Antonio Capelo

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António Martins Moreira Capelo (born April 16, 1956 in Castelo de Paiva ) is a Portuguese actor.

Life

As a high school student in Espinho , he became an amateur actor. In 1977 he became a member of Seiva Trupe - theater companies in Porto and stood in Ramón María del Valle-Inclán Os Cornos de Dom Gaitas (dt. The horns of Lieutenant frippery) for the first time as a professional actor on stage, directed by Julio Castronuovo . After two years, Capelo left the Seiva Trupe and played in various other productions in Porto's theaters until he moved to Lisbon in 1984 , where the larger theater scene offers more opportunities. After a first engagement in the Barraca , u. a. the Teatro Villaret and the Teatro da Trindade , until he appeared in 1986 at the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II , in Lewis Carroll's A Caça ao Snark (Eng. The hunt for the snark) (directed by Teresa Garcia Fernandes ). At that time he stood in front of the film camera for the first time, in Luís Filipe Costa's television film Morte d´Homem (German: Mannertod).

Capelo then returned to Porto, where he directed the Teatro Universitário do Porto (University Theater) for the next ten years and staged the first plays himself. At the TEATRO in Porto he occasionally appeared on stage as an actor, in plays by Almeida Garrett (1987, Mérope) and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1989, Preparadise sorry now).

In 1990 he founded the Academia Contemporânea do Espectáculo drama school in Porto , which he ran until 2004. Actors that year included two roles in the Auditório Nacional Carlos Alberto , in Molières Tartufo (Eng. The Tartuffe ) and in Bernard-Marie Koltès ´ Combate de Negro e de Cães (Eng. Battle of the Negro and the Dogs ), both directed by Rogério de Carvalho . He took on a role in the multi-part O Processo de Camilo e Ana , produced by the public television broadcaster RTP in Porto (directed by Herlânder Peyroteo ), and played a number of leading roles in theaters around the city. These included Macbeth in 1993 , Shakespeare again in 1994 ( A Tempestade , English Der Sturm , in the Teatro Nacional São João ), Koltès again in 1999 ( Cais Oeste , Quai West, in the Teatro do Bolhão ), and in 2003 Brecht's A Resistível Ascenção de Arturo Ui (Eng. The resilient rise of Arturo Ui ) at the Academia Contemporânea do Espectáculo (directed by Kuniaki Ida ).

During that time, Capelo also directed more often himself, including plays by Harold Pinter , Fassbender and Herberto Helder . Due to his place of residence in Porto, away from the productions mainly based in Lisbon, he only occasionally received offers from television, for the few productions taking place in Porto. Since the 2000s, however, his engagements have become more frequent, and he can now also be seen regularly in telenovelas . For his role in the series Liberdade 21 he was nominated for outstanding acting at the 2009 Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo .

The powerful, expressive acting art of Capelos was also often in demand in Portuguese films . He often played strong and authoritarian characters, but also repeatedly demonstrated the ability to change. In 2003 he was nominated for a Globo de Ouro for his role as the humiliated father of a family, who struggled to cling to his values, in António Ferreira's film "Forget everything I told you" ( Esquece tudo o que te disse ) .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.imdb.com , accessed October 6, 2013
  2. ↑ www.imdb.com , accessed October 6, 2013
  3. ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos: Dicionário do cinema português 1989 - 2003 , 1st edition, Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2005, page 115f
  4. ↑ Portrait of António Capelo ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.cinema.no.sapo.pt, accessed October 6, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cinema.sapo.pt
personal data
SURNAME Capelo, Antonio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Capelo, António Martins Moreira (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Castelo de Paiva