
Acting
Mar 2, 1978
Arronches, Portugal
Isabel Abreu
Acting
Biography
Isabel Abreu (born Maria Isabel Abreu Correia Pereira) is a Portuguese actress. She is married to director Tiago Guedes. TRAINING: Abreu graduated in Theatre from the Lisbon Theatre and Film School in 1998. THEATRE: Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists (National Theatre, UK and international tours from Festival d'Avignon); other theatre includes: Hamlet at Théâtre de l'Odéon, Paris; Black Lights on tour; and numerous collaborations with directors such as Tiago Rodrigues, Marco Martins, Nuno Cardoso, Tonan Quito, Miguel Loureiro, Mathilde Monnier and Christiane Jatahy. FILM: Sérgio Graciano's Uma Vida à Espera; Sandro Aguilar's Primeira Pessoa no Plural (main competition at the Rotterdam International Film Festival) and Mariphasa; Carlos Conceição's Serpentário; Tiago Guedes' Remains of the Wind (world premiere at Cannes, France) and Diálogos depois do Fim (presented at LEFFEST); and Paulo Abreu's Ubu (presented at LEFFEST). AWARDS: Globo de Ouro winner for Best Theatre Actress; Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists – the French Critics' Prize and the Ubu Prize in Italy.
Feature Films (37)

Ubu, instigated by his wife, murders King Venceslau and usurps the throne of Poland. Intoxicated by power, this grotesque and coward character conducts his reign in an absurd and cruel way, leading his kingdom to ruin. A cinematographic adaptation of Alfred Jarry’s play, a political satire that, cyclically, turns to the reality of world politics.
Ubu

A small village in Portugal, Águas-Altas, is being sued by a Spanish multinational corporation because the village hosts a website that uses the same name as an international brand of mineral water. A judicial battle for website begins, that quickly turned in to a media circus. Thus the residents of this small village, who are not even sure what the internet is, are forced defend their website and their villages honour.
Dot.com

In this evocative story told ingeniously with minimal dialogue, men and women from various backgrounds and places each deal with the loss of a loved one.
Uprise

Maria, an executive from Oporto, lives in the search of the right man for her. On the other hand, her two friends, Joana, a doctor that has fallen in love to a co-worker, and Isilda, a hairdresser with an open hart and an adventurous spirit, seem to be happy with their lives. One day though, everything changes. Maria is forced to take care of her father, victim of a brain accident. During these days of turbulence, Maria thinks she has found the perfect man, a mysterious Star, an habitué of chat channels on the Internet. The three friends find out that cense of humour can be the key for a happy life. Internet, romance, a bachelor party; marriage, dates and some adventures are Loving Maria. A film where love shows himself with the most different looks. Love arrives when you don't expect it and goes away when you think it is safe. It can even appear in the light of a mobile computer.
Maria e as Outras

A pagan tradition in a village in the countryside of Portugal leaves painful traces in a group of young teenagers. 25 years later, when they meet again, the past resurfaces and tragedy sets in.
Remains of the Wind

Rui is in the process of separation from Silvia, his wife and John, his son, realizing that his father can not get out of this situation and that he will never be happy, decides to ask for help from the mythical Bolivian hero "El Justiciero".
El Justiciero

After the structural collapse at a construction site, Paulo loses his job because he denounces the situation to the authorities.
Entre os Dedos

Chorus is film about death, absence and how close they are to us. Based on a theater play by Tiago Rodrigues.
Coro dos Amantes

Oscar, a renowned hypnotherapist, uses the last moments in his hotel room to say goodbye to the vertiginous Mercedes and rid old Norberto of his bitterness.
Worth Your Weight in Gold

A group of soldiers are sentenced for the murders of key political figures in the night of October 19th, 1921, in the streets of Lisbon. But the names of the conspirators remain unknown. Berta Maia, a widow of the 1910 revolution hero Carlos da Maia, will fight for the truth…
Bloody Night

Pavese considered Dialogues with Leucò his best work. Eloquent and at the same time sententious and fragile, but implausible among humanized gods, demigods, heroes, and other pagan figures of Greek mythology, who question, through the imaginary of myths, the society of contemporary man. Out of a time and a certain space, and thus, and like all myths, always current.
Dialogues After the End
Television & Series (18)

In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach.
Alta Definição

Political comedy series about the political advisers of the ministerial cabinets and the opposition and their connivance with economic and political interests that determine how decisions are made.
Os Boys

Seven visions of a country, in Cassandra's voice, that reveal different concerns about the future and the contradictory forces that shape it, with diverse themes such as politics, the media, technology, sexuality, work and revolution.
Cassandra

An unlikely love with a happy ending... At age 40, Miguel is at the top of his career as a plastic surgeon, having reached the fame and fortune he worked so hard for. He’s a hopeless bachelor, never committing to any real relationship. This is not just by choice, his situation is a result of never having met his parents and being raised in a children’s home. But, overnight, a simple phone call will change his life entirely, making him recall a point in his life that he’d rather forget. His best friend from the institution was just killed in a car crash along with his wife, but left written instructions behind stating that, if something should happen to him, Miguel should be given custody of his three children, 12-year-old Simão, 8-year-old Jaime and 6-year-old Beatriz. Initially, Miguel will try to dismiss himself from any responsibility but, after meeting the kids, he realizes that he has no choice but to bring them home.









