Valentina Herszage (Portuguese: [valẽˈtʃinɐ iʁsˈzaʒi]; born March 11, 1998) is a Brazilian actress.

Valentina Herszage
Born
Valentina Herszage

(1998-03-11) March 11, 1998 (age 26)
OccupationActress
Years active2009–present
Awards2015 - Festival do Rio - Best Actress

Career

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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.[1] 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.[2][3] 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.[4]

In 2019, she played Hebe Camargo in her youth, in the Globoplay miniseries Hebe, sharing the role with actress Andrea Beltrão.[5] 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.[6]

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.[7] 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.[8] 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.[9] 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.[10] In 2023, in June, she recorded the film Ainda Estou Aqui, by Walter Salles, 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.[11] 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.[12]

Personal life

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Herszage has Jewish ancestry, with her great-grandparents being from Warsaw, Poland.[13]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
2009 Direita É a Mão que Você Escreve Carolina Short film
2015 Mate-Me Por Favor Bia
2021 Homem Onça Rosa[14]
Álbum em Família Valentina / Heloísa[7]
2023 Raquel 1:1 Raquel[14]
The Seven Sorrows of Mary [14]
O Mensageiro Vera
2024 As Polacas Rebeca[9]
A Batalha da Rua Maria Antônia
Ainda Estou Aqui Vera Sílvia Facciolla Paiva[11]

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
2017-18 Pega Pega Elizabeth Castro Ribeiro "Bebeth"[15]
2019 Hebe Young Hebe Camargo
2021-22 Quanto Mais Vida, Melhor! Flávia Santana / Pink[16]
2023 Fim Maria Clara[8]
2023-24 Elas por Elas Cristiane "Cris" Furtado Lopes Pompeu [12]
2024 Suíte Magnólia Nunky[10]

Music Videos

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Year Song Artist
2017 "Me Adora"[17] César Lacerda

Stage

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Year Title Role
2016 Jovem Estudante Procura Clara
2019–20 Lazarus Teenage Girl[6]

Awards and nominations

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Year Award Category Work Nominated Result
2011 Festival de Cinema de Maringá[18] Best Leading Actress
Direita é a Mão Que Você Escreve
Won
2015 Festival do Rio[19] Best Actress Won
Bisatto D’Oro do Festival de Veneza[14] Best Interpretation Won
Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife[14] Special mention for best performance (official jury) Won
2016 Prêmio Guarani de Cinema Brasileiro[20] Revelation of the Year Won
2017 Prêmio Contigo![21] Best New Actress Nominated
Prêmio Extra de Televisão[22] Feminine Revelation Nominated
2020 Melhores do Ano Minha Novela[23] Best Supporting Actress Nominated
2022 North Bend Film Festival[24] Best Performance
Raquel 1:1
Won
2023 Troféu Que História É Essa, Porchat?[25] Best Bar Story
"Afogada na Banheira"
Nominated
2024 Festival Sesc Melhores Filmes[26] Best National Actress
Raquel 1:1
Pending

References

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  1. ^ "Valentina Herszage". purepeople.com.br. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  2. ^ Redação (2016-09-12). "Conversamos com Valentina Herszage, protagonista do filme Mate-me Por Favor!". TodaTeen (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  3. ^ Rocha, Pedro (10 September 2015). ""Mate-me Por Favor": conheça o filme brasileiro que fez sua estreia no Festival de Veneza". papelpop.com (in Portuguese).
  4. ^ "No ar em 'Pega Pega', Valentina Herszage diz que contracenar com canguru animado é exercício de paciência". F5 (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2017-06-28. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  5. ^ "Valentina Herszage viverá Hebe na fase jovem em série na Globo - Patrícia Kogut, O Globo". Patrícia Kogut (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2018-06-28. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  6. ^ a b "O desafio de viver a jovem Hebe". otempo.com.br (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  7. ^ a b "Raccord roda, remotamente, o filme "Álbum em Família" – Revista de Cinema" (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2020-07-31. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  8. ^ a b "Globo tem plano para não perder novos anunciantes às 19h - Patrícia Kogut, O Globo". Patrícia Kogut (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2022-01-08. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  9. ^ a b "As Polacas: Encerradas as filmagens do longa com Valentina Herszage e Caco Ciocler". Papo de Cinema. 2020-08-21. Retrieved 2023-09-05.
  10. ^ a b "Valentina Herszage grava nova série depois de 'Quanto mais vida, melhor!'". O Globo (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2022-12-03. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  11. ^ a b "Ainda Estou Aqui :: Começam as filmagens do novo filme de Walter Salles". Papo de Cinema.
  12. ^ a b "Valentina Herszage fará 'Elas por elas'. Saiba qual será a personagem". O Globo (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2023-06-24. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  13. ^ "Representatividade e resistência: As Polacas e a história de judias vítimas da máfia de prostituição". Ingresso.com (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  14. ^ a b c d e "Valentina Herszage em um musical e três filmes". Cineplaneta (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2020-02-11. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  15. ^ "Valentina Herszage e Jaffar Bambirra vivem o casal Bebeth e Márcio em 'Pega Pega'". gshow (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2017-05-16. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  16. ^ "Valentina Herszage será uma das protagonistas de 'A morte pode esperar' - Patrícia Kogut, O Globo". Patrícia Kogut (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2020-02-08. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  17. ^ "César Lacerda lança single "Me Adora"". Monkeybuzz (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2017-10-13. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  18. ^ "Premiados do 8º Festival de Cinema de Maringá". Jornal Grande Bahia (JGB) (in European Portuguese). 2011-05-28. Retrieved 2024-07-09.
  19. ^ "'Nossas gírias deram verdade ao filme', diz atriz Valentina Herszage". ISTOÉ Independente (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2016-09-15. Retrieved 2024-07-09.
  20. ^ "Mate-Me Por favor". Papo de Cinema.
  21. ^ CONTIGO!, Redação (2017-12-20). "Vote no Prêmio CONTIGO! Online 2017". Contigo! (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-07-09.
  22. ^ "Prêmio Extra de TV: veja quem concorre ao troféu de Revelação Feminina". Extra Online (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2018-03-26. Retrieved 2024-07-09.
  23. ^ Brasil, Jorge Luiz (2021-02-13). "Confira os vencedores do 16º MAMN – Melhores do Ano de Minha Novela". Mais Novela (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-07-09.
  24. ^ "Filme brasileiro ganha prêmio no Festival North Bend, em Washington". Brazilian Times (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-07-09.
  25. ^ "Troféu Que História é Essa, Porchat?: veja quem são os vencedores". gshow (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2023-03-08. Retrieved 2024-07-09.
  26. ^ "Festival Sesc Melhores filmes". Sesc São Paulo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-07-09.