Thaila Ayala

Ayala began her modeling career at the age of sixteen. In 2006, she enrolled in the Rede Globo Actors Workshop. At the end of the course, she did tests, and got the role of Marcela, the female protagonist of the fourteenth season of the telenovela Malhação.^[2]

In 2007, Ayala was photographed by Terry Richardson for the book, Rio, Wonderful Town, which was released later that same year. She was featured in a photo with her breast showing and biting her lip. Casting producer Luis Fernando Silva later claimed to have repented for participation in the book.^[3]

In January 2016, Ayala worked with Indian-American Director Aditya J Patwardhan in the upcoming short film When Red is White, aka The Touch of Aurora.^[4][5]

In 2017, Ayala played Vanessa in the 2017 American film Woody Woodpecker, collaborating with Eric Bauza, Timothy Omundson, Graham Verchere.

Ayala married Brazilian actor Paulo Vilhena on November 19, 2011.^[6][7] They split in 2013.^[8] In August 2016, Ayala converted to Protestantism and was baptized at the Igreja Pentecostal Anabatista.^[9] She is of Italian and Spanish descent.^[10] In 2019, she married actor Renato Góes. They have two children.