Renata Dominguez

Dominguez spent her childhood in Goiás, where she studied at a convent school, before moving to Ecuador at the age of 13 with her family.

Dominguez's career on television is divided into two stages: as a television presenter in Ecuador, from 1993 to 1999, and as an actress in Brazil, from 2000 onwards. At the age of 13, she began her career in Ecuador, when her father was transferred to the country for work. She was taking a dance class when she was called to audition for a children's and youth program on a local station. However, the audition for the program's group of dancers turned into a position as presenter.^[1] She hosted game shows, children's shows, intercollegiate shows, variety shows, live and recorded, daily and weekly, recorded some songs and toured the country. In total, she made six shows on three different channels (Ecuavisa, Teleamazonas and SiTv), was a UNICEF ambassador in Ecuador and the official representative of The Walt Disney Company in the country. The fact that she was Brazilian was credited with boosting her career in a country marked by the rivalry between its main regions (the coastal Guayaquil and the mountainous Quito). Being a foreigner, the she was free from any regional prejudice and was accepted nationwide.^[2]

Back in Brazil, she joined the theater group Tablado and was cast in the play Jonas e a Baleia, a biblical spectacle of Maria Clara Machado. Afterwards she did the show Navalha na Carne, where she played Neusa. She auditioned for the Spanish-language Vale todo in 2001, and ended up being cast in Malhação, staying on the air for years. Due to the latter's success, she was signed by Rede Record, where he participated in soap operas A Escrava Isaura, Prova de Amor  [pt], Bicho do Mato  [pt], Amor e Intrigas  [pt], Promessas de Amor  [pt], and the miniseries Rei Davi. In 2014, she made her film debut, playing Valentina, in the film Vestido pra Casar  [pt].^[3] In 2016, she took part in Malhação: Seu Lugar no Mundo, playing the character Suzana. Then, she played the character Sirlene, in the soap opera Sol Nascente.

In 2021, she made her return to TV where she was confirmed for the talent show Bake Off Celebridades, where she was runner-up. On April of the same year, she was confirmed together with her husband Leandro Gléria for the fifth season of the reality show Power Couple Brasil in Record.^[4] They were the ninth couple eliminated from the program with 28.73% of the votes tagainst Li Martins & JP Mantovani and Matheus Yurley & Mari Matarazzo, finishing in 5th place in the competition.^[5]

In 2003, she began dating director Edson Spinello, the director of Malhação, dating for almost ten years before marrying on January 31, 2013.^[6] After twelve years of relationship, the couple divorced in 2015.^[7] In 2019, she began a relationship with public relations professional Leandro Gléria, whom she married on March 20, 2021.^[8]

On July 21, 2022, she publicly announced on her social media that she was expecting her first child with her husband Leandro Gléria.^[9]