Yes, but it is NOT in the ring of life.. Venus is too close to the sun, its surface temperatures because of it, do not allow liquid water, which is believed to be required for life to exist.
Its not about how close Venus is to Earth, but how close Venus is to the Sun.. only Mars and Earth in terms of planets in our solar system are believed to have had the capacity to support life. The only other possibility is the moon Europa, assuming it has liquid water underneath its frozen surface warmed by geothermic activity.
With the same atmosphere as Earth Venus would have had an average temperature of about 40 Celsius. With that average temperature life can exist around the poles, but probably not around equator. People live under this conditions on Earth. Its Venus thick atmosphere of Carbon Dioxide that have warned Venus up to todays temperature. Mercury is a colder planet than Venus although it orbits a lot closer than Venus