Portrait of Leonor Baldaque

Leonor Baldaque

Acting

Biography

Leonor Bessa-Luís Alves Baldaque is a Portuguese actress who was born in 1977 in Porto and currently lives in Paris. She regularly starred on films directed by veteran Manoel de Oliveira. She is granddaughter of Award-winning writer Agustina Bessa-Luís. Leonor was one of the European Shooting Stars nominated by the European Film Promotion. In January 2012, Gallimard published her first novel "Vita (La Vie Légère)".

Born: January 27, 1977

Place of Birth: Porto

Filmography

2009
The Portuguese Nun

as Julie de Hauranne

2007
2006
Belle Toujours

as Young Prostitute

2006
Magic Mirror

as Vicenta / Abril

2005
The Conquest of Faro

as Claudina / Donna Brites

2004
The Fifth Empire

as Woman's Choir (voice)

2001
1998
Inquietude

as Fisalina