Laura Soveral
Maria Laura de Luís Rodrigues Soveral ( born March 23, 1933, Benguela, Angola ) is a Portuguese actress.
Career
As a child she was acting for the radio station Rádio Clube de Benguela. She graduated from high school and was a governess in her hometown in the former Portuguese colony of Angola. In 1962, she went to the University of Lisbon, to study German philosophy. There began her interest in acting in student theater groups.
In 1963, she was seen on state television RTP for the first time in a play by Fernando Pessoa. As a result, she went in 1964 with the ensemble Fernando Pessoa under João d' Ávila touring the colonies of Angola and Mozambique, and stood at the Teatro Nacional de Luanda for the first time on a professional theater stage before an audience.
Back in Portugal, she took acting classes at the Lisbon National Conservatory Henriette Morineau. In the course of the 60 years she continued to play theater, took on recitation records and frequently appeared on television variety of plays and literary readings. From 1966 to 1970 she was also spokesperson for the Emissora Nacional and interrupted her studies now definitively from. In 1972, she was the moment last time on the stage of a theater with Tartufo ( Tartuffe by Molière ) at Teatro Villaret, which was founded by Raul Solnado house until 1964.
She took up the study of history and occasionally played theater for television. 1975 following the Carnation Revolution, she returned again back on the stage, back into Villaret. In November of that year she moved to Brazil, where she was engaged for two telenovelas TV Globo (O Casarão 1976 and Duas Vidas 1977).
She went back to Portugal in 1977, where she briefly returned in 1978 on the theater stage. It was the end of their active time the theater engagements, until 1987, she was back for a piece of José Saramago on stage at the Teatro Aberto.
A wider audience, she was best known for her films. She played the female lead role in 1971 in " Uma Abelha na Chuva " ( " A Bee in the Rain" ) by Fernando Lopes, a key work of the new Portuguese film, the Cinema Novo. Since then she has starred in numerous feature films, soap operas and television films, both in Portugal and abroad, especially in France.
She was married to Zé Maria ( Jose Maria de Barros Alves Caetano ), the oldest of the four sons of Marcelo Caetano, the last prime minister of the Estado Novo dictatorship.