Elsa Valentim
Acting
Biography
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Born: January 4, 1966
Place of Birth: Beja, Portugal
Known For
Dentro
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.
Sara
Sara is a portuguese actress who only works in film and is known for her ability to cry on cue. But one day her eyes dry up just like her interest in cinema. The solution? Soap operas.
Crónica dos Bons Malandros
Médico de Família
Autumn
In a small Portuguese town, a family is turned upside down when their son leaves to study in London. Over a year, we see a daughter's coming of age, a father's mid-life crisis, a son's emancipation and a mother coping with an "empty nest"
Jaime
A woman takes her young son, leaves her husband and moves in with her lover. The boy, desperate to get his parents back together, becomes convinced that if only he can get his father's stolen motorcycle back everything will be fine again, so he sets out to get enough money to buy his father a new one.
Cats Don't Have Vertigo
Jô is kicked out of home by his father on his birthday. Having no place to go, he takes refuge in the terrace of Rose, who just lost her husband.
Lourdes
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-stricken fiancé Claire to a sanatorium, the young doctor Henri Guillaumet meets Bernadette. The water from Lourdes' spring heals Claire's disease overnight, but the scientist in Henri doubts the miracle and wants to expose Bernadette as a liar. It is not until Henri again meets Bernadette, who has in the meantime become a nun and works as a nurse, that he finds a way to balance belief and modern science. And his love for Claire is strengthened as well.
Filmography
as Susana
as Funcionária Centro Emprego
as La femme qui râle
as Cocinera
as Cozinheira
as Tia Miséria
as Isabelita
as Eugénia Alves Craveiro
as Amiga Júlia #1
as Cidália Bettencourt
as Almerinda
as Laura
as Manuela
as Beatriz (Mãe de Maria)
as Isabel
as Vizinha
as Teresa
as Eunice
as Natércia
as Mãe de João Maria
as Alice
as Ilda Piedade
as Victória Miranda
as Emília
as Teresa
as Mrs. Andrade
as Cláudia
as Paula
as Rute Vargas
as Cristina Coutinho
as Eulália
as Nurse
as Marta
as Cláudia
as Ana
as Helena Vilhena
as Kinésithérapeute Fred
as Zélia