Helena Ranaldi

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 Model Agency in the U.S. 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. The following year, she acted in another soap opera on television, Amazônia, before moving to Rede Globo.

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

In 1996, Ranaldi starred in Fantástico alongside Pedro Bial, but the role was short-lived because in July of that year, she began appearing as a central character on the soap opera Anjo de Mim, which was directed by Ricardo Waddington.

As a result of her work with author Manoel Carlos, Ranaldi appeared in: Laços de Família (2000); Presença de Anita (2001); and Mulheres Apaixonadas (2003). In 2002, she portrayed the protagonist in the telenovela Coração de Estudante, and played in the miniseries Um Só Coração in 2004.

In 2008, Ranaldi appeared in A Favorita alongside Malvino Salvador. She starred in the telenovela Fina Estampa, with Carlos Casagrande, Guilherme Leicam and Tania Khalill in 2012,^[2] and in 2014, appeared in Em Família.^[3]

In 2015, Ranaldi acted in the series As Canalhas, from GNT, and in the CQC comedy Band, with Dan Stulbach.

The actress was married to Ricardo Waddington, a Global TV soap opera and series director, for 10 years and had a son, Pedro.^[4] The couple separated in January 2004.^[4]