The presenter Renata Fan, featured on television sports programs for over 25 years, is yet another descendant of Italians successful in Brazil, the country his family adopted after arriving from Italy and settling in the southern region of the country.
Born on July 5, 1977 in Saint Angelo, in Rio Grande do Sul, Renata Bonfiglio Fan is the eldest daughter of Paulo Fan e Ana Bonfiglio, who are also parents of Rafael Bonfiglio Fan.
A communicative girl
From an early age, she was an extroverted girl, whose hobby was assembling theater plays at school with her friends. In 1995, at the age of 18, she started in the field of communication as an announcer at Transamerica Radio Saint Angelo.
Despite the vocation for communication, she ended up graduating in Law from the Instituto de Ensino Superior Santo Ângelo (IESA) and became a lawyer, just like her brother Rafael. However, she had already in love with microphones and gave up pursuing a legal career.
Renata Fan starts on television
In 1997, Renata was featured on the program Tele Sunday, from RBS TV (affiliate of Rede Globo in Rio Grande do Sul), where it presented the main cultural events of the weekend.
In 1999, Renata was elected Miss Santo Ângelo, Miss Rio Grande do Sul and Miss Brazil. With the mission of representing the country, she competed in the Miss Universe pageant in Trinidad and Tobago, in the Caribbean.
He came twelfth place out of 99 participants from all over the world. As a result of this visibility, he traveled to more than 22 countries between 1999 and the beginning of 2002, a time when decided to study journalism.
The first successes
She completed her first year of journalism at Faculdade do Oeste de Minas (FADOM) in Divinopolis, municipality of Minas Gerais. But he ended up moving to São Paulo, where he completed his degree. FIAM Journalism and Social Communication Course – Faculdades Integradas Alcântara Machado.
In June 2003 she was invited to do a pilot program for the sports area of Record TV. After passing the test, Renata Fan started to present the program Tercero Tempo, alongside the journalist Milton Neves, on Sunday nights, and Debate Bola, daily at noon.
She also presented the program Golaço, from Women's Network, from 2005 to December 2006. In January 2007, the journalist recorded the pilot of a new program on Bandeirantes Network.
Open Game with Renata Fan
From then on, she signed a contract and started presenting the sports program Open game, which aired for the first time on February 5, 2007, at 11:30 am, and continues to this day on screens. Currently she presents the attraction alongside the former football player Denilson.
Renata Fan also participated with the painting Beauty and the ball, on the Globo Esportivo program, on Radio Globo, maintaining her roots as a radio communicator.
Furthermore, Renata is in great demand to present corporate events throughout Brazil, whenever your recording schedule allows.
Fanatical fan of Porto Alegre International, Renata has been married since 2008 to Attila Abreu, Stock Car driver. The couple has no children.
Origin in Sicily
The last name Bonfiglio originates in Sicily and its first occurrences date back to the 11th century, a time when the Benedictine bishop lived San Bonfilius, the name from which this family name as we know it today was derived.
There are also family nuclei in other areas of Italy, such as the regions of Liguria and in the area of Milan .
According to the website Cognomix, there are approximately 1849 Bonfiglio families in Italy, with the regions with the most occurrences being the following: Sicilia (832), Lombardy (398) and Liguria (165).
The Bonfiglio surname is 278th in popularity in the Sicily region, the 99th most common in the province of Messina (Sicily) and the most popular in the city of Berlingo, which is in the province of Brescia, Lombardy region.
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