
Catarina Avelar
Acting
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Born: January 9, 1939
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
Known For

Histórias de Alice
It tells the story of a Brazilian filmmaker, Lucas. When his mother, Alice, dies in Belo Horizonte, he searches for his family's Portuguese roots across the ocean, discovering an intricate love story. Lucas's father, Olavo, was the son of a very wealthy Portuguese industrialist, Joaquim, who was disinherited when he married Alice, Lucas's mother, a very poor woman who lived in a rooming house in the city of Porto, Portugal. With the Second World War looming, they all left for Brazil, settling in Minas Gerais. While investigating his distant past, Lucas makes discoveries about possible criminal acts committed by his own father, Olavo. Lucas is helped by Teresa, a young Portuguese woman who works as a restorer of old Portuguese churches in the interior of Portugal. Lucas, assisted by Teresa, seeks to reconstruct the stories of his mother Alice, and ends up falling in love with Teresa.

Massa Fresca
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.

Tell Me How It Happened
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 was broadcast on 7 December 2019 with the Lopes entering 1984.

Pôr do Sol
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...

Ballet Rose
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.

Jardins Proibidos

Fátima
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.

Prisioneira

Welcome to Beirais
Diogo Almada is a successful account manager at a telecommunications company who is struggling with serious stress and anxiety issues due to the constant state of pressure he lives in. His situation becomes worse when he suffers a stroke which puts him in hospital. There, doctors tell him that if he doesn't slow down things could become much worse for him in the future. He also meets the owner of a vegetables and herbs greenery in Beirais, a small village in the midlands, who is looking to sell it. Diogo then decides to buy him out and risk it as a farmer himself. He wants his girlfriend Teresa to come along with him, but she refuses to leave Lisbon due to her career and also because she doesn't want to give up her city comforts. But Diogo decides to move to Beirais anyway, where he is faced with an entirely different reality from what he’s used to.

Festa é Festa
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.
Filmography
as Maria de Jesus
as Senhoria
as Sónia Maluca
as Glória Leitão
as Senhora
as Quitéria
as Júlia Mendes
as Beatriz
as Avó Miquinhas
as Cecília
as Lurdes Antunes
as Ariete
as Ermelinda
as Aurora
as Florinda Natal
as Irene
as Zulmira Zuzarte
as Georgette Anys
as Suzete
as Hermínia Marques
as Maria Antónia
as Mrs. Pearce
as Rosa
as Alice
as Branca
as Jacinta Bimbô
as Filomena
as Isaltina
as Actriz no Teatro
as Old Woman
as Helena Ribeiro
as Mãe de Ursula
as Edite
as Melita Saraiva
as Titao (voice)
as D. Astrília
as D. Astrília
as Mother