Biografia

Father, Humberto Teixeira, co-author of "Asa Branca", is considered one of the greatest popular composers of Brazil, main partner of another legend of music, Luiz Gonzaga.

Husband, Matthew Chapman, is the great-grandson of scientist Charles Darwin.

Posed for Brazilian Playboy.

Her character in Woody Allen's Radio Days (1987), is a parody of famous Brazilian singer Carmen Miranda.

Denise Dumont revealed that she abandoned her husband, novelist Euclydes Marinho, after participating in a sex sequence in the film Rio Babilonia (1983) in 1982. In recording for the documentary "Neville d'Almeida - Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos", the actress said that the most famous sequence of the film and that it became iconic as a of the most memorable sex scenes in Brazilian cinema ended up changing her life. This is the scene in which Cláudia (Denise), Marciano (Joel Barcellos) and Eduardo (Pedro Aguinaga) have sex at dawn in a mansion pool. The scene was so emblematic and strong that it led Denise to fall in love with Joel Barcellos and throw everything up.