Award-winning film and theater actress, performer, singer and dancer, Isabél Zuaa was born in Lisbon. Her mother is from Angola and her father from Guiné-Bissau. When she was 5, she joined African dance group Prata Luar and was part of it until her adolescence. In 2006, she studied acting at Chapitô Art School with Ginna Tochetto. In 2007, she studied Theater and Cinema at the Portuguese National Conservatory in Lisbon. She then moved to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to study Performing Arts at Unirio