
Acting
May 2, 1977
Lima, Peru
Gianella Neyra
Acting
Biography
Gianella Karina Neyra Magagna (Lima, 1977) is a prominent Peruvian actress, presenter, and former model. After beginning her career in media and training at the prestigious Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York, she rose to fame starring in highly successful Peruvian telenovelas such as Malicia and Torbellino. Her charisma and versatility led her to establish a successful international career in countries like Argentina. In recent years, she has shone in Peruvian film and television with successful productions, notably her role in Al fondo hay sitio and box-office hits such as Soltera, Casada, Viuda, Divorciada and Amando a Amanda.
Feature Films (21)

Follows Machin's conflicted relationships with his girlfriend Emilia and with his best friend Culicich.
¡Asu Mare! 2

Victoria and Marita discover that they are half-sisters during their father's wake. Victoria is going through financial problems and decides to sell the beach house that her father left her because she is about to be repossessed. To do so, she must obtain permission from Marita, who she accepts as long as they spend the summer together.
Medias hermanas

After the death of her husband, Cecilia joins her childhood friends to embark on a trip to Pacasmayo that will put their friendship to the test.
Soltera, casada, viuda, divorciada

After exhausting all legal channels in his search for a job, "M" struggles with the decision of whether or not to enter a life of crime by helping his friends deliver drugs to Miami.
City of M

President Fujimori's government is on its way out, and the citizens of Peru are struggling to get by, often engaging in unscrupulous means to get ahead--or just to make a buck. Rafo is a struggling filmmaker who supports his girlfriend Laura. He encounters a Spanish con artist posing as an executive for a major phone company, the Spaniard draws Rafo into an elaborate scam.
Con Game

The last few months in the life of María Elena Moyano, who was killed at the age of 33 by the Peruvian revolutionary movement Sendero Luminoso.
Courage

Raised by a loving family of condors, little John John grows up thinking that he, too, is a condor, despite the fact that he looks nothing like his parents. Turns out, John John is no ordinary bird. In fact, he's really an honest-to-goodness dragon! After developing his fire-breathing powers, John John flies off on an adventure to find the dragon kingdom and his real family in this charming animated fantasy.
Dragons: Destiny of Fire

It is the legend of several stories. A journalist who hates a guy who's on TV, you have to interview him, then ends up making love to this again and again, in the end both are separated from love. Another story is that of an old man who teaches at a beautiful piano melody to a very young child, in turn this man sees everywhere a very beautiful girl who happens to be a past love, she is a ghost that embodies in the body of every woman he sees. The child learning piano has a grandfather who loves him and conceited enough, yet the mother of the child does not like to go out with Grandpa because the child very rare note. The last story is about a woman from planet you want San Antonio grant him the miracle that an altar boy to notice her and she later marries her.
Impossible Love

The film tells the story of four raw facing different situations of life: love, heartache and endless tragicomic adventures .
Crazy in Love

After she loses her mobile phone, a lawyer receives a call from the person who found it. They talk and hit it off very quickly. But she's in shock when she sees that he's very short.
El gran León

When she was 17 years old, Natalia married Don Matias following her parents desires. But it wasn't until Father Santiago arrived to this little town that Natalia felt in love for the very first time.
Polvo enamorado
Television & Series (9)

¿Quién es el Jefe? is an Argentine sitcom, the remake of the popular American sitcom Who's the Boss?. It premiered on April 18, 2005 at Telefe network, and had great success.
¿Quién es el Jefe?

Besame Tonto is a 2003 Spanish language television soap opera as a joint Peruvian and Venezuelan production that received high ratings in Latin American countries as well as Russia, Germany and the Philippines. In 2004, Univision aired the soap opera in the United States.
Bésame Tonto

Yago is a 28 year old tough and rude young man raised in the jungle of north Argentina by his father who taught him how to survive in such a wild environment. Although he can read and write, Yago has given up on being educated. Morena is a Peruvian girl in her 20's who has studied in New York and is financially independent. Unfortunately, she's not so lucky in terms of love since she's always picked the wrong man. Morena travels as a tourist to the Iguaçu Falls in the middle of the jungle where she meets Yago. They have a love affair but their relationship doesn't work out because of their marked social and personal differences. She then flies to Buenos Aires to search for her grandfather and in the meantime she gets a job at company called Sireno. At the same time, Yago learns that the man who raised him is not his actual father and that his real family name is Sireno. He travels to Buenos Aires intending to trace back his real family only to find Morena once again.





