Rita Blanco

Rita Blanco

Birthday: 1963-01-11

Place of Birth: Algés, Oeiras, Portugal

Biography: Estreia-se como actriz na peça Mariana Espera Casamento, de Jean-Paul Wenzel, sob a direcção de Luís Miguel Cintra, em 1983. Conclui o Curso de Formação de Actores do Conservatório Nacional, em 1985. Ainda no Teatro da Cornucópia representou Perversões de David Mamet, dirigida por Miguel Guilherme e José Pedro Gomes; Antes que a Noite Venha de Eduarda Dionísio, com Adriano Luz; Sangue no Pescoço do Gato de Fassbinder, com Luís Miguel Cintra. Em 1989 participou em Como é Diferente o Amor em Portugal, adaptação da obra de Júlio Dantas, dirigida por Fernando Gomes. Nunca Nada de Ninguém de Luísa Costa Gomes, encenado por Ana Tamen valeu-lhe a nomeação para o Prémio Garrett para a Melhor Interpretação Feminina (1991). Em 1997 participou em Peter Pan de James Barrie, encenado por António Pires no São Luiz. No cinema foi dirigida por João Botelho (1994 - Três Palmeiras; 1999 Tráfico; 2003 - A Mulher Que Acreditava Ser a Presidente dos EUA; 2005 - O Fatalista), João Mário Grilo (1998 - Longe da Vista; 2002 - A Falha; 2000 - 451 Forte), José Nascimento (2000 - Tarde Demais), Teresa Villaverde (1998 - Os Mutantes), Manoel de Oliveira (1998 - Inquietude), João César Monteiro (1992 - O Último Mergulho) ou Jorge Silva Melo (1987 - Agosto; 1985 - Ninguém duas Vezes). Na televisão, apareceu em A Mala de Cartão (1988) série que contava com a participação de Irene Papas. Trabalhou junto do humorista Herman José, em Casino Royal (1989), Crime na Pensão Estrelinha (1990) e Serafim Saudade - o regresso do Herói (2001). Participou ainda em Sai da Minha1996, Médico de Família (1998/2000), A Minha Sogra é uma Bruxa (2003), na telenovela Tempo de Viver (2006) de Rui Vilhena (a sua estreia na TVI e em telenovelas) Conta-me como Foi (2007-2009). Apresentou com Henrique Mendes o concurso Caça ao Tesouro (1994). Em 2011 após 2 anos de ausência, regressa à televisão em grande dose trabalhando nos 3 canais Portugueses generalistas: primeiro na sitcom da SIC A Família Mata, depois no telefilme da TVI O Profeta e por fim na 2ª temporada da Série da RTP Maternidades. Salienta a sua colaboração com o encenador e cineasta João Canijo. Com ele trabalhou no teatro (1988 - Crimes do Coração de Beth Henley; 1987 - Jogos de Praia de Whitehead; 1994 - Confissões ao Luar de Eugene O'Neill; 2002 - Sete Vidas de Rosa Lobato de Faria), no cinema (1988 - Três Menos Eu (Festival Les Stars De Demain); 1990 - Filha da Mãe; 2001 - Ganhar a Vida; 2004 - Noite Escura) e na televisão (1990 - Alentejo sem Lei; 1996 - Sai da Minha Vida). Premiada em 2002 e 2012 com o Globo de Ouro na categoria de Melhor Actriz de Cinema, com Ganhar a Vida e Sangue do meu Sangue de João Canijo. Foi homenageada no Festival de Santa Maria da Feira em 2004. Em 2012, foi considerada na Gala SPAUTORES, a melhor actriz de cinema, devido à sua interpretação no filme Sangue do meu Sangue

Movies

Living Bad
Living Bad

A hotel by the northern shore of Portugal welcomes its guests over the weekend. A man is torn betwee...

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Bad Living
Bad Living

In a family-run hotel, by the Portuguese northern shore, lives a group of women from different gener...

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A Mulher que Acreditava Ser Presidente dos EUA
A Mulher que Acreditava Ser Presidente dos EUA

Alexandra Lencastre plays a woman who believes she is President of the U.S.A....

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Corruption
Corruption

A crime drama based on the life of a woman who lived for years with a man that was the head of a cor...

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The Mutants
The Mutants

Three homeless teenage rejects struggle to survive together. Of them, Andreia is pregnant, while Ped...

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Traffic
Traffic

Young Jesus is taken on a vacation by his parents (Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz) to a deserted beach res...

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Blood of My Blood
Blood of My Blood

A regular family living in the outskirts of Lisbon sees the serenity of their lives shaken beyond an...

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Assim Assim
Assim Assim

Five characters intersect at a sidewalk beginning a journey through their lives....

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Amour
Amour

Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter,...

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True and Tender is the North
True and Tender is the North

Adaptation of a 1987 novel by Agustina Bessa Luis, a multi-generation exploration of a wealthy famil...

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The Actor's Work
The Actor's Work

Throughout a year's work, a group of ten actors and a film director will work together on the creati...

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O Capacete Dourado
O Capacete Dourado

The darkness of night, a barely lit place, motorbikes flirting with danger: a group of teenagers at ...

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Bewitched
Bewitched

She arrives home at the end of the day, tired. While she prepares dinner, he reads the newspaper. Fi...

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Um Filme em Forma de Assim
Um Filme em Forma de Assim

Organized like a dream, structured like a musical and with texts, both spoken and sung, that lead us...

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The Gilded Cage
The Gilded Cage

In the beautiful area of ​​Paris, Maria and José Ribeiro lived for almost thirty years on the ground...

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Tarde Demais
Tarde Demais

A touching and tragic real life story about a group of Portuguese fishermen who get caught in the mi...

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Lovely Child
Lovely Child

Maria is a sweet child. She hasn’t father and doesn’t like her mother. She has a boyfriend, A bandit...

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Get a Life
Get a Life

During one winter night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between a youth ga...

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Amelia’s Children
Amelia’s Children

When Edward’s search for his biological family leads him and his girlfriend Ryley to a magnificent v...

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The Tyrant Father
The Tyrant Father

This remake of the 1940 film with the same name tells the story of a theatre company, its men and wo...

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In Search of the Equator
In Search of the Equator

A film about two young women, trying to decide how to go on with their lives and loves: Marie just d...

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Agosto
Agosto

Summer of 1964. The professor Carlos and the couple Dário and Alda spend time together in the beach ...

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The Maias: Story of a Portuguese Family
The Maias: Story of a Portuguese Family

The tragedy and comedy in Carlos' life begins, grows and ends like the tragedy and comedy of Portuga...

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Vá Cavar Batatas
Vá Cavar Batatas

After years living in Lisbon, Castro's family makes the decision to move to the countryside....

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Game of Checkers
Game of Checkers

Following Marta's wake, her five best friends decide to spend the night at a rural tourist getaway t...

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The Last Dive
The Last Dive

Eloi, a paunchy middle-aged man, finds Samuel, a young sad sack, about to kill himself by plunging i...

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The Fatalist
The Fatalist

The complex relationship between master and servant is explored in director João Botelho's adaptatio...

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Crime at the Little Star Pension
Crime at the Little Star Pension

Neves and his wife Celia are the owners and managers of the 'Little Star Pension', a familiar hotel ...

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Fátima
Fátima

The journey of 11 women while they go on a pilgrimage from Bragança to Fatima....

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Colo
Colo

Struggling against the crisis in Portugal, a mother doubles up jobs to pay the bills since her husba...

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A Falha
A Falha

Twenty-five years after leaving school, a group of former students decide to organise a reunion. But...

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In the Darkness of the Night
In the Darkness of the Night

A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution....

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Disquiet
Disquiet

Lisbon, today. In a room of a house at Douradores Street, a man invents dreams and theorizes about t...

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Inquietude
Inquietude

An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In "The I...

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Hard Times
Hard Times

A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of t...

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Longe da Vista
Longe da Vista

In order to make some much-needed cash for himself, 65-year-old Portuguese prison inmate Eugenio imp...

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451 Forte
451 Forte

Zé Alberto and Laura are lovers, and have a clandestine and permanently threatened relationship. Zé ...

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Carga
Carga

A lorry, a road and an unpredictable destiny, all intersecting in a human trafficking network. Caugh...

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Three Less Me
Three Less Me

A young woman, working as sales-girl at a shopping center's music shop, wants someone with whom to s...

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Dead Man's Memories
Dead Man's Memories

A policeman lunching with his daughter is present when a dead body washes up on shore. He investigat...

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Three Palm Trees
Three Palm Trees

Lisbon, on a winter day in 1994, between six and fourteen o'clock. A forty-year-old woman despairs i...

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Um Passeio no Parque
Um Passeio no Parque

Things are going well to a married couple, they have two sons, and things are going well in their re...

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Mãe Há Só Uma
Mãe Há Só Uma

A moment in the life of a grievieng mother with the identity crisis of her teenage daughter. The mot...

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Circle of Passions
Circle of Passions

An aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with his ny...

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Ninguém Duas Vezes
Ninguém Duas Vezes

Director Jorge Silva Melo has developed a viable, though highly intellectual mystery story about the...

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Mário Eloy - A Runaway Painter
Mário Eloy - A Runaway Painter

Documentary about the life and work of Mário Eloy, one of the greatest painters of the second genera...

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Acts of Cinema
Acts of Cinema

Cinema and affections from life in images and what goes on outside the frame. 'Snapshots' of shootin...

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Minus 9
Minus 9

This short film is based upon a book of tales "Exemplary Crimes" by Max Aub who, in his turn, was in...

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Flesh of My Flesh
Flesh of My Flesh

A woman alone with her secret until one day she can not hold it any longer....

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Hermanias Especial Fim de Ano
Hermanias Especial Fim de Ano

New years special aired on RTP on 1991...

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Profjam #000000
Profjam #000000

ProfJam wanted to show the contrast for his debut album and do it using the big screen...

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After Dance – A Concert Film
After Dance – A Concert Film

A large, time-worn house sits on a towering, untouchable pedestal. Ressaca Bailada – Filme Concerto ...

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As Meninas Exemplares
As Meninas Exemplares

The misfortunes of Sofia, the exemplary Madalena and Camila, the troubled vacations of girls and boy...

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