At the age of 15 she moved to Lisbon with her mother, living with her godmother, the actress Emília Adelaide, who came from the same parish.

The director of the Teatro da Trindade, Francisco Palha, gave her a small role in a comedy that premiered on 30 October 1872.

[1][2][3][4] Rente married when she was 16 on 14 April 1874 to Eduardo Augusto Henriques Franco, a reporter for the Diário de Notícias newspaper.

[1][2][3][4] In 1900, Rente left the Ginásio and went to the Teatro da Rua dos Condes, where she stayed until 1902, performing comedy, drama and operetta.

She showed symptoms of melancholy, allegedly caused by the way she was treated by some professional colleagues on her return to D. Maria II.