Maria de Medeiros
Maria de Medeiros Esteves Victorino de Almeida [ mɐˈɾiɐ ˌdɯmɯˈdɐi̯ɾuʃ ] (born August 19, 1965 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese actress , singer , director and screenwriter . She is best known for her role in Pulp Fiction .
biography
De Medeiros, the eldest of three daughters of the composer and pianist António Victorino de Almeida and his wife Maria Armanda Esteves, lives in France and is married to the sound engineer and cameraman Agustí Camps. The marriage resulted in two daughters (* 1997 and 2003). De Medeiros' sisters Inês de Medeiros (* 1968) and Ana Medeiros are also actresses.
Training and first acting roles
She completed her education at the French high school Français Charles Le Pierre in Lisbon and later studied philosophy and acting in Paris . She appeared in Portuguese films from the early 1980s, and in 1984 she discovered director Chantal Akerman for French-language films. In 1990 de Medeiros made her debut in English-language cinema with a supporting role in Ken McMullen's historical drama in 1871 . In the same year she portrayed the well-known French writer Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) in Philip Kaufman's Henry & June (1990), alongside Fred Ward and Uma Thurman . She got the role because of her visual similarity to Nin.
Four years later she played Fabienne, the French friend of boxer Butch Coolidge (played by Bruce Willis ), in Quentin Tarantino's Oscar-winning film Pulp Fiction (1994) . In the same year she was represented with Teresa Villaverde's drama Siblings at the 51st Venice Film Festival . There she was awarded the Coppa Volpi , the actor's award of the film festival, for the part of Maria .
Film director
Towards the end of the 1980s, de Medeiros devoted herself to her first directorial work parallel to her acting career with the short films Sévérine C. (1987) and Fragmento II (1988). In 2000, she directed the film Capitães de Abril (dt .: Captains of April ) , the events of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal on 24 and 25. April 1974 traces, Director. In 2007 she was appointed to the competition jury at the 60th Cannes Film Festival .
singer
Maria de Medeiros has also appeared as a singer in recent years. Her repertoire is extremely diverse and mostly moves in the vicinity of jazz , bossa nova , the singer-songwriters and other styles. She recorded her first album A little more blue in 2007. With the musicians Jeff Cohen , Emek Evci and Joël Grare she interpreted songs by Chico Buarque , Caetano Veloso , Gilberto Gil and Milton Nascimento .
The inspiration for her second album Penínsulas & Continentes came to her during a concert at UNESCO headquarters in Paris (following her appointment as a UNESCO Artist for Peace in 2008). She recorded it in 2010 with the musicians Edmundo Carneiro , Bruno Rousselet , Rubem Dantas , Pascal Salmon , Itacyr Bocato and Manuel Martínez del Fresno . The song selection spans the eponymous countries and continents. De Medeiros not only sang Portuguese, but also Spanish ( Castilian ), Italian , Kimbundu , Catalan and Valencian . She interpreted texts and songs by José Afonso , Joan Salvat-Papasseit , Víctor Jara , Nino Rota , Sérgio Godinho , Amélia Muge , El Último de la Fila , Lenine , Waldemar Bastos , but also the popular Angolan ballad Muxíma , 1960 by the Duo Ouro Negro became internationally known. In 2012 her album Pássaros eternos ("Eternal Birds") was released.
In recent years she has occasionally taken part in projects by other artists, such as the 2005 album Drama Box by the singer Mísia and in 2009 the international tribute projects for Joan Manuel Serrat and Nino Rota (with Ute Lemper , Adriana Calcanhotto , Catherine Ringer, among others and the Texas singer Sharleen Spiteri ) and the Feminia album by Legendary Tigerman .
reception
She has established herself as an actress with her many international engagements and her directorial work as well as her work as a singer have been positively received by critics and the audience. In doing so, she did not succeed in stepping into the forefront of public attention, due to her appearance, which does not always correspond to the media zeitgeist, and the lack of continuous involvement in international blockbusters . She never stated this as her goal, rather the choice of her roles is characterized by a great variety and not always by special audience appeal.
In Portugal she is well known through media reports about her international appearances and through her work as an actress and singer, but also through public appearances in Portugal, for example during protests against the austerity programs at the expense of the population or in support of the curious presidential candidacies of the singer and Artist Manuel João Vieira . In Germany she is less known than in France and especially in Spain, where she is more often perceived as a politically active artist than in other countries. She gained sympathy through her modest and friendly manner and her audience-oriented demeanor, but also through her committed attitude towards social grievances in general and the ongoing current financial crisis in particular, for example when she answered questions from readers for the conservative Spanish newspaper El Mundo .
Her ambitious, wide-ranging work and her constant non-partisan commitment to social issues prompted UNESCO to award her as an artist for peace in 2008 . She is also an ambassador of the European Film Awards "European Oscar" of the European Film Academy .
Discography
- 2007: A little more blue
- 2010: Penínsulas & Continentes
- 2012: Pássaros Eternos
Filmography
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- 1987: Sévérine C.
- 1988: Fragmento II
- 1991: A Morte do Príncipe
- 2000: Je t'aime… moi non plus: Artistes et critiques
- 2000: Carnations for Freedom (Capitães de Abril)
- 2004: Bem-Vindo a São Paulo
- 2004: Mathilde au matin
- 2011: Mundo Invisível (episode of As Aventuras do Homem Invisível )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from November 29, 2014 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.
- ^ Documentation "O Candidato Vieira", Bruno de Almeida , 2005
- ↑ http://elpais.com/diario/2012/02/04/madrid/1328358259_850215.html
- ↑ http://www.elcultural.es/noticias/BUENOS_DIAS/2726/Maria_de_Medeiros
- ↑ http://www.elmundo.es/encuentros/invitados/2010/02/4060/
- ↑ http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/encuentros/invitados/2012/01/16/maria-de-medeiros/index.html
- ↑ http://www.portugalvivo.com/spip.php?article3205
- ↑ http://www.europeanfilmawards.eu/en_EN/efaambassadors
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Medeiros, Maria de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Medeiros Esteves Victorino de Almeida, Maria de (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese actress, singer, director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 19, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lisbon |