Daniela Escobar

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::summary Brazilian actress (born 1969) ::

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name	Daniela Escobar
birth_name	Daniela Escobar Duncan
image	Daniela Escobar, 2016.jpg
caption	Escobar in 2016
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birth_place	São Borja, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
spouse	{{ubl
{{marriage	Jayme Monjardim
{{marriage	Marcelo Woellner
children	1
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yearsactive	1989–present
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• Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul
• University of California, Los Angeles

Daniela Escobar Duncan (born 16 January 1969) is a Brazilian actress, television presenter and voice actress.

Biography

Escobar was born in São Borja, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil At the age of ten, she moved with her family to Porto Alegre, Brazil. Her father Joao Carlos Escobar is a corporate lawyer and author, and her mother Lucia Iara Tatsch, an English teacher. Escobar's ancestry includes German, Austrian, and Portuguese.

Career

Escobar began her acting career in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 19 years old. In 1990 she made the transition from stage to television.

From 1994 to 2015 she was contracted to star in a myriad of prime time popular television shows for TV Globo Brasil appearing in more than 25 TV Series as well as a series of independent movies. She starred in the film Diário de um Novo Mundo. Her most memorable performance was in O Clone novel 2001, where she played a mother who suffers and struggles to regain the trust of her daughter, a drug addict. In 2005 she participated in the América soap opera.

In 2010, Escobar went back to theater, along with actor Daniel de Oliveira in the controversial drama 400 Contra 1 - Uma História do Crime Organizado, a story about the rise of criminal organization Commando Vermelho. The film is directed by Caco Souza.

In 2011, Escobar made a cameo in the final chapters of the novel Ti Ti Ti Daguilene as the mother of Stefany's character, Sophie Charlotte.

She can currently be seen on TV in the novel 18h, A Vida da Gente, where she plays Suzana, foster mother of the character Alice, played by actress Sthefany Brito.

In 2013, will novel Flor do Caribe, playing the biologist Natália. In 2017, Escobar signed with RecordTV to play Ângela in the Apocalipse.

Since 2014 Escobar serves as a juror on the International Emmy Awards committee.

Personal life

Escobar married Brazilian Film and Television director Jayme Monjardim. They have a son, André Matarazzo, who is an actor. Monjardim and Escobar divorced in 2003. Escobar subsequently married businessman Marcelo Woellner in 2009, but divorced later in 2010. In 2017 Escobar became a vegetarian and has since become a health coach, graduating from the "Health Coach Institute of Chicago".

Currently, Escobar lives in Los Angeles, California.

Filmography

Television

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Year	Film	Credit	Notes
1992	Você Decide	Patrícia	Episode: "Tabu"
1994	A Madona de Cedro	Laura
Tropicaliente	Berenice
1995	A Idade da Loba	Gaby
1996	Anjo de Mim	Teresa
1997	Você Decide		Episode: "O Sósia"
1998	Laura	Episode: "Laura"
1999	Chiquinha Gonzaga	Amália
2000	Você Decide	Marlene	Episode: "Mania de Casar"
Aquarela do Brasil	Bella Landau
Superbonita	Presenter	2000–2005
2001	Brava Gente	Lucila	Episode: "A Sonata"
O Clone	Maysa Ferraz
2003	A Casa das Sete Mulheres	Perpétua
Kubanacan	Vanda	Episodes: "May 27–29, 2003"
2004	Um Só Coração	Soledad
A Diarista	Sofia	Episode: "Aquele com a Volta da Sósia"
2005	América	Irene Villa Nova
Dança dos Famosos 1	Participant	Domingão do Faustão's reality show
2006	A Diarista	Sônia	Episode: "Aquele do Papagaio"
2007	O Segredo da Princesa Lili	Yrvana	Special year-end
2008	Dicas de um Sedutor	Olívia	Episode: "Amor Não Tem Idade"
2011	Ti Ti Ti	Daguilene Oliveira / Pâmela	Special participation
A Vida da Gente	Suzana Ybarra Moraes
2013	Flor do Caribe	Natália Fonseca
2015	Amor secreto	Irene Gutiérrez Vielma	Brazilian voice dubbing
2016	A Garota da Moto	Bernarda Sales de Albuquerque	Season 1
2017	Apocalipse	Ângela Menezes
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Films

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Year	Film	Credit	Notes
1996	Ritinha	Ritinha	Short film{{cite web
2004	Vida de Menina	Carolina
2005	Jogo Subterrâneo	Tânia
Diário de um Novo Mundo	Dona Maria
2006	O Dono do Mar	Camborina
2010	400 Contra 1 - Uma História do Crime Organizado	Teresa
2016	Cold	Britney
Another Forever	Alice
2017	Erase Me	Helena (voice)	Short film
Finding Josef
Diminuta	Dra. Anne
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References

1. 15 It's about my personal life, and what is in there is a product of low level gossip and must be removed immediately. Not true. I was never married to that person in my personal life.

References

1. "Diário de um Novo Mundo". Cineclick.
2. (11 January 2011). "O Clone: a novela brasileira que foi sucesso em todo o mundo". [[Abril.com]].
3. "O Clone". [[Globo.com]].
4. "América - Irene". [[Globo.com]].
5. (4 August 2010). "Daniela Escobar fica loira e engorda 8 quilos para fazer filme". [[Universo Online.
6. (2011-01-31). "Exclusivo: Daniela Escobar entra em 'Ti Ti Ti' como Daguilene, a mãe de Stefany".
7. (February 28, 2011). "'Ti ti ti': Daniela Escobar será a mãe de Stéfany".
8. (8 September 2011). "Saiba quem é quem na novela "A Vida da Gente"".
9. (19 August 2011). "A Vida da Gente: Sthefany Brito grava com Fernanda Vasconcellos 'grávida'".
10. (January 20, 2013). "Flor do Caribe: Bruno Gissoni fará par romântico com Daniela Escobar".
11. (August 28, 2017). "Escalada para "Apocalipse", Daniela Escobar fica de fora de "A Garota da Moto"".
12. (2020-04-03). "André Matarazzo, de 'Malhação', revela que decidiu ser ator a partir de uma cena impactante da mãe".
13. "André Matarazzo: "Quero ser ator para sempre"".
14. (6 March 2010). "Daniela Escobar deseja felicidades ao ex Jayme Monjardim". [[Terra Networks]].
15. (2010-11-16). "Daniela Escobar sobre fim do casamento: "a culpa foi toda minha"".
16. "Cold".
17. (August 13, 2015). "Zapata, Escobar, Moreno Team for Butterflies (EXCLUSIVE)".
18. "Elenco : Finding Josef".
19. "Diminuta".

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