Catarina Avelar
Birthday: Born in 1939-01-09 in Lisbon, Portugal
Deathday: Alive
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Festa é Festa
Character: Glória Leitão
A village in the interior of Portugal is preparing the best village festival ever, in the year that marks the centenary of its greatest benefactor. Everyone does their best in organizing the party always with something in mind: the inheritance of the elderly woman....
Milionários à Força
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Redenção
Character: Florinda Natal
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Cuidado com as Aparências
Character: Jacinta Bimbô
A snobbish housewife is determined to climb the social ladder, in spite of her family's working class connections and the constant chagrin of her long suffering husband. Portuguese remake of the British classic Keeping Up Appearances....
Conta-me Como Foi
Character: Hermínia Marques
Conta-me como foi (transl. Tell me how it was) is a Portuguese television drama series which has been broadcast on RTP1 of Rádio e Televisão de Portugal from 2007 to 2011 and since 2019. It recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Lopes (Portuguese: Os Lopes), during the last years of the Estado Novo. In February 2019, RTP announced that the series, after eight years shelved, would be renewed, with the storyline moving firmly into the 1980s. The first episode of the sixth season w...
Pôr do Sol
Character: Sónia Maluca
Love, passion, mystery, betrayal makes the days of the Pôr do Sol estate. The Bourbon de Linhaça family owns the Pôr do Sol estate, but not everything is rosy......
O Sábio
Character: Júlia Mendes
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Prisioneira
Character: Senhora
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Velhos Amigos
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The adventures and lives of three old friends....
Maternidade
Character: Irene
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Cidade Despida
Character: Suzete
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Bem-Vindos a Beirais
Character: Ariete
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Sabbath
Character: D. Astrília
Exploring perspectives on witches from different angles, ranging from historical accounts to popular folklore, shedding light on the complex narratives surrounding these notorious figures....
Super Pai
Character: Branca
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Na Paz dos Anjos
Character: Melita Saraiva
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Amanhecer
Character: Rosa
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Terra Mãe
Character: Actriz no Teatro
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A Lenda da Garça
Character: Filomena
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Polícias
Character: Mãe de Ursula
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Ballet Rose - Vidas Proibidas
Character: Isaltina
When the Portuguese police began to investigate, in 1967, an illegal prostitution network, they ended up stumbling upon a huge secret that could shake the foundations of the republican regime: a select group of prostitutes who organized parties with teenage girls to secretly satisfy the sexual desires of bankers, politicians, ministers, aristocrats and powerful businessmen: the Ballet Rose Case....
Queridas e Maduras
Character: Edite
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Alguém Perdeu
Character: Quitéria
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Camilo Em Sarilhos
Character: Maria Antónia
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Massa Fresca
Character: Avó Miquinhas
Maria Miguel, a young, optimistic 21-year-old girl that lost her mother to cancer three years ago and has never met her father, is forced to struggle daily to make a living in a local pizzeria in order to pay a debt. Her life changes dramatically when a wealthy family takes her to live into their house after a bike accident which saved the family's children....
Aqui Tão Longe
Character: Cecília
A Portuguese series, dealing with terrorism, crime, and the economical crises in Portugal....
Jardins Proibidos
Character: Lurdes Antunes
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O Segredo de Miguel Zuzarte
Character: Zulmira Zuzarte
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All Is Well
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As the summer of 1980 ends, 16 and 17 year old sisters Maria and Alda flee to Lisbon from Angola?s civil war. In the hands of fate, they must learn to live without money in a foreign city. On the edge of the law, the two have to grow up and become women. When the problems are already overwhelming, news comes that makes them unbearable. This blow, however, will give them the push to decide their futures: Alda is going to France and Maria back to Angola in search of her roots....
The Curse of Marialva
Character: D. Astrília
A Visigoth count conquers a small village town from the Moors in the Lusitanian mountains, only to loose his possessions through the mysterious workings of a woman from parts unknown....
My Fair Lady: Minha Linda Senhora
Character: Mrs. Pearce
The protagonists of this classic are Anabela, in the role of “Eliza Doolitle”, and Carlos Quintas, who plays the demanding professor “Henry Higgins”, at the head of a luxury cast of more than 70 actors, singers, dancers and musicians....
Blood'less' Revolution
Character: Senhoria
In 1974, a group of men lost their lives in what is still called today the Bloodless Revolution of Portugal....
Histórias de Alice
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O Segredo das Pedras Vivas
Character: Beatriz
In an isolated village of the Alentejo region, a conflict arises. José Vitorino, one of the landowners of the region, rich in prehistoric monuments, wants to build a luxurious solarium in lands filled with ancient rocks, places of devotion and sacred rituals. Indifferent to the people’s protest, who believe in the magical powers of the stones and that the region’s drought is due to the rocks’ destruction, José Vitorino hires an architect to plan his new house. On christmas eve, in the middle of...
Vidas a Crédito
Character: Aurora
Sofia is a big spender so she frequently abuses of the credit card. When her husband is fired, she is forced to change her life....
Gigola
Character: Georgette Anys
George, a charismatic and adventurous young woman, born from an old, catholic family, falls in love, in her teens, with a female teacher named Sybil. Devastated by her lover's eventual suicide, some years later, George embarks on an exciting and reckless journey to the depths of Pigalle's nightlife, circa 1960. After an encounter with a very wealthy, still attractive, but older woman, Odete, who offers her money and gifts in return for sexual favours, George becomes Gigola, a kind of gigolo for ...
Fátima
Character: Old Woman
1917, a beautiful apparition of Our Lady forever alters the lives of three children: Lucinda, Jacita and Francisco who lived in Villa Fatima in Portugal....
A Viagem do Senhor Ulisses
Character: Ermelinda
The story of an old man who does not settle for being abandoned by his own son in a hospital, venturing with the company of a rebellious teenager in a long and troubled way in search of the family, in which will also find a new life....
Aqui D'El Rei!
Character: Titao (voice)
At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry officer, imprisoned in Mozambique the tribal chief Gungunhana, who had rebelled against Portuguese government and sovereignty. Mouzinho instantly becomes a national hero but his raising popularity worries the State....
As Ruínas no Interior
Character: Mother
During World War II, during a misty morning, near a fishermen's village, four children come across two RAF pilots ejected from a plane that crashed in the sea....