Margarida Matias Ferreira Corceiro, or “Magui,” has wowed audiences all over the world with her charm on screen, grace on the runway, and tech-savvy. This 22-year-old Portuguese star was born on October 26, 2002, in the historic city of Santarém, Portugal. She has quickly gone from local telenovela roles to international fame as an actress, model, and social media influencer. Corceiro is the modern, multifaceted celebrity. She has worked in television dramas, fashion campaigns, and high-profile relationships. As of 2025, her star continues to shine brighter, thanks to new projects and a huge online following.
Family and Early Life
Margarida Corceiro was born into a loving family in Santarém, a beautiful area in Portugal’s Oeste e Vale do Tejo district. Rita Ferreira and Paulo Corceiro, her parents, are both well-respected doctors. They gave her a stable and loving home that encouraged her to be creative from a young age. Beatriz is Corceiro’s younger sister, and the family is very close, which she often talks about on social media. As a child, she was very active and loved sports, dancing, and the performing arts. Her father was a big fan of photography and took pictures of her as a child. This helped her get used to being in front of cameras, which would be very useful in her future career.
Some details about her formal education are still private, but after finishing high school, Corceiro moved to Lisbon to fully experience the city’s lively cultural and entertainment scene. This move marked the start of her career, during which she balanced her studies with new modeling and acting opportunities. In an interview with Portuguese Soul Magazine in 2021, she said that her parents were her biggest role models and that they pushed her to work hard and be creative.
Getting into modeling and becoming an influencer
When Corceiro was only 12 years old, the well-known Central Models agency in Portugal found her and offered her a job. A friend of the family introduced them, and her natural grace and photogenic look quickly got her representation. By 2018, she was posting modeling pictures on Instagram and gaining followers because of her fresh-faced beauty and ability to change her look. Her account, @magui_corceiro, has more than 2 million followers today. She posts a mix of fashion shoots, travel stories, and behind-the-scenes looks at her life.
As a model, she has worked with big brands like Adidas, Bershka, Garnier Portugal, Maybelline, Armani Beauty, Intimissimi, Alo Yoga, and Kérastase. She is now a brand ambassador for brands like Kate Moss and Emily Ratajkowski. She helped start the eco-friendly swimwear line Missus and often starred in its yacht-shot ads along the Amalfi Coast. Forbes Portugal named her the most influential public figure on Instagram in the country in 2023. This shows how well she can combine being real with being appealing to businesses. In a Vanity Teen interview, Corceiro talked about how modeling is more immediate than acting, saying that it lets her “transform into different characters without much preparation.”
Her online presence goes beyond just promoting herself; she uses her platform to speak out for recycling, sustainability, and protecting the ocean, which shows her hopes for a better world after the pandemic.
Acting Career: From First Telenovela to Projects Around the World
Corceiro’s big break as an actress came when she was 16 years old and starred as Carolina Atalaia in the TVI show Prisioneira in 2019. This part got her into scripted drama and made her love acting even more. She called it a “transformative experience” that taught her how to analyze scripts and develop characters.
In 2020, she had a great year. She competed in the fifth season of Portugal’s Dancing with the Stars with partner André Madeira, showing off her dance skills and winning over the public. In the same year, she played Constança Cunha Trindade de Sousa in the telenovela Bem me Quer and then Rita Vieira Menezes de Sousa in Quero É Viver (2022). She became even more famous among younger people when she played Gabriela “Gabi” Caiado in the famous youth series Morangos com Açúcar (2023–2024).
Corceiro played Eva in TVI’s A Fazenda, which premiered on November 25, 2024, and quickly became a hit. In 2025, she will make her streaming platform debut as Zoe in the Amazon Prime Video series Punto Nemo (also spelled Ponto Nemo). This will be her first role outside of the US. She wants to take on more difficult roles, like villains, to test her limits, and she dreams of working on international productions.
She hasn’t won any major awards yet, but her regular roles in popular Portuguese shows have made her a household name.
My personal life and relationships with famous people
Corceiro’s personal life has often been in the news, especially her relationships with athletes. From 2019 to 2023, she was in a high-profile relationship with Portuguese footballer João Félix. They shared goals and grew together during a time of change. In 2023, the couple said they were breaking up on good terms and stressed that they would always be friends.
After their breakup, people said she was dating British Formula 1 driver Lando Norris. They were first seen together in Monaco in early 2023, and their on-again, off-again relationship reached its peak in 2025. They broke up for a short time in August 2024, but got back together. Corceiro was seen cheering on Norris at the Monaco Grand Prix in May 2025 and the Hungarian Grand Prix in August, where she wore a McLaren hoodie to celebrate his win. The two have been seen together in the paddock, which has put her in the same league as other glamorous F1 figures like Francisca Gomes and Alexandra Saint Mleux.
Corceiro loves animals and has a pet dog. She thinks spending time with her family is the best therapy. She talks openly about how she has built “defense mechanisms” against online criticism, including paparazzi invasions from when she was a teenager. She doesn’t talk about her kids, and she stays focused on her career while traveling to places like Playa Maroma in Mexico and Madrid, Spain.
Things that have happened recently and what might happen in the future
Corceiro is doing well as of August 2025. She recently posted on social media about her summer highlights, including a stunning appearance in Venice that turned heads with her impactante visual. In a touching post, she said she loved someone special and wrote “Celebrar-te é celebrar doçura” (Celebrating you is celebrating sweetness). Her Vogue Portugal cover for April 2025 showed off her fashion skills in stylish outfits.
She uses her power for good and supports environmental causes with her money. Corceiro’s future looks bright because she has a net worth of $1.5 million from acting, modeling, and endorsements. She wants to do more things around the world, like get into acting and fashion. She told Portuguese Soul that her biggest hope is to “keep doing what I love and being close to the people who matter most to me.”
Margarida Corceiro’s rise from a girl in Santarém to a global influencer shows how strong and talented she is. At only 22, she’s already inspiring a whole generation with her positive attitude, her work to promote diversity, and her unapologetic pursuit of her passions. Corceiro is ready to lead Portugal’s entertainment industry as it changes.
