Medeirush, Maria de

Mother is a journalist, father is a composer, pianist, conductor. She spent her childhood in Vienna , studied at lyceums in France, after the revolution, parents returned to Portugal. She made her debut as a movie actress at the age of fifteen with João Cesar Monteiro . Started performing on the stage. At 18, she moved to Paris , began to study at the Higher National School of Theater Arts. Two years later, she entered the Higher National Conservatory of Dramatic Art , and began playing at the Athenaeum in the capital's theater. She has performed in France and abroad in the plays of Calderon , Cornell , Garcia Lorca , worked with Jorge Lavelli and other directors.

She acted in films in France with Chantal Akerman , in the USA with Philip Kaufman and Quentin Tarantino , in Canada with Guy Maddin and Isabelle Coishet , in Portugal with Manuel Oliveira , in Spain with Bigas Luna and others, Sarah Bernard played, Anais Ning .

She performs as a singer, recorded in 2007 a CD with songs by Chico Bouarke and other Brazilian composers. Lives in France.

Selected Movie Roles

• 1982 : Silvestre (Juan Cesar Monteiro)
• 1983 : A Estrangeira (Juan Cesar Monteiro)
• 1984 : Paris through the eyes of six ... twenty years later / Paris vu par ... vingt ans après (film almanac): episode I want to eat, I'm cold / J'ai faim, j'ai froid ( Chantal Ackerman )
• 1990 : Henry & June / Philip Kaufman
• 1991 : Divine Comedy / A Divina Comédia ( Manuel de Oliveira )
• 1991 : The End of Childhood / A Idade Maior ( Teresa Villaverdi )
• 1991 : Meeting Venus / Istvan Szabo
• 1993 : Huevos de oro (Jose Luis Bigas Luna)
• 1994 : El Detective y la muerte ( Gonzalo Suarez )
• 1994 : Pulp Fiction ( Quentin Tarantino )
• 1994: Two brothers and sister / Três Irmãos (Teresa Villaverdi, Best Actress Award at the Venice IFF )
• 1995 : Adão e Eva (Joaquin Leytan, Portugal's Golden Globe Best Actress)
• 1998 : Guerra e Liberdade - Castro Alves em São Paulo ( Nelson Pereira dos Santos )
• 2001 : Porto da Minha Infância (Manuel de Oliveira)
• 2001: Honolulu Baby ( Maurizio Niketti )
• 2003 : I, Caesar / Moi César, 10 ans ½, 1m39
• 2003 : My life without me / Mi vida sin mí ( Isabelle Coishet )
• 2003: The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin)
• 2003: Resto di niente (Antonietta de Lillo, Best Actress Award at CF Flyano , Italy , nomination for David di Donatello )
• 2004 : A Trip to the Orphanage (Guy Maddin)
• 2007 : Riparo - Anis tra di noi (Marco Puccioni, Best Actress Award at the European Film Festival in Lecce, Italy)
• 2008 : My Stars Are Beautiful / Mes stars et moi
• 2009 : Narrator / O Contador de Histórias (Luis Villas)
• 2011 : Chicken with Prunes / Poulet aux prunes ( Marjan Satrapi and Vincent Paronno)
• 2012 : I'm Not Dead / Je ne suis pas mort ( Mehdi Ben Attia )
• 2012 : La bande des Jotas (Marjan Satrapi)
• 2012 : A l'abri de la tempête (Camille Brott)
• 2013 : Meetings with a Young Poet (Rudy Barichello)
• 2014 : Registe (Diana Dell'Erba, Documentary)
• 2014 : Les Maîtres du Suspense (Stefan Lapuent)
• 2014 : Pasolini ( Laura Betty )
• 2016 : 100 meters (Marcel Barren)

Directing

She shot several short films based on Becket , Pessoa , and in 2000 released the first full-length film “The April Captains ” (Grand Prize at the São Paulo International Film Festival, Portuguese Golden Globe Award and other awards).

Discography

• A Little More Blue (2007)
• Penínsulas & Continentes (2010)

Gini Award (1996). Cavalier Lady of the Order of St. James . Jury Member of the Cannes IFF 2007 . In February 2008, she was named UNESCO Ambassador of Peace .