Mayra Dias Gomes
Novelist
Brazilian author, reporter and media personality who is also the daughter of award-winning author and screenwriter, Dias Gomes. Her published works include One Thousand and One Nights of Silence and Dias Gomes (a 2002 collection of interviews given by her their father).
She wrote her debut novel, Fugalaça, when she was just 16 years old and it was published when she was 19. Later, she began working as a music writer for a prominent Brazilian newspaper.
She wrote for Teen Vogue, Rolling Stone, and VH1 Brazil. She began playing the role of May Valentine on the wrestling web and TV series NWA Powerrr.
Her father, Dias Gomes, wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for O Pagador de Promessas. In 2010, she married Coyote Shivers, an actor and musician. She was born in Rio de Janeiro and moved to Hollywood, California when she was 21 years old.
Mila Kunis and Mayra Gomes both attended the annual Marine Corps Ball in 2011.