Clara Moneke

Clara Onyinyechukwu Mariano Moneke (born 16 December 1998) is a Brazilian actress and model. She gained notoriety when playing the character Kate in the soap opera Vai na Fé, on TV Globo.

Biography
Clara Moneke was born in the Santa Cecília neighborhood, in São Paulo, but moved to Campo Grande, West Zone of Rio de Janeiro, at the age of four. She is the daughter of a Brazilian mother and a Nigerian father. Clara's mother, Marilene Pereira Mariano, died in 2020, victim of a stroke.

Career
She began studying theater at the age of seven. She studied costume design and clowning. After ten years of dedication to the artistic profession, in 2017 Clara decided to enter the Hospitality Faculty at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, in Seropédica.

During an internship, she met singer Marcelo D2, who invited her to audition for the cast of the series Amar é para os fortes, on Prime Video, created by the artist in partnership with Antonia Pellegrino. Filming took place in 2022.

Afterwards, the actress recorded the film Eu Sou Maria, directed by Clara Linhart and with a script by Sônia Rodrigues

Scheduled to premiere in 2023, Clara also participates in the feature film Nosso Sonho, which tells the life of the duo Claudinho & Buchecha. In the film, the actress plays Vanessa, the wife of Claudinho (played by actor Lucas Penteado), who died in 2002.

The role in Vai na Fé came through a message on Instagram, from casting producer Patrícia Rache. In the plot, written by Rosane Svartman, Clara plays the character Kate, a young woman from the Rio suburbs and the opposite of her best friend, Jenifer (Bella Campos). The success was so great that she became one of the most beloved characters by the soap opera audience and was invited to reprise the role in a participation in the series Encantado's. Furthermore, Clara gained more than 500 thousand followers on her social networks.