The actress Alessandra Negrini, 52 years old, who is currently in the cast of the soap opera Crossing, from Rede Globo, as the character Guida, is one of the best-known television and cinema stars in Brazil. And one more Italian-Brazilian to be successful in the country.
Your last name, according to the website Cognomix, can derive from the Latin adjective niger, meaning dark color, or from the medieval name Black, a variation of names like Guarnier, Guarino or Ranieri.
Another hypothesis raised by scholars is that the surname could come from a nickname linked to the hair color or even to dark skin from a progenitor who gave rise to the surname.
Popularity
The Negrini family name is widespread throughout the Northern region of Italy, especially in the regions of Lombardia e Emilia Romagna and Lombardy.
According to Cognomix, there are approximately 2216 Negrini families in Italy, 938 in Lombardy, 676 in Emilia-Romagna and 205 in Veneto.
The Negrini surname is the 400th most popular in the Emilia-Romagna region and 26th in popularity in the province of Sondrio, which is in the Lombardy region. And this family name is the most popular in the city of Caspoggio, which is located in the province of Sondrio, in Lombardy.
Alessandra Negrini's Italian origins
Alessandra Vidal de Negreiros Negrini was born in São Paulo on August 29, 1970. Daughter of the engineer Luiz Eduardo Osório Negrini and the pedagogue Neusa Vidal de Negreiros, she commented in an interview about her Italian origins.
Asked about a supposed “reputation of being unfriendly”, Alessandra said that this is lack of social graces, because she is very direct and people don't understand that side of her.
“I'm not unfriendly, but I get so committed, so serious, so intense, that it scares me. So today I arrive smiling. It took me 40 years to learn that I had to do this. I wasn't polite with these social concerns. My parents are from Italian origin, my mother is from a farm: they are serious, honest, good people, but without that social refinement”, declared the actress.
First steps on television
Alessandra spent her childhood and adolescence in Santos, a city on the coast of the state of São Paulo. At the age of 18, he enrolled in a theater course, and at that time, she was called to audition for Rede Globo.
His television debut was in 1993 in the soap opera Eye to Eye, Antonio Calmon. The following year, she participated in the cast of Cara e Coroa, by the same author, both in a supporting role.
In 1995, he was successful when he starred in the miniseries Funny: Her Loves and Her Sins, based on the work of Nelson Rodrigues. Two years later, she played the villain Paula, in the remake of Anjo Mau, an adaptation by Maria Adelaide Amaral.
Protagonist
In 1998, Alessandra Negrini starred in the soap opera Meu Bem Querer, by Ricardo Linhares, giving life to the sweet and passionate Rebeca and forming a pair romantic with her until then husband Murilo Benicio.
From then on, she gained prominent roles on Rede Globo, such as the warrior Isabel Olinto, from the praised miniseries The Wall, in the year 2000. Due to the character's sensual appeal in the miniseries, she graced the cover of the Brazilian edition of Playboy magazine April of that year.
Other notable characters on television were the insane and sexy Selma Dumont, her second villain, from the soap opera A Woman's Desires (2002); Rapunzel, character from the children's series Sítio do Picapau Amarelo (2003); the Rio socialite Yedda Schidmt, in miniseries JK (2006), the twins Paula Viana and Taís Grimaldi from the soap opera Paraíso Tropical (2007), the crazy Suana Bueno from the soap opera Boogie Oogie (2014) and the fun and clumsy villain Susana Adonato, from the soap opera Pride and Paixão (2018).
Cinema and theater
Alessandra Negrini also has a solid career in theater and cinema. Among her films are What is this fellow? (1997), Sex, Love and Betrayal (2004), Cleopatra (2007), Os Desafinados (2008), 2 Rabbits (2012). The Silver Abyss (2013) and Aqua Movie (2021).
In theater, he participated in plays Creditors (2003), The Seagull (2008), with which he traveled to Europe, In Canada and Japan, and The Return to Home (2017), among others.
Among his awards are an APCA Award, a Guarani Award and a Brasília Festival Candango, in addition to nominations for a Grande Otelo, two Press Trophies and three Quality Brazil Awards.
Alessandra Negrini's personal life
In 1995, Alessandra started dating actor Murilo Benício, and at the beginning of 1996 they moved in together. In the same year the couple's son was born, Antonio Benício Negrini. The couple separated in 1999.
Then she dated the actors Marcos palmeira and André Gonçalves and was in an eight-year relationship with singer Otto, with whom she has a daughter Betina Negrini de Cordeiro, born in 2004.
She also dated businessman Rodrigo Neves, the actor Sergio Guize and photographer João Wainer.
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