Clarissa Kiste

Clarissa Kiste is a Brazilian actress who stars in "All the Dead Ones", a 2020 Berlinale Competition film by Marco Dutra & Caetano Gotardo - for which she won the Brazil & International Movie Award as Best Supporting Actress. A longtime collaborator of Dutra, she also appeared in his Cannes award-winning short "The White Sheet" and the Cannes Un Certain Regard feature "Hard Labor" (both co-directed with Juliana Rojas). In 2017 she once more teamed up with Dutra on the HBO series "El Hipnotizador" alongside Latin American acting greats Leonardo Sbaraglia, Daniel Hendler and Darío Grandinetti. Clarissa's other notable film performances include "Rust" by Aly Muritiba and "Carmo" by Murilo Pasta, both of which premiered in Sundance's World Dramatic Competition. She also plays the lead in Ana Johann's awarded film "The Same Part of a Man" (2021). Currently, Clarissa plays the character of Natalia in Globo's telenovela "Amor de Mãe". Additional TV roles include the protagonist of Fox's "9MM", the Netflix hit "3%", and Universal's "171". In theatre, she was seen in Lolita Pille's "Hell", directed by Academy Award nominee Hector Babenco, and Haruki Murakami's "The Elephant Vanishes", directed by Monique Gardenberg. Most recently, she performed in "A Doll's House Part 2", by Lucas Hnath, starring Marília Gabriela. Clarissa lives in São Paulo with her daughter Eva.