Adelaide João Explained

Birthname:Maria da Glória Pereira da Silva
Adelaide João
Birth Date:27 July 1921
Birth Place:Lisbon, Portugal
Death Place:Lisbon, Portugal
Occupation:Actress
Yearsactive:1960–2021

Adelaide João (27 July 1921  - 3 February 2021), born Maria da Glória Pereira da Silva, was a Portuguese actress.

Career

In a career that spanned 60 years she appeared in more than 135 films and television shows starting 1960. She starred in The End of the World, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

She won the Career Awards at the Sophia Awards in 2018. At the time of her death she was living in Casa do Artista, and was reportedly infected with COVID-19 during the pandemic in Portugal.[2]

Selected filmography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Festival de Cannes: The End of the World . 23 August 2009 . festival-cannes.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110822115243/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2604/year/1993.html . 22 August 2011 .
  2. Web site: Morreu a atriz Adelaide João, aos 99 anos. SAPO Mag. 3 February 2021.