Valentina Herszage

Valentina Herszage (; born March 11, 1998) is a Brazilian actress.

Career Valentina participated in the New Theater Course at Universidade Cândido Mendes, in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro and at Catsapá Escola de Musicais. As a child, in 2009, she starred in the children's short film Direita É a Mão que Você Escreve, by director Paulo Santos, shown in 2010 at the Florianópolis Children's Film Festival. In 2015, she participated in the film Mate-Me Por Favor as Bia and received the Redentor Trophy for Actress at the 2015 edition of the Rio Festival. In 2016, she acted in the play Jovem Estudante Procura.

In 2017, she debuted on television in the soap opera Pega Pega on Rede Globo as Bebeth Ribeiro.

In 2019, she played Hebe Camargo in her youth, in the Globoplay miniseries Hebe, sharing the role with actress Andrea Beltrão. In the same year, she shot the feature film The Seven Sorrows of Mary, by Portuguese director Pedro Varela and, in November, she starred in the film Raquel 1:1, by Mariana Bastos, released at SXSW in 2022. She also participated in the film Homem Onça, by Vinicius Reis. At the theater, Valentina is part of the cast of the Brazilian production of Lazarus, by David Bowie and Enda Walsh.

In 2020, she remotely recorded the film Álbum em Família, by Daniel Belmonte, about a group of actors who meet virtually to stage a play by Nelson Rodrigues. In 2022, she recorded the series Fim, based on the novel by Fernanda Torres. She plays the nurse Maria Clara, who takes care of Ciro, Fabio Assunção's role in old age. In August, she recorded the film As Polacas, in the role of the protagonist Rebeca, a Jewish woman who flees Poland to start a new, better life in Brazil, deceived, and is taken to the brothel. At the end of the year, she recorded the series Suíte Magnólia, on Canal Brasil, by Hamilton Vaz Pereira, playing Nunky, a woman who believes she came from another planet. In 2023, in June, she recorded the film Ainda Estou Aqui, by Walter Salles, based on the memoir of the same name written by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, playing Vera Sílvia Facciolla Paiva, one of the five children of Eunice Paiva, a symbol of the fight against the dictatorship, played by Fernanda Torres. She then began recording the remake of the soap opera Elas por Elas, playing her first villain, the spoiled Cris, Lara's daughter, played by Deborah Secco.

Personal life Herszage has Jewish ancestry, with her great-grandparents being from Warsaw, Poland.

Filmography

Film

Television

Stage