[4][5][6] She was born in a maternity hospital in the Laranjeiras neighborhood and lived until the age of two in Nova Iguaçu, in the Baixada Fluminense.

[11][12][13] She began her theatrical career in Copacabana, in a play based on Arthur Miller's The Crucible, directed by João Bethencourt [pt] and performing with actors such as Eva Vilma, Rodolfo Mayer and Mário Lago.

[17] In the same year, his brother, Stuart Angel [pt], an economics student at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and member of the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) and the 8th October Revolutionary Movement (MR8), was kidnapped by the Brazilian military dictatorship, becoming one of the most notorious cases of repression.

[18][19] The following year, she played Beatriz in the TV Globo soap opera Selva de Pedra in 1972, written by Janete Clair.

[42] She opposed Dilma Rousseff's impeachment and declared his vote for PT candidates Fernando Haddad in 2018 and Lula in 2022 for president.

[51] In 1993, she founded the Zuzu Angel Institute, in the Usina neighborhood, a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion and training of fashion in Rio de Janeiro, with the main aim of remembering her brother and mother's fight for culture and against the dictatorship.

[57][58] In soccer, she supports Flamengo, but remains critical of recent episodes at the club, such as the fire in the athletes' accommodation and the approach of the board of directors to Jair Bolsonaro.