[4] Nominated for the Shell Award for Best Actor, Paulo Gustavo graduated from the Casa das Artes de Laranjeiras (CAL) in early 2005,[5] together with Fábio Porchat, Marcus Majella, among others.

During this period he also began to make small appearances on TV, such as in the telenovela Prova de Amor, by RecordTV, and in the series A Diarista, by Globo.

Built through her domestic and experiential observations, it brings together the most comical aspects of the personality of a typical middle-aged housewife, always on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

[15] In 2018, he recorded the DVD of the play Minha Mãe é uma Peça in the Concha Acustica at Teatro Castro Alves in the city of Salvador.

[16] Born and raised in a middle-class family in the city of Niterói, in Greater Rio de Janeiro, Gustavo studied at the traditional Colégio Salesiano during elementary school.

[17] On 13 October 2017, Gustavo announced on his Instagram that he and his husband would be the parents of twins, whom they planned to name Gael and Flora, conceived through surrogacy, but the babies died in a miscarriage.