Maria di Medeiros is a Portuguese actress, screenwriter, singer and film director. She was born on August 19, 1965 in the Portuguese city of Lisbon. The girl grew up in a creative family. Maria's father was a composer and pianist, and her mother worked as a journalist for a local newspaper.
At a young age, the girl moved to Austria, where she spent her childhood in Vienna. Because of the revolution in Portugal, the family had to move constantly, and the girl received secondary education at the
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Maria di Medeiros is a Portuguese actress, screenwriter, singer and film director. She was born on August 19, 1965 in the Portuguese city of Lisbon. The girl grew up in a creative family. Maria's father was a composer and pianist, and her mother worked as a journalist for a local newspaper.
At a young age, the girl moved to Austria, where she spent her childhood in Vienna. Because of the revolution in Portugal, the family had to move constantly, and the girl received secondary education at the Lyceum in France. However, after the revolution, the future actress returned to Portugal.
The acting debut of the girl took place at the age of fifteen in one of the works of director João César Monteiro.
At the age of eighteen, Maria moved to France again and entered the Higher National School of Theatre Art, and two years later she was already a student of the Higher National Conservatory of Dramatic Art.
At the same time, the girl began to play on the stage of the Athenaeus Theater, performed in France and other countries in the plays of Cornel, Calderon and Garcia Lorca, and also worked with many famous directors such as Jorge Lavelli, Manuel Oliveira, Bigas Luna, Chantal Ackerman, Philip Kaufman and Guy Maddin.
While touring in the United States of America, the girl was noticed by the legendary director Quentin Tarantino, and in 1994, Maria received a role in the world-famous Pulp Fiction. The film won an Oscar and more than forty cinematic awards.
In the filmography of the talented actress more than twenty roles. The girl starred in such films as “Divine Comedy”.
Henry and June "Meeting Venus,"
"I, Caesar" and
"My stars are beautiful" .
Also, Maria tried herself as a director and in 1999 directed “Captains of April”, and in 2007 the girl released her first music album A Little More Blue.
In early 2008, Maria de Medeiros was named UNESCO Ambassador for Peace.
Currently, the talented actress and singer lives in France and continues to shoot in several films.