Cast

Luís Miguel Cintra

Acting

Cast

Luís Miguel Cintra

Known for

Acting

Born

1949-04-29

From

Madrid, Spain

Biography

An iconic actor and stage director in Portugal, Luís Miguel Cintra was born in Madrid, in 1949. His connection to theater began in 1968, at the Faculty of Letters Theater Group, when he was studying Romance Philology at the University of Lisbon. From 1970 to 1972, he attended the Acting Technical Course, in the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, thanks to a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. When he returned to Portugal, he founded, along with Jorge Silva Melo, the Teatro da Cornucópia Company, in 1973, where he directed plays by some of the great names in theater, including Aeschylus, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Brecht, Beckett, Strindberg, and many others, almost always participating as an actor in the plays he directed. At the same time, until the 80s, he was a theater critic for O Tempo e o Modo magazine and he managed the Seara Nova Theater Collection, from Estampa publishing house, and the Theater Collection, from Ulmeiro publishing house. As a reader, Luís Miguel Cintra recorded complete readings of Viagens na Minha Terra, by Almeida Garrett and Amor de Perdição, by Camilo Castelo Branco, as well as poems by Pessoa, Sophia de Mello Breyner, Camões, Antero de Quental and Ruy Belo. In 1987, Cintra made his debut as an opera stage director, with L'Enfant et les Sortilèges, by Ravel and Dido and Aeneas, by Purcell, at the Teatro Nacional de S. Carlos. In the following years, he directed operas by Mozart, Haydn, Cherubini, among others. He worked with the Teatro Nacional de S. Carlos Choir and the Gulbenkian Choir, as a reader, in recitals by authors such as Schubert, Liszt, Sati and Poulenc. In 1984, he entered the Venice Biennial Theater Festival with his group and in 1988 he directed the show La Mort du Prince et Autres Fragments, by Fernando Pessoa, for the Avignon Festival. Later, he kept on presenting plays in Italy, France, Spain and. Belgium In addition to the theater, Luís Miguel Cintra began his career in cinema early, making his debut in a short film by João César Monteiro. From that point until now, he worked in over 70 films, with directors like the aforementioned João César Monteiro, Paulo Rocha, Manoel de Oliveira, Joaquim Pinto, João Botelho, Teresa Villaverde, Pedro Costa and the American John Malkovich. His many awards include two Bordalo da Casa da Imprensa Awards for Best Acting in Film (1995) and Best Acting in Theater (1997), two Globos de Ouro for Theater Personality of the Year (1999) and Best Theater Actor (2003), the Coimbra University Award and the Pessoa Prize, both in 2005. The LEFFEST will pay tribute to Luís Miguel Cintra’s work as an actor, through a selection of films he starred in; and as a stage director, showing recordings of some of the plays, followed by discussions with the audience and several actors he worked with.

Luís Miguel Cintra

Luís Miguel Cintra

Biography

If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal

Rending

War

Villa Mauresque

The Dancer Upstairs

Illusion

Anteroom

Entremês Famoso Sobre a Pesca no Rio Minho

The Uncertainty Principle

Vertiges

Pas Perdus

Pathos

Transatlantique

Christopher Columbus, The Enigma

Memoirs of Teatro da Cornucópia

Recollections of the Yellow House

Auto da Casa

Snow White

Gebo and the Shadow

A Talking Picture

The Life of Mirrors

Os 25 Anos do Teatro da Cornucópia

No One Twice

The Enclosure of Time

The Satin Slipper

The Convent

April Captains

The Old Man of Belem

Magic Mirror

A Morte do Príncipe

Abraham's Valley

The Strange Case of Angelica

The Divine Comedy

We Are on Air

Silvestre

Días color naranja

Inquietude

No, or the Vain Glory of Command

The New Testament of Jesus Christ According to John

Zéfiro

The Letter

Truth or Dare?

Manuel Casimiro - Pintar a Ideia

O Filme Feliz :)

Tall Stories

My Case

Casa de Lava

The Jester

The Spousals of God

The Distant Land

Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl

Fragments of an Alms-Film

Pathos Ethos Logos

Blind Man's Bluff

The Last Dive

Blood

Poor George

The Wolf of the West Coast

Correspondences

Second Hand

Gestures and Fragments

Island of Loves

The Days When I Don’t Exist

Two Brothers, My Sister

The Fifth Empire

The Mountains of the Moon

O Outro Teatro ou As Coisas Pertencem a Quem as Torna Melhores

Day of Despair

The Cannibals

Word and Utopia

He Goes Long Barefoot That Waits For Dead Men's Shoes

Moonfish

Lisboa Cultural

Rage

The Sword and the Rose

Alcibíades

The Heart's Root