Leonor Baldaque

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Leonor Bessa-Luís Alves Baldaque (born January 27, 1977 in Porto ) is a Portuguese actress. She lives in Rome.

Life

She is the granddaughter of the writer Agustina Bessa-Luís . Director Manoel de Oliveira , who is a friend and admirer of the author, met Leonor Baldaque through her. When he was looking for an actress for his film Unrest (1998), he offered her the role. She accepted and henceforth turned to acting. After completing her studies in linguistics and literature at the University of Porto in 2000 , she therefore went to Paris , where she studied and settled at the Cours Florent Theater. A number of roles followed, especially in films by Manoel de Oliveira.

In 2009 she married and went on her honeymoon in Apulia . In the same year the couple moved to Rome , where Leonor Baldaque wrote her first novel in French . Vita - La Vie Légère was published in the Blanche Collection by Editions Gallimard . She is working on her second novel in which Italy and Italian painting will form the background. (As of September 2013)

Filmography

  • 1998: restlessness ( Inquietude ); R: Manoel de Oliveira
  • 2000: Supercolla (short film); R: David Bonneville
  • 2001: I'm going home ( Je rentre à la maison ); R: Manoel de Oliveira
  • 2001: The postage of my childhood ( Porto da Minha Infância ); R: Manoel de Oliveira
  • 2002: O Princípio da Incerteza ; R: Manoel de Oliveira
  • 2004: O Quinto Império - Ontem Como Hoje ; R: Manoel de Oliveira
  • 2005: Maquete (video short film); R: David Bonneville
  • 2005: Espelho Mágico ; R: Manoel de Olveira
  • 2005: A Conquista de Faro (short film); R: Rita Azevedo Gomes
  • 2006: Belle Toujours ; R: Manoel de Oliveira
  • 2007: Christopher Columbus - The Riddle ( Cristóvão Colombo - O Enigma ); R: Manoel de Oliveira
  • 2009: The Portuguese Nun ( La religieuse portugaise ); R: Eugène Green

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos : Dicionário do cinema português 1989 - 2003 . 1st edition, Editorial Caminho , Lisbon 2005, p. 71 ( ISBN 972-21-1763-7 )
  2. ↑ English-language article from September 1, 2013 in Up Magazine , the on-board magazine of TAP Portugal , accessed on October 5, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Baldaque, Leonor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alves Baldaque, Leonor Bessa-Luís (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Porto , Portugal