Diana Chaves

Diana Morais Ricardo Quintela Chaves (born Lisbon, July 11, 1981) is a Portuguese actress, model and TV presenter.

Diana Morais Ricardo Quintela Chaves was born on July 11, 1981, in Lisbon. She is one of the best-known and most beloved faces on Portuguese television, and one of the most active faces at SIC since 2008.^[1]

She grew up in Miraflores, in the municipality of Oeiras, near the swimming pools of Sport Algés Dafundo, where he began swimming in his childhood until he was 25 years old.^[2] Swimming was a sport practiced by the family, notably by her mother, Cristina Morais Rosado. Her older sister, Petra Chaves, was an Olympic athlete.^[3]

Diana began her acting career in 2006 in the TVI teen series, Morangos com Açúcar, playing the lead role of Susana Lopes.^[4] Prior to that, she had participated in the program 1.ª Companhia, for the same channel.^[5] She remained at TVI until 2008, joining the cast of fiction projects such as Ilha dos Amores.^[6] Casos da Vida e A Outra.^[7]

In 2008, she was hired by SIC, where she signed an exclusive contract. The actress's first job for the channel was in the soap opera Podia Acabar o Mundo that year.^[8][9]

She made her debut as a presenter in 2009 with Salve-se Quem Puder, which she presented alongside Marco Horácio on SIC.^[10]

In 2010, she starred in the top-rated telenovela, Laços de Sangue (SIC), which won the Emmy Award for Best Telenovela in 2011.^[11] In the following years she was part of several soap operas on the channel such as Sol de Inverno.,^[12] Coração d'Ouro,^[13] Espelho d'Água,^[14] Vidas Opostas^[15] and Golpe de Sorte.^[16]

Her film debut was in 2014, in the film Mau Mau Maria, directed by José Alberto Pinheiro.^[17]

In 2015, she presented the talent show Achas que Sabes Dançar?,^[18] on SIC, and in 2016, the program Smile, with João Paulo Sousa, also on SIC.^[19] Between 2017 and 2018, he teamed up again with João Paulo Sousa, this time on the program Não Há Crise!.^[20]

Frequently featured on the covers of iconic national magazines, she is invited to various fashion shows and photo shoots for national and international brands. Over the years she has been associated with several brands with which she identifies, showcasing her feminine side. This is the case with her successful perfumes created in partnership with Equivalenza: Lucky Me in 2016 (the brand's first perfume created with a public figure), and Lucky Me Black two years later.^[21]

In 2018, she was chosen by SIC to host the reality show Casados à Primeira Vista, which already has five seasons.^[22]

In 2019, he presented the social experiment O Carro do Amor.^[23]

In 2020, she presented the Sunday afternoon program on SIC, Domingão, with João Baião, Raquel Tavares, Débora Monteiro and João Paulo Sousa.^[24] In July of the same year, with Cristina Ferreira's departure from SIC to TVI, the presenter was called by Daniel Oliveira (SIC's Program Director) to present the channel's new morning program, Casa Feliz, alongside João Baião.^[25]

In 2023, Salve-se Quem Puder returns to the airwaves, fourteen years later, once again presented by Diana Chaves and Marco Horácio.^[26]

Diana Chaves is the daughter of Carlos Quintela Chaves and Cristina Morais Rosado, who died of cancer in 1992.^[27] She has an older sister, Petra Morais Rosado Quintela Chaves (born on February 2, 1978), who is married and the mother of Rodrigo Quintela Chaves Bastos, and a younger sister, Sara Morais Rosado Quintela Chaves (born on Lisbon, 1987).^[28]

Between 2001 and 2006, the actress and presenter dated the actor Rodrigo Menezes, who died in 2014 from an epileptic seizure.^[29]

She is dating the former footballer, currently a football coach, César Peixoto (ex-husband of the presenter Isabel Figueira, with whom he has a son, Rodrigo).^[30] Têm uma filha, a Pilar, nascida em fevereiro de 2012.^[31]

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