Brazilian actress, television presenter and writer, a beautiful brunette who came to fame by playing romantic roles and specializing in soap operas. She grew up in Ubatuba, about 150 km from Sao Paulo.
The victim of personal tragedies, her father, an attorney, killed her mother in 1970 when Maitê was 12, went to trial and later committed suicide, in 1989. In 1979, Maitê Proença had a serious car accident. She underwent two surgical operations and was bedridden for almost a year.
Proença has written two books. The first, Entre ossos e a escrita, published in 2005, contains the best of her essays. The second, an autobiography, Uma Vida Inventada (“An Invented Life”, 2008) sold 100,000 copies in Brazil and was exported to Portugal. She has also written two plays one of which, As Meninas, won her several prizes. She has a column in the Brazilian magazine Época.
Maitê Proença was married 12 years to Paulo Marinho; their daughter Maria was born in October 1990. They separated in 1995. That year, she had a brief affair with cast member Victor Fasano. From 1996 to 2000 she lived with her boyfriend, Edgar Moura. From 2004 to 2007, she had a relationship with press officer Rodrigo Paiva. Later she briefly dated the Carioca entrepreneur Toninho Dias Leite and the Portuguese writer Miguel Sousa Tavares, as well as the businessman Alexandre Colombo, with whom she was with for two years, ending in 2011. In November 2021, Maitê announced she was in a relationship with another woman, singer-songwriter Adriana Calcanhotto.
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