She holds a degree in psychology from PUC and has authored various texts about Frans Post and 19th-century photographers.
[7][8][9] In 2009, together with her husband, Pedro Corrêa do Lago, she won the highest award in Brazil for an art book – the Prêmio Jabuti – for Coleção Princesa Isabel - Fotografia do Século XIX.
[10] Names interviewed on her television program include Mario Vargas Llosa, Oscar Niemeyer, José Saramago, Rachel de Queiroz, Ferreira Gullar, Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Salman Rushdie, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Millôr Fernandes and Gilberto Gil.
In 2012 she published Umas Palavras - 15 entrevistas memoráveis, with compilations of interviews selected from the first ten years of her show.
[11] A television screenwriter, she co-authored the telenovela Tempo de Amar on TV Globo (Sept. 2017 – March 2018).