Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1997-05-30

Place of Birth

Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Maria Galant

Biography

Maria Galant is a Brazilian actor from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She holds a degree in Visual Arts from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Culture and Education at the School of Education of the University of São Paulo (USP), where she has lived for the past three years. As an actress, Galant made her feature film debut as the lead in Mulher do Pai (2016). Since then, she has worked extensively in film and television, including the series Werner e os Mortos, Paralelo 30, and A Benção, as well as more than a dozen short films. She has also starred in the feature films Irmã (2020) and Inventário de Imagens Perdidas (2024), and in the upcoming films Para a Mulher Fantasma, Ela foi Ali Guardar o Coração na Geladeira, and Virtuosas, currently in post-production. For her performances, Galant has received both national and international awards. She has also been selected as a member of the Talents community, a network of emerging international film talents chosen to participate in programs and residencies associated with the Berlinale.

Known for

A Bênção

She Put Away Her Heart in the Fridge

Porto Alegre, southern Brazil, 2019. Luiza, 27, receives a series of videos online from a woman she does not know. The images, filmed in Uruguay, are accompanied by the voice of a woman named Verónica, who recounts stories from her youth there. What at first seems to be a mistake gradually reveals a painful truth about Luiza’s family past: the mysterious Verónica has the same face as her late mother.

Virtuous Women

What begins as a VIP retreat for women to achieve the best version of themselves, soon transforms into an absurd and dangerous journey.

Infinite Storm

A woman sings of longing in the past, a girl meets somebody unexpected in the present. The club's tower saw everything since the beginning.

Sisters in the End of the World

The mother is dying, the father has never cared. The two sisters Ana and Ju, however, remain strong and in solidarity with each other - even if the world around them collapses and asteroids fall from the sky.

Horror

Tiebreaker

A couple lives a troubled time in their relationship and decide to bet their future on a soccer match.

Inventário de Imagens Perdidas

Two women on the run from a fundamentalist revolution cross their paths in a house populated by memories of an old filmmaker.

Como Joyce salvou a minha vida

Nalu on the Border

Nalu lives with Ruben, her father, in a small country town near the Brazilian border with Uruguay. When Ruben realizes that his daughter is becoming a woman, an ambiguous closeness begins to develop between them.

March 17

It's March 17. Leo and Flora make their way down Paulista Avenue, as they go about their daily errands. But as the day goes on, the city sinks into apprehension, and the siblings' plans for the future seem to drift further and further away.

Nossos Últimos Dias

Letícia, Monte Bonito, 04

In the brazilian countryside, Lais meets Leticia, with whom she spends a quiet summer afternoon.