Zahy Tentehar, an indigenous woman and multi-artist.
Aged 33, she is from the Tentehar-Guajajara people and was born in the Aldeia Colônia, Cana Brava Indigenous Reserve in Maranhão. At the age of 9, she began to live between cities and villages. At the age of 19, in 2010, she left her land for the first time to live in Rio de Janeiro, where she lived in the urban indigenous occupation Aldeia Maracanã. In 2013, she had her first experience as an actress, in the short film ‘’ZAHY, a fable about Aldeia Maracanã’’, created in partnership with Felipe Bragança. Since then, she has developed as an artist, speaker and creator of indigenous performance art. She believes that art has the power to communicate and transform, which is why she uses it to express herself to defend indigenous and environmental causes. Zahy's first language is Ze'eng Eté (a dialect of the Tupi-Guarani family) and Portuguese is her second language. She is currently also dedicating herself to English. From 2013 to 2020, her main work as an actress was in the series ''Dois Irmãos'', on TV Globo, directed by Luiz Fernando Carvalho - 2015 and one of the protagonists of the series Cidade Invisível on Netflix. In the cinema, she made her debut in the feature film ''Não Devore meu coração'', directed by Felipe Bragança - 2017. And in the theater, with the company Barca dos Corações Partidos, where she acted in the show ''Macunaíma Uma Rapsódia musical'', directed by Bia Lessa - 2018-2019 and in the production of O Guarani with artistic supervision by Ailton Krenak. In 2024, she presented the Special Falas da Terra on TV Globo and is part of the cast of the soap opera No Rancho Fundo.
She won the Shell Award for Best Actress in 2024 for her work in the solo Azira"i".