Award-winning Brazilian actress Débora Bloch is known especially for her roles on telenovelas.
Bloch was born on May 29, 1963, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, the daughter of actor Jonas Bloch and a descendant of Ukrainian-Jewish immigrants. As a young girl, she went with her father to rehearsals and performances of plays in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. At seventeen, after taking a course at the Ipanema theater, she decided to pursue a career in acting.