Alice Braga Net Worth

Net Worth	$ 2,200,000
Source of Wealth	Acting
Profession	Actress
Spouse/Partner	In a relationship
Date of Birth	Apr 15, 1983
Zodiac	Aries
Age	40
Gender	Female
Height	162 cm / 5 ft 3 inch
Nationality	Brazilian

Biography

Alice Braga was born and raised in Brazil, in a family where acting wasn’t unfamiliar. Her acting career started when she was just 8 years old when she acted in a commercial. Until 2006, most of her movies were from a Brazilian production, before making her English breakthrough alongside Will Smith in “I Am Legend” (2007).

Some of her latest American movies and shows are “Suicide Squad” (2021) and “Queen Of The South” (2016-2022).

Besides being an actress, she has experience working as a producer on multiple of her projects. Her extensive line of work in the movie industry has earned her a net worth of $2.2 million.

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Early life

Alice Braga Moraes was born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil. She comes from a family of actors and producers. Her mother, Ana Braga, is also a Brazilian actress. Her father, Ninho Moraes, is a Brazilian director. While growing up, Alice was often near film sets with her mom and her aunt Sonia Braga, an actress too. Her older sister, Rita Moraes, works in the same industry and has worked as an executive producer on several projects.

At a young age, Alice Braga participated in numerous school plays, worked on commercials, and started pursuing more serious TV shows and movie roles by the time she was a teenager.

Alice speaks fluent Portuguese, Spanish, and English.^[1]

Career

Her first movie appearance was in a Portuguese short movie in 1998, “Trampolim”. Her big breakthrough came when she booked the role of Angélica for the movie “City of God” (2002), and this movie appearance brought her a ‘Best Supporting Actress’ nomination at the age of 19.

She proceeded to film multiple South American movies in the following years: “Lower City” (2005), “Only God Knows” (2006), and a Brazilian TV program “Carandiru, Outras Historias” (2005).

In 2006, Braga filmed “Journey to the End of Night”, alongside Brendan Fraser, Catalina Sandino Moreno, and Mos Def, which was her first English movie. The next year, one of her most popular movie roles aired: “I Am Legend”, with Will Smith in the lead role.

In the following years, Alice Braga worked on more American movies, “Redbelt” (2008) with a martial arts theme, for “Blindness” (2008), Alice went back to filming a post-apocalyptic thriller and proceeded with the crime drama “Crossing Over” (2009).

The following year, Braga has two more premieres: “Repo Men” (2010), and “Predators” (2010). Her next movie premiere was in 2013 for “Elysium,” alongside Matt Damon and Jodie Foster.

Braga would later come back to filming Portuguese and Argentinian movies: “The Ardor” (2014), “Latitudes” (2014), and the comedy “Kill Me Three Times” (2014).

In 2016, Alice Braga worked with Liam Hemsworth on “The Duel”, followed by “The Shack” in 2017.

By 2016, the filming for “Queen of the South” had already started and would last until 2021. Braga had her first lead role as the character of Teresa Mendoza in the American TV show, based on the “La Reina del Sur” novel.

In 2020, she had a role in a horror movie, “The New Mutants”, and later that same year, she played a role in a miniseries, “We Are Who We Are”. In 2021, “The Suicide Squad” was released, and Braga had an appearance.

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Personal life

Alice Braga’s personal business has been kept under wraps for most of her career. Many speculations about her dating life and dating history surfaced throughout the years, but she hasn’t addressed most of them.

When she was only 20 years old, she received a marriage proposal from her then-boyfriend, which Alice turned down because she was too young and not ready to get married yet.

She confirmed dating Diego Luna from 20014 to 2005, and the couple had numerous public encounters. Her relationship with the “Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights” star ended not too long after, and she didn’t make any public announcements about her dating life until 2020.

Braga in 2020, announced being in a relationship with Brazilian actress Bianca Comparato for three years, which was a piece of information well-kept, which only their closest friends and families were aware of.^[2]

Conclusion

The drama series “Queen of the South” actress, Alice Braga, is currently working on new projects, one of which is with Apple TV+.

With a net worth of $2.2 million, Alice Braga has made a name for herself, and her career is slowly developing in American showbiz.

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