Juliana Riva Baroni is a Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

ian actress, dancer and singer. She is best known for being a paquita (Xuxa

Xuxa

Xuxa , Maria da Graça "Xuxa" Meneghel, born March 27, 1963 in Santa Rosa, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) is a Brazilian television actress, singer and children's television show host...

's stage assistant) for five years and for her leading role on the Rede Bandeirantes

Rede Bandeirantes

Rede Bandeirantes , officially nicknamed Band or Band Network, is a television network from Brazil, based in São Paulo. Part of the Grupo Bandeirantes de Comunicação , it aired for the first time in 1967...

 telenovela

Telenovela

A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...

 Dance, Dance, Dance.

Career

Baroni started her television career on February 1990 as a stage assistant (paquita) to Xuxa on Rede Globo

Rede Globo

Rede Globo , or simply Globo, is a Brazilian television network, launched by media mogul Roberto Marinho on April 26, 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Organizações Globo, being by far the largest of its holdings...

's children's television series

Children's television series

Children's television series, are commercial television programs designed for, and marketed to children, normally scheduled for broadcast during the morning and afternoon when children are awake. They can sometimes run in the early evening, for the children that go to school...

 Xou da Xuxa. She was a paquita for five years. During that time, she recorded an album with the other paquitas, besides being a backing vocal on Xuxa's records. She left the program when Xuxa released the teen-oriented Xuxa Park.

After her departure from the show, she started her acting career, starring on the Globo telenovelas Cara e Coroa, Salsa e Merengue, Malhação

Malhação

Malhação is a Brazilian soap opera for the teenage audience. The soap started in 1995, and was set in a fictional Gym Club called Malhação on Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Through the years the location varied slightly. Although the name of the soap remains the same, it is now set in the...

, Uga-Uga, A Lua Me Disse and O Profeta. She also starred on the Portuguese

Portugal

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 telenovela A Senhora das Águas, aired on RTP

Rádio e Televisão de Portugal

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On 2006, she remembered the time she was a paquita on a special program aired on Globo to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Xuxa's career. On the same year, she acted on the film Polaróides Urbanas, directed by Miguel Falabella

Miguel Falabella

Miguel Falabella is a Brazilian TV, cinema and theater actor, producer, writer and director.-External links:*...

. On the following year, she gained her first leading role on Rede Bandeirantes' telenovela Dance, Dance, Dance.

Juliana Baroni replaced Juliana Paes

Juliana Paes

Juliana Couto Paes is a Brazilian actress and former playboy model. She became nationally-known in telenovelas and modelling. She also starred a local version of the musical The Producers, as Ulla.-Biography:...

 in the role of Ulla in the musical play The Producers

The Producers (musical)

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, adapted by Falabella. The playwright compared her beauty to Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett Johansson is an American actress, model and singer.Johansson made her film debut in North and was later nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead for her performance in Manny & Lo . She rose to further prominence with her roles in The Horse Whisperer and Ghost World...

's. Baroni also portrays Marisa Letícia Lula da Silva, First Lady

First Lady

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 of Brazil, in the propaganda film

Propaganda film

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 Lula, o filho do Brasil

Lula, o filho do Brasil

Lula, The Son of Brazil is a 2009 biographical Brazilian drama film based on the early life of former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Directed by Academy Award-nominated director Fábio Barreto, the film was released on January 1, 2010...

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Discography

Albums

• 2007: Dance, Dance, Dance soundtrack

Singles

• 2007: "Dance, Dance, Dance"

Filmography

• 2008: Lula, o filho do Brasil
  Lula, o filho do Brasil
  Lula, The Son of Brazil is a 2009 biographical Brazilian drama film based on the early life of former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Directed by Academy Award-nominated director Fábio Barreto, the film was released on January 1, 2010...
  
  as Dona Marisa Letícia
• 2006: Polaróides Urbanas as Vanessa
• 2002: Xuxa e os Duendes 2 - No Caminho das Fadas as Kin
• 1991: Gaúcho Negro
• 1990: Lua de Cristal
• 1990: Sonho de Verão

TV work

• 2008: Toma Lá, Dá Cá as Louquinha Albuquerque
• 2007: Dance, Dance, Dance as Sofia Ivanitch
• 2006: O Profeta as Miriam
• 2006: A Grande Família
  A Grande Família
  A Grande Família is a Brazilian television comedy, and is one of the most watched shows in Brazil. The show airs on the Globo Network , and tells the story of a typical lower middle-class family living in a suburb neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro.The family consists of a working father, Lineu, a...
  
  as Daniela
• 2004: Celebridade as Sônia
• 2005: A Lua me Disse as Soraya
• 2000: Uga-Uga as Sheeva Maria
• 2001: A Senhora das Águas as Cláudia Cardoso Lobo
• 1998: Malhação
  Malhação
  Malhação is a Brazilian soap opera for the teenage audience. The soap started in 1995, and was set in a fictional Gym Club called Malhação on Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Through the years the location varied slightly. Although the name of the soap remains the same, it is now set in the...
  
  as Cacau
• 1997: Você Decide as Bárbara
• 1996: Salsa e Merengue as Inês
• 1995: Cara e Coroa as Júlia
• 1995: Xuxa Park as Catuxa
• 1990: Xou da Xuxa as Jujuba

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