Maria Barroso

Simões Barroso Soares Maria de Jesus ( born 2 May 1925 in Fuzeta, Olhão ) is a Portuguese actress and politician. As the wife of Mário Soares she was from March 1986 to March 1996 Primeira -dama from Portugal.

Career

Maria Barroso was born the daughter of Alfredo José Barroso and Maria da Encarnação Simões to the world. She is aunt of the chronicler and former Secretary of State Alfredo Barroso and the surgeon Eduardo Barroso.

You went to high school D. Filipa de Lencastre and Pedro Nunes in Lisbon. There he studied Dramatic Arts at the Escola de Teatro do Conservatorio Nacional, where she graduated in 1943 with a diploma. Subsequently, she studied until 1951 History and Philosophy at the Literature Faculty of the University of Lisbon. There she met Mário Soares, whom she married on February 22, 1949 in the political prison Aljube.

In addition to her studies, she pursued at the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, her career as an actress. Her stage debut was in 1944 under the direction of Palmira Bastos in the piece Aparências of Jacinto Benavente. Later joined se of the ensemble of Amélia Rey Colaço and Robles Monteiro. She also took roles in films by Paulo Rocha (1966 - Mudar de Vida ) and Manoel de Oliveira (1975 - Benilde, Virgin and Mother, 1979 - Fate of Love, 1985 - The Satin Slipper ). She was director of the company founded by her father João Lopes Soares Colégio Moderno, they gave up the lead to her daughter Isabel Barroso Soares.

During the period of the Estado Novo, she was deprived of the right to teach in public and private institutions. She was 1969 deputies of the opposition and in 1973 in Aveiro on the III. Congress of the movement only woman who spoke at the opening session. In April 1973, she was in Bad Münster Eifel co-founded the Partido Socialista and after the Carnation Revolution to 1982 delegates in the Assembleia da República.

As Primeira - then she stood up for the values ​​of the family. In 1990 she founded the movement EMERGÊNCIA Moçambique. In 1995 she took over the chairmanship of the activities for the year of the fight against racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and social exclusion. From 1997 to 2003 she was president of the Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa. She was also from 1994, co-founder and President of the Board of the human rights organization Pro DIGNITATE - Fundação de Direitos Humanos.

Honors

  • Primeira - dama ( Portugal)
  • Actor
  • MEP (Portugal )
  • Member of the Partido Socialista (Portugal )
  • Agencies of the Federal Cross of Merit ( Grand Cross )
  • Support of the Finnish Order of the White Rose
  • Carrier of Dannebrogordens
  • Support of the North Star Order ( Grand Cross )
  • Support of the French National Order of Merit ( Grand Cross )
  • Carrier of the Phoenix - Order
  • Carrier of Ouissam Alaouite
  • Of the Order of Liberty ( Grand Cross )
  • Portuguese
  • Born in 1925
  • Woman
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