Cristiana Oliveira

Cristiana Barbosa da Silva de Oliveira (born December 15, 1963 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian actress.

Daughter of Oscar de Oliveira and Eugênia Barbosa da Silva de Oliveira, she is the youngest of nine children (two men and seven women). Christiana was born and raised in a house in Ipanema, and to help at home she began to work at 10 years of age at a flower shop near her residence. Since little she was nicknamed Krika.

After recording a commercial directed by Walter Salles, she was called to audition for the defunct TV Manchete by Jayme Monjardim, for a program of music clips, Shock. She auditioned for the telenovela Kananga do Japão as the leading role, Dora, and with the withdrawal of actress Bia Seidl, who was Hannah, Cristiana was put in its place. Her performance won recognition by APCA.

In 1989 she began recording the Pantanal for Rede Manchete, in the role of Juma, which initially would be for the actress Glória Pires. But Cristiana offered to do it, since she had fallen in love with the character when reading the synopsis. The novel was a big hit, knocking the audience of TV Globo and becoming a landmark in Brazilian soap operas. Her work won awards in Brazil and abroad. It was one of her most recognized and idolized roles.

In 1992 she was hired by TV Globo as the protagonist of the miniseries Agosto, a role that ultimately came to be played by Vera Fischer. Christina instead won the part of the protagonist, along with Tarcísio Meira, for the telenovela De Corpo e Alma. In February of that year, she posed nude for the Brazilian edition of Playboy magazine, one of the few occasions where the trial was presented in a special insert.

In 1994, she took part in the miniseries Memorial de Maria Moura, and then starred in the soap opera Quatro por Quatro, alongside actresses Letícia Spiller, Elizabeth Savalla and Betty Lago. For the first time in her television career, the actress would make a paper comical. After the end of the novela, she lived in New York City in order to improve her English.

In 2001, she participated in the first episode of the soap opera Porto dos Milagres. The following year, was in the second phase of the novel O Clone, in which she was disguised as the villain Alicinha.

In 2011, she played a cameo praised by critics and the public Insensato Coração, the role of lesbian and convict drug dealer, called Araci Laranjeira. She had to gain 15 pounds to play that role and suffered prejudice from the media and public.

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