Maria de Medeiros

Maria de Medeiros interests me because she refuses to be just one thing. Actor, director, screenwriter, singer, she moves between European arthouse and American productions without losing her own voice. A Volpi Cup at Venice signals serious craft, yet what draws me is her instinct to step behind the camera and shape her own stories rather than wait for roles handed to her. That authorial appetite is rare and admirable. I see her as a genuine Portuguese cultural ambassador, someone who treats filmmaking as a complete language she intends to speak fluently in every register, not a single performer's trade.

Name (English)

Maria de Medeiros

Name (Japanese)

マリア・デ・メデイロス

Reading

まりあ・で・めでいろす

Born

August 19, 1965 (age 60)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Snake

Origin

Lisbon, Portugal

Occupation

actor / film director / screenwriter / singer / film actor

Awards & achievements

• Volpi Cup for Best Actress
• Gérard-Philipe Price
• Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
• Knight of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword
• Golden Globes
• 1996 Genie Awards

• Official sitehttps://www.mariademedeiros.net
• Xhttps://x.com/mariademedeiros
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20de%20Medeiros
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%83%87%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q235115

Tags

• Lisbon
• actor
• film director
• screenwriter

Last updated

2026-06-20

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.