Thalissa Teixeira

Biography

Thalissa Teixeira is a British-Brazilian actress and filmmaker born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, to a British mother and Brazilian father. She spent her childhood in Brazil before returning to England at 8 to train at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, graduating in 2014. She broke out in the BBC miniseries Trigonometry, earning an Ian Charleson Award nomination, and was named a 2021 Screen International Star of Tomorrow, most recently starring in "Supergirl" and "Harvest".