and granddaughter of Consuelo (Arlete Salles).^[7] She also works in theater, and was in the play Pedro Malzarte e a Arara Gigante together with the actor and her boyfriend, at the time, George Sauma. In 2017, in the series A Formula she shared the same role with Drica Moraes.^[8] In October, she was confirmed in the cast of the film Rasga Coração, acting again with Drica Moraes, however, this time, as daughter-in-law and mother-in-law.^[9] From 2017 to 2020, she was on show with the play Grande Sertão: Veredas, playing the character Riobaldo in his youth, later defended by Caio Blat.^[10]

In 2020, in the series Amor e Sorte, she acted, directed and wrote together with actor Caio Blat, the episode "A Beleza Salvará o Mundo", about a newly started relationship, when the couple needs to spend the entire period of social isolation together.^[11] In 2021, from November to December, she recorded the film Grande Sertão: Veredas, based on the book by Guimarães Rosa, reinvented by Guel Arraes and Jorge Furtado, this time with the role of Diadorim, in this version, the character is not even a warrior maiden nor a trans man.^[12] In 2022, she stars in the film Transe, by her step-mother Carolina Jabor and Anne Pinheiro Guimarães, alongside Johnny Massaro and Ravel Andrade. The film takes place in the context of the 2018 election and the innocent look of young people.^[13] In 2023, in May, she directed her first film, the short film Dependências, in which she also wrote, and which was born from a play she acted in in 2016. "It's a satire of the Brazilian middle class, a family that can't make ends meet. nothing when the maid doesn't show up." Her short had its premiere at the Rio Festival, where the feature film O Diabo na Rua, no Meio do Redemuinho, in which she acts, was also released, directed by Bia Lessa.^[14] In September, the children's play Suelen Nara Ian, written and directed by Débora Lamm, re-premiered, which addresses different possible family formats from the children's perspective.^[15] Together with her band "Comes & Bebes", made up of Arthur Braganti, Thiago Rebello and Gabriel Guerra, she released the band's first single, "Choque Térmico". She then recorded a participation in the feature film O Auto da Compadecida 2.^[16] In October, she recorded the biographical film O Homem de Ouro, by Mauro Lima, about police officer Mariel Mariscot, played by Renato Góes, playing actress Darlene Glória, his ex-girlfriend. with whom she had a son.

^[17] In 2024, she won her first antagonist in a soap opera, taking on the role of Blandina in No Rancho Fundo.^[18]

From 2014 to 2017 she dated actor George Sauma.^[19]

In 2017 she graduated in Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro.^[20]

At the end of 2017, Luísa started a romance with the actor Caio Blat.^[21]