Known for

Acting

Place of birth

Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK

Thalissa Teixeira

Thalissa Teixeira is a British-Brazilian actress and filmmaker. Teixeira was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire; her mother is British and her father from Salvador in Brazil. She spent her childhood in Vitória, Espírito Santo in Brazil before returning to England with her mother at the age of 8 to live in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire where she joined a local theatre group called Through the Wardrobe. She went on to train at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, graduating in 2014. She began her career in theatre, earning an Ian Charleson Award nomination, before breaking out in the miniseries Trigonometry. She was named a 2021 Screen International Star of Tomorrow.

Titles

Midsomer Murders

Series • 1997

Supergirl

Movie • 2026

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

Movie • 2019

The Musketeers

Series • 2014

Ragdoll

Series • 2021

Trigonometry

Series • 2020

Press

Series • 2018

Alice & Jack

Series • 2024

Too Close

Series • 2021

Two Weeks to Live

Series • 2020

Anne Boleyn

Series • 2021

Take Down

Movie • 2016

Harvest

Movie • 2025

National Theatre Live: Yerma

Movie • 2017

One Red Nose Day and a Wedding

Movie • 2019

National Theatre Live: Julie

Movie • 2018

A Family Affair

Movie • 2019