Carolina Dieckmann - Brazilian Celebrity, Actress, Model

Carolina Dieckmann Biography

Carolina Dieckmann was born in Brazil on September 16, 1978. She is an actress who is best known for her illustrious roles in several telenovelas and television series on the Rede Globo network. One of her most noteworthy characters was Camila on the Brazilian telenovela “Lacos de Familia” (or “Family Ties”). In the role of Camila, Dieckmann portrayed a woman with cancer and actually shaved her head for the filming of the show. At age 13, Carolina Dieckmann was playing football on a beach in Bouzios with her brothers when she was discovered by agent Anthony Velasquez and asked to become a model. She started out appearing in some advertising campaigns and then in 1993 appeared in a weekday miniseries in her first television acting role as the character of Claudia. In 1995, she joined the cast of the teen soap “Malacca,” in which she played the part of teenage rebel Juliana. Carolina Dieckmann excelled first as a model and then turned her attention primarily to her acting career once she achieved such great success playing the role of Camila on the telenovela “Family Ties.”

In 2000, the character played by Carolina Dieckmann on “Family Ties,” Camila, discovered that she had cancer. This storyline generated a successful real-life campaign for bone marrow donation.

As part of the campaign, in a scene involving Camila’s hair loss as a result of her cancer treatment, Carolina Dieckmann actually shaved her head on camera. In 2001, she played the role of Maria in a stage performance of “The Via Sacra,” in Cabo Frio, starring opposite Moscovis Eduardo, who played the role of Savior. That same year, Carolina Dieckmann also appeared on an episode entitled "The Exploits of Deceased Zechariah" on the program “Brava Genet.”

In 2003 she played the part of Hedwig in “Girls Enamored,” which addressed some of the taboos of adolescence, and then in 2004, she achieved great prominence once again in another TV drama, in the leading role of Destiny, starring opposite Isabel Tedesco. In 2007, in Rio de Janeiro, the actress posed for revealing pictures for photographer Fernando Torquatto. Later that same year, Dieckmann sued the Brazillian television show “Panic on TV” and its network, Rede TV! for invasion of privacy. In the lawsuit, Carolina Dieckmann claimed that she had been harassed by comedians Squint and Silvio, with stunts such as placing a crane inside her home. Dieckmann won the lawsuit and the TV station was ordered to pay her $35,000 in compensation. In 2008, Dieckmann played the role of Susana on the telenovela “3 Sisters of Antonio Calmon.” In this role, her character was emotionally fragile, yet powerful at the same time, with clear ethical values. In 2010, Carolina Dieckmann starred as journalism student Diana in the telenovela “Passions.” In 2011, she starred in the telenovela “Theodora Fina Estampa of Aguinaldo Woodland.” Then, in 2012, Carolina Dieckmann joined the cast of the series “Salve Jorge.”

Carolina Dieckmann-Personal Life

Carolina Dieckmann is the daughter of Alison and Roberto Dieckmann and has three brothers, Bernardo, Edgar and Frederico. In 1996 she met and became romantically involved with Mark Fleet, a single father of three children. Dieckmann helped raise Fleet’s children and married him in 1997. In 1999, Carolina and Mark had a son together named David, and then they divorced amicably in 2003. Carolina Dieckmann remarried on May 6, 2007 and had another son named Joseph, on August 14, 2007.

In 2012, topless photos of the actress were leaked on the internet and spread rapidly through email and social networking. Investigators were able to trace the original publication of the photographs back to a website in London. One theory was that the photographs were obtained by hacking into Dieckmann’s computer. The actress filed a formal grievance and her lawyer requested that the inappropriate images be removed from the internet. This request was honored by Yahoo!, but not by Google, where the pictures are still accessible. In Carolina Dieckmann’s statement to police regarding this matter, she claimed that these photographs were being used to blackmail her.

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