The actor Reynaldo Gianecchini He is one of the most renowned artists on television, cinema and theater in Brazil. With a surname typical of the region of ToscanaHe is yet another successful Italian-Brazilian in the country.
Reynaldo Fernandes Cisotto Gianecchini Júnior was born in Birigui, in the interior of the state of São Paulo, on November 12, 1972. Son of Reynaldo Cisotto Gianecchini and Heloisa Gianecchini, began her career as a model in 1991 and participated in fashion shows until 1998.
He graduated in Law from PUC of São Paulo in 1997, but he did not take the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) exam and did not practice his profession.
Reynaldo Gianecchini debuts in theater
His debut as an actor was at the hands of the renowned director José Celso Martinez Corrêa, who directed him in the shows Cacilda (1998) and Boca de Ouro (1999).
In 2001, Reynaldo Gianecchini worked with another renowned theater director, Gerald thomas, who directed him in the play The Prince of Copacabana.
At that time, the actor had already acted in his first soap opera, Laços de Família, which aired on TV Globo in 2000. He lived the character Eduardo, young recently graduated doctor who gets involved in a love triangle with Helena (Vera Fischer) and Camila (Carolina Dieckmann), mother and daughter.
Criticism and comeback
He then participated in the soap opera As Filhas da Mãe, as Ricardo, a man who discovers a passion for work friend Dagmar (Cláudia Gimenez), who later finds out that she was actually a woman.
This beginning on television was marked by many criticism of your work as an actor. Over time, Reynaldo Gianecchini studied and gained experience and thus began to have more consistent performances.
In 2002, she starred in the soap opera Esperança, alongside Priscila Fantin and Ana Paula Arósio, and received the Master Award for Best Actor for work. At the same time, he participated in the movie Overwhelming, in the role of Don Juan Thiago.
More soap operas and more awards
In 2003, he made a special appearance in the last chapter of the soap opera Mulheres Apaixonadas. The following year, she starred in the soap opera The color of sin, playing the twins Paco and Apolo. The work was very successful and Gianecchini received the Contigo Award for Best Actor.
In 2005, the actor experienced the best moment of his career so far, when he played the clumsy mechanic Paschoal, from Wonderful, showing versatility and a comedic streak that had never been seen before.
Film roles
In the following years, he starred in the play Vossa Excelência, o Candidato (2006) and the soap opera Sete Pecados (2007), alongside actresses Priscila Fantin and Giovanna Antonelli. In the same year, he played in the cinema the character played on television by Tony Ramos, Jorge from the film cousin basilio.
In the cinema, the protagonist of the film also lived Between Lençóis, alongside Paolla Oliveira. In the feature film, he plays the character Roberto, who meets a woman on the eve of his marriage and tries to convince her not to get married.
Reynaldo Gianecchini on the small screen
Between 2010 and 2011 he was in the cast of the soap opera Passione, on TV Globo, playing the villain Frederico. This was one of the most important roles in the actor's career, as he played a romantic partner at the beginning of the plot with the character Clara, played by Mariana Ximenes.
In 2012, he returned to soap operas in Guerra dos Sexos, his fourth work with Silvio de Abreu. Gianecchini played Nando, a naive driver who gained great prominence throughout the plot.
In 2014, he played the cook Cadu in the soap opera Em Família, by Manoel Carlos. In the plot, he lived his fourth romantic couple with Giovanna Antonelli, who played Clara, a wife who abandoned her husband to live in a relationship with another woman.
Villain in the soap opera
In 2015, Reynaldo Gianecchini played the villain Anthony in Secret Truths. The following year, he was the protagonist Pedro Guedes Leitão in the soap opera A Lei do Amor.
In 2019, he starred alongside Juliana Paes, Agatha Moreira and Marcos palmeira, the soap opera The owner of the piece, as playboy Régis.
In 2022, Reynaldo Gianecchini had a highly praised performance in the series Good morning, Veronica, in which the villain Mathias lives, a religious leader who uses women's faith to commit sexual abuse.
Reynaldo Gianecchini's personal life
Reynaldo Gianecchini was married to journalist, actress and presenter Marilia Gabriela. The two met in 1998 and five months later they were living together. THE relationship has always been preserved by both in interviews. The age difference between them – she is 24 years older – was the target of many nasty comments. They ended their relationship in 2006.
Reynaldo Gianecchini had brief romances with actress Christiane Alves and promoter Eloísa Alencar. Recently, the actor declared that he had a fluid sexuality, having had romances with women and men.
Father's death and illness
The actor's father, Reynaldo Cisotto Gianecchini, died in October 2011, a victim of cancer of the digestive system. In the same year, Reynaldo Gianecchini discovered that he had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, type angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma.
That year, at age 38, he underwent a chemotherapy session No. Syrian-Lebanese Hospital, in São Paulo, for treatment of the disease.
His life was reported by journalist Guilherme Fiuza in the biography Giane — Life, art and struggleOf 2012.
Last Name
Reynaldo Gianecchini's surname was “portuguesado” in Brazilian registry offices, since the original Italian is written Giannecchini, with an extra “n”.
According to the website Cognomix, this surname is derived by dialect changes from the name Giovanni.
The surname Giannechinni is Tuscan, typical of the province of Lucca. There are approximately 566 families with this surname in Italy, with the regions with the greatest predominance being Tuscany (529), Liguria (11) and Lombardia (6)
The Giannecchini surname is 405th in popularity in the Tuscany region, 16th in the province of Lucca and the most popular in the city of Pescaglia, located in the province of Lucca.
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