Sofia Marques

Acting

Biography

Actress and filmmaker, Sofia Marques trained at the Escola Profissional de Teatro de Cascais and has built a career spanning cinema, theatre, television and documentary. In film, she appeared in Anda Daí by João Lameira, As Meninas Exemplares and Um Filme em Forma de Assim by João Botelho, Ordem Moral by Mário Barroso, Ramiro by Manuel Mozos, Amor Amor by Jorge Cramez and Veneno Cura by Raquel Freire, among others. As a director, she created documentaries such as Ilusão (Audience Award, DocLisboa 2014), 8816 Versos and Verdade ou Consequência. On stage, she has performed works by Brecht, Shakespeare, Lorca, Pirandello, Pasolini and Genet, in productions by Luís Miguel Cintra, António Pires, Ricardo Aibéo, Tonan Quito and Carlos Pimenta, presented at venues including Teatro Nacional São João, São Luiz Teatro Municipal and Festival de Almada. On television, her credits include A Filha (TVI), Madrugada Suja (RTP), Ao Largo (RTP), Conta-me Como Foi (RTP) and, in streaming, Glória (Netflix). She received the Prémio Autores for Best Theatre Actress and the Best Actress Award at the Pollino International Film Festival (Italy).

Place of Birth: Cascais, Portugal

Known For

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Truth or Dare?

Theatre is life, as movement is life. In "Truth or Dare?", Sofia Marques sets off in search of her friend and actor Luis Miguel Cintra; and Cintra is in search of himself, both excavating the matter and memory of theatre, the matter and memory of life. At home surrounded by statuary and by his Porto, by the sea and in Spain where he was born, on a stage of light and shadow, in the films of Manoel de Oliveira or in the poems of Ruy Belo.

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Cinerama

Humberto hanged himself. Catarina, Paulo and Victor want the company where Humberto used to work for to take responsibility in his death, leading them to kidnappe the company’s director in an act of despair. Who is Humberto? What company is that? In which paths will he take us, after his death? Cinerama is an edgy, enigmatic, but not distant film that brings up genres of cinema as well as other forms of art like dance, theatre and poetry. The film reflects ways of being in life.

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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.

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Pathos Ethos Logos

The earth, life and death, indifference and affection, abandonment, faith. Words and silence, light and shadow, the endless survival, the inability to love. A trilogy set in 2017, 2028, 2037. Three women of different generations and backgrounds cross paths; their tentative steps to fully exist evoke fragments of stories, bringing real life experiences and events into each character.

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A Filha

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Rending

A philosophy-obsessed serial rapist stalks a university campus in broad daylight.

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Ramiro

Ramiro is a bookstore owner in Lisbon and a poet in perpetual creative block. He lives, somewhat frustrated, somewhat conformed, between his shop and the tavern, accompanied by his dog, his faithful drinking companions and his neighbors: a pregnant teenager and her grandmother recovering from a stroke. He would gladly continue living this quiet and somewhat anachronistic routine if events worthy of a soap opera did not invade his bubble.

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Gloria and Grace

Gloria, a successful and happy transvestite, lives far from her sister Grace. When Grace discovers she has a terminal illness, the two try to bring their families closer together to re-establish the relationship between the cousins.

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Love Love

Marta and Jorge have been a couple for seven years. All their friends think they are living a perfect romance. Too perfect, perhaps, for the despair of all: Bruno, who is much younger than Marta but madly in love with her; Lígia, who is Bruno's sister and Marta's best friend and would love to see her brother happy; Carlos, Jorge's friend, who maintains a superficial romance with Lígia while secretly in love with Marta; and for Jorge himself, who is afraid this idyllic romance will imprison him and, convinced that his love and his lover's desire to marry will take away his freedom, decides to show her the way into Carlos arms.

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Em Volta

Vicente goes to Egypt to cover some news for his newspaper, but then he decides to take the investigation further, along the Tropic of Cancer, further and further away (in time and space) from home, and his difficult love life. Therefore he revisits the lands explored 500 years before by the seafarers from his own people: Egypt, India, Thailand, Vietnam, Nepal, Laos, China... Eventually he must come back.