
Marina Mota
Acting
Biography
Marina da Conceição Ribeiro Mota is a Portuguese actress, singer and producer. As one of the best-known faces of comedy in Portugal, she has a most extensive curriculum in the areas of revue theatre and comedy television.
Born: October 7, 1962
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
Known For

Uma Noite no Parque Mayer
To celebrate the 100 years of the famous Parque Mayer in Lisbon, a staple of Portuguese culture, La Féria presents an entertaining night full of numbers that throw us back to the golden age of revue theatre.

Quer o Destino
A story of love and revenge of a woman who, as an adult, returns to the place where she was raped and where she will be surprised with her ability to overcome.

Alta Definição
In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach.

A Protegida
In the heart of the Alentejo countryside, Mariana and José Diogo are two children whose backgrounds could not be more different: she is the fruit of a loving relationship; he's an orphan. She has a safe haven in her family to run to when she gets hurt; he can only run to her.

Destinos Cruzados

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.

Para Sempre
Pedro is an enigmatic man with only one goal: to get Clara back, his first and only love. However, this meeting is almost impossible. Above all, because she is engaged to his brother Lourenço, the man who Pedro will save. And what will Lourenço do when he realizes that his savior may, after all, steal everything from him?

Lady of Tides
On her birthday, Joana's joy turns to despair when her abusive husband discovers her pregnancy and attempts to harm her. Fleeing the city, she finds refuge on a boat with criminals, but realizing the danger, she sees land beyond so leaps into the water and swims to Terceira Island, leaving her life behind. Exhausted on the shore, she encounters Chico, a lost child, during a religious ceremony. Joana arrives with the child, inadvertently becoming mistaken for a saint 'Our Lady of the Sea', revered by the island's faithful.

Timeless Love
Catarina embarks on a dangerous journey to find who made her mother vanish. The Torres family seems to be the obvious suspect, but within them there's Vasco, the love of Catarina's life. Two opposed sides connected by love.

Motel Valkirias
In a cross-border motel, the lives of three women with major economic and personal problems intersect in a fortuitous way when they meet Elixio, a motel customer who is carrying a very valuable commodity.
Filmography
as Anita Moreno
as Judite Gonçalves
as Carolina Carneiro
as Julieta Formiga
as Antónia Novais
as Joana Branco Reis
as Barbara
as Josefina
as Salette Silva
as Lucinda
as Emília Cabreira
as Amália Santelmo Raposo
as Self
as Rosa Amaral
as Marina Montoya
as Various
as Self
as Marina Loureiro
as Amélia
as Própria
as Various