Antonio Feio

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Antonio Feio

António Feio (born December 6, 1954 in Lourenço Marques , Mozambique , † July 29, 2010 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese actor and director .

Life

Feio grew up in Mozambique until he was seven; after that his family settled in Lisbon. At the age of eleven, he made his debut as a theater actor in May 1966, in the play O Mar by Miguel Torga at the Teatro Experimental de Cascais , in a production by Carlos Avilez . He received his first film role in 1968 as Jaimito in the crime comedy Um Campista em Apuros . In 1969 he returned to Mozambique, where he went on tour with the theater company of the famous Portuguese actress Laura Alves with the play Comprador de Horas . Feio then interrupted his acting career, completed the Liceu Salzar in his hometown and worked there for several years as a model maker and designer in an architecture office .

In 1974 he returned to the theater and played again at the Teatro Experimental de Cascais. He played with Fernando Gomes at the Teatro Aquarius. During his career he had other theater engagements with the Cooperativa de Comediantes Rafael de Oliveira, the Teatro Popular - Companhia Nacional I, the Teatro S. Luíz , the Teatro Adoque, the Teatro ABC, the Casa da Comédia, the Centro de Arte Moderna , at the Teatro Aberto, at the Teatro Variedades, at the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II (German National Theater Dona Maria) and at the Teatro Villaret.

Feio took on his first own production at the Casa da Comédia with the play Pequeno Rebanho Não Desesperes by Christian Giudicelli . At the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II he directed the one-person play Vincent by Leonard Nimoy and at the Auditório Carlos Paredes the drama True West by Sam Shepard . At the Teatro Nacional São João in Porto he staged the theater plays Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon and Art by Yasmina Reza . He has directed plays by the Portuguese playwright Nuno Artur Silva several times , including Bom Dia Benjamim and Portugal Uma Comédia Musical . One of his most important productions was O que diz Molero , a stage version of the novel of the same name by Diniz Machado at the Teatro Nacional S. João and at the Teatro Villaret (1999).

He worked as an acting teacher at the Centro Cultural de Benfica . He founded several of his own theater groups, consisting of former students and pupils, including Esquerda Baixa and Pano de Ferro , with whom he realized his own projects and productions.

Feio also starred in numerous television series and television films . The best known is the sitcom Conversa da Treta . The focus of his artistic work, however, was his theater work as an actor and director.

On March 27, 2010, Feio was appointed Comendador des Ordem do Infante D. Henrique by the Portuguese President Cavaco Silva .

Feio died of pancreatic cancer in the Hospital da Luz in Lisbon .

Filmography

  • 1968: To Campista em Apuros
  • 1980: Jesus Cristo em Lisboa (TV play)
  • 1980: Barbara
  • 1993–1995: Verão Quente (TV series)
  • 1999: Conversa da Treta (TV series)
  • 2000–2003: O Bairro da Fonte (TV series)
  • 2002–2003: Paraíso Filmes (TV series)
  • 2004: Nula variety

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personal data
SURNAME Feio, António
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Lourenço Marques , Mozambique
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 2010
Place of death Lisbon