
Rita Blanco
Estreia-se como actriz na peça Mariana Espera Casamento, de Jean-Paul Wenzel, sob a direcção de Luís Miguel Cintra, em 1983. Conclui o Curso de Formação de Actores do Conservatório Nacional, em 1985. Ainda no Teatro da Cornucópia representou Perversões de David Mamet, dirigida por Miguel Guilherme e José Pedro Gomes; Antes que a Noite Venha de Eduarda Dionísio, com Adriano Luz; Sangue no Pescoço do Gato de Fassbinder, com Luís Miguel Cintra. Em 1989 participou em Como é Diferente o Amor em Portugal, adaptação da obra de Júlio Dantas, dirigida por Fernando Gomes. Nunca Nada de Ninguém de Luísa Costa Gomes, encenado por Ana Tamen valeu-lhe a nomeação para o Prémio Garrett para a Melhor Interpretação Feminina (1991). Em 1997 participou em Peter Pan de James Barrie, encenado por António Pires no São Luiz.
No cinema foi dirigida por João Botelho (1994 - Três Palmeiras; 1999 Tráfico; 2003 - A Mulher Que Acreditava Ser a Presidente dos EUA; 2005 - O Fatalista), João Mário Grilo (1998 - Longe da Vista; 2002 - A Falha; 2000 - 451 Forte), José Nascimento (2000 - Tarde Demais), Teresa Villaverde (1998 - Os Mutantes), Manoel de Oliveira (1998 - Inquietude), João César Monteiro (1992 - O Último Mergulho) ou Jorge Silva Melo (1987 - Agosto; 1985 - Ninguém duas Vezes).
Na televisão, apareceu em A Mala de Cartão (1988) série que contava com a participação de Irene Papas. Trabalhou junto do humorista Herman José, em Casino Royal (1989), Crime na Pensão Estrelinha (1990) e Serafim Saudade - o regresso do Herói (2001). Participou ainda em Sai da Minha1996, Médico de Família (1998/2000), A Minha Sogra é uma Bruxa (2003), na telenovela Tempo de Viver (2006) de Rui Vilhena (a sua estreia na TVI e em telenovelas) Conta-me como Foi (2007-2009). Apresentou com Henrique Mendes o concurso Caça ao Tesouro (1994). Em 2011 após 2 anos de ausência, regressa à televisão em grande dose trabalhando nos 3 canais Portugueses generalistas: primeiro na sitcom da SIC A Família Mata, depois no telefilme da TVI O Profeta e por fim na 2ª temporada da Série da RTP Maternidades. Salienta a sua colaboração com o encenador e cineasta João Canijo. Com ele trabalhou no teatro (1988 - Crimes do Coração de Beth Henley; 1987 - Jogos de Praia de Whitehead; 1994 - Confissões ao Luar de Eugene O'Neill; 2002 - Sete Vidas de Rosa Lobato de Faria), no cinema (1988 - Três Menos Eu (Festival Les Stars De Demain); 1990 - Filha da Mãe; 2001 - Ganhar a Vida; 2004 - Noite Escura) e na televisão (1990 - Alentejo sem Lei; 1996 - Sai da Minha Vida).
Premiada em 2002 e 2012 com o Globo de Ouro na categoria de Melhor Actriz de Cinema, com Ganhar a Vida e Sangue do meu Sangue de João Canijo. Foi homenageada no Festival de Santa Maria da Feira em 2004. Em 2012, foi considerada na Gala SPAUTORES, a melhor actriz de cinema, devido à sua interpretação no filme Sangue do meu Sangue
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.07 |
Birthday | 1963-01-11 |
Place of Birth | Algés, Oeiras, Portugal |
Also Known As |

2023

Living Bad
6/5
A hotel by the northern shore of Portugal welcomes its guests over the weekend. A man is torn between being present for his wife and the space that hi...
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Living Bad

2023

Bad Living
6.5/9
In a family-run hotel, by the Portuguese northern shore, lives a group of women from different generations of the same family, whose relationships wit...
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Bad Living

2003

A Mulher que Acreditava Ser Presidente dos EUA
4.6/5
Alexandra Lencastre plays a woman who believes she is President of the U.S.A.
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A Mulher que Acreditava Ser Presidente dos EUA

2007

Corruption
3.9/11
A crime drama based on the life of a woman who lived for years with a man that was the head of a corruption network in the Portuguese football world.
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Corruption

1998

The Mutants
7.5/11
Three homeless teenage rejects struggle to survive together. Of them, Andreia is pregnant, while Pedro and Ricardo hustle, steal and are exploited by...
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The Mutants

1998

Traffic
5.4/10
Young Jesus is taken on a vacation by his parents (Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz) to a deserted beach resort. They accidentally fall into overnight wealth...
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Traffic

2011

Blood of My Blood
7.3/29
A regular family living in the outskirts of Lisbon sees the serenity of their lives shaken beyond any remedy within a week.
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Blood of My Blood

2012

Assim Assim
7/1
Five characters intersect at a sidewalk beginning a journey through their lives.
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Assim Assim

2012

Amour
7.764/1645
Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her fam...
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Amour

2008

True and Tender is the North
5.4/8
Adaptation of a 1987 novel by Agustina Bessa Luis, a multi-generation exploration of a wealthy family with a mysterious past and a house on the island...
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True and Tender is the North

2011

The Actor's Work
4/1
Throughout a year's work, a group of ten actors and a film director will work together on the creation of the characters and on the structure of the p...
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The Actor's Work

2007

O Capacete Dourado
5.6/5
The darkness of night, a barely lit place, motorbikes flirting with danger: a group of teenagers at a crossroads playing chicken with unaware passing...
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O Capacete Dourado

2012

Bewitched
0/0
She arrives home at the end of the day, tired. While she prepares dinner, he reads the newspaper. Finally, she decides to bake some special cookies.
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Bewitched

2022

Um Filme em Forma de Assim
4.3/3
Organized like a dream, structured like a musical and with texts, both spoken and sung, that lead us to unexpected, chaotic and exciting situations, w...
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Um Filme em Forma de Assim

2013

The Gilded Cage
6.728/337
In the beautiful area of Paris, Maria and José Ribeiro lived for almost thirty years on the ground floor of a Haussmann building, in their dear litt...
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The Gilded Cage

2000

Tarde Demais
6.1/8
A touching and tragic real life story about a group of Portuguese fishermen who get caught in the middle of a storm in the Tejo river (Lisbon) and str...
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Tarde Demais

1990

Lovely Child
6.2/3
Maria is a sweet child. She hasn’t father and doesn’t like her mother. She has a boyfriend, A bandit who would like to change his class.
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Lovely Child

2001

Get a Life
7/6
During one winter night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between a youth gang and the cops in a suburb of Paris. Cidalia, a 3...
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Get a Life

2024

Amelia’s Children
6.2/122
When Edward’s search for his biological family leads him and his girlfriend Ryley to a magnificent villa high in the mountains of Northern Portugal, h...
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Amelia’s Children

2022

The Tyrant Father
6.4/8
This remake of the 1940 film with the same name tells the story of a theatre company, its men and women in love, mistakes and misunderstandings. Chico...
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The Tyrant Father

1989

In Search of the Equator
0/0
A film about two young women, trying to decide how to go on with their lives and loves: Marie just dumped her boyfriend, who's married and can see her...
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In Search of the Equator

1988

Agosto
7.4/5
Summer of 1964. The professor Carlos and the couple Dário and Alda spend time together in the beach during vacations. Away from the colonial war, ever...
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Agosto

2014

The Maias: Story of a Portuguese Family
5.896/24
The tragedy and comedy in Carlos' life begins, grows and ends like the tragedy and comedy of Portugal. In the company of his close friend, João da Ega...
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The Maias: Story of a Portuguese Family

2012

Vá Cavar Batatas
0/0
After years living in Lisbon, Castro's family makes the decision to move to the countryside.
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Vá Cavar Batatas

2016

Game of Checkers
0/0
Following Marta's wake, her five best friends decide to spend the night at a rural tourist getaway that Marta never got around to opening. The night b...
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Game of Checkers

1992

The Last Dive
7/12
Eloi, a paunchy middle-aged man, finds Samuel, a young sad sack, about to kill himself by plunging into the sea. Eloi takes Samuel under his wing, giv...
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The Last Dive

2005

The Fatalist
3.6/7
The complex relationship between master and servant is explored in director João Botelho's adaptation of Denis Diderot's popular novel Jacques le Fata...
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The Fatalist

1990

Crime at the Little Star Pension
0/0
Neves and his wife Celia are the owners and managers of the 'Little Star Pension', a familiar hotel that caters to bourgeois family and would-be actor...
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Crime at the Little Star Pension

2017

Fátima
6.2/10
The journey of 11 women while they go on a pilgrimage from Bragança to Fatima.
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Fátima

2017

Colo
6.6/16
Struggling against the crisis in Portugal, a mother doubles up jobs to pay the bills since her husband is unemployed. Their teenage daughter tries to...
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Colo

2002

A Falha
7/3
Twenty-five years after leaving school, a group of former students decide to organise a reunion. But, contrary to expectations, these "old boys" reali...
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A Falha

2004

In the Darkness of the Night
6.1/14
A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.
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In the Darkness of the Night

2010

Disquiet
5.733/15
Lisbon, today. In a room of a house at Douradores Street, a man invents dreams and theorizes about them. The essence of the dreams itself becomes phys...
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Disquiet

1998

Anxiety
6.4/8
An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In "The Immortals," adapted from a Helder Prista Monteiro p...
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Anxiety

1988

Hard Times
6.8/5
A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s.
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Hard Times

1999

Longe da Vista
5/4
In order to make some much-needed cash for himself, 65-year-old Portuguese prison inmate Eugenio impersonates a young woman and begins a romantic corr...
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Longe da Vista

2000

451 Forte
0/0
Zé Alberto and Laura are lovers, and have a clandestine and permanently threatened relationship. Zé Alberto is married to Fernanda, Laura's sister, wh...
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451 Forte

2018

Carga
6.2/44
A lorry, a road and an unpredictable destiny, all intersecting in a human trafficking network. Caught up in this web, Viktoriya has only one chance: f...
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Carga

1988

Three Less Me
6/1
A young woman, working as sales-girl at a shopping center's music shop, wants someone with whom to share her secrets. A distant mother separating from...
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Three Less Me

2003

Dead Man's Memories
4.4/5
A policeman lunching with his daughter is present when a dead body washes up on shore. He investigates, leading him down a twisted and muddled path of...
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Dead Man's Memories

1994

Three Palm Trees
5.5/4
Lisbon, on a winter day in 1994, between six and fourteen o'clock. A forty-year-old woman despairs in the last eight hours preceding the birth of her...
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Three Palm Trees

2000

Um Passeio no Parque
0/0
Things are going well to a married couple, they have two sons, and things are going well in their respective jobs, Until the husband betrays her wife...
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Um Passeio no Parque

2006

Mãe Há Só Uma
0/0
A moment in the life of a grievieng mother with the identity crisis of her teenage daughter. The mother insists on wanting to understand what she only...
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Mãe Há Só Uma

1983

Circle of Passions
3/2
An aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with his nymphomaniac daughter because he thinks she is his w...
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Circle of Passions

1985

Ninguém Duas Vezes
6/5
Director Jorge Silva Melo has developed a viable, though highly intellectual mystery story about the world of art and culture and murder in this somew...
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Ninguém Duas Vezes

1998

Mário Eloy - A Runaway Painter
6.5/2
Documentary about the life and work of Mário Eloy, one of the greatest painters of the second generation of modernism in Portugal.
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Mário Eloy - A Runaway Painter

2018

Acts of Cinema
0/0
Cinema and affections from life in images and what goes on outside the frame. 'Snapshots' of shootings and the present-day memory of directors, actors...
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Acts of Cinema

1997

Minus 9
0/0
This short film is based upon a book of tales "Exemplary Crimes" by Max Aub who, in his turn, was inspired by real testimonies that describe crimes st...
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Minus 9

2006

Flesh of My Flesh
0/0
A woman alone with her secret until one day she can not hold it any longer.
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Flesh of My Flesh

1991

Hermanias Especial Fim de Ano
0/0
New years special aired on RTP on 1991
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Hermanias Especial Fim de Ano

2020

Profjam #000000
0/0
ProfJam wanted to show the contrast for his debut album and do it using the big screen
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Profjam #000000

2024

After Dance – A Concert Film
0/0
A large, time-worn house sits on a towering, untouchable pedestal. Ressaca Bailada – Filme Concerto follows individuals as they navigate their relatio...
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