Pedro Bial

Bial is also an accomplished writer and filmmaker. He has published a couple of books, including Roberto Marinho (the authorized biography of Roberto Marinho, founder of Rede Globo) Bial directed the documentary Outras Histórias (2000)^[6] and the feature film Jorge Mautner – O Filho do Holocausto (2012).^[7][8]

Bial comes from a family with diverse professional backgrounds. His father, Pedro Hans Bial, was a physician Jewish refugee converted to Catholicism who fled Nazi Germany in 1940,^[9] and his mother, Suzane Bial, was a German teacher born on 3 July 1924 in Berlin who immigrated to Brazil in 1934.^[10][11][12] Both of his parents were refugees.^[9][12] Clara Viebig, his great grandmother, belonged to the most read German-language authors of her time. His brother, Alberto Bial, is a basketball coach, and his sister, Irene Bial, is a psychotherapist.^[7]

He has been married multiple times. His first marriage was to journalist Renée Castelo Branco, with whom he had a daughter named Ana. He later married actress Fernanda Torres from 1982 to 1985. Bial then married actress Giulia Gam between 1998 and 1999. In 2017, Bial married his current wife, Maria Prata, a Brazilian journalist. The couple has two children together, Laura and Dora.^[7][13]