Background
Carissa is the daughter of Ris Isa Soelaiman and Lilly S.P., an Indonesian actress.
Carissa is the daughter of Ris Isa Soelaiman and Lilly S.P., an Indonesian actress.
Carissa attended Pelita Harapan University in Indonesia majoring in Faculty of Social and Political Science.
Carissa is of Malay-Indonesian-German-Dutch descent. Carissa started her career as a model and played supporting roles in some of Indonesian soap operas before landing her breakout role in a successful romantic religious movie "Ayat-Ayat Cinta" (aka Verses of Love) in 2008, based on a best-selling novel with the same title written by Habiburrahman El Shirazy, where she played a leading role as Maria Girgis. On the same year she played on another success comedy movie "The Tarix Jabrix".
She also had appeared in many Indonesian drama series including "Satu Bunga Empat Kumbang", "", "Aqso dan Madina", "", "Anggun", "Rafika", "", "Mertua dan Menantu", and "I Love You Boss" along with Indonesian presenter and actor, Daniel Mananta.