Manuela de Freitas
Acting
Biography
Manuela de Freitas was born on September 4, 1940 in Lisbon, Portugal.
Born: September 4, 1940
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
Known For
Recollections of the Yellow House
Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's waterfront.
Hovering Over the Water
Laura Rossellini, a widow from Rome, vacations on the Algarve coast one hot summer. One day while sunbathing, she finds a wounded man named Robert drifting in the surf on a rubber raft. She takes him home, and, after he is revived, learns his story. As they talk, their mutual attraction grows, until a group of armed men suddenly arrive looking for Robert.
Fragile as the World
An impossible love. Two young people who love each other. Vera and João can’t find in this life the space, time, or identity to resolve their love story.
Agosto
Summer of 1964. The professor Carlos and the couple Dário and Alda spend time together in the beach during vacations. Away from the colonial war, everything seems lost in time.
The Spousals of God
After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy's girlfriend through a roll of the dice.
Trails
Parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during increasingly contemporary time periods.
Come and Go
João Vuvu, lives alone in a house that requires regeneration but due to being alone he is unable to do the work. On his son's release from prison and João's ensuing deception triggers a series of somber events.
The Satin Slipper
During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America. Meanwhile Prouhèze is sent to Africa to rule the city of Mogador. Ten years later Rodrigo leaves America and travels to Africa in search of Prouhèze to find out that she died and eventually meeting her daughter.
Doomed Love
A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives.
Past and Present
This is an intriguing avant-garde look at what motivates the leisurely classes in Portugal, for better or worse, by director Manoel de Oliveira. Set in a spacious country home peopled with a wide-ranging cast of characters, the drama begins as the friends of a widow come to console her on the loss of her husband. But at one point, the widow goes upstairs, encounters her husband, and is faced with his accusations about the past. This event and others provide the means of revealing the petty, self-serving, egocentric, and romantic pursuits of the melange of people in the house. - Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
Filmography
as Vidente
as Marioneta (voice)
as Fausta
as Avó
as Mrs. Assembleia
as Sister Bernarda
as Prostitute
as Conservative
as Judite
as Pharmacist
as Barriga d'Água
as Wife in Restaurant
as Sara
as Sick Woman
as Isabel
as Dona Violeta
as Nina
as Ana, Rita's Aunt (voice)
as Isabel
as Dona Isabel
as Mariana
as Mafalda
as Dina's Boss
as Raquel
as Freira
as Freira
as Atena
as Noémia
as Maria