Maria Cabral
Maria da Conceição Gomes Cabral (born April 24, 1941 in Lisbon , † January 15, 2017 in Lannemezan ) was a Portuguese actress .
Life
She spent her childhood in Luanda , the capital of what was then the Portuguese colony of Angola. Back from Africa, she graduated from high school in Lisbon and began studying philosophy at the University of Lisbon . After quickly dropping out of her studies, she became an announcer for children's programs on the state television RTP in 1959 .
With her leading role in António da Cunha Telles ' successful film O Cerco (premiered in 1970), Cabral was seen as the face of Novo Cinemas , the new Portuguese film . It was only after two years in England that she was back in front of the camera, in 1972 for O Recado by José Fonseca e Costa , another feature film by Novo Cinema . In the same year she went to Paris on an Acting Specialization Scholarship from the Gulbenkian Foundation , where O Cerco had previously been shown successfully in theaters and Cabral had received a great deal of attention. She stayed in Paris and played the theater from then on. First with Andréas Voutsinas , from 1973 she was part of Serge Ducher's Laila ensemble , and has also performed internationally with him. From 1978 to 1979 she studied Japanese theater ( Nō and Kabuki ) with Shiro Daimon and played mainly in France, but also appeared internationally, in German-speaking countries, however, only in Switzerland (including Thearena Festival Zurich 1979). She was rarely in front of the camera, including in the French television series L'Autre côté (1978–1979).
In the Portuguese cinema she was only seen again in 1984 in Vidas , and most recently in 1986 in João Botelho's award-winning film Um Adeus Português about the Portuguese social trauma of the colonial war .
Maria Cabral was married to the writer and historian Vasco Pulido Valente from 1965 to 1972 and has a daughter with him, Patrícia Cabral.
Filmography
- 1970: O Cerco ; Directed by António da Cunha Telles
- 1972: O Recado; Directed by José Fonseca e Costa
- 1978–1979: L'Autre côte (TV series)
- 1983: O Foguete (TV series)
- 1984: Vidas; Directed by António da Cunha Telles
- 1985: No Man's Land; Director: Alain Tanner
- 1986: A Portuguese Farewell (Um Adeus Português) ; Directed by João Botelho
literature
- Jorge Leitão Ramos : Dicionário do cinema portugués 1962–1988. Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 1989, ISBN 972-21-0446-2 , p. 56.
- A. Murtinheira, Igor Metzeltin: History of Portuguese Cinema. Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7069-0590-9 .
Web links
- Maria Cabral in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jornal de Notícias
- ↑ observador.pt
- ↑ Morreu a atriz Maria Cabral
- ↑ Alcides Murtinheira, Igor Metzeltin: History of the Portuguese cinema , page 97f.
- ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos: Dicionário do Cinema Portugués 1962–1988 , page 67f.
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↑ Alcides Murtinheira, Igor Metzeltin: History of Portuguese cinema , page 121.
Alcides Murtinheira: António da Cunha Telles (1935) . Centro de Língua Portuguesa of the University of Hamburg , March 8, 2006, accessed on January 21, 2017 (Portuguese).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cabral, Maria |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Conceição Gomes Cabral, Maria da (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lisbon |
| DATE OF DEATH | 15th January 2017 |
| Place of death | Lannemezan |