José Wallenstein

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José Manuel Franco Wallenstein Teixeira (born October 18, 1959 in Lisbon , Portugal ) is a Portuguese actor .

Life

José Wallenstein is the son of the actor Carlos Wallenstein and the actress and director Maria Wallenstein . He has two brothers and a sister. His niece is the actress Catarina Wallenstein . From June 2009 to June 2011 he was married to Clara Quintão Pereira Jardim Portela. They have a daughter who was born in August 2011. He is currently in a relationship with the actress Rita Calçada Bastos .

Wallenstein began to play as a teenager, as an amateur actor. Since his role in Filipe La Féria's staging of Rene Kalinsky's A Paixão Segundo Pier Paolo Pasolini (English: The Passion according to Pier Paolo Pasolini ) in 1980 in the Lisbon Casa da Comédia , he has been considered a serious actor. He had his first film roles in Manoel de Oliveiras Francisca (1981) and Alain Tanners In the White City (1983). He completed his acting studies at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema in 1985.

Parallel to his film work, where he starred in Oliveira's films The Silky Shoe , The Divine Comedy and The Postage of My Childhood , he worked at the theater with directors such as Luís Miguel Cintra , Ricardo Pais , Rogério Vieira , Fernanda Lapa , František Listopad and Gastão Cruz together. In 1987 he was named Best Actor by the Association of Theater Critics in Portugal (Associação Portuguesa de Críticos de Teatro). He also brought pieces to the stage himself, including a. at the Teatro Cornucópia and at the Teatro Nacional de São João , of which he was meanwhile artistic director. In addition to works by Brecht , Kafka and Handke , he also staged operas, including works by Kurt Weill , Igor Stravinsky and António Pinho Vargas .

Wallenstein appeared on television since the early 1980s, in Portuguese and French television films and series, around 1983 in Christian-Jacques's multi-part series The Man of Suez . Since 2004 he has also appeared in over 1000 episodes of various telenovelas such as Só Gosto De Ti , Tempo de Viver , Olhos nos Olhos and most recently Anjo Meu . His participation in the popular RTP television series Conta-me como foi also made him known to a broader public in Portugal. However, he is primarily active as an actor in the theater in Portugal and in Portuguese film . In 2013, the film adaptation of the novel Night Train to Lisbon , in which Wallenstein plays a role, was released (see Night Train to Lisbon (film) ).

Filmography (selection)

Movie

series

  • 1983: The Suez Man (French TV series)
  • 1989: Mon dernier rêve sera pour vous
  • 2004–2005: Só Gosto De Ti (216 episodes)
  • 2006–2007: Tempo de Viver (213 episodes)
  • 2008–2009: Conta-me Como Foi (seven episodes)
  • 2008–2009: Olhos nos Olhos (237 episodes)
  • 2009-2010: Meu Amor (348 episodes)
  • 2011–2012: Anjo Meu (364 episodes)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.cinema.sapo.pt ( Memento of the original from June 12, 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 November 6, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cinema.sapo.pt
  2. ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos : Dicionário do Cinema Português 1989 - 2003 , 1st edition, Editorial Caminho , Lisbon 2005, page 639ff ( ISBN 972-21-1763-7 )
  3. ↑ www.spielfilm.de , accessed on November 6, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Wallenstein, José
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wallenstein Teixeira, José Manuel Franco (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisbon , Portugal