Reynaldo Gianecchini

Profile

Name: Reynaldo Cisoto Gianecchini Júnior
Nickname: Rey or Giane
Birthday: November 12, 1972
Place of birth: Birigüi (São Paulo)
Height: 1.86 meters
Weight: usually listed as 80 kilos
Size: 42 Shirt: P,M Foot: 40
Place of residence: He and Marília Gabriela have two apartmets, one in São Paulo and another in Rio de Janeiro

Family

He is descended from Italians on his father’s side.
Mother: Heloísa Helena, a retired History teacher
Father: Reynaldo (Sr.), a Chemistry professor
Sisters: Cláudia and Roberta

Early Days — Modeling:

- Reynaldo Gianecchini started acting the age of 6, on the stage of his school in Birigüi, São Paulo.
- He graduated with a degree in law from the Pontifica Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP) in 1997, but he has never practiced law.
- His dream of becoming an actor was delayed by his modeling career. He was a successful model for eight years. Two of those years he lived overseas, with a house in Paris, but all the while he was traveling to such cities as New York, London, Berlin, and Milan. He was unhappy, though, and decided to resume his pursuit of an acting career.
- In 2002, Giane was chosen to be the exclusive top model for Armani in Brazil, a position he apparently still holds to this date. (Maria Fernanda Candido, his co-star in Esperança, is the female equivalent for Armani).

Gabi and First Fame:

- While still modeling, he met and started dating journalist and television personality Marília Gabriela (”Gabi”) in July, 1998. His first brush of fame was as her boyfriend. Gossip hounds had fun with the fact that he’s 24 years younger than her and speculated that he was with her only to help advance his acting carrer.

- He returned to Brazil and entered the acting company of José Celso Martinez, director of the Teatro Oficina (Theater Workshop). Under Martinez’s direction, Giane acted in two plays, and “Cacilda” and “Boca de Ouro”.
- In 2001, he had his first significant regular role in the telenovela, Laços de Família. He played “Edu”, a doctor who became involvedwith a woman played by actress Vera Fischer — another woman many years older than him. This led to some further gossip, especially when Giane and Vera Fischer travelled to Japan to film some scenes for “Laços”.
- After the end of “Laços”, he appeared in a play, “O Príncipe de Copacabana,” directed by Gerald Thomas. Although Giane has admitted that working with Thomas was difficult, this role bought him some of his first serious notices as an actor.

More About Gabi

- She was born on May 31, 1948 in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
- She has two sons from a previous marriage: Theodoro Cochrane, an actor, and Christiano Cochrane, journalist and television personality. Christiano is the host of the TV program Contemporâneo.

Above, from left to right: Christiano Cochrane, actress Bruna Di Túlio, Reynaldo Gianecchini, Marília Gabriela, Theodoro Cochrane

- She’s a famous journalist and often referred to as Brazil’s version of Barbara Walters. She has her own talk show, “Marília Gabriela Entrevista”.
- She’s also done some acting — see her IMDB entry. She and Giane acted together in a play, A peça sobre o bebê, in April, 2003. She also can be seen in a bit part as a predatory lesbian in Giane’s film Avassaladoras.
- She has released a couple of CDs. In her latest, Perdida de Amor, released February 2003, Giane duets with her on one track, “Você”.
- Giane and Gabi’s relationship has survived all the gossip. In early 2003, rumors spread that they might finally marry sometime in May, 2003, but the rumors proved false, and Giane and Gabi are still unmarried.