Camila Morgado

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Camila Ribeiro da Silva, better known as Camila Morgado, (Petrópolis, April 12, 1975) is a Brazilian actress. Daughter of a trader and a housewife, since very early Camila decided that she wanted to be an actress. She started to study theater with actress Monah Delacy (mother of actress Christiane Torloni), but wanted to go deep, later graduating in the Casa de Arte das Laranjeiras (CAL). Soon after the end of the course, Camila moved to São Paulo in order to study theater with Antunes Filho.

She acted in many plays of famous director Gerald Thomas.

In 2003 she obtained the lead role in the miniseries A Casa das Sete Mulheres (Portuguese for The House of The Seven Women), playing the character of the sweet Manuela, invited by director Jayme Monjardim, appearing for most of the Brazilian audience on television.

In 2004 she plays the role of Olga Benário, in the film Olga, based on the book written by Fernando Morais and directed by Monjardim. Camila had a lot of military-based training to play this role and also German lessons. As the character of Olga follows for a concentration camp the actress needed to lose much weight to shoot the scenes in the place. Later on she plays a villain in the soap opera America who was an American teacher. Her last personage was Ana Rosenberg, a fictional left-wing lesbian journalist, in the miniseries JK.