Trivia

She was also a TV presenter and is also a writer and children's author.

In 1984 she represented Portugal in a European Parlament show.

She participated in several activist movements. Ana and some Portugues celebrities united to record and album. All the money that they did was send to children of Timor.

In 1968 she gave up college to go studied theater in Conservatório Nacional.

Her theater debut was the play "Cautela Libertino".

She worked in Companhia de Teatro Nacional Popular.

She was a television host for RTP (Portuguese Radiotelevision). She did interviews, presented contests, the news and songs festivals. In 1995 (after 25 hosting Tv shows)she gave up being a Tv host and started to dedicated to her acting career.

She gave her voice to several documentaries.

In 1980 she won the Troféu Nova Gente.

In 1986 she won the Sete d' Ouro for Best Cinema Actress.

In 1986 she won the Troféu Nova Gente for Best Cinema Actress.

Daughter of João Vítor de Andrade de Olival (b. Santa Luzia, Funchal, 1916, d. 9 May 1987) and wife (m. 1949) Maria de Lourdes Ferreira Horta Zanatti (b. São Sebastião da Pedreira, Lisbon, 1920, d. 2000), whose father had Italian ancestry.