Virgílio Castelo

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Virgílio Castelo

Virgílio Manuel da Costa Castelo (born February 26, 1953 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese actor.

Life

His father was a continental Portuguese , his mother came from the Portuguese overseas possessions of Goa , the then Portuguese India . As a high school student, he began working as a model in advertising. In 1974 he started as an actor at the Teatro Adoque. After a variety of comical and serious plays, he left the Adoque in 1977 and took on his first film roles, mostly in productions for the public television RTP . In addition, he continued to play theater, for example in Büchner's Woyzeck 1978 at the Teatro Cornucópia , staged by Jorge Silva Melo , Luís Miguel Cintra and Cristina Reis . As a scholarship holder of the Gulbenkian Foundation , he went to the University of Strasbourg from 1978 to 1981 to study theater , and during that time also appeared on the stage at the Théâtre national de Strasbourg , for example in Gorki's Die Kleinbürger , Shakespeare's Midsummer Night 's Dream , Georg Kaiser's Side by Side , and in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler .

After playing Baal (Brecht) at the Teatro da Trindade in 1980, he began working regularly for television with a role in the successful telenovela Vila Faia . With his series roles, but also in talk shows and in the comic series Humor de Perdição (from 1987), at the side of Herman José , the level of awareness of Castelos increased. He also appeared more often in productions of Portuguese films , including in Crónica dos Bons Malandros by Fernando Lopes (1984) and in the award-winning O Bobo by José Álvaro Morais (1987).

In the 1990s, Castelo also began to work behind the scenes and in front of the camera, as a television producer and others. a. as general director of Nicolau Breyner's production company NBP, and as theater director, around 1997 with Israel Horovitz ' O Jogo da Macaca in Porto , at the Teatro da Alfândega. He was also still on stage himself. These included some attention-grabbing productions, such as 1990 Leonard Nimoys Vincent in Galeria 2062 in the Amoreiras shopping center (director: António Feio ), 1995 O Tempo eo Quarto (Time and the Room) by Botho Strauss in the Teatro Aberto (director: João Lourenço ) or in 2002 in Partitura Inacabada (unfinished score) based on Chekhov's Platonov at the Cine-Teatro Avenida in Castelo Branco (director: Paulo Matos ). He became known to the general public primarily with a large number of television series, and from 1992 to 1995 he also moderated the popular entertainment program Isto Só Vídeo . He also played leading roles in movies again and again, for example in 2009 in Joaquim Leitão's successful A Esperança Está Onde Menos Se Espera (English: Hope is where you least expect it), but his regular appearances on television and in particular are still today in the popular telenovelas the reason for its popularity.

In 2008 Virgílio Castelo's first novel, O Último Navegador (The Last Navigator), was published by A Esfera dos Livros ( ISBN 978-989-626-120-7 ).

After a first marriage to Maria de Fátima de Melo Custódio, from which their daughter Tâmara de Melo Castelo (* 1984) emerged, Castelo married the actress Alexandra Lencastre . After the publicly noticed divorce of the childless relationship in 1995, Castelo married the photographer Maria Lucena in 2002, with whom he has two daughters, Violeta de Lucena Castelo (* 2004) and Sancha de Lucena Castelo (* 2009). The separation from her in October 2012 was also the subject of reporting in Portugal.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos : Dicionário do cinema português 1962 - 1988 , 1st edition, Editorial Caminho , Lisbon 1989, pp. 86f
  2. ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos: Dicionário do cinema português 1989 - 2003 , Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2005, p. 128f ( ISBN 972-21-1763-7 )
  3. ↑ Virgílio Castelo ( Memento of the original from October 15, 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. at www.cinema.no.sapo.pt, accessed October 12, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cinema.sapo.pt
  4. ↑ Portrait in the society magazine Caras of November 10, 2009, accessed on October 12, 2013
  5. ↑ Article of October 19, 2012 in the society magazine Lux on relationships and children of Virgílio Castelo, accessed on October 12, 2013
  6. ↑ Article of October 18, 2012 on the occasion of the separation in Caras magazine , accessed on October 12, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Castelo, Virgílio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Castelo, Virgílio Manuel da Costa (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisbon , Portugal