Luiza Valdetaro

Luiza dos Santos Valdetaro (born September 7, 1985) is a Brazilian retired actress and businesswoman. She has lived in London since 2015, where she became a partner of the multinational producer BlueMoon and began to dedicate her career to entrepreneurship.

Career In 2002 she appeared in the first chapters of the 2002 season of Malhação as a student attending the club, until making debut in a fixed novel, with the personage Gabi, in Celebridade. After this, she participated in the novel América, interpreting Manu. In 2006, she lived her first protagonist of the teen soap opera Malhação. Also interpreted Gloria, in Viver a Vida of Manoel Carlos. In 2011 she was in the telenovela Cordel Encantado as Antônia, one of the protagonists of the plot.

In 2012 she played Gerusa Bastos, one of the protagonists of the remake of Gabriela, work of Jorge Amado adapted by Walcyr Carrasco and direction of Mauro Mendonça Filho.

Between 2013 and 2014 she joined the cast of the novel Joia Rara, as Hilda, an aspiring singer.

In 2014, she began dating oil businessman Mariano Ferraz, whom she married on October 3, 2015 at the Copacabana Palace hotel. Soon after, she announced that she was pregnant with her second child, Sophia Valdetaro Ferraz, who was born on July 2, 2016. On October 26, 2016, her husband was arrested by Operation Car Wash, accused of corruption and money laundering. After the businessman was officially sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2018, the couple decided to separate so as not to interfere in Luiza's life.

Filmography

Television Year Title Role Notes 2002 Malhação Nanda's friend Season 9 Episode: "12 September" 2003 Celebridade Gabriela Santino (Gabi) 2005 América Manuela Valente (Manu) 2006 Malhação Manuela Prado (Manu) Season 13 2007 Pé na Jaca Tânia Episodes: "6–7 March" 2008 Ciranda de Pedra Mirna Valentim 2009 Deu a Louca no Tempo Nina / Ruth 2009 Viver a Vida Glória Silveira 2011 Cordel Encantado Antônia Cabral 2012 Gabriela Gerusa Bastos Falcão 2013 Joia Rara Hilda Hauser

Film Year TitleRole2010 Bed & Breakfast Babita 2014 O Candidato Honesto Amanda Like Sunday, Like Rain Corina 2016 King of Oil Denise Eisenberg 2018 Se a Vida Começasse Agora Bia