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In the summer of 2009 Neill Blomkamp went from being the unknown South African director who almost got to direct Halo to a genuine phenomenon. His debut feature District 9 was an enormous hit that scored 4 Oscar nominations, of course, but it also felt like the future of sci-fi, a low-budget and ridiculously clever take on the alien invasion genre that proved you only need a smart script and a few great ideas to make sci-fi feel new again. Blomkamp has taken his time choosing his next project, but it doesn't seem unreasonable to hope he'll be revolutionizing the genre again with his next project, Elysium, which finally starts shooting this summer.

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Blomkamp has been assembling the cast for months now, with Jodie Foster set to play "a head of state on an alien planet", District 9 Sharlto Copley also playing a major role, and the likes of William Fichtner and Wagner Moura also rounding out the cast. Now Deadline reports that Alice Braga has also joined, though given the secretive nature of the story we of course don't know which role she'll play. Braga and Moura are both Brazilian-born actors, which has me wondering if that will play into the plot somehow, but it seems just as plausible that Blomkamp wants a diverse, international cast. Braga is no stranger to sci-fi, having starred in I Am Legend, Repo Men and Predators all since her breakthrough role in City of God, so even though we have no idea what to expect from Elysium, it seems likely Braga will be on comfortable terrain.

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Alice Braga is a Brazilian actress, who has only recently started acting in Hollywood with roles in I am Legend opposite Will Smith, Predator, and Repo Men opposite Jude Law and Forest Whitaker. She began acting at the age of 8 professionally, landing a role in a TV commercial for yogurt. She went onto to pursue her dream of acting in TV and movies and debuted in 1998 in a short film, called Trampolim.

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After going back to finish school, Braga’s big break came when she was cast as Angelica in the Brazilian hit, City of God, which was regarded with high acclaim by the international community. Alice Braga was nominated for her role as Best Supporting Actress by the Cinema Brazil Grand Prize. The film also received four Academy Award nominations.

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After taking a break from acting to attend University, Alice Braga took a role in a TV series, Carandiru, Outras Historias in 2005 and then also landed a part that would see her receive five Best Actress accolades, that of Karina in Lower City. 2006 saw the beginning of her career in American main stream films, making her English debut in Journey to the End of Night starring opposite Mos Def and Brendan Fraser. That year, she also acted in another South American hit film, God Only Knows, and Drained, for which she received another Best Supporting Actress nomination at the Cinema Brazil Grand Prize.

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In 2007 after acting in two South American movies, The Milky Way and Rummikub, she landed the part that would sky rocket her career in Hollywood, that of Anna in I Am Legend, opposite Will Smith. In 2008 she did Redbelt, and then another hit Hollywood movie with Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo, Blindness. In this post apocalyptic movie she plays a woman who has gone blind and was nominated for two Best Supporting Actress awards for her portrayal.

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In 2009’s Crossing Over, Alice Braga played an illegal immigrant in the United States, in an interwoven story about the struggle to attain legal status in Los Angeles. The independent film was written, directed and produced by an immigrant from South Africa, Wayne Kramer, and starred Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, and Ashley Judd. Braga then went back home to Brazil to star in Cabeca a Premio alongside her mother, Ana Braga.

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Alice Braga then landed a lead role in another post apocalyptic film, called Repo Men with Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, and Liev Schreiber in 2010 after which she starred in Predators, the 5th film in the franchise following Predator 1 and 2, and its cross over movies, Alien vs .Predator, and the 4th movie, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. The film also stars Adrian Brody, Topher Grace, and Laurence Fishburne

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In 2011 she acted in The Rite with Anthony Hopkins, based on The Rite: The Making of the Modern Exorcist, a book by Matt Baglio, and On the Road starring Sam Riley, Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams, Viggo Mortensen, and Garret Hedlund.