Mother of a boy named Manuel Marinho da Silva Canijo, born in 1993. Father is film director João Canijo.
Daughter of Raul Marinho da Silva, who died in 2007 of cancer, and wife Margarida Pinto.
She's the fifth of six children. Siblings: António (a music producer), Pedro (a jazz critic), Francisco José (an architect), Maria Emília (a nurse) and João.
Former stepmother of Afonso Zúquete.
Mother of a girl named Carlota Marinho da Silva Zúquete, born on December 15, 2008 at the Alfredo da Costa Maternity in Lisbon, Portugal. Father is her now ex-husband, architect Ricardo Zúquete, of whom she separated in March 2010.
Graduated as a Licenciate in Sociology by the Superior Institute of Work and Enterprise Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Grand-Cross of the Ancient, Most Noble and Enlightened Military Order of Saint James of the Sword, of the Scientific, Literary and Artistic Merit.