| Yanna Lavigne | |
| Birth Name: | Yanna Lavigne Inagaki |
| Birth Date: | 1989 11, mf=y |
| Birth Place: | Osasco, São Paulo, Brazil |
| Height: | 1.65m[1] |
| Occupation: | Actress, model |
| Yearsactive: | 2005–present (model) 2010–present (actress) |
| Children: | 2 |
Yanna Lavigne Inagaki Gissoni (born 29 November 1989)[2] is a Brazilian television actress and model.
Born in Osasco,[3] she is the daughter of a Japanese man and a woman from Bahia state, due to her exotic looks, her school colleagues in Nagoya suggested her to compete in the Aichi province's local beauty contest in 2006.[4] After she was discovered by a Brazilian scout, she worked as a model in Tokyo. She returned to Brazil when she was 19 years old and studied at Rede Globo's actors school.
She is of Japanese, French and Spanish descent.[5]
Her television debut was in the Fantástico's sketch named “O Cupido”, in 2010, and in 2011 she guest starred in several episodes of the telenovela Malhação.[6] The actress played a promiscuous girl in the 2012 telenovela Avenida Brasil.[7] Yanna Lavigne was part of the main cast of the 2013 telenovela Salve Jorge as a Turkish woman named Tamar.[8] [9] She played Ana Fátima, who was one of the protagonists, in the 2013 telenovela Além do Horizonte.[10] Yanna Lavigne played a victim of a homicide in the 2014 police TV series Dupla Identidade, by Glória Perez.[11] She guest starred in the 2015 telenovela Babilônia as Susana, who is the mistress of the dishonest mayor Aderbal, played by Marcos Palmeira.[12]
Yanna Lavigne competed in the 2015 edition of the Rede Globo's Saltibum reality show, which is a segment of the Caldeirão do Huck program and it is the Brazilian version of the Dutch reality TV show Celebrity Splash!.[13]
| Telenovelas | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. | |
| 2010 | Fantástico | Mariana Matos | Sketch: O Cupido | ||
| 2011 | Malhação | Laís | Recurring role | ||
| 2012 | Avenida Brasil | Promiscuous girl | Special guest star | ||
| 2013 | Salve Jorge | Tamar | Co-protagonist | ||
| 2013 | Além do Horizonte | Ana Fátima Andrade Martins | Co-protagonist | ||
| 2014 | Dupla Identidade | Mariana | Special guest star | [14] [15] | |
| 2015 | Saltibum | Herself | Reality competition | ||
| 2015 | Babilônia | Susana Mendonça | Guest star | [16] | |
| 2016 | Ligações Perigosas | Júlia | Recurring role | [17] | |
| 2016 | Liberdade, Liberdade | Mirtes Aparecida Anunciação (Mimi) | Recurring role | [18] | |