Who is this woman ???

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Beauty helps open a lot of doors. One good example of this is to be found on television.

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Alline Moraes back with

a bang!3

After a brilliant performance in 2008, playing a

psychopath in the soap opera

Duas Caras, Alline has come back with a bang.

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In Viver a Vida she plays a

model who ends up in a wheelchair after suffering

a serious accident.

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• In recent years beautiful models• have been

invited • to act in soap

operas and• series.

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Alline Moraes was one of them.

• In 2002 a Globo director was amazed by her beauty and decided to invite the young model• to act in the soap opera "Coração de• Estudante."

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NowAlline is back in the limelight6

because of herperformance in the soap opera

"Viver a Vida"(Globo 9 PM)..

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She has thrilled millions withher performance as Luciana,

a rich and spoiled model who is left quadriplegic after a serious car accident in Jordan.

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Career on the catwalkAlline Moraes was born in Sorocaba, São Paulo State, inDecember 1982, and began working as a model at just

14 years old.

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Throughout her teens she worked in such cities as Tokyo,

Paris, Milan, and New York. In recent years she has dedicated

herself more to acting.

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Despite the fame and glamour, Alline likes simple things, like meeting people and visiting new places.

Her favorite thing, however, is working. In her blog, Alline describes herself as an authentic workaholic.

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Vocabulary

1 with a bang - giria = com força2 amazed - impressionado3 she went on - aqui = ela seguiuem frente / sequencia4 outstanding - excelente5 to be outraged - ficar indignado/ revoltado

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6 in the limelight - exp.idiom. =em evidencia / sob os holofotes7 spoiled - mimada8 quadriplegic - tetraplegica9 throughout her (or his) teensdurante a sua adolescencia10 acting - atuar como atriz ouator

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