Elena Ranaldi is a Brazilian actress known to all lovers of Latin American soap operas. She starred in such series as "Family Ties", "Mistress of Fate", where she played strong, confident women. She is already over fifty, but she still looks delightful, battling on the spot partners on the set.
Hard choise
The biography of Elena Ranaldi begins its counting back in 1966, when a second daughter was born in the family of Marcello Di Oliveira Nogueira and his wife. The future TV star grew up in a cheerful noisy environment, sharing the apartment with four sisters.
Elena’s childhood passed in Sao Paulo. She was a bright, spectacular girl and from an early age dreamed of a career as a model or actress. However, Marcello di Oliveira accustomed her to work while she was still at school, and during the holidays, thirteen-year-old Elena Ranaldi worked conscientiously in her father’s marketing company.
For a long time, the girl could not make the final choice in favor of a certain profession, but after school she nevertheless gave her documents for admission to the physical education department of the University of Sao Paulo.
Who knows, everything would have been different, in Brazil one of the most beautiful physical education teachers would have appeared, but everything turned out differently.
Carier start
By the middle of the course, Helena Ranaldi began to feel less and less attracted to her chosen specialty. At the same time, a beautiful student is increasingly moonlighting as a model, thinking more and more about a career as a movie star. Feeling a shortage of special dramatic education, the native of Sao Paulo enters courses for Antunes Filo, where she diligently masters the basics of acting.
The first job for the aspiring actress was the local theater in Sao Paulo, where Elena Ranaldi got used to the stage and enthusiastic Latin American audiences. In parallel, she tried to break into television, passing countless auditions and auditions.
The first work in the filmography of Elena Ranaldi was the short story “The Story of Ana Rayo and The Trovau”. Here the debutant appeared to the audience in the image of a "child of nature." The actress still with emotion recalls the first frames of the film, where she appeared on the screen in tattered clothes and with dirty hair.
The series went on the channel "Machete", now sunk into oblivion, and did not become the most rated television project. However, a young, talented girl was noted by all television producers, and job offers began to come to Elena Ranaldi more and more often.
Actress and Director
Despite the fact that a native of Sao Paulo never sat without work and regularly appeared on television, she had to go to her main role for several years. During this time, she took part in work on such short stories as Amazonia, Despedida de Solteiro, where she played the roles of secondary heroines.
In 1993, Elena Ranaldi became the actress of the novel “I Look Directly in the Eye, ” directed by Ricardo Waddington. This meeting became crucial for both of them. The charismatic director struck the unexperienced, naive Elena right in the heart.
According to the girl, at first he did not pay any attention to her, but the long siege of the impregnable Ricardo bore fruit, and soon he could not imagine his life without a beautiful woman.
The close union of the actress and the director ended naturally, they got married, and soon the young wife decided to take a break in her career for the birth of a child. In 1996, she became the happy mother of little Pedro.
On the first roles
In 1996, Elena Ranaldi returned to work on television with renewed vigor. In the project of her husband, “My Angel”, she got the main role, which she dreamed about for many years. In 2000, the actress appeared in the series "Family Ties", which was very popular in the CIS in the 2000s.
The short story of the screenwriter Manuel Carlos was also a success at home, becoming one of the most rated projects on Brazilian television.
Here Elena Ranaldi played the role of the beautiful veterinarian Cynthia, who was lucky enough to be surrounded by men, each of whom loved her. A kind of love polygon was made up of: a sports instructor Romeu, friend Alex, as well as the owner of the hacienda Pedro, who had not been interrupted by solid years to seek reciprocity from Cynthia.
Family Tests
According to the plot of the novel, the heroine of Elena Ranaldi was supposed to be able to ride, skillfully handle animals. The actress did not specifically take riding lessons, hoping for childhood memories of the weekend spent in a family suburban residence. According to the girl, it was not easy for her in the first days of filming, but she gradually got used to it and began to stay in the saddle with the skill of a real cavalryman.
Particular difficulties caused shooting love scenes. According to the script of Manuel Carlos, Cynthia and Pedro had rather hot meetings, and each frank scene was shot under the strict supervision of Elena Ranaldi's husband, who made sure that the actor did not go beyond the limits of what was permitted and did not confuse the off-screen world with reality.
Years of maturity
By the 2000s, the native of Sao Paulo gained the status of a real television superstar and regularly participated in all the series of the Globo channel. Films of Elena Ranaldi are successful largely due to her appearance on the screens.
In 2001, she got the role of Lucia in the short story "The presence of Anita." The heroine of Helena embodied the image of the wife of an aging writer, to whom the young nymphete was dizzy.
In 2002, the series with the bright title "Student's Heart" was released on the screens of Brazil. Elena Ranaldi appeared before the fans in the guise of a harsh but fair woman lawyer. According to the actress, in preparation for work, she spent many hours talking with legal professionals in order to better understand the inner world of her heroine.
Helen and her years of study at the physical education department of the University of Sao Paulo came in handy. In the novel by the screenwriter Manuel Carlos “Women in Love”, she played the role of physical education teacher Raquel, who was involved in an affair with her student. The sophisticated screenwriter seemed few of these problems, the unfortunate heroine is also subjected to constant attacks from her former sadistic husband.
Many domestic viewers remember the series “Mistress of Fate”, in which Elena Ranaldi also participated. Here she got the image of the harsh business woman Yara Stein.
Also among the works of Elena it is worth noting the intriguing short story "Exquisite Engraving", which was released in 2012.
Different facets of Elena's talent
Several times in her life, Ranaldi tried to go beyond the image of the soap opera actress. In 1996, she took part in the work on the Fantastico television magazine with Pedro Bial. According to the girl, she became the lead to finally overcome the fear of public speaking, because as a journalist Elena had to present herself to the audience in her natural way, without playing the learned roles.
The leadership of Globo appreciated the work of the actress, from the journalism department she even received a proposal for continued cooperation. However, there was little disagreement about Elena's job responsibilities. Ranaldi agreed only on the leading role, not wanting to burden herself with the content and program plan. She was afraid that a deep immersion in television journalism would interfere with her career as an actress.
