
Laura Soveral
Acting
Biography
Laura Soveral (23 March 1933 in Benguela, Angola – 12 July 2018) was a Portuguese actress. She has performed in more than seventy films.
Born: March 23, 1933
Place of Birth: Benguela, Angola
Known For

Odisseia
A story developed in two different narratives which are interlinked. On the first one, the two friends Bruno Nogueira and Gonçalo Waddington (playing themselves) set out on a caravan trip through Portugal with the desire to escape from their daily lives and find a solution for their personal struggles. On the second one, there's the fictionalized making-off of the miniseries itself.

Guardian Angel
Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a letter he wrote. However Lúcia can't find it in her father's house. On that visit she ends up meeting with her mother, a known political activist with whom she has a distant and tense relationship. In hope of finding the letter, Lúcia leaves to the farm where she grew up, on an isolated location. There she reencounters Álvaro, an old childhood companion, who shares a little life time he has left between roses and the piano, and the guardian angel that follows and protects her through nocturnal wanderings.

Duas Vidas

Abraham's Valley
Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. In her youth she marries Dr. Carlos Paiva, her father's friend, to whom she is not attracted. They move to the valley of Abraham. Carlos loves her, but decides to sleep in a separate room to avoid waking Ema when he has to return late at night. As time goes by she begins to feel unhappy about her marriage, so she finds a new lover.

Alice
In the wake of his daughter's disappearance, a father wallowing in grief feeds his desire to find her with unusual methods.

Tabu
Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental old woman obsessed with gambling who lives tormented by a mysterious past.

Francisca
The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.

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.

Lent
David has a wife and young daughter. In a few days he will be moving abroad with his family. The death of his grandfather obliges him to return to the village of his birth and a family he hasn’t seen in years. There he meets his cousin's wife Ana, who intrigues him, and this trip, which should have ended with the funeral, turns into a long stay.

The Divine Comedy
In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lázaro, Marta, Maria, Adão, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha e Ivan Karamasov, a Philosopher, a Profet, Santa Teresa d'Avila, reciting the Divine Comedy.
Filmography
as Madame Pluche
as Senhora de Preto
as Mère Carmine
as Avó de Bruno
as Aurora
as Verónica
as Dr.ª Sílvia
as Pobre
as Rosaria's mother
as D. Matilde
as Rosa's mother
as D. Maria Pia
as D. Virgínia
as Angústias
as Teresa Mendes
as Lurdes
as the grand mother
as Rita
as Felismina
as Maria Carvalho
as the President's mother
as Camponesa
as Prima de Nika
as Aunt Judite
as Beatriz
as Cassius in 'Julius Caesar' Play
as Marta
as Dona Paula / teacher
as Sra. Conceição
as Maria Coutinho
as Maria Adelina
as Suburban Lady
as Louise Michel
as Housekeeper
as Aunt Augusta
as Mrs. Wartburg-Smith
as Elena Ivanovna
as D. Clementina
as Virginia
as D. Luísa
as Palmira
as Mother
as Dramatização
as Mrs. de Oliveira
as Inês
as Leonor
as Francisca (2º período)
as Maria dos Prazeres
as Madalena
as Narrator (voice)