Nuno Melo (actor)

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Nuno Jorge Lopes de Melo Cardoso (born February 8, 1960 in Castelo Branco , † June 9, 2015 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese actor.

Life

Since his school days he played theater, alongside his activity as a competitive swimmer . The family moved frequently because of his job, and he attended secondary school in Setúbal . He enrolled at the National Conservatory ( Conservatório Nacional , today Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema ) and was accepted into the ensemble of the Teatro Animação de Setúbal (TAS) in his first year . In 1982 he was on stage for the first time as a professional actor, in Doces do Diabo (Eng: The Devil's Sweets) by Jorge de Sena , staged by Alexandre de Sousa at the Teatro de Bolso in Setúbal. He then broke off his studies and became a professional actor. For a few years he played continuously at the TAS until Carlos César , the director of the TAS, Joseph Kesselring staged Arsénico e Rendas Velhas (English: arsenic and lace cap ) at the Teatro ABC in Lisbon in 1984 , and gave Melo a role. In the same year Melo first gained national fame for his role as Caniço in the telenovela Chuva na Areia (English: rain on the sand). He played his first film role in Mensagem in 1988 (directed by Luís Vidal Lopes ), but his scenes fell victim to the cut . Cinema audiences first saw him in 1991 in Manoel de Oliveira's “The Divine Comedy” (A Divína Comédia) .

In 1990, Melos rose to prominence through various television appearances, most notably with comic roles in Herman José's programs . As a result, he played in numerous sitcoms . At the same time, he continued to play theater regularly, often in serious roles. The Portuguese cinema also gave him very different appearances. His roles as a pathologically loving father in Solveig Nordlunds A Filha (German: The Daughter, 2003), as one of the four desperate fishermen in Tarde Demais 2000 (German: Too late; directed by José Nascimento ) were particularly highlighted by the critics . and his sometimes comical appearances in Edgar Pêras' hard-to-categorize films . This gave Melo the leading role in O Barão (Eng .: The Baron) in 2011 , for which he was awarded the Globo de Ouro 2012 for best leading actor.

Melo became well known in Portugal, especially through his television appearances. As a result, he repeatedly attracted the attention of the gossip press , for example when he separated from his long-time girlfriend and wife, the producer Isabel Nogueira, in February 2013, who accused him of drug addiction and violence. After a first separation in 2006, they married in 2010. Melo died of liver cancer in Lisbon in June 2015 .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.jn.pt/PaginaInicial/Cultura/Interior.aspx?content_id=4615437
  2. ↑ www.imdb.com , accessed June 17, 2013
  3. ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos : Dicionário do cinema português 1989–2003 , 1st edition, Editorial Caminho , Lisbon 2005, page 380f, ISBN 972-21-1763-7 .
  4. ↑ www.fama.sapo.pt ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 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 June 17, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / fama.sapo.pt
personal data
SURNAME Melo, Nuno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Melo Cardoso, Nuno Jorge Lopes de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Castelo Branco , Portugal
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 2015
Place of death Lisbon