Biographies: Melanie de Vales Rafael - Actor

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A Mozambican actress, singer and fashion designer, who started her career in 2010. She is fluent in English, Portuguese and French. She studied music at the National School of Music and attended dance classes over the years. In 2011, at the age of 16, she became a young designer at the Mozambique Fashion Week where she presented her fashion collections annually for 5 years. In 2014, she was the winner of the Home Center Fashion Challenge of the Mozambique Fashion Week. She continued her studies in international relations and diplomacy at the Higher Institute of International Relations in Maputo. She began her acting career at the age of fourteen in the film The Children's Republic (2012). Her other credits include The Train of Salt and Sugar (2016) and A Matéria Noturna (2021).

• 20 February 2023
• Shaimaa Saied