Denise Del Vecchio

Born in the Mooca neighborhood of São Paulo, Denise comes from a lower middle-class family of Italian, Portuguese, and Syrian descent. She began her career at age 15, at the Arena Theater in São Paulo in the early 1970s. She attended Vida e Morte Severina starring Cacilda Becker in her last performance, in 1969. She studied Bertolt Brecht at the Auguste School, and soon afterwards decided to stage dialogues of the philosopher Plato with her philosophy class. Thereafter her interest in theater became fundamental. She studied with Emilio Fontana, in TBC, and after six months went to Teatro de Arena, where she became professional, interrupting its formation. She appeared in Memórias da Lua, by Tuna Dwek, of the Aplauso Collection, of the Official Press of the State of São Paulo, which was released in February 2008.