Teresa Roby
Acting
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Born: July 18, 1957
Place of Birth: Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
Known For
The Mutants
Three homeless teenage rejects struggle to survive together. Of them, Andreia is pregnant, while Pedro and Ricardo hustle, steal and are exploited by a pornographer.
Get a Life
During one winter night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between a youth gang and the cops in a suburb of Paris. Cidalia, a 36 year old cleaning woman, his mother, decides to defy the code of silence of the Portuguese community and tries to find the truth. She losses her friends, her job and her family but gains a life.
A Falha
Twenty-five years after leaving school, a group of former students decide to organise a reunion. But, contrary to expectations, these "old boys" realise that time has accentuated their differences. The atmosphere is tense, the conversation taut and the old grudges resurface in no time.
Uma Vida Normal
Miguel has his life falling apart, but in one last push of hope, he tries to change that and start living a normal life.
Alex
The story of a child who faces the emptiness that surrounds the figure of his parents, disappeared in Africa.
Antonio, a boy in Lisbon
A boy in Lisbon, in this Lisbon in permanent renovation.
Jogo de Mão
In a unique approach to what amounts to four pseudo-morality plays, director Monique Rutler has a street entertainer with hand puppets summarize the characters and idea of each story. The first sketch is about a young man who shines shoes for a living, and tries to keep up a relationship with two women while convincing each she is his only true love. The next story is about a man who beats up his wife when he is drunk, and sells furs for a living. One day, as she is riding in the back of his truck with the furs, he hits a bad patch and she and some furs fall out. The question is, will the woman be enterprising and leave the jerk - or not? The third tale concerns a woman looking into how much control a prostitute has over her clients, and to really find out, she becomes a prostitute herself for awhile - leading to some quite unexpected situations. The last segment handles the uglier side of the life styles of the rich and famous.
The Heart's Root
Set in the Lisbon during the festivities of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of lovers and the old town. The story is about Cato, a nationalist politician who is charismatic and unscrupulous. He obsessively pursues Silvia, a mystical and mysterious young transvestite whom he meets at the festival. When Silvia runs into Vicente, a policeman who arrests transvestites and threatens them, Silvia must look towards blackmail to save herself. Compromising photos of Cato start to emerge among opposition parties and he must do all in his power to save his political career.
Five Days, Five Nights
Portugal, late 1940's. André must leave the country after running away from prison. In Oporto some friends get him a guide, Lambaça, a smuggler who knows very well the Trás-os-Montes border from Portugal to Spain.
Three Palm Trees
Lisbon, on a winter day in 1994, between six and fourteen o'clock. A forty-year-old woman despairs in the last eight hours preceding the birth of her first child.
Filmography
as Elsa
as Lady
as Noémia
as Babies' Mother
as Nurse
as Emília
as Conceição
as Margarida Margarante
as Esposa de Manuel
as Pedro's Mother
as Jornalista
as Alice
as Júlia
as Lurdes
as Vários Papéis
as Loura
as Fátima/Catarina
as Lili Canecas/Tininha
as D. Inês/Maria
as Mulher Grávida
as prostitute
as Rosa
as Manuela
as Regina
as Teresa