Valentina Herszage (; born March 11, 1998) is a Brazilian actress.
Career Valentina participated in the New Theater Course at Universidade Cândido Mendes, in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro and at Catsapá Escola de Musicais. As a child, in 2009, she starred in the children's short film Direita É a Mão que Você Escreve, by director Paulo Santos, shown in 2010 at the Florianópolis Children's Film Festival. In 2015, she participated in the film Mate-Me Por Favor as Bia and received the Redentor Trophy for Actress at the 2015 edition of the Rio Festival. In 2016, she acted in the play Jovem Estudante Procura.
In 2017, she debuted on television in the soap opera Pega Pega on Rede Globo as Bebeth Ribeiro.
In 2019, she played Hebe Camargo in her youth, in the Globoplay miniseries Hebe, sharing the role with actress Andrea Beltrão. In the same year, she shot the feature film The Seven Sorrows of Mary, by Portuguese director Pedro Varela and, in November, she starred in the film Raquel 1:1, by Mariana Bastos, released at SXSW in 2022. She also participated in the film Homem Onça, by Vinicius Reis. At the theater, Valentina is part of the cast of the Brazilian production of Lazarus, by David Bowie and Enda Walsh.
In 2020, she remotely recorded the film Álbum em Família, by Daniel Belmonte, about a group of actors who meet virtually to stage a play by Nelson Rodrigues. In 2022, she recorded the series Fim, based on the novel by Fernanda Torres. She plays the nurse Maria Clara, who takes care of Ciro, Fabio Assunção's role in old age. In August, she recorded the film As Polacas, in the role of the protagonist Rebeca, a Jewish woman who flees Poland to start a new, better life in Brazil, deceived, and is taken to the brothel. At the end of the year, she recorded the series Suíte Magnólia, on Canal Brasil, by Hamilton Vaz Pereira, playing Nunky, a woman who believes she came from another planet. In 2023, in June, she recorded the film Ainda Estou Aqui, by Walter Salles, based on the memoir of the same name written by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, playing Vera Sílvia Facciolla Paiva, one of the five children of Eunice Paiva, a symbol of the fight against the dictatorship, played by Fernanda Torres. She then began recording the remake of the soap opera Elas por Elas, playing her first villain, the spoiled Cris, Lara's daughter, played by Deborah Secco.
Personal life Herszage has Jewish ancestry, with her great-grandparents being from Warsaw, Poland.
Filmography
Film YearTitleRoleNotes2009Direita É a Mão que Você EscreveCarolinaShort film 2015Kill Me Please (Mate-Me Por Favor)Bia2021RosaÁlbum em FamíliaValentina / Heloísa2023The Seven Sorrows of MaryRaquelO MensageiroVera2024Vidro FumêLuana de FreitasRebecaI'm Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui)Vera Sílvia Facciolla Paiva2025Coisa de Novela Laura
Television YearTitleRoleNotes2017–2018Pega PegaElizabeth Castro Ribeiro "Bebeth"2019HebeYoung Hebe Camargo2021–2022Quanto Mais Vida, Melhor!Flávia Santana / Pink2023FimMaria Clara2023–2024Elas por ElasCristiane "Cris" Furtado Lopes Pompeu 2024Suíte MagnóliaNunky
Music Videos YearSongArtist2017"Me Adora"César Lacerda
Stage YearTitleRole2016Jovem Estudante ProcuraClara2019–20LazarusTeenage Girl
Awards and nominations YearAwardCategoryWork nominated Result2011Festival de Cinema de MaringáBest Leading Actress2015Festival do RioBest Actress Bisatto D’Oro do Festival de VenezaBest InterpretationJanela Internacional de Cinema do RecifeSpecial mention for best performance (official jury)2016Prêmio Guarani de Cinema BrasileiroRevelation of the Year2017Prêmio Contigo!Best New ActressPrêmio Extra de TelevisãoFeminine Revelation2020Melhores do Ano Minha NovelaBest Supporting Actress2022North Bend Film FestivalBest Performance2023Troféu Que História É Essa, Porchat?Best Bar Story2024Festival Sesc Melhores FilmesBest National Actress
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