Joana Ribeiro
Actor
Biography
Joana Isabel de Alvim Ribeiro (March 25, 1992) is a Portuguese actress and model.
Joana Ribeiro was born on 25 March 1992 in Lisbon, Portugal to an engineer father and veterinarian mother. She studied first at the LuÃs Madureira School in Alfragide, and then completed secondary studies in Lisbon. Ribeiro initially studied architecture, but changed her focus to acting. She signed with an agency, Lisbon Elite, and played in the short film Herança do Silêncio (Silent Inheritance).
Ribeiro's breakout role was as Mariana Côrte-Real in the telenovela Dancin' Days. Her next role was in another telenovela, Sol de Inverno (Winter Sun). She was cast as Susan Delgado in Amazon Prime Video's cancelled 2020 The Dark Tower series.
Internationally, she's acted in The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018) by Terry Gilliam, Fatima (2020) by Marco Pontecorvo (in which she played Our Lady of Fátima), Infinite by Antoine Fuqua (2021) and The Man Who Fell to Earth by Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet (2022).
She was one of the ten "Shooting Stars" at the Berlin Film Festival in 2020.
Filmography
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
as Angelica 2018
Fatima
as Mary 2020
The Black Book
as Charlotte Corday 2018
Nightride
as Sofia 2022
Shadow
as Kamyla 2021
Crooked Lines
as LuÃsa Ribeiro 2019
The Englishman's Papers
as Camila 2024
Name Above Title
as Morena 1 e 2 / Topázio / Irmã Astrid 2020
Dreaming of Lions
as Isa 2025
The Sibyl
as Germana "Germa" Teixeira 2023
At an Uncertain Time
as Ilda 2015
Dialogues After the End
as Calypso 2023
Portugal Não Está à Venda
as Mariana 2019
Domingos
as Self 2009
The Dark Tower
as Susan Delgado 2020
First Age
2023