Born Sônia Maria Campos Braga in Maringá, Paraná, on 8 June 1950, she became one of the best known soap or telenovela stars in her native Brazil as far back as the 1970s. It seems acting talent runs in the family: her niece is the actress Alice Braga.
Right back to her early acting career, Sonia Braga has never been afraid of doing either nudity or raunchy sex scenes. She was one of the earliest latin stars to make it big in Hollywood.
