
Acting
Born March 25, 1992 · Lisbon, Portugal
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 Luís 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.

Maria Vitória
2025

Dreaming of Lions
2025

The Englishman's Papers
2024

Dialogues After the End
2023

Out of the Grey
2023

The Sibyl
2023

First Age
2023

Nightride
2022

Shadow
2021

Infinite
2021

Name Above Title
2020

Fatima
2020
The Dark Tower
2020

Crooked Lines
2019

Portugal Não Está à Venda
2019

The Black Book
2018

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
2018

Muletas
2017

At an Uncertain Time
2015
Gasolina
2015
Herança do Silêncio
2013

Domingos
2009