Lidi Lisboa

Lidiane Rafaela Lisboa (13 August 1984 in Guaíra, Paraná) is a Brazilian actress and television presenter.

Early life

Lisboa was raised by her great-grandparents, on a farm in the small town of Guaíra, in the interior of Paraná. Her mother became pregnant when she was only thirteen years old, and was forced to leave Lisboa at age four to find work in São Paulo. She also never met her father. She revealed that in her childhood she liked to swim in rivers, climb trees and play with pigs and chickens.

Her life began to change at age 8, when her mother picked her up to live with her in São Paulo. At 12, Lisboa began studying theater at school, deciding on the profession of actress. She had her first chance in the profession at 15, when was cast in the soap opera Um Anjo Caiu do Céu, but revealed that she could not do the soap opera because the childhood and adolescence court considered the role inappropriate for her age.

Discreet about her sentimental life, at the age of 15 she had her first boyfriend, named Samuel. They were together for eight years, and after the breakup they remained friends. Lidi Lisboa revealed to the press that he helped her overcome her childhood difficulties and taught her to love others, revealing that they spent a year dating at a distance, when he stayed in São Paulo and she was making her first soap opera in Rio de Janeiro, and that both were always very mature and knew how to deal with distance.