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Sofia Marques

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).

Known For

Super Pai
7.0

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Super Pai

2000
As Meninas Exemplares
N/A

The misfortunes of Sofia, the exemplary Madalena and Camila, the troubled vacations of girls and boys, a few years later leading to the resolution of some mysteries, form the perfect trilogy by the Countess of Ségur on education, social, religious, and political power. Desire and its oppression, violence and punishment, in short, the terrible loss combined with inevitable growth. Both adults and children will understand that precepts, rules, and prayers can tear nerves and blood apart.

As Meninas Exemplares

2025
A Filha
7.0

No description available.

A Filha

2024
Rending
6.3

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

Rending

2001
Viva
7.3

When his estranged father returns, a hairdresser is forced to quit performing at the local drag club.

Viva

2015
Gloria and Grace
5.0

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.

Gloria and Grace

2017
Demain?
2.0

The short life of the Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini is colourfully portrayed, not as a conventional biopic, but as a visual poem which evokes the turbulent life and complex personality of the literary heroine as she develops her genius for writing.

Demain?

2011
Um Filme em Forma de Assim
4.2

Organized like a dream, structured like a musical and with texts, both spoken and sung, that lead us to unexpected, chaotic and exciting situations, which try to grasp part of what the unattainable Alexandre O'Neill left us.

Um Filme em Forma de Assim

2022
Veneno Cura
4.6

In oPorto there is a club, Imperatriz, where everything is permitted. A moment in which all intersect in the dark night.

Veneno Cura

2008
Disquiet
5.5

Lisbon, today. In a room of a house at Douradores Street, a man invents dreams and theorizes about them. The essence of the dreams itself becomes physical, palpable, visible. The text itself materializes in its musicality. And, in front of our eyes, this music can be felt with the ears, brain and heart. It spreads itself in the street where the man lives, in the city that he loves above all and over the entire world.

Disquiet

2010
Em Volta
6.0

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.

Em Volta

2002
Everything's OK
N/A

A father's journey to save his son.

Everything's OK

2016
The Spousals of God
7.0

After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy's girlfriend through a roll of the dice.

The Spousals of God

1999
Illusion
N/A

Luis Miguel Cintra, renowned actor, stage director and director of the Portuguese theatre company Teatro da Cornucópia, staged the play Illusion in early 2014. This play was based upon texts by Federico García Lorca. However, the 119th company's show was no ordinary show, for in the cast there were 59 non-actors, amateurs and theatre students.

Illusion

2014
Love Love
5.0

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.

Love Love

2017
Ramiro
5.8

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.

Ramiro

2018
Tony
N/A

Jorge, a very shy young man, works as bellboy in a Lisbon hotel and lives in a guesthouse where he is constantly harassed by the owner’s daughter. As he tries to resist her charms, the boy dreams of one thing only: to incarnate the singer Tony de Matos. This obsession leads him to sign up for an unique karaoke contest, where he will finally be able to give life to his longtime hero. And it’s amid a group of strange characters that Jorge will understand that, after all, he is not alone.

Tony

2010
How We Got Mother Back
N/A

Shortly after the death of his wife, a father of four retreats into bed and into mourning until the house is left to self-manage. The older children think about how to pull him out of this stupor; the eldest begins by mimicking their mother's voice. Soon, the game spirals out of control, just like each of their identities.

How We Got Mother Back

2024
Uma História do Espectador de Cinema
N/A

No description available.

Uma História do Espectador de Cinema

2023
Pathos Ethos Logos
7.0

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.

Pathos Ethos Logos

2021