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EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS 2022

João Nunes Monteiro • Actor

"Working internationally will create more chances for me to get into good projects"

by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2022: The Portuguese actor talks about how he prepared for his role in Mosquito, his most acclaimed one so far, and working with local and international directors

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João Nunes Monteiro trained as an actor at Academia Contemporânea do Espetáculo in Porto and completed a BA in Acting from Lisbon’s Theatre and Film School. On stage, Monteiro has worked with noteable theatre directors such as Victor Hugo Pontes, Nuno Carinhas, Sónia Baptista and Miguel Fragata. He made his feature film debut at the age of 16 in Francisco Manso’s Aristides de Sousa Mendes - The Consul of Bordeaux. He has since worked with directors such as Dennis Berry, Ivo M. Ferreira, João Nicolau, Zara Dwinger and Vasco Saltão. He played the lead role in the feature film Mosquito [+see also:
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by João Nuno Pinto, which was honored with the Portuguese Film Academy Nico Award. He also starred in Miguel Gomes and Maureen Fazendeiro’s The Tsugua Diaries [+see also:
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which premiered in this year's Director’s Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. Recently, Monteiro won the Portuguese Cinema Academy Sophia Awards as Best Actor for his work in Mosquito. He was also nominated as Best Actor for his performance in the film by the Portuguese Golden Globes.

Now selected for EFP's 2022 Shooting Stars, he talks to us.

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