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Maria de Medeiros is a Actor, Director and Writer Portugaise born on 19 august 1965 at Lisbon (Portugal)

Maria de Medeiros

Maria de Medeiros
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Birth name Maria de Medeiros Esteves Victorino de Almeida
Nationality Portugal
Birth 19 august 1965 (59 years) at Lisbon (Portugal)

Maria Esteves de Medeiros Vitorino de Almeida, (born 19 August 1965), known as Maria de Medeiros ([mɐˈɾiɐ ðɨ mɨˈðɐjɾuʃ]), is a Portuguese actress, director, and singer who has been involved in both European and American film productions.

Biography

Maria de Medeiros est née à Lisbonne dans une famille de l'intelligentsia portugaise. Sa mère, Maria Armanda de Saint-Maurice Ferreira Esteves, est journaliste et son père, António Victorino de Almeida, est chef d’orchestre, compositeur et historien de la musique.

Elle a vécu toute son enfance à Vienne en Autriche où son père est attaché culturel, puis rentre à Lisbonne avec ses parents auprès des leurs, à la suite de la Révolution des Œillets en 1974. Elle a effectué toute sa scolarité dans des collèges et lycées français et parle couramment portugais, français, anglais, allemand, espagnol et italien.
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Best films

I, Cesar (2003)
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Filmography of Maria de Medeiros (70 films)

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Actress

The Saddest Music in the World, 1h40
Directed by Guy Maddin
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Musical
Themes Mafia films, Musical films, Gangster films
Actors Isabella Rossellini, Mark McKinney, Maria de Medeiros, David Fox, Darcy Fehr
Roles Narcissa
Rating69% 3.4987653.4987653.4987653.4987653.498765
During the Great depression in 1933 in Winnipeg, Canada, baroness Helen Port-Huntley (Isabella Rossellini) announces a competition to find the saddest music in the world, as a publicity stunt to promote her company, Muskeg Beer, as Prohibition is about to end in the United States. The prize is $25,000 "Depression-era dollars" and musicians from all over the world pour into Winnipeg to compete. Chester Kent (Mark McKinney), a failing Broadway producer, decides to enter the contest representing America, even though he is Canadian and originally from Winnipeg.
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I, Cesar
I, Cesar (2003)
, 1h31
Directed by Richard Berry
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Jules Sitruk, Charley Boorman, Joséphine Berry, Mabô Kouyaté, Maria de Medeiros, Stéphane Guillon
Roles Chantal Petit
Rating60% 3.018873.018873.018873.018873.01887
Dix ans et demi, 1m39, les parents, les disputes, les amis, le premier amour, la rivalité, l'école, l'autorité, ces quelques kilos en trop... Autant de choses qui font le petit monde de César. Timide, il parle peu mais pense énormément. Et forcément, comme ses parents ne prennent pas le temps de lui raconter la réalité, il l'imagine...
Stranded
Stranded (2001)
, 1h35
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, La fin du monde, Mars in film, Films set in the future, Space opera, Disaster films
Actors Vincent Gallo, Maria de Medeiros, Joaquim de Almeida, José Sancho or Pepe Sancho
Roles Jenny Johnsen
Rating53% 2.6528852.6528852.6528852.6528852.652885
The film is set in 2020 and begins as the Ares spacecraft enters orbit around Mars. Andre Vishniac commands an international crew of seven astronauts. They try to land, but the small landing craft crashes as a result of an altimeter error. Vishniac is immediately killed, and five other crew members are stranded inside the toppled landing craft, unable to return to the waiting Ares mothercraft. With no spare landing craft, Lowell, the pilot of the Ares, returns to Earth with it.
Porto of My Childhood, 1h32
Directed by Manoel de Oliveira
Origin Portugal
Genres Drama, Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about cities, Autobiographical documentary films
Actors Manoel de Oliveira, Ricardo Trêpa, Maria de Medeiros, Ricardo Trêpa, Rogério Samora, Leonor Baldaque
Roles Miss Diablo
Rating70% 3.5317953.5317953.5317953.5317953.531795
Roulant à travers les rues du vieux Porto, le réalisateur Manoel de Oliveira se souvient d'une promenade faite la nuit, à sa demande, quand il avait neuf ou dix ans, alors qu'il rentrait à la maison avec sa mère après une soirée au théâtre.
The Xango from Baker Street, 2h4
Directed by Miguel Faria, Jr.
Origin Bresil
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Serial killer films
Actors Joaquim de Almeida, Letícia Sabatella, Marco Nanini, Cláudia Abreu, Anthony O'Donnell, Maria de Medeiros
Roles Sarah Bernhardt
Rating65% 3.295143.295143.295143.295143.29514
Rio de Janeiro, 1886. Actress Sarah Bernhardt performs at the city's Municipal Theater, captivating the local audience enthralled by French culture. The city is at her feet, and even the Emperor Pedro II comes to pay his respects. He confides a secret to her: the disappearance of a precious Stradivarius violin presented by him to the charming widow Baroness Maria Luiza. The actress suggests to the monarch to hire her friend, the legendary British detective Sherlock Holmes, to solve the case. Subsequently, a brutal murder shocks the city, and leaves the police superintendent Mello Pimenta: a prostitute had been killed and mutilated, her ears cut off and a violin cord strategically placed on her body by the perpetrator.
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Man of the Crowds, 1h30
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Jerzy Radziwiłowicz, Maria de Medeiros, Danuta Stenka, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Isabel Ruth, Jerzy Bończak
Roles Dr. Giordano
Rating67% 3.3889053.3889053.3889053.3889053.388905
Un homme en visite dans la cathédrale de Lisbonne s'effondre brusquement, victime du syndrome de Stendhal. Transféré à l'hôpital, il est confié à une jeune interne, à qui il finit par révéler un secret.
April Captains, 2h3
Directed by Maria de Medeiros
Origin Portugal
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Stefano Accorsi, Maria de Medeiros, Joaquim de Almeida, Frédéric Pierrot, Fele Martínez, Emmanuel Salinger
Roles Antónia
Rating70% 3.542813.542813.542813.542813.54281
The film opens on the evening of 24 April 1974, as a young conscript soldier (Daniel) kisses farewell to his girlfriend (Rosa) before boarding a train from Lisbon back to his Army base at Santarem. Both are fearful that he will be sent to fight in the Portuguese Colonial War. Late and depressed, Rosa then travels by tram to Antonia's flat to babysit for her daughter Amelia. On arriving back (late) at his base, Daniel is oblivious to the imminent coup. Captain Salgueiro Maia arrests the base commander at gunpoint and orders the soldiers to assemble on parade in the middle of the night; he asks them to come with him to Lisbon to overthrow the government.
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Second life, 1h40
Directed by Patrick Braoudé
Origin France
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Sports films, Time travel films, Association football films
Actors Patrick Braoudé, Maria de Medeiros, Daniel Russo, Isabelle Candelier, Gad Elmaleh, Élie Semoun
Roles Laurie
Rating51% 2.5760552.5760552.5760552.5760552.576055
8 July 1982. In World Cup semifinal France was beaten by West Germany in penalty kicks, after leading 3-1 in extra time: It is a national tragedy.
Babel
Babel (1999)
, 1h35
Directed by Gérard Pullicino
Origin France
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Les fées
Actors Tchéky Karyo, Maria de Medeiros, Michel Jonasz, Bronwen Booth, Garry Robbins, Maxim Roy
Roles Alice
Rating37% 1.8693151.8693151.8693151.8693151.869315
Alors que la Lune entre dans l'ombre de la Terre pour une exceptionnelle éclipse, d'étranges créatures émergent des profondeurs avec en main le parchemin qui doit leur servir de plan. Le lendemain, le chien de David rapporte à son jeune maître un document ancien qu'il a déniché dans la rue. Le père du gamin, un publicitaire toujours en quête de nouvelles sources d'inspiration, va utiliser cette trouvaille pour une nouvelle campagne.
Les Infortunes de la beauté, 1h21
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Arielle Dombasle, Maria de Medeiros, Thibault de Montalembert, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Leonor Varela
Roles Céline
Rating55% 2.757382.757382.757382.757382.75738
Pour mieux séduire Vincent, quelque peu volage, Daphné ourdit un plan aussi charmant que machiavélique avec l'aide de son amie Céline. C'est ainsi que Daphné et Céline partent à la recherche de la beauté parfaite à travers Paris. Les deux complices déambulent, évitent, tranchent, manigancent sans fin et, avec l'aide d'un peintre et d'un collectionneur, nous entrainent dans une ronde folle dont on ne sait qui la mène, et qui en sera la victime.
Guerra e liberdade, Castro Alves em São Paulo
Directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Origin Bresil
Genres Drama
Actors Maria de Medeiros
Roles Eugénia Câmara

Le film est une biographie du grand poète et dramaturge brésilien du XIX siècle Castro Alves, mort à 24 ans de la tuberculose, et qui vécut une histoire d'amour tumultueuse avec Eugénia Câmara.
Limited Edition, 1h25
Directed by Bernard Rapp, Emmanuel Gust
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about writers
Actors Terence Stamp, Maria de Medeiros, Daniel Mesguich, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Frank Finlay, Amira Casar
Roles Nancy Pickford
Rating64% 3.236893.236893.236893.236893.23689
Nicolas (Daniel Mesguich) apporte son dernier manuscrit à son ami Edward (Terence Stamp). Si le style séduit Edward, l'histoire lui rappelle étrangement un crime dont il fut l'un des acteurs 30 ans auparavant...