Diogo Dória

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Diogo de França Neto Dória (born April 16, 1953 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese actor and theater director.

Life

In 1972 he began studying at the Law Faculty of the University of Lisbon . In 1974 he broke off his studies and went to the National Conservatory . In 1976 he appeared on the stage for the first time as an actor in Quatro Soldados e Um Acordeão (Four Soldiers and an Accordion) by Richard Démarcy , who also directed. In 1978, Dória was replaced by Jorge Silva Melo and Luís Miguel Cintra in their production of Woyzeck at their renowned Teatro Cornucópia.

In 1980 he completed his interim philosophy studies at the University of Lisbon. In the Teatro da Cantina Velha, which he founded, he was now regularly on stage, for the first time in 1980 in Strindberg's Menina Júlia (Miss Julie), and in 1982 in Samuel Beckett's O Expulso (The Outcast), where he himself directed for the first time. In 1985 he played again at the Teatro Cornucópia in the production of O Parque (The Park) by Botho Strauss, staged by Karl-Heinz Stroux 's son Stephan . This was followed by a series of plays at various Lisbon theaters. In addition to his work as a theater actor and director, he also appeared as a reciter , for example in 1978 with Em Ruínas by Ernesto da Silva in the auditorium of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores and in 1982 with Mensagem by Fernando Pessoa in the auditorium of the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal . After he had stood in front of the camera for the first time in Jacques Weber's multi-part television series The Count of Monte-Christo in 1979 , he was now increasingly taking on film roles.

Parallel to his film roles, he continued to play theater, often in his own projects. In 1989 he translated, staged and played the play A Hipótese (Hypothesis) by Robert Pinget in the Escadinhas studio of the Escola Superior de Belas Artes de Lisboa art school (now part of the University of Lisbon as an art faculty), and then performed the play several times Stages of the country. Among his numerous other theater engagements were u. a. In 1991 the Teatro da Trindade in August Strindberg's A Mais Forte (The Stronger), in 1994 the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II in As Fúrias by Agustina Bessa-Luís , and in 1998 the Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB) in A Noite, staged by Solveig Nordlund é Mãe do Dia (Night, Mother of the Day), by Lars Norén . At the same time, his film roles continued to grow. Manoel de Oliveira has cast him in numerous films, and Dória has worked with the most important Portuguese filmmakers , for example in João Botelho's A Portuguese Farewell (1986) , in Oliveira's On the Banks of the River (1993), or in João César Monteiro's polemical film adaptation of Snow White Branca de Neve (2000). He also appeared occasionally in international productions, for example in Wim Wenders ' film drama Until the End of the World in 1991 . Today Dória is one of the most renowned film actors in Portuguese cinema .

Filmography

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos: Dicionário do cinema português 1962 - 1988. , 1st edition, Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 1989, page 129
  2. ↑ www.sapo.cinema.pt ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2011 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. , accessed July 15, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cinema.sapo.pt
  3. ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos: Dicionário do cinema português 1989 - 2003. , 1st edition, Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2005, page 198f
personal data
SURNAME Dória, Diogo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dória, Diogo de França Neto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisbon , Portugal