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Non-identical twin sister of Margarida Moreira.

She studied Psychology at the Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, in Lisbon, alongside with her identical twin sister Margarida Moreira.

Before filming "Sangue do Meu Sangue", the director João Canijo asked Anabela to spend a couple of weeks in Padre Cruz neighborhood, in Lisbon, but she decided to stay there for a longer period of time. Even during the movie shooting she kept living among the locals. Anabela revealed that this decision started to influence the way she was portraying her character. After a while she started to look and act in a rougher and tougher way.

Back in 2001, she attended an acting course at ACT - Escola de Atores for 18 months, in Lisbon, where she met director João Canijo. The day she finished the course, she started interning for a João Canijo film.

One day after João Canijo asked her to play the role of Lúcia in the film Mal Nascida (2007), she moved to Codeçoso, Minho (the village where the film was shot), even without having read the script. There, she spent one month hanging out with the family who lived on the movie set, and took care of farm animals.