Adriano Luz

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Adriano Manuel Vieira da Luz (born April 9, 1959 in Porto ) is a Portuguese actor and theater director.

Life

As a teenager he took part in the background choirs of the Grupo de Acção Cultural (GUC), an emancipatory music and culture group in the years after the Carnation Revolution in 1974. He later began studying at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto . There he also took a course with João Mota at the university theater. An invitation to the Teatro da Comuna in Lisbon followed. Then he broke off his engineering studies and devoted himself entirely to acting.

Luz first appeared on stage as a professional actor in 1982, in the play A Viagem by Helder Costa, staged by João Mota. After a series of roles in Comuna , all staged by Mota, Luz went to the Teatro Experimental de Leiria in 1983/84 for two pieces ( Sławomir Mrożeks No Alto Mar (German: On the High Seas) and António José da Silvas A Vida do Grande Don Quijote de La Mancha e do Gordo Sancho Pança ).

Later he became part of the Novo Grupo ensemble at the Teatro Aberto in Lisbon. He was there for the first time in 1986, in Norberto Barroca's production of Ben Jonsons Volpone . In 1987, Chekhov's O Jardim das Cerejas (“ The Cherry Orchard ”, staged by João Lourenço ) and Saramagos A Segunda Vida de Francisco de Assis (“The Second Life of Francis of Assisi ”, staged by Norberto Barroca) followed, before appearing in comedies for the first time , in two pieces by Fernando Gomes ( Metro-Cabaret 1987 at the Teatro Século and Como é Diferente o Amor em Portugal 1989 at the Teatro da Comuna).

In 1989 he was invited to the ensemble of the Teatro da Cornucópia , the renowned theater of Luís Miguel Cintra and Jorge Silva Melo . In the following years, Adriano Luz developed into a structured character actor. In addition to the Cornucópia, he also appeared on the stage in other theaters, for example in João Canijo's production of Eugene O'Neill's Confissão ao Luar at the Teatro Malaposta in 1991 , or in Sartre's As Troianas in the Pequeno Auditório of the Centro Cultural de Belém in 1994 . In 1995 he worked as an actor and co-director on the unusual 13 episode staging of Camilo Castelo Branco 's Mistérios de Lisboa, written in 1854 and broadcast by the public television station RTP .

Other plays followed, but from 1996 onwards, Luz turned his attention to television. There he has since appeared in sitcoms , television films and later television series and telenovelas . As a result, he became known to a wide audience. He also played theater on television, around 1998 in Karl Valentin's No Fotógrafo (Im Photoatelier). Away from the cameras, he now played less often, and it was not until 2001 that he himself staged Luisa Costa Gomes ' play O Último a Rir at the Teatro Villaret .

Parallel to his development, first as a theater and then as a television actor, he was repeatedly seen in works of Portuguese film . Luz has been increasingly seen in international productions since his role as Father Dinis in The Secrets of Lisbon , Raúl Ruiz 's 2010 film by Camilo Castelo Branco's Mistérios de Lisboa (Luz had already played the subject in an innovative theater television series in 1995 and staged). So he played the brutal secret service officer Mendes in Bille August's successful night train to Lisbon .

Adriano Luz has been married to the actress and voice actress Carla de Sá (* 1975) since the mid-1990s . The couple has two sons, Afonso (* 1996) and Salvador (* 2005).

Filmography

Feature films (selection)

TV series (selection)

  • 2015–2016: Poderosas
  • 2015: Os Maias
  • 2013–2014: Destinos Cruzados
  • 2011–2012: Remédio Santo
  • 2010–2011: Espírito Indomável
  • 2009–2010: Sentimentos
  • 2009: Equador
  • 2007: Ílha dos Amores
  • 2007: Nome de Código: Sintra
  • 2006–2007: Tempo de Viver
  • 2004: A Ferreirinha
  • 2002: Fúria de Viver
  • 2002: Sociedade Anónima
  • 2000: A Raia dos Medos
  • 1998-1999: Débora
  • 1995-1996: A Mulher do Sr. Ministro
  • 1990: Alentejo Sem Lei
  • 1989: Sesame Street (Portugal)
  • 1987–1989: Duarte & Approx

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos : Dicionário do Cinema Português 1989 - 2003. Editorial Caminho , Lisbon 2005, page 354f ( ISBN 972-21-1763-7 ).
  2. ↑ Interview of July 28, 2012 with Adriano Luz in the society magazine Flash! (port.), accessed July 26, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Luz, Adriano
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vieira da Luz, Adriano Manuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH postage