Leonor Baldaque

Born: 1977-01-27

Leonor Bessa-Luís Alves Baldaque is a Portuguese actress who was born in 1977 in Porto and currently lives in Paris. She regularly starred on films directed by veteran Manoel de Oliveira. She is granddaughter of Award-winning writer Agustina Bessa-Luís. Leonor was one of the European Shooting Stars nominated by the European Film Promotion. In January 2012, Gallimard published her first novel "Vita (La Vie Légère)".


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I’m Going Home

as Sylvia
Released: 2001-05-13

The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken...

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Anxiety

as Fisalina
Released: 1998-05-19

An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In...

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Magic Mirror

as Vicenta / Abril
Released: 2006-03-09

Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy...

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Belle Toujours

as Young Prostitute
Released: 2006-09-08

38 years after the events in the Luis Buñuel classic Belle du jour, Henri Husson thinks he sees...

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The Portuguese Nun

as Julie de Hauranne
Released: 2009-08-09

A young French actress in Lisbon to shoot a movie is intrigued by a nun she sees kneeling in the...

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The Uncertainty Principle

as Camila
Released: 2002-05-17

Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.

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The Fifth Empire

as Woman's Choir (voice)
Released: 2004-09-09

Manoel de Oliveira directs José Régio's historical epic of religious and political power...

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Christopher Columbus, The Enigma

as Sílvia (1957-60)
Released: 2007-09-06

A true story of a doctor and his wife who went on a journey in order to prove that discoverer...

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Porto of My Childhood

as Ela
Released: 2001-09-19

Manoel de Oliveira's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.

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The Conquest of Faro

as Claudina / Donna Brites
Released: 2005-01-01

Arriving in a hotel in the city of Faro, a couple learns there are no available tables left....

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