Joana Metrass is the Portuguese actress who portrays Guinevere on ABC's Once Upon a Time.
Biography
Joana Metrass was born in 1988 in Lisbon, Portugal, with Italian, French, Argentinian, Chinese and Cape Vert heritage. At seventeen years old, she moved to the U.S. to finish her senior year in high school as an exchange student.[1] In 2007, she went back to Portugal, where she attended the Lisbon Theatre and Film School for three years, and graduated from the BA Acting course.[2] Additionally, she also studied at New York's HB Studio.[3]
Joana began her first professional experiences in 2011. Her first acting credit is in Alberto Seixas Santos' As Time Goes By, which had international distribution.[4] The same year, she appeared in António Correia's Intriga Fatal, or What's New About Love?, a film directed by a group of six directors. Since then, she has worked consistently in all areas of the industry and in various TV roles, including Patricia Sequeira's Sinais de Vida or Hugo de Sousa's A Princesa, where she landed the lead role.[2]
In June 2013, she moved to the United Kingdom.[1] Eventually, she was cast in Katherine Collins' The Spoiler, Gary Shore's Dracula Untold and Guy Ritchie's The Man from U.N.C.L.E..[2]
Trivia
- She can speak her mother tongue, Portuguese, as well as English, French, Italian and Spanish.[4]
Appearances
Once Upon a Time: Season Five | |||||||||||
"The Dark Swan": | "The Price": | "Siege Perilous": | "The Broken Kingdom": | "Dreamcatcher": | "The Bear and the Bow": | "Nimue": | "Birth": | "The Bear King": | "Broken Heart": | "Swan Song": | |
Absent | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Absent | Appears | Absent | |
"Souls of the Departed": | "Labor of Love": | "Devil's Due": | "The Brothers Jones": | "Our Decay": | "Her Handsome Hero": | "Ruby Slippers": | "Sisters": | "Firebird": | "Last Rites": | "Only You": | "An Untold Story": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
Once Upon a Time: Specials | ||||||||||
"Magic is Coming": |
"The Price of Magic": | "Journey to Neverland": | "Wicked is Coming": | "Storybrooke Has Frozen Over": | ||||||
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | ||||||
"Secrets of Storybrooke": | "Dark Swan Rises": | "Evil Reigns Once More": | "The Final Battle Begins": | |||||||
Absent | Absent | Archive | Absent |
Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.
External Links
- Joana Metrass on Wikipedia
- Joana Metrass on Internet Movie Database
- Joana Metrass on Facebook
- Joana Metrass on Twitter