Alba Baptista Wiki, Biography, Age, Family, Height, Fast Facts

Alba Baptista is a well-known Portuguese actress who was born on July 10th, 1997. It was in her home country of Portugal, with the series Jardins Proibidos, that she made her professional debut (2014–2015). After that, she had starring roles in a number of Portuguese television shows and films, including Jogo Duplo, A Impostora, Filha da Lei, and A Criaco.

Her first role in an English-language production was in the Netflix series Warrior Nun, in which she has starred since the year 2020.

Early life 

Baptista was born in the Portuguese city of Lisbon. When she was working as a translator in Brazil, her mother from Portugal made the acquaintance of her daughter’s Brazilian engineer father from Rio de Janeiro. Baptista is fluent in several languages, including her native Portuguese as well as English, Spanish, French, and German.

Career 

Alba Baptista began her acting career at the age of 16 when she played the lead role in the short film Miami by Simo Cayatte. [4] For her performance, she was awarded the prize for Best Actress at the Festival Ibérico de Ciné. In the years that followed, Alba established a successful film career in Portugal and also appeared as a leading lady on three different critically acclaimed Portuguese television shows. Her filmography includes Caminhos Magnétykos, directed by Edgar Pêra, in which she appeared as “Catarina,” and Equinócio, directed by Ivo Ferreira. Both of these films were produced in Brazil. In 2019, she had a role in the movie Patrick, which marked the debut of Goncalo Waddington as a director. The movie made its world premiere at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, where it was a part of the festival’s competition. She played the role of Fatima in the feature film Fatima, which was released in 2020 and was directed by Marco Pontecorvo and also starred Harvey Keitel, Sônia Braga, and Joana Ribeiro. She is represented by UTA Talents in the United States, Subtitle Talent in the United Kingdom, and Elite Lisbon in Portugal. Alba played the lead role of Ava in the series Warrior Nun, which was released on Netflix on July 2, 2020.  Alba is also an actress.   Warrior Nun was released on Netflix on July 2, 2020.

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