- Besides Portuguese, Isabel speaks fluent English and French and some German.
- Studied in Conservatório Nacional. Started the course at the age of 27.
- Became a professional theater actress in 1983.
- She's an actress, a writer and a theater director.
- Mother of actor/writer Pedro Cavaleiro (b. 1972), with first husband, an air force pilot named Pedro. Isabel and Pedro married when she was age 17.
- Has a grandson named Pedro (b. 2007) and a granddaughter named Carolina (b. February 2014), from her son's marriage to Cátia Ferreira.
- Her mother, Amália de Medina Barbosa, died at the age of 86 on April 2011. Her father died when Isabel was 12 in Angola. Her parents were cousins.
- Isabel grew up between Portugal and Angola.
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