Carmelita Hughes

Carmelita was born in a small town (Ituiutaba, MG) in Brazil, as the only child of Josepha Grace, a mixed-race Brazilian of Portuguese, Spanish and African descent, and Otavio de Souza who was an Indigenous Brazilian from the Amazon Tapayúna tribe who was adopted when he was an infant (Died in January 1st 2019). Her parents were married for three years before her mother & Carmelita fled, penniless, in the middle of the night because of her father's physical abuse. Settling into a new city and State (Brasilia, DF), Carmelita's mother set out to work hard to build a better future for both of them and often couldn't afford to pay babysitter, leaving her no choice but to leave Carmelita home alone. That's when Carmelita first started getting lost in the world of pretending. Growing up, Carmelita was shunned by her peers for not fitting in to any race (white or black) and was rarely accepted, which triggered her deep desire to be an actress in order to disappear into the life of different