Catarina Furtado

Catarina Cardoso Garcia da Fonseca Furtado (* August 25, 1972 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese TV presenter and actress.

Life

Catarina Furtado studied dance at the National Conservatory in Lisbon (until 1990 ) and journalism at CENJOR (Centro de Formação Protocolar para Jornalistas ). From 1995 to 1997 she attended the London International School of Acting.

Her first acting job in the film was a bit part for Manoel de Oliveira, after she starred in several short films and coming directors. It works again and again as an actress in quite different roles applied, even in audience more effective films ( Fatima, Maria e as outras ). With the Portuguese-Italian television production Fátima she became known to a wider audience for the first time as an actress. The atmospheric melodrama is set around the apparition of Fatima in 1917, and Catarina Furtado here had the only female lead role opposite Joaquim de Almeida, Diogo Infante and Omero Antonutti. But she was known primarily through television.

In 1991, she hosted the music program Top at RTP1, and 1992 MTV Portugal for the SIC. In 1993, she hosted the talent show Chuva de Estrela (English as: " It is raining stars " ) and became popular. Since then, she hosted a variety of gala shows, talent shows and reports, and conducted television interviews with international stars. Also in various telenovelas she played with, in guest roles and starring roles equally as well in the TV crime series Cidade Despida ( " undressed city ").

She hosted the first two seasons of the successful Endemol production " Operação Triunfo ", a singing talent show, whose third season they are no longer moderated due to their two consecutive pregnancies in 2006/2007. She is married to actor João Reis and has a daughter and a son with him.

It is UN Goodwill Ambassador and entered into this function for the first time in 1999 to the public on.

Reception

Catarina Furtado is known exceptionally and also quite popular in Portugal, has become because of her good looks and her cheerful kind known she is going with a more simple, mass- effective fare on television, but she is also socially involved. So it was their commitment to a Portuguese, in family support and family planning dedicated non-governmental organization, by which it was appointed by the UN as a Goodwill Ambassador. In this role, she shows serious commitment. Multiple they moderated appropriate programs about the various report series Príncipes do Nada ( " Prince of Nothing " ) through volunteering and civic engagement in African countries whose theme music they wrote ( Lúcia Moniz interpreted by ) the text.

It is never noticed by scandals or personal escapades and outside their work is not very present in the jet set. To this end, it also has an intellectually a little more sophisticated side that is not often publicized. So they deliberately a house next to the home of the writer Camilo Castelo Branco (1825-1890) bought in northern Portugal, São Miguel de silk, and sometimes also made movies slightly higher claim for Pesadelo Cor de Rosa about 1998 there were also critical acclaim, and Animal from 2005 is one of the most challenging films in which she has been involved. But their image is undisputed determined by the light entertainment, with films such as Fatima, and especially of its glamorous television work.

Filmography

TV

RTP

SIC

Regular presentations:

  • Gala " Globo de Ouro "
  • "As corn Belas Canções de Natal " ( Christmas special )
  • Gala "Portugal Fashion"
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