Activities : Director, Scriptwriter, Adaptation and/or dialogue writer, Actress
Represented by : Adéquat
Agent : Laurent Grégoire

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Shelter(2007), from Marco Simon Puccioni
Dans les cordes(2006), from Magaly Richard-Serrano
Je m'appelle Elisabeth(2005), from Jean-Pierre Améris
Je t'aime...moi non plus(2004), from Maria De Medeiros
Talents Cannes 2004 : Mathilde au matin(2004), from Maria De Medeiros
1m39 I, Cesar(2003), from Richard Berry
Oxala(2002), from Patricia Atanazio
Roberto Succo(2001), from Cédric Kahn
Water and Salt(2001), from Teresa Villaverde
Porto of My Childhood(2001), from Manoel de Oliveira

Complete filmography

Maria de Medeiros has acted in film, television and theater. Since her first role in 1980 in Joao Cesar Monteiro’s “Sylvestre,” she has performed in more than thirty films in Portugal, France and the United States. She was Anaïs Nin for Philip Kaufman in “Henry and June” (1989), and performed alongside Bruce Willis in Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction.” In 1994, she received the Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival for her performance in Teresa Villaverde’s “Tres Irmaos.” This was followed by the Portuguese Golden Globe for her work in “Adam and Eve,” by Joaquim Leitao. In terms of French cinema, she has appeared in “Good News from God,” by Didier Le Pêcheur, “Babel,” by Gérard Pullicino and “L’Homme de ma vie,” by Jean-Charles Tachella. Since graduating in the mid-80s from the National Conservatory for Dramatic Arts in France, she has performed in various plays on the French stage. She directed three short films (“Severine C,” “Fragment II” and “A Morte do principe”) before writing and directing her first feature film, “Capitaine d’avril,” which has been selected for many international film festivals (Cannes, Montréal, Toronto, Pusan, Sao Paulo). The film will be released in France 17 January, 2001.