Denise Dumont(I)
- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Denise Dumont is considered the typical girl from Rio de Janeiro. Born
in the state of Ceará, Brazil, in a family of artists, she is the only
daughter of musician Humberto Teixeira
with pianist Margarida Polis Teixeira. Her father Humberto, known as
"Doctor Baião", died in 1979, was co-author of the famous popular song
"Asa Branca, and is considered one of the greatest Brazilian composers
ever, inventor of a new rhythm: the "Baião". Denise began her career in
the soap-opera O Semideus (1973),
in 1973, a Globo TV production. Considered in the end of 1970s one of
the most beautiful and talented actress of her generation, she posed
for Brazilian Playboy in 1980. Then, she was one of the biggest sex
symbols of Brazil. Her main success on television was soaps "Marrom
Glcé" (1979), Marina (1980), when she
played the title role, and "Voltei pra Vce" (1983). On the big screen,
she was the actress in leading roles in
Terror e Êxtase (1979),
Filhos e Amantes (1982) and
Rio Babilonia (1983). In 1985, she
began her international career. Appeared in
Hector Babenco's
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985).
In 1987, she was chosen by Woody Allen to
play a parody of the Brazilian bombshell, singer
Carmen Miranda, in
Radio Days (1987), singing "Tico-tico
no Fubá", a Miranda's great hit. Settled since the end of 1980s in New
York, Denise has two children: Diogo (27) with Brazilian actor
Claudio Marzo, and
Anna Bella Chapman-Smith (16), with British
writer Matthew Chapman,
great-grandson of Charles Darwin.
