Nuno Lopes is a Portuguese

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

 actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

. Awarded, in 2006, with the Best Actor Globo de Ouro

Golden Globes, Portugal

The Golden Globes are awards given each year in Portugal since 1996 by SIC TV and Caras magazine which award several areas of art and entertainment in the country, with theatre, sports, cinema, fashion and music.-1996:Cinema:...

 for his performance in Alice

Alice (2005 film)

Alice is a Portuguese film directed by Marco Martins, released in 2005. Alice stars Nuno Lopes as Mário, the father, and Beatriz Batarda as Luísa, his wife, as well as Miguel Guilherme, Ana Bustorff, Gonçalo Waddington, Carla Maciel, Laura Soveral and José Wallenstein. Alice was produced by Paulo...

, he also took the Best Actor prize at the Festival de Cinema Luso-Brasileiro and the Shooting Star award at the Berlin International Film Festival

Berlin International Film Festival

The Berlin International Film Festival , also called the Berlinale, is one of the world's leading film festivals and most reputable media events. It is held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in West Berlin in 1951, the festival has been celebrated annually in February since 1978...

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Training

He graduated from the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, attended the Master Class at the École des Maîtres, and invested in studying abroad, being taught by Robert Castle, Susan Batson

Susan Batson

Susan Batson is an American producer, actress, author, and acting coach. Susan's mother, Ruth Batson, was a noted civil rights activist.-As an actress:* Running Out of Time in Hollywood * Everyone's Depressed .... Annette...

, Tom Brangle e Wass M. Stevens. Complementing his acting career, he has acquired additional skills during his formation: artistic fencing

Fencing

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, dance, singing and music.

Theatre

His wide experience in theatre was built with th acting of pieces by renowned playwrights, like Bertold Brecht, William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...

, August Strindberg

August Strindberg

Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography,...

, Heiner Muller

Heiner Müller

Heiner Müller was a German dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director. Described as "the theatre's greatest living poet" since Samuel Beckett, Müller is arguably the most important German dramatist of the 20th century after Bertolt Brecht...

, Georges Perec

Georges Perec

Georges Perec was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist and essayist. He is a member of the Oulipo group...

, Beaumarchais, Ferenec Molnár and Pierre Corneille

Pierre Corneille

Pierre Corneille was a French tragedian who was one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine...

. Among them are Man Equals Man

Man Equals Man

Man Equals Man , or A Man's a Man, is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. One of Brecht's earlier works, it explores themes of war, human fungibility, and identity...

, Cymbeline

Cymbeline

Cymbeline , also known as Cymbeline, King of Britain or The Tragedy of Cymbeline, is a play by William Shakespeare, based on legends concerning the early Celtic British King Cunobelinus. Although listed as a tragedy in the First Folio, modern critics often classify Cymbeline as a romance...

 and The Marriage of Figaro

The Marriage of Figaro (play)

The Marriage of Figaro ) is a comedy in five acts, written in 1778 by Pierre Beaumarchais. This play is the second installment in the Figaro Trilogy, preceded by The Barber of Seville and followed by The Guilty Mother. The Barber begins the story with a simple love triangle in which the Count has...

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Movies

From his film record, one can highlight his participation in Alice (2005 film)

Alice (2005 film)

Alice is a Portuguese film directed by Marco Martins, released in 2005. Alice stars Nuno Lopes as Mário, the father, and Beatriz Batarda as Luísa, his wife, as well as Miguel Guilherme, Ana Bustorff, Gonçalo Waddington, Carla Maciel, Laura Soveral and José Wallenstein. Alice was produced by Paulo...

, Quaresma, Peixe Lua, and António, um rapaz de Lisboa. He has recently shot Paolo Marinou-Blanco

Paolo Marinou-Blanco

Paolo Marinou-Blanco is a film director and screenwriter.Born in New York City to a Greek mother and Portuguese father, Paolo was raised in several countries, mainly in Europe. He studied Philosophy and History at the London School of Economics, and French Literature at University College London...

's Goodnight Irene.

Television

In television, he has worked both in Portugal and in Brazil

Brazil

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. In the latter, he was part of the cast of the telenovela

Telenovela

A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...

Esperança. In Portugal, he entered several soap operas, series and shows, like Herman SIC, Fúria de Viver, Paraíso Filmes, Crianças S.O.S., Ajustes de Contas, Diário de Maria and Riscos.

He is, as of 2008, part of the cast of Os Contemporâneos.