About
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...
Known for
The Dancer UpstairsMovie • 2002
The Strange Case of AngelicaMovie • 2010
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired GirlMovie • 2009
The Spousals of GodMovie • 1999
April CaptainsMovie • 2000
Abraham's ValleyMovie • 1993
No, or the Vain Glory of CommandMovie • 1990
The ConventMovie • 1995
Recollections of the Yellow HouseMovie • 1989
Casa de LavaMovie • 1995
BloodMovie • 1989