Brazilian super model turned Bollywood actress Giselli Monterio features on the cover of popular Indian celebrity magazine Femina for the month of December 2009 second edition.
Monteiro was born in Espirito Santo, Brazil she came to Mumbai India in 2008.She started her modeling career at the age of seventeen and has travelled to Italy, Germany, France, Greece, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand and Philippines.She began her acting career in Bollywood, portraying the role of the old-fashioned Punjabi girl, Harleen Kaur, in Imtiaz Ali's Love Aaj Kal (2009).She was purposely kept under wraps during the film's promotion.Following the film's release, her identity was revealed, and it was also revealed that she had approached Ali through designer Anaita Shroff Adajania to audition for the role of Jo, Saif Ali Khan's Caucasian girlfriend in the second-half of the film, but, on his wife's suggestion Ali took her for Harleen's part, especially since he had not been able to cast for that role despite auditioning girls from all over India.