Leonor Seixas

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Leonor Seixas (born November 30, 1980 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese actress .

Life

Seixas was born in Lisbon as the daughter of the pianist Carla Seixas and the opera singer Fernando Serafim.She studied ballet at the National Conservatory in Lisbon ( Conservatório Nacional , today Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema ) and took music lessons (piano, recorder, percussion and trumpet). After taking acting lessons at the Escola Profissional de Teatro de Cascais as a student , she went to New York after graduating from high school , where she studied for two years at the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute . After theater engagements and small film roles in New York, she returned to Lisbon for Christmas 2001 , under the impression of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 and its aftermath. Here she played at the theater (around 2005 in Marcas de Sangue at the Teatro da Comuna , or 2006 at the Teatro da Trindade ) and sang in opera (e.g. in 2002, in Albert Herring by Benjamin Britten , or in 2006 in Paul Hindemith's Sancta Susanna , in the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos ). She also starred in first telenovelas . Readings, radio plays and synchronizations were added later .

After she had already played in José Nascimento's television film Rádio Relâmpago (German: Radio Blitz), her first film role in the Portuguese cinema was in A Passem da Noite by Luís Filipe Rocha in 2003 , for which she was recognized as best actress at the Mediterranean Film Festival in Valencia . Other feature films followed, including a. for Carlos Coelho da Silva (including his biography about Amália Rodrigues 2008), Francisco Manso ( Assalto ao Santa Maria 2010, O Cônsul de Bordéus 2011), and Sandra Seeling ( My Mother 2012), in whose TV series The Swamp she also starred in 2012. She became known to a wide audience in Portugal through her engagements in various telenovelas, in addition to her roles in Portuguese films .

Filmography (selection)

Movie

TV Shows

  • 2002/2003: O Olhar da Serpente (13 episodes)
  • 2003: Saber Amar (247 episodes)
  • 2004: Inspector Max (1 episode)
  • 2005: Mistura Fina (85 episodes)
  • 2005: Pedro e Inês (13 episodes)
  • 2006/2007: Paixões Proibidas (59 episodes)
  • 2007: PICA
  • 2008: Casos da Vida (2 episodes)
  • 2008/2009: Feitiço de Amor (41 episodes)
  • 2008/2009: Vila Faia (105 episodes)
  • 2010: Laços de Sangue (1 episode)
  • 2012: The Swamp (1 episode)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.imdb.com , accessed October 18, 2012
  2. ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos : Dicionário do Cinema Português 1989 - 2003. 1st edition, Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2005, page 558. ( ISBN 972-21-1763-7 )
  3. ↑ www.cinema.sapo.pt ( Memento from December 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 18, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Seixas, Leonor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisbon , Portugal