Draft:Giovana Cordeiro

Giovana de Souza Cordeiro (born 16 November 1996) is a Brazilian actress. On television, she became known for playing Xaviera Buckminster in Mar do Sertão. In cinema, she stood out as Nina, protagonist of Carnaval.

Career
Cordeiro began acting as a child, and, at the age of nine, played swimmer Joanna Maranhão in a commercial, in her first appearance on television. She started a performing arts course in 2014.

Her first performance on TV was in Dois Irmãos, on Rede Globo in 2017, recorded in 2015. In the miniseries, playing the maid Celeste, she did hot scenes with Cauã Reymond (Omar). Afterwards, she participated in the film Ela é o Cara.

In 2017, she played the character Stefany in the global soap opera Rock Story. Initially, she would only make a small appearance, but she ended up pleasing the directors and returned to stay until the end of the soap opera. In Rock Story, Néia (Ana Beatriz Nogueira) hires Stefany as a day laborer to end the romance between her son, singer Léo Régis (Rafael Vitti), and Diana (Alinne Moraes). Léo and Stefany end up developing a colorful friendship in the plot. She played the prostitute Cléo, in the soap opera O Outro Lado do Paraíso. In the global serial, Cléo has a romantic relationship with the gold miner Mariano (Juliano Cazarré), who becomes her first boyfriend. Their case is not supported by their grandmother, the mystical Mercedes (Fernanda Montenegro). Mariano, in turn, has emotional relationships with the villain Sophia (Marieta Severo) and her adopted daughter, Lívia (Grazi Massafera). Cléo is abandoned by Mariano, and decides to become a prostitute to forget this love disappointment, until she truly falls in love with her client, Xodó (Anderson Tomazini)

In 2018, she participated in Malhação: Vidas Brasileiras.

In 2019, she acted in Verão 90 in the role of Moana, friend of João (also played by Vitti). In 2022 she made a brief appearance in Pantanal as Generosa, mother of José Lucas (Irandhir Santos). She gained prominence between 2022 and 2023 in Mar do Sertão as the former con artist Xaviera Buckminster.

In 2023, she plays the protagonist Luna Coelho in Fuzuê, a 7pm soap opera on TV Globo, this being her first starring role in soap operas.

Personal life
Giovana has two older sisters, Natália and Daniela. Between 2016 and 2017, she dated veterinarian Pável Reymond, brother of actor Cauã Reymond, for a year and a half. In 2019, she began a relationship with actor Giuliano Laffayete.