Dalila Bela

05/06/2012 – Bela – 33rd Annual Young Artist Awards – The Sportsmen’s Lodge Hotel – Studio City, CA, USA – Photo Credit: Joshua Tousey / PR Photos

Place of Birth: Montréal, Québec, Canada

Date of Birth: October 5, 2001

Ethnicity: Panamanian, Brazilian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Catalan, English, Jewish, Indigenous, African

Dalila Bela is a Canadian actress. Her roles include the shows R. L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour: The Series, Odd Squad, Ready Jet Go!, and Anne with an E; the films Red Riding Hood, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, and its sequel, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days; Grave Encounters 2, That Burning Feeling, Odd Squad: The Movie, and The Adventure Club; and the made-for-tv movies A Fairly Odd Christmas and It’s Christmas, Carol!

Her father is Panamanian. Her mother is Brazilian. She is the sister of actors Bruce Solomon and Raphael Alejandro.

Dalila’s maternal grandfather was José Alberto Loyola (the son of Eugênio Luís Loyola and Maria Carolina Carmela Bordallo). José was born in Minas Gerais, with Spanish, Portuguese, and some Indigenous and African, ancestry. Eugênio was the son of Caetano Eustácio Loyola and Adelina Maria Rabelo/Rebelo. Dalila’s great-grandmother Maria was the daughter of Fernando Eduardo Rosello Bordallo and Carmelita Rosa Costa.

Dalila’s maternal grandmother was Elisa Maria Durant (the daughter of Éloi René Durant and Cecilia de Jesus). Éloi was born in Nice, France, the son of Fabien Durant and Clarisse de La Motte. Cecilia was born in Salvador, Bahia, the daughter of Amadeus Felipe de Jesus and Teresa Berenguela Ruíz, who herself had been born in Recife, Pernambuco.