Rita Blanco
Estreia-se como actriz na peça Mariana Espera Casamento, de Jean-Paul Wenzel, sob a direcção de Luís Miguel Cintra, em 1983. Conclui o Curso de Formação de Actores do Conservatório Nacional, em 1985. Ainda no Teatro da Cornucópia representou Perversões de David Mamet, dirigida por Miguel Guilherme e José Pedro Gomes; Antes que a Noite Venha de Eduarda Dionísio, com Adriano Luz; Sangue no Pescoço do Gato de Fassbinder, com Luís Miguel Cintra. Em 1989 participou em Como é Diferente o Amor em Portugal, adaptação da obra de Júlio Dantas, dirigida por Fernando Gomes. Nunca Nada de Ninguém de Luísa Costa Gomes, encenado por Ana Tamen valeu-lhe a nomeação para o Prémio Garrett para a Melhor Interpretação Feminina (1991). Em 1997 participou em Peter Pan de James Barrie, encenado por António Pires no São Luiz. No cinema foi dirigida por João Botelho (1994 - Três Palmeiras; 1999 Tráfico; 2003 - A Mulher Que Acreditava Ser a Presidente dos EUA; 2005 - O Fatalista), João Mário Grilo (1998 - Longe da Vista; 2002 - A Falha; 2000 - 451 Forte), José Nascimento (2000 - Tarde Demais), Teresa Villaverde (1998 - Os Mutantes), Manoel de Oliveira (1998 - Inquietude), João César Monteiro (1992 - O Último Mergulho) ou Jorge Silva Melo (1987 - Agosto; 1985 - Ninguém duas Vezes). Na televisão, apareceu em A Mala de Cartão (1988) série que contava com a participação de Irene Papas. Trabalhou junto do humorista Herman José, em Casino Royal (1989), Crime na Pensão Estrelinha (1990) e Serafim Saudade - o regresso do Herói (2001). Participou ainda em Sai da Minha1996, Médico de Família (1998/2000), A Minha Sogra é uma Bruxa (2003), na telenovela Tempo de Viver (2006) de Rui Vilhena (a sua estreia na TVI e em telenovelas) Conta-me como Foi (2007-2009). Apresentou com Henrique Mendes o concurso Caça ao Tesouro (1994). Em 2011 após 2 anos de ausência, regressa à televisão em grande dose trabalhando nos 3 canais Portugueses generalistas: primeiro na sitcom da SIC A Família Mata, depois no telefilme da TVI O Profeta e por fim na 2ª temporada da Série da RTP Maternidades. Salienta a sua colaboração com o encenador e cineasta João Canijo. Com ele trabalhou no teatro (1988 - Crimes do Coração de Beth Henley; 1987 - Jogos de Praia de Whitehead; 1994 - Confissões ao Luar de Eugene O'Neill; 2002 - Sete Vidas de Rosa Lobato de Faria), no cinema (1988 - Três Menos Eu (Festival Les Stars De Demain); 1990 - Filha da Mãe; 2001 - Ganhar a Vida; 2004 - Noite Escura) e na televisão (1990 - Alentejo sem Lei; 1996 - Sai da Minha Vida). Premiada em 2002 e 2012 com o Globo de Ouro na categoria de Melhor Actriz de Cinema, com Ganhar a Vida e Sangue do meu Sangue de João Canijo. Foi homenageada no Festival de Santa Maria da Feira em 2004. Em 2012, foi considerada na Gala SPAUTORES, a melhor actriz de cinema, devido à sua interpretação no filme Sangue do meu Sangue
Amelia’s Children
as Sra. VieiraWhen Edward’s search for his biological family leads him and his girlfriend Ryley to a...
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Amour
as ConciergeGeorges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their...
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The Gilded Cage
as Maria RibeiroIn the beautiful area of Paris, Maria and José Ribeiro lived for almost thirty years on the...
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Corruption
as the General's wifeA crime drama based on the life of a woman who lived for years with a man that was the head of a...
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In the Darkness of the Night
as Celeste PintoA disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.
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Carga
as LuísaA lorry, a road and an unpredictable destiny, all intersecting in a human trafficking network....
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Bad Living
as SaraIn a family-run hotel, by the Portuguese northern shore, lives a group of women from different...
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The Maias: Story of a Portuguese Family
as D. Maria da CunhaThe tragedy and comedy in Carlos' life begins, grows and ends like the tragedy and comedy of...
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The Fatalist
as Ms. DThe complex relationship between master and servant is explored in director João Botelho's...
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Colo
as SílviaStruggling against the crisis in Portugal, a mother doubles up jobs to pay the bills since her...
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Tarde Demais
as ArleteA touching and tragic real life story about a group of Portuguese fishermen who get caught in...
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A Mulher que Acreditava Ser Presidente dos EUA
as Maria de Lurdes, the SecretaryAlexandra Lencastre plays a woman who believes she is President of the U.S.A.
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Dead Man's Memories
as MariaA policeman lunching with his daughter is present when a dead body washes up on shore. He...
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Traffic
as Jesus' motherYoung Jesus is taken on a vacation by his parents (Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz) to a deserted beach...
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Fátima
as Ana MariaThe journey of 11 women while they go on a pilgrimage from Bragança to Fatima.
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Anxiety
as GabiAn anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In...
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Agosto
as Young woman at the beachSummer of 1964. The professor Carlos and the couple Dário and Alda spend time together in the...
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The Last Dive
as IvoneEloi, a paunchy middle-aged man, finds Samuel, a young sad sack, about to kill himself by...
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Circle of Passions
as uncreditedAn aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with...
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Blood of My Blood
as MárciaA regular family living in the outskirts of Lisbon sees the serenity of their lives shaken...
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Living Bad
as SaraA hotel by the northern shore of Portugal welcomes its guests over the weekend. A man is torn...
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Get a Life
as CidáliaDuring one winter night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between a...
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O Capacete Dourado
as uncreditedThe darkness of night, a barely lit place, motorbikes flirting with danger: a group of teenagers...
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Disquiet
as Mulher da GramáticaLisbon, today. In a room of a house at Douradores Street, a man invents dreams and theorizes...
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A Falha
as AnaTwenty-five years after leaving school, a group of former students decide to organise a reunion....
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The Mutants
as PsychologistThree homeless teenage rejects struggle to survive together. Of them, Andreia is pregnant, while...
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Assim Assim
as AnaFive characters intersect at a sidewalk beginning a journey through their lives.
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True and Tender is the North
as D. AntóniaAdaptation of a 1987 novel by Agustina Bessa Luis, a multi-generation exploration of a wealthy...
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The Tyrant Father
as uncreditedThis remake of the 1940 film with the same name tells the story of a theatre company, its men...
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Longe da Vista
as RuteIn order to make some much-needed cash for himself, 65-year-old Portuguese prison inmate Eugenio...
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Three Less Me
as RitaA young woman, working as sales-girl at a shopping center's music shop, wants someone with whom...
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Three Palm Trees
as PedinteLisbon, on a winter day in 1994, between six and fourteen o'clock. A forty-year-old woman...
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Lovely Child
as MariaMaria is a sweet child. She hasn’t father and doesn’t like her mother. She has a boyfriend, A...
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Hard Times
as Luisa Cremalheira (voice)A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town...
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Minus 9
as uncreditedThis short film is based upon a book of tales "Exemplary Crimes" by Max Aub who, in his turn,...
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Um Passeio no Parque
as MargaridaThings are going well to a married couple, they have two sons, and things are going well in...
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In Search of the Equator
as PépinA film about two young women, trying to decide how to go on with their lives and loves: Marie...
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Um Filme em Forma de Assim
as uncreditedOrganized like a dream, structured like a musical and with texts, both spoken and sung, that...
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Acts of Cinema
as uncreditedCinema and affections from life in images and what goes on outside the frame. 'Snapshots' of...
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Hermanias Especial Fim de Ano
as uncreditedNew years special aired on RTP on 1991
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Crime at the Little Star Pension
as TóniaNeves and his wife Celia are the owners and managers of the 'Little Star Pension', a familiar...
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Flesh of My Flesh
as SofiaA woman alone with her secret until one day she can not hold it any longer.
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Profjam #000000
as Rita BlancoProfJam wanted to show the contrast for his debut album and do it using the big screen
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The Actor's Work
as HerselfThroughout a year's work, a group of ten actors and a film director will work together on the...
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Mário Eloy - A Runaway Painter
as Beatriz Costa (voice)Documentary about the life and work of Mário Eloy, one of the greatest painters of the second...
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Game of Checkers
as MónicaFollowing Marta's wake, her five best friends decide to spend the night at a rural tourist...
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Vá Cavar Batatas
as SofiaAfter years living in Lisbon, Castro's family makes the decision to move to the countryside.
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Bewitched
as uncreditedShe arrives home at the end of the day, tired. While she prepares dinner, he reads the...
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Alta Definição
as SelfIn Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach.
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Timeless Love
as Natália FontesCatarina embarks on a dangerous journey to find who made her mother vanish. The Torres family...
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Conta-me Como Foi
as Margarida Marques LopesConta-me como foi (transl. Tell me how it was) is a Portuguese television drama series which has...
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Paixão
as Maria Paula Martins GuerreiroWith Algarve and South Africa as main stages, Paixão tells the story of a love that was...
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For You
as Renata JonesIn the parish of Rio Meandro, two villages are at war over the construction of a dam that will...
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Sara
as JúliaSara is a portuguese actress who only works in film and is known for her ability to cry on cue....
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Odisseia
as RitaA story developed in two different narratives which are interlinked. On the first one, the two...
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