Nationality: Brazilian

Birthplace: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Ethnicity: African, Austrian and Portuguese descent.

Brazil’s population includes the largest number of people of African descent in the entire Western Hemisphere.

Ms. Araújo became the first black actress to be a leading character of a telenovela in prime time of the largest Brazilian television network, Rede Globo.

An artist rendition of her beauty below

– @_jd_m

In 2004, as Preta in “Da Cor do Pecado” (2004), she became the first black actress to lead a soap opera cast in Brazil.

Taís Araújo Quote: “When I was little, I did not have anything that looked like me! Now a black girl can have references on TV, including as a standard of beauty.”

She was the main actress of the telenovela Viver a Vida.

 As a teen, in the early 90s, she worked with Reynaldo Giannechini many years before they co-starred in the soap “Da Cor do Pecado”.

Then, both were models and did photos and commercials together.

Brazil has the world’s second biggest black population after Nigeria, the largest number of people of Japanese ancestry outside Japan, and more people of Lebanese or Syrian extraction than the combined populations of Lebanon and Syria.

Brazil officially the Federative Republic of Brazil is the largest country in both South America and theLatin American region.

It is the largest Portuguese-speaking country in the world, and the only one in the Americas.

She has an older sister named Cláudia Araújo, who is a doctor.  Afro-Brazilian refers to a Brazilian with African ancestry.

The term does not have widespread usage in Brazil, where people with noticeable African ancestry are generally referred to as negro or simply “preto (“black“)”, but the term is not considered very politically correct.

An artist rendition of her beauty below

Another group, multiracial Brazilians, or Pardos also have a significant degree of African ancestry.

These two categories are among five color categories used by the Brazilian Census, along with branco (“white”), amarelo(“yellow”, East Asian) and indígena (Amerindian).

In 2010, 7.6% of the Brazilian population, some 15 million people, self-identified themselves as “preto” while 43% (86 million) identified as “pardo”.

Pretos tend to be predominantly Sub-Saharan African in ancestry, while Pardos tend to have African ancestry to a lesser degree than pretos.

On average pardos are predominantly European, although all three ancestries (European, African and Native American) are often present.

Taís Araújo once stated that the skin color variation found in her family never called her attention, even though she claimed that she used to be the only Black girl at her upper-class school and that the people who looked like her there were only the ones “who cleaned the floor.

Films

• 2009 – Adrift
• 2007 – A Guerra dos Rocha …. Carol
• 2006 – O Maior Amor do Mundo …. Luciana
• 2006 – Nzinga …. Nzinga / Ana
• 2005 – As Filhas do Vento …. Cida
• 2003 – Garrincha – Estrela Solitária …. Elza Soares
• 1998 – Caminho dos Sonhos …. Ana Cavalcante
• 1998 – Drama Urbano

Awards

• 2006 – Prêmio Contigo: Couple of the Year (with Lázaro Ramos in Cobras e Lagartos)
• 2006 – Melhores do Ano: Best Actress by Cobras e Lagartos
• 2005 – Festival de Gramado: Best Supporting Actress by Filhos do Vento
• 2005 – Prêmio Contigo: Couple of the Year (with Reynaldo Gianecchini in Da Cor do Pecado)
• 2004 – 8º Festival de Cinema Brasileiro de Miami: Best Actress for Garrincha- Estrela Solitária
• 1997 – Troféu Imprensa: Best New Actress for Xica da Silva

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98GSoaLnFOY

An artist rendition of their love below

–halwildson.com

Taís Araújo is married to Brazilian actor Lazaros Ramos.

She gave birth to her first child, a boy named João Vicente, on June 18th 2011 in Rio de Janeiro.

Television

An artist rendition of her beauty below

-@_willcosta