Valéria Monteiro (born 26 March 1965 in Belo Horizonte) is a Brazilian journalist, model, actress, and television presenter, member of the

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(PMN).

Biography

Model and ballet dancer, started her journalism career in

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, in a TV broadcaster affiliated to Rede Record. In 1986, was hired by

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to present ''RJTV'', local afternoon news program in Rio de Janeiro. Later, acted as anchor of '' Fantástico'' between 1988 and 1991, and of ''

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''. Monteiro was the first woman to host '' Jornal Nacional'' in 1992. In 1993, returned to ''Fantástico''. In 1994, she covered the January edition of ''

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''. In 1995, was present of ''GNT Fashion''. After that, acted in the miniseries ''Incidente em Antares''. In 1996, had a brief passage through

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. Moved to

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with her daughter Vitoria, born during her marriage with the director Paulo Ubiratan, who died in 1998. Valérias was also married to realtor Justin Kaufman, and she lived in the United States. Currently, the presenter is single. In the U.S., she worked for

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, Bloomberg and NBC. She returned to Brazil in 1999, and was hired by RedeTV!, where she presented the first phase of ''A Casa É Sua''. Her last work in television was as advertisement girl of José Serra's electoral campaign. Currently, she owns an independent producer named Toda América, and presents the show ''Mondo' in the radio broadcaster Paradiso FM, based in Rio de Janeiro. On 19 May 2014, she returned to television to command '' O Show da Vida é Fantástico'' in Canal Viva. On 22 September 2017, Monteiro announced herself as a pre-candidate for

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. Monteiro joined the

(PMN) on 12 January 2018. However, the party gave up on her candidacy, as she didn't reach 3% of the intention of votes in the opinion polls.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Monteiro, Valéria 1965 births Living people People from Belo Horizonte Party of National Mobilization politicians Brazilian journalists Brazilian women journalists Brazilian television presenters Brazilian television journalists Brazilian female models Women television journalists Brazilian women television presenters