Biography

Gabriela Lopes Gabriel (born July 23, 1994, in São Paulo) is a Brazilian actress and model. She got famous nationally after her role in the 22nd season of TV series Malhação, at Rede Globo. Gabi has been working as an actress for 15 years. She started in TV at age 8, in 2002, when she hosted the Children's Day Special at SBT alongside famous Brazilian TV hostess Hebe Camargo. Throughout her career she has acted in many TV series: Entre Teens, at MTV, Julie e Os Fantasmas at Rede Band and Nickelodeon, miniseries Queridos Amigos at Rede Globo, Segredos Médicos at Multishow, Na Mira do Crime at FOX, FX and TV Record, Casos de Ocorrência also at Multishow, with Rafinha Bastos, and the award-winning series Saidera at Rede Globo, in the role of Carolina. She was cast in the 22nd season of Malhação Sonhos at Rede Globo, as the homosexual fighter Pri.

She started her career in cinema when she was 12 years old, in the role of Maria, the blind protagonist of short film Por um Sopro de Vida. Soon after came the movies Os Castelos Não São Eternos, Eu e Meu Guarda Chuva, and Casa dos Sonhos Esquecidos. TV series Na Mira do Crime was also made into a TV movie, which was shown at FOX, FX and Rede Record. In 2016 she starred in two movies: Vende-se Ilusões and Solteira Quase Surtando. In 2017 it was time for O Último Virgem, a teenage comedy in which Gabi played the role of the most dashing girl in class. She was also Fabi in Internet O Filme, a big production of Paris Filmes for which more than 25 TV and web celebrities were cast. In that same year, Gabi got the main part for the first time in a feature film called VIEW, about a YouTuber who is kidnapped and held hostage. This movie landed her her first international award: First Glance Film Festival Los Angeles, as Best Actress. The film also won in the Best Movie category. Still in 2017, she was seen in Amor Sem Fronteiras, as Paula, the daughter of Joana (Luana Piovani) and Pedro (Paulo Tiefentaler), a coproduction of Brazil and Argentina which is scheduled to be released in 2018. She got her hair painted brunette for the role of Isis, in movie Casa de Cléo, a drama in which the character loses her mother.