Ângelo Torres
Ângelo José Bandeira Torres (born April 14, 1968 in Santa Isabel , Equatorial Guinea ) is a São-Tomeic - Portuguese actor.
Life
He was born in Equatorial Guinea , where his parents lived in exile. They come from São Tomé and Príncipe , where they returned after the independence of their country from the colonial power Portugal in 1975. In 1979 Torres went to Cuba as part of a cooperation agreement , where, after finishing secondary school, he completed an engineering training ( food technology, refrigeration technology) at the Instituto Superior Politécnico Lázaro Cárdenas del Ríostarted. For the purpose of an internship, he came back to Portugal in 1989, where he had previously been for a while. He was not particularly interested in technology, and so he took the opportunity when he was offered a part in a television series after he had already played a small role in a feature film. After O Café do Ambriz , another role in television series followed, in Por Mares Nunca Dante's Navegados . The praise for his performances in 1991 encouraged him to take up the acting profession. Since then he has played a wide variety of roles, for example in the cross-genre film Nha Fala - My Voice (2002) the imagined nouveau riche in Cape Verdean Mindelo , or the taboo-breaking natives in the colonial drama A Tempestade da Terra (1998). For his role in the "Portuguese Western" Estrada de Palha by Rodrigo Areias (2012) he was awarded at the Caminhos do Cinema Português film festival.
In addition to roles in film and television, he also received offers from the theater. He was on stage for the first time in 1992 in two plays by Heiner Müller , staged by Luís Miguel Cintra at the Teatro Bairro Alto in Lisbon's Bairro Alto . Numerous other theater roles followed, including a. in Os Emigrantes (“Emigranten” by Sławomir Mrożek , 1998 at the Teatro Politeama ), Orgia (by Pier Paolo Pasolini , 1999 at the Teatro Politeama ) and Tito Andrónico ( Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare , 2003 at the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II ).
In addition to a few appearances on television (for example in the sitcom Pensão Estrela 1996/1997), he also developed numerous other activities. From 1993 to 1994 he was a trumpeter and percussionist in the Polip Plok Orchestra , which played live music for silent films ( Nosferatu - A Symphony of Horror by Murnau , and Douro faina Fluvial by Manoel de Oliveira ) in Denmark, France and Portugal. Since 1994 he has also given traditional African stories in over 1,500 readings in schools, theaters, libraries and cultural centers in Portugal and Spain.
Today he is considered an established actor in Portuguese films , but has also appeared in international productions, for example in France and Italy. After his role in the award-winning film Once Upon a Time in Africa , he was honored as a Shooting Star at the 2004 Berlinale .
In 2005 he directed the documentary Mionga ki Ôbo (Sea and Forest). He portrayed the Angolares community and their special relationship with the sea and the forest at the same time. The joint production of RTP2 and Canal France International , sponsored a. a. from the Instituto Camões and the Center national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), appeared in the Portuguese DVD series África em docs (Africa in documentary film) in 2010 . In 2007 Torres directed his short film Kunta .
Filmography
Director
- 2005: Mionga ki Ôbo (documentary)
- 2007: Kunta (short film), also screenplay
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literature
- Jorge Leitão Ramos : Dicionário do Cinema Português 1989 - 2003. Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2005, ISBN 972-21-1763-7 .
Web links
- Ângelo Torres in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ IMDb
- ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos: Dicionário do Cinema Português 1989-2003. Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2005, p. 603.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Torres, Ângelo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Torres, Ângelo José Bandeira (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | São-Tome-Portuguese actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santa Isabel , Equatorial Guinea |