Actresses of Portuguese descent

The list Actresses of Portuguese descent includes Daniela Ruah, Vanessa Williams, Lyndsy Fonseca, Danica McKellar and Riley Keough. The list consists of 28 members.

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Daniela Ruah

American actor

Overview: Daniela Sofia Korn Ruah (born December 2, 1983) is a Portuguese-American actress best known for playing NCIS Special Agent Kensi Blye in the CBS police procedural series NCIS: Los Angeles.

Date of birth: 2 December 1983

Age: 40

Nationality: Portuguese

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

Partner: David Paul Olsen (Married)

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Jewish Portuguese actresses 2T

Portuguese people of Ukrainian descent 1T

Actresses of Russian descent 81T
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Vanessa Williams

American, Actress

Overview: Vanessa Lynn Williams (born March 18, 1963) is an American singer, actress, model, producer, and dancer. She gained recognition as the first Black woman to receive the Miss America title when she was ...

Date of birth: 18 March 1963

Age: 61

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race winners 6T

21st-century African-American women singers 683T

20th-century African-American women singers 895T
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Lyndsy Fonseca

American actress

Overview: Lyndsy Marie Fonseca (born January 7, 1987) is an American actress. She began her career by appearing as Colleen Carlton on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless, on which she starred ...

Date of birth: 7 January 1987

Age: 37

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

Partner: Noah Bean (Married)

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Actresses from Oakland, California 44T

Actresses from California 976T

21st-century American actresses 6,371T
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Danica McKellar

American actress, mathematics writer, and education advocate (born 1975)

Overview: Danica Mae McKellar (born January 3, 1975) is an American actress, mathematics writer, and education advocate. She played Winnie Cooper in the television series The Wonder Years from 1988 to 1993, and ...

Date of birth: 3 January 1975

Age: 49

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

Partner: Scott Sveslosky (Married)

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American women television writers 652T

21st-century American screenwriters 625T

Actresses of Dutch descent 51T
5.

Riley Keough

American actress

Overview: Danielle Riley Keough ( KEE-oh; born May 29, 1989) is an American actress. She made her feature film debut at age 20, appearing in a supporting part in the musical biopic The Runaways (2010), portraying ...

Date of birth: 29 May 1989

Age: 35

Nationality: American

Occupation: Model

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

Partner: Ben Smith-Petersen (Married)

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American Ashkenazi Jews 202T

Actresses of Irish descent 598T

Directors of Caméra d'Or winners 47T
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Brooke Burke

American television personality

Overview: Brooke Lisa Burke (born September 8, 1971) is an American actress, dancer, model, and television personality. She is known as a Playboy model, hosting Wild On!, Rock Star (2005–2006), winning the seventh ...

Date of birth: 8 September 1971

Age: 53

Nationality: American

Occupation: TV Personality

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

Partner: Scott Rigsby (Engaged)

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Thyroid cancer survivors 16T

Female models from Connecticut 22T

Actresses from Hartford, Connecticut 30T
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Shanna Moakler

American actress and model (born 1975)

Overview: Shanna Lynn Moakler (born March 28, 1975) is an American model, actress, and reality television star. She was the winner of the Miss New York USA pageant in 1995 and was the first runner-up at Miss USA ...

Date of birth: 28 March 1975

Age: 49

Nationality: American

Occupation: Model

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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Actresses of Irish descent 598T

Actresses of German descent 622T

Actors from Providence, Rhode Island 63T
8.

Amy Poehler

American actress and comedian (born 1971)

Overview: Amy Poehler (born September 16, 1971) is an American comedian, actress, writer, producer, and director. After studying improv at Chicago's Second City and ImprovOlympic in the early 1990s, Poehler co- ...

Date of birth: 16 September 1971

Age: 53

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

Partner: Joel Lovell (Dating)

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Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences alumni 152T

American women television directors 304T

Television producers from Massachusetts 73T
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Sara Bareilles

American musician and actress (born 1979)

Overview: Sara Beth Bareilles (, bə-RELL-iss; born December 7, 1979) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. She has sold over three million albums and over 15 million singles in the United States. Bareilles ...

Date of birth: 7 December 1979

Age: 44

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

Partner: Joe Tippett (Engaged)

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21st-century American singer-songwriters 2,655T

Judges in American reality television series 95T

Singer-songwriters from California 1,006T
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Bianca Lawson

American actress

Overview: Bianca Jasmine Lawson is an American film and television actress. She is known for her regular roles in the television series Saved by the Bell: The New Class, Goode Behavior, Pretty Little Liars, and ...

Date of birth: 20 March 1979

Age: 45

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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American people who self-identify as being of Native American descent 237T

Actresses of Italian descent 659T

African-American child actresses 79T
11.

Mary Astor

American actress (1906–1987)

Overview: Mary Astor (born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke; May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987) was an American actress. She may be best remembered for her performance as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon ...

Date of birth: 3 May 1906

Date of death: 25 September 1987

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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Respiratory disease deaths in California 44T

20th-century American memoirists 469T

20th-century memoirists 862T
12.

Jasmine Guy

American actress and singer (born 1962)

Overview: Jasmine Guy (born March 10, 1962) is an American actress, director, singer and dancer. She is known for her role as Dina in the 1988 film School Daze and as Whitley Gilbert-Wayne on the NBC The Cosby Show ...

Date of birth: 10 March 1962

Age: 62

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

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American sitcom actresses 542T

21st-century African-American women singers 677T

20th-century African-American women singers 894T
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Amber Valletta

American supermodel and actress (born 1974)

Overview: Amber Evangeline Valletta (born February 9, 1974) is an American supermodel and actress. She began her career as a fashion model, landing her first of sixteen American Vogue covers at the age of eighteen ...

Date of birth: 9 February 1974

Age: 50

Nationality: American

Occupation: Model

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

Partner: Teddy Charles (Hairdresser) (Long-Term)

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American people who self-identify as being of Cherokee descent 199T

American people who self-identify as being of Native American descent 337T

The Society Management models 55T
14.

Dina Eastwood

American news anchor

Overview: Dina Marie Fisher (née Ruiz; July 11, 1965), known professionally as Dina Eastwood is an American reporter, TV news anchor, and actress. She is the former wife of actor and film director Clint Eastwood ...

Date of birth: 11 July 1965

Age: 59

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Actresses of Irish descent 597T

Actresses of British descent 497T

Actresses of German descent 622T
15.

Sky Ferreira

American singer-songwriter, model, and actress (born 1992)

Overview: Sky Tonia Ferreira (born July 8, 1992) is an American singer-songwriter, model, and actress. As a teenager, Ferreira began uploading videos on Myspace of herself singing songs she had written, which led ...

Date of birth: 8 July 1992

Age: 32

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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American people who self-identify as being of Native American descent 252T

Singer-songwriters from California 1,002T

Women Management models 40T
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Marina Ruy Barbosa

Brazilian actress

Overview: Marina Souza Ruy Barbosa (born June 30, 1995) is a Brazilian actress. She started off her career as a child actress; her first major role was in the telenovela Começar de Novo. In 2006, she portrayed ...

Date of birth: 30 June 1995

Age: 29

Nationality: Brazilian

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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Actresses from Rio de Janeiro (city) 161T

Brazilian child actresses 18T

21st-century Brazilian actresses 154T
17.

Karla Souza

Mexican actress (born 1985)

Overview: Karla Susana Olivares Souza (born December 11, 1985) is a Mexican actress known for her roles as Laurel Castillo on the ABC legal drama series How to Get Away with Murder and Marina Hayworth on the ABC ...

Date of birth: 11 December 1985

Age: 38

Nationality: Mexican

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

Partner: Marshall Trenkmann (Married)

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Actresses of Chilean descent 1T

21st-century American women 7,594T

21st-century Mexican actresses 370T
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Flávia Alessandra

Brazilian actress

Overview: Flávia Alessandra Martins da Costa (born June 7, 1974) is a Brazilian actress, best known for roles in both telenovelas, television series and films.

Date of birth: 7 June 1974

Age: 50

Nationality: Brazilian

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

Partner: Otaviano Costa (Married)

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Citizens of Portugal through descent 34T

People from Arraial do Cabo 1T

People with acquired Portuguese citizenship 3T
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Floriana Lima

American actress (born 1981)

Overview: Floriana Lima (born March 26, 1981) is an American actress. She played Maggie Sawyer on The CW's Supergirl. She began playing recurring character Darcy Cooper in season 2 of the ABC drama A Million Little ...

Date of birth: 26 March 1981

Age: 43

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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Ohio State University School of Communication alumni 35T

Actresses of Irish descent 597T

Actresses of Italian descent 657T
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Samantha Eggar

British, Actress

Overview: Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar (born 5 March 1939) is a British-American film, stage, television, and voice actress. After beginning her career in Shakespearean theatre, she rose ...

Date of birth: 5 March 1939

Age: 85

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

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Actors from the London Borough of Camden 210T

Actors from Hampstead 77T

Actresses of Irish descent 597T