Helena Ranaldi

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Ranaldi and the second or paternal family name is Nogueira.

Helena Ranaldi
Ranaldi in 2003
Born	Helena Ranaldi Nogueira (1966-05-24) 24 May 1966 São Paulo, Brazil
Occupations	Actress director
Years active	1989–present
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Children	1

Helena Ranaldi Nogueira (born 24 May 1966) is a Brazilian actress, stage director, and former model.

Biography

After doing some modeling jobs and television commercials, she was ranked among the five finalists of Supermodel of the World - Step Brazil, 1989, sponsored by Class Modelos and Ford Models the U.S.A. (the first of that year was with model Adriana de Oliveira). With the money she earned she took a course in theater acting. At age 23 she moved from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro.

In her first work, in 1990, she portrayed Stefânia in the soap opera A História de Ana Raio e Zé Trovão, although the former Rede Manchete. The following year, she acted in another soap opera on TV network, Amazônia, before moving to the rival Rede Globo.

In 1992, already hired by Rede Globo, she played Nina in Despedida de Solteiro. A year later, during the recording of the soap opera Olho no Olho, she met director Ricardo Waddington, whom she married; they had a son, Pedro.

In 1996, came to present the Fantástico alongside Pedro Bial, but the experience was short-lived because in July she received the invitation to act in the soap opera Anjo de Mim, directed by her husband, emerging as one of the central characters.

In 2000, inicou a result of great work with the author Manoel Carlos, which were: Laços de Família (2000), such as veteran turrona Cíntia; Presença de Anita (2001) as Lúcia, Nando writer's wife, played by José Mayer, who falls for this nymphet Anita, played by then newcomer Mel Lisboa, and Mulheres Apaixonadas (2003), such as Physical Education teacher Raquel, who becomes involved with a student of the college where she works, and also runs the ex-abusive husband, the author of several beatings by her.

In 2002 she was the protagonist of the novella Coração de Estudante, who lived in Clara and the young lawyer in 2004, participated in the miniseries Um Só Coração, as the Jewish Lídia, who lives an intense love and forbidden to Frederico.

In 2008, she portrayed a tormented Dedina, First Lady of Triunfo, the fictional town of A Favorita. Throughout the novel, her character ends up getting involved with the worker Damião (Malvino Salvador), best friend of her husband, mayor Elias.

In 2012 the actress played in the novel (Fina Estampa) Chiara Passarelli a cold woman, a model who left her husband Juan Guilherme (Carlos Casagrande) and son Fábio (Guilherme Leicam) and settled in Italy, but the character discovers that she has aneurysm and has a few days and then return to Brazil to spend "her Last Days" alongside her son and her ex-husband, but with the return of Chiara her ex-husband has her relationship with Letícia (Tania Khalill) shaken. In 2014, the novelist returns partnership with Manoel Carlos, this time living pianist Verônica in the novel Em Família.

In 2015, she participates in the series As Canalhas, from GNT, where she makes a teacher who engages with a student. In the same year she made a special and very funny participation in the CQC program, of Band, where she remembered the character Raquel, of Mulheres Apaizonadas, together with Dan Stulbach. Still in 2015, he dedicated himself to the theater making two plays (A Fantástica Fábrica de Bonecas and Amores Urbanos).

In 2016, Rede Globo reserved its name for the novel À Flor da Pele, provisional name of Glória Perez's A Força do Querer, but its participation in the plot was not carried out.

Personal life

The actress was married to Ricardo Waddington, a Globo TV soap opera and series director, with whom she lived for ten years and had a son, Pedro. The couple separated in January 2004. According to them, they get along really well and the reason for their separation, and consequent divorce, was a natural drifting away from one another.

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	A História de Ana Raio e Zé Trovão	Stefânia
1991	Amazônia	Andréa
1992	Despedida de Solteiro	Nina Salgado
1993	Caso Especial	Lucíola	Episode: "Lucíola"
	Você Decide	Ana	Episode: "A Sangue Frio"
	Olho no Olho	Malena Maia
1994	Você Decide	Raquel	Episode: "Copacabana"
	Quatro por Quatro	Mércia Arruda Franco / Suzana Sales
1995	Você Decide	Lídia	Episode: "Paixão Bandida"
	Explode Coração	Larissa
1996	Fantástico	Presenter
	Anjo de Mim	Joana
1998	Mulher	Marília	Special participation
1999	Andando nas Nuvens	Dra. Lídia Leblon
2000	Laços de Família	Cíntia Martins
2001	Presença de Anita	Lúcia Helena Reis
2002	Coração de Estudante	Clara Gouveia
2003	Mulheres Apaixonadas	Raquel de Almeida Trindade
2004	Um Só Coração	Lídia Rosemberg
	Senhora do Destino	Yara Steiner
2005	Carga Pesada	Vitória	Episode: "Vem Dançar"
2006	Páginas da Vida	Márcia Fragoso Martins de Andrade Pinheiro
2008	A Favorita	Dedina Barreto
2010	Malhação	Tereza Marins	Season 18
2012	Fina Estampa	Chiara Passarelli	Episodes: "January 3–March 12, 2012"
2014	Em Família	Verônica Saldanha dos Santos
2015	As Canalhas	Amanda	Episode: "Amanda"
2018	O Mecanismo	Eva Balesteri	Participation
	O Doutrinador	Júlia Machado
2019	Carcereiros	Leila	Season 2

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008	Bodas de Papel	Nina
2011	Tancredo: A Travessia	Alzira Vargas	Documentary
2018	Minha Mãe, Minha Filha	Isabel	Short film
	O Doutrinador	Júlia Machado

Theater

Year	Title	Notes
1989	Ensaios do Grupo Macunaíma: Macunaíma, Boca de Ouro e Nova Velha Estória	1989-1991
1994	Entre Amigos
1998	Os Sete Gatinhos
1999	Arthur Bispo do Rosário - A Via Sacra dos Contrários
2000	Bonitinha mas Ordinária
2007	Preciosas Ridículas
2009	A Música Segunda
2011	O Caso Valquíria
2014	Amor Perverso
2015	A Fantástica Casa de Bonecas
	Amores Urbanos
2016	A Paixão Segundo Nelson Rodrigues - Uma farsa musical
2017	Se Existe Eu Ainda Não Encontrei

External links

• Helena Ranaldi at IMDb