Isabel Ruth
Isabel Ruth Silva Roberto dos Santos Lopes (born April 6, 1940 in Tomar ) is a Portuguese actress .
Life
At the age of 11 she began a ballet training with Ruth Aswin in Lisbon , before going to the Royal Ballet School in London for two years in 1958 . Back in Portugal, she joined the Grupo Experimental de Ballet , which later became the Ballet Gulbenkian . Ruth danced successfully in various pieces here, for example in Ritmo Violento in the choreography by Norman Dickson . As an actress, she first appeared on stage in 1961, in the play O Marinheiro ("The Sailor") by Fernando Pessoa , as part of a series of events on the 25th anniversary of Pessoa 's death ( Os 25 Anos da Morte de Fernando Pessoa , in the Centro Nacional de Cultura and in the Casa da Comédia ). Other theater roles followed, in plays by u. a. Almada Negreiros .
She played her first film role in 1962 in the film that marked a turning point in the history of Portuguese film . Os Verdes Anos by the director Paulo Rocha is considered to be the first work of the Novo Cinema , the "New Portuguese Film". In it she plays a young woman whose relationship with a newcomer in the big city tragically fails. She then went to the Teatro Villaret by Raul Solnado , where she stayed until 1967 after her first play O Inspector Geral (" The Revisor ", by Gogol , staged by Ribeirinho ). In that year she moved to Italy , where she befriended Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bernardo Bertolucci . After a few film roles and plays (including with Laura Betti in Il ricatto all teatro , by Dacia Maraini ), she entered a new phase of life. She made an extensive trip to Nepal , after which she spent time in Italy and Spain before moving back to Portugal in 1973, where she continued to stay away from artistic activities.
It was not until 1979 that she was back on the theater stage (at the Teatro da Trindade , in Cinema Eden by Marguerite Duras , staged by Fernando Heitor ), and for José Álvaro Morais in front of the film camera (in O Bobo ). After that, she rarely played theater, while she was in front of the camera in a number of films and increasingly also for television series. Here it was mainly auteur filmmakers like Manoel de Oliveira , Margarida Gil or Paulo Rocha in whose films she played, while she only rarely appeared in telenovelas on television.
Isabel Ruth is now considered one of the most renowned actresses in Portugal. In 1999 the Portuguese Film Museum dedicated a retrospective to her , and in 2007 she received a Globo de Ouro . Her Fotopoesia had already been published in 2006 , a combination of a book of poetry and a photo biography, with a foreword by Urbano Tavares Rodrigues .
Filmography
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literature
- Isabel Ruth: Fotopoesia Editora Guerra & Paz, Lisbon 2006, ISBN 978-989-8014-17-7
- João Bénard da Costa: A Dupla Vida de Isabel Ruth Cinematea Portuguesa, Lisbon 1999, ISBN 978-972-619-178-0
- Jorge Leitão Ramos : Dicionário do Cinema Português 1989-2003 Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2005, ISBN 972-21-1763-7
- Jorge Leitão Ramos: Dicionário do Cinema Português 1962-1988 Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 1989, ISBN 972-21-0446-2
Web links
- Isabel Ruth in the Internet Movie Database (English)
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos: Dicionário do Cinema Português 1962-1988 Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 1989, page 346f
- ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos: Dicionário do Cinema Português 1989-2003 Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2005, page 541f
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from January 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ruth, Isabel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ruth Silva Roberto dos Santos Lopes, Isabel (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 6, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tomar , Portugal |