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Christine in 2011
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Born |
Christine Fernandes Alves March 1, 1968 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1994-present |
Spouse(s) |
Marcelo Serrado (1994–1999) Floriano Peixoto (2000–present) |
Children | 1 |
Christine Fernandes Alves (born March 1, 1968) is a Brazilian American actress.
Christine Fernandes was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Brazilian parents, She moved to Brazil at 4 years old. At 13 she started playing volleyball and became federated. Soon after she began modeling. At 17 she moved back to the United States to attend High School in California. When she turned 18, she moved to Japan and lived in Tokyo for 2 years working as a photographic model.
She returned to Brazil in 1995 and was invited to act on a telenovela (Brazilian soap opera) beginning her acting career. She is married to the fellow Brazilian actor Floriano Peixoto.
The daughter of Brazilian parents was born and lived until 3 years of age in the United States. His family returned to Brazil, to the city of Rio de Janeiro.
From thirteen to seventeen years was volleyball player, soon after became an international model for seven years. She studied in Califórnia many years of high school to university, when she returned there and lived alone. There she also paraded. Christine also lived in Japan for two years.
After a test for the Actors Workshop of Rede Globo, was cast in his first TV appearance, an interest in the novel Quatro por Quatro (1994), of Carlos Lombardi. The following year, Manoel Carlos bet the young actress and gave her a prominent role in História de Amor. Among other works, Christine attended Perdidos de Amor, a novel independent Rede Bandeirantes, but soon returned and appeared in the Rede Globo productions as Chiquinha Gonzaga (1999) and Esplendor (2000), in which she met the actor Marcelo Serrado, with whom she was married from 1994 to 1999.