Maria João Luís
Birthday: Born in 1964-12-30 in Lisbon, Portugal
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
Uma Família Açoreana
Character: Maria Isabel do Canto
"An Azorean Family" tells the story of a wealthy family of São Miguel (Azores, Portugal) in the second half of the XIX century....
Alta Definição
Character: Self
In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach....
Rua Sésamo
Character: Voz
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Médico de Família
Character: Amélia Serrão
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Crianças S.O.S
Character:
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Queridas Feras
Character: Maria Augusta Rosado
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Bocage
Character: Cecília Bersane
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Casos da Vida
Character: Atriz na TV/Irene Oliveira/Paula Mendes
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Doce Tentação
Character: Antónia Vieira da Silva
Doce Tentação is a Portuguese telenovela that started airing on TVI on 8 January 2012....
Mulheres
Character: Atriz na TV
The stories of seven women, whose destinies intersect. Seven Lisbon couples live different moments in their relationships. Everyone has problems to solve. The challenges that each couple face are different - some more serious, others more common and predictable... and some purely selfish....
Amor Maior
Character: Pilar tavares
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Sol de Inverno
Character: Laura
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Poderosas
Character: Jacinta Lourenço
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Sedução
Character: Alice Mendes Soares
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Vidas Opostas
Character: Salomé Lemos
Eva Lemos lives a stable and seemingly happy life, until Marco, her husband, disappears suddenly after knowing that she is pregnant. Marco steals all her money, leaving her homeless and without a job, while Eva learns that Marco was only with her out of interest and lives a double life with Maria. Hatred and revolt take Eva into a journey that transforms her deeply... and not for the better....
Feitiço de Amor
Character: Maria Antónia Sacramento
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Terra Instável
Character: Margarida
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Cinzas
Character: Matilde Veiga
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Ajuste de Contas
Character: Natércia
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Dei-te Quase Tudo
Character: Sílvia Capelo
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Polícias
Character: Rita
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Verão Quente
Character: Alice Arruda
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Segredo de Justiça
Character: Rosário Lagoa
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O Jogo
Character: Filomena
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Alhos e Bugalhos
Character: Ana
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Terra Brava
Character: Maria Eduarda Gonçalves Ferreira
To avenge his dead parents, Diogo will have to destroy his lover's mom and face his younger brother. Diogo, a decorated military officer, finds out that Eduarda is responsible for the destruction of his family. He returns to his homeland to take revenge, but falls in love with her daughter, Beatriz, who is married to Tiago, his biological brother....
Mistura Fina
Character: Maria do Rosário Côrte-Real
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Quando os Lobos Uivam
Character: Filomena
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Movie Credits
A Mulher que Acreditava Ser Presidente dos EUA
Character: Fifth Comite Lady
Alexandra Lencastre plays a woman who believes she is President of the U.S.A....
The State I Am In
Character: Concierge
Clara and Hans are left-wing terrorists who have been sought by police for almost fifteen years. Their increasingly rebellious daughter Jeanne begins to pose a threat to their security when she falls in love with a boy she meets on the beach....
The Beauty and the Paparazzo
Character: Sofia
Telenovela star Mariana is on the verge of a nervous breakdown: shooting is not going smoothly, her popularity is waning, and she is forever being hounded by paparazzi. Frustrated, Mariana can't find out who is responsible for these invasions of her privacy. It is the feared 'Paparazzo' Gabriela Santos, who's real name is Juan. One day, Juan and Mariana meet by chance and fall in love. Now Juan must do everything he can to prevent Mariana from discovering his true identity....
Traffic
Character: Antónia Suzette Almeida, the sculptor
Young Jesus is taken on a vacation by his parents (Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz) to a deserted beach resort. They accidentally fall into overnight wealth after Jesus digs in the sand, uncovering a large drug stash. Others characters intersecting here include an alcoholic actress, a philandering banker, a general trafficking in arms, priests who close their church and head north as hitchhikers, politicians who watch an all-girl production of Julius Caesar, and beggars who recite a children's story in...
Camarate
Character: Luisa
In 1980, a small plane carrying the Prime Minister, the Defense Minister and six others crashed during takeoff in Camarate, Portugal, killing all on board. The police investigation decided it was an accident caused by pilot error. But controversy raged for twenty years, and the Parliament investigated it no less than six times. Finally, in 2000, in response to a suit by the families of the survivors, the High Court had to decide whether to open a criminal investigation, or close the case forever...
Em Câmara Lenta
Character: Laurence
Salvador knew Contança and Santiago. He did not know, but admired, Laurence. Among them, Laurence knew Santiago. Constance did not know Laurence. Only Santiago knew Laurence, Constança and Salvador....
Lobos
Character: Ivone
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Bobô
Character: Sofia's Mother
Sofia lives a strangely isolated life in the old apartment where she grew up in Lisbon. Mariama arrives from Guinea-Bissau, having been hired by Sofia’s mother to help take care of the house and her son. The appearance of Bobô, Mariama’s younger sister, awakens in Sofia the desire to take a stand. The forced cohabitation between Sofia and Mariama forces them to confront their own private ghosts....
Poor George
Character: Helena (voice)
One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. However, when he gets home he finds a person there....
Casanova Variations
Character: Aunt
Alone in a secluded mansion, Giacomo Casanova cries out then collapses. When the mysterious and beautiful writer, Elisa von der Recke, comes to visit, it breathes new life into the old man. A movie that captures the myth of the greatest seducer of all times, Casanova, his story is told both through fiction and on-stage opera performances that unravel the tale of his adventures, his passions, and ultimately his fear of death....
Game of Checkers
Character: Ana
Following Marta's wake, her five best friends decide to spend the night at a rural tourist getaway that Marta never got around to opening. The night becomes a long, mazelike journey through their interconnecting friendships, ultimately leading to deep self-revelations about life, themselves and a friendship that survived it all. But will this friendship be able to survive death?...
Ainda Não Acabámos: Como Se Fosse Uma Carta
Character:
A walk for half a century, yes, a letter perhaps. Travels in my life, I could call it, which I like Garrett so much. A traveling as he would like, a loose story, memories, projects, meetings. Also because, since 1995, I have done several portraits of artists (Palolo, Bravo, Lapa, Skapinakis, Bartolomeu, Angelo, Sena, Ana Vieira and I prepare Sofia Areal and Fernando Lemos), I started to think that this is my life, these meetings , see, hear, cut, show, tease. I want, with this film continue to...
The End of the World
Character: Alda
In the quietness of rural life, small disputes about the right to use a rivulet may take the proportion of a life-and-death matter.....
Alex
Character: Aunt
The story of a child who faces the emptiness that surrounds the figure of his parents, disappeared in Africa....
Bad
Character: Voice of Cathy (voice)
Concerns an Irish woman, Cathy (Pauline Cadell), who dearly loves her Portuguese lawyer husband, Pedro (Rui Morisson); however, unbeknownst to her, he engages in one tryst after another. Cathy soon finds herself trying to help a young delinquent get off heroin, while the youth's desperate mother joins a weird religious cult. In other segments, an elderly man is nearly driven mad with grief at the loss of his granddaughter in a train station, while a down-and-out jeweler ushers the young girl to ...
No Dia dos Meus Anos
Character:
This Portuguese movie directed by João Botelho, is part of The Four Elements series. This is the second episode, The Air....
Side Effects
Character: Laura
Side Effects is the story of a woman who's not afraid to believe that happiness is not only possible but the only truth to be achieved. A woman who won't give up believing in people. A woman who will fight against all adversities in order to let others not to give up a life worth living. Nowadays, the desire for happiness is a real heroic act....
Cinerama
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Humberto hanged himself. Catarina, Paulo and Victor want the company where Humberto used to work for to take responsibility in his death, leading them to kidnappe the company’s director in an act of despair. Who is Humberto? What company is that? In which paths will he take us, after his death? Cinerama is an edgy, enigmatic, but not distant film that brings up genres of cinema as well as other forms of art like dance, theatre and poetry. The film reflects ways of being in life....
Acts of Cinema
Character:
Cinema and affections from life in images and what goes on outside the frame. 'Snapshots' of shootings and the present-day memory of directors, actors and technicians....
Directo
Character: Dulce
A couple watches a bank robbery live on TV....
O Capacete Dourado
Character: Professora Azinheira
The darkness of night, a barely lit place, motorbikes flirting with danger: a group of teenagers at a crossroads playing chicken with unaware passing cars. Jota (Eduardo Frazão) stands out from this group, unclassifiable; his destiny has no straight lines save those on the asphalt. Jota lives in permanent conflict with everything and everybody in his small town. No room for stillness. And then comes Margarida (Ana Moreira). Jota has no inside, Margarida has no outside. In spite of, or because o...
Lourdes
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The young, sickly girl Bernadette comes from a poverty-stricken family. When the Virgin Mary appears to her in a cavern near Lourdes, no one takes the girl seriously, even when she digs up a wellspring at the Virgin's instructions The local authorities even try to hush up the entire incident. In vain, however, because when Empress Eugénie requests water from the spring for her sickly son, they are forced to acquiesce. And even the local priest is finally convinced. While taking his tuberculosis-...
Here on Earth
Character: Isabel (voice)
Miguel (Luis Miguel Cintra) is lucky that his income will only level off if he neglects his business as a financier, and his wife and family will be well supported. Why? Because he has begun hearing noises that no one else hears, noises that bother him a great deal, and that make it impossible for him to bear human society. His wife (Jessica Weiss) is thoroughly put out by this radically changed behavior in her formerly good husband, but though she considers leaving him, she stays by his side. D...
Crónica Feminina
Character: Branca
Sonia and Branca are two close friends at their thirties's sexual peak, on the verge of their cosmopolitan loneliness. Despite the long relationship that keeps them together, they are so distant, that it's as if they didn't really know each other. Cronica Feminina (Women's Tales) is a dramatic comedy that talks about women, but essentially approaches, from the point of view of its characters, the human need to communicate, seduce, fantasize, the need for love in the bottom of all things...
Light Traps
Character: Laura
Mário was involved in a terrorist attack in Africa. Everyone thinks it was an accident but Mário knows it wasn’t. Now, hiden in Alentejo, he knows that sooner or later " they" will find him, yet he does not want to flee with a new identity until he finds his lover Alice. "They" find him and he has to escape with the help of Matilde. A fascinating woman who will now give him shelter and pretends to help him find Alice. Time is running out for Mário and Alice....