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Sara Pinto Sampaio was born on July 21, 1991 in Porto, Portugal. Sara is most known for being a Victoria's Secret angel since April 2015 and the face of Armani beauty and Armani Si fragrance next to Cate Blanchett. She is also an actress, known for Carga(2018), homeland(2020), Sombra(2020), and The Clapper(2017).

Ismenia Mendes was born in Porto, Portugal. She emigrated with her parents from Portugal to the United States at a young age. She has dual citizenship (US and Portugal) and speaks English and Portuguese fluently. At age eighteen, Ismenia attended The Juilliard School for Drama in New York City where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts.

Mariana Monteiro was born on 17 November 1988 in Porto, Portugal. She is an actress, known for Terra Brava (2019), Fascínios (2007) and O Fim era Apenas o Início (2025).

Hanita Hallan was born on 2 October 1935 in Porto, Portugal. She is an actress, known for They Were So Young (1954), Rosa de Alfama (1953) and The White Horse Inn (1960).

Benedita Pereira is an award winning multi-lingual Portuguese actress. She's one of Portugal's most beloved TV leading actresses and can also be seen in several international productions like "Versailles", "The Blacklist" and American indie movies like "Ascension" and "I Hate the Man in My Basement" or most recently the award winning short "The End Of The Line" (for which she won "Outstanding Performance by a Leading Actress" at the Lonely Wolf London International Film Festival). Benedita speaks Portuguese, perfect American English (and plays with other accents), Spanish and French. She excels in both comedy and drama and has worked regularly in TV, Film and Theater since she was 18 years old.

Ângelo Rodrigues lives in Portugal and Brazil, where he has regular projects. he's an actor and director, known by his roles as protagonist in Lady Voyeur (2023) Netflix, Golpe de Sorte (2019) Rosa Fogo (2011) nominated for an Emmy award. he began his career in 2002 and had his first contact with theater at the age of 15, in high school. where, he wrote, staged and starred his first shows and has a degree in theater. he was on stage in classics like "Prometheus in Chains" by Aeschylus and "the Seagull" by Antón Chekhov, among others. in 2014, while graduating in theater, he gave theatre classes to inmates in the Bangu penitentiary complex, west zone of Rio, Brazil and in 2022, he lived in a temple in Nepal, where he taught English to children between the ages of 7 and 18 and also, was part of the elephant valley project. where he helped taking care of elderly elephants, that where victims of abuses during their lives, and give them back the experience of the jungle life.

Alexandre de Sousa was born in 1944 in Porto, Portugal. He is an actor, known for Baía das Mulheres (2004), The House of the Spirits (1993) and Laços de Sangue (2010).

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 notable theatre directors such as Victor Hugo Pontes, Nuno Carinhas, Sónia Baptista and Miguel Fragata. He has 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 (2020) 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 (2021) which premiered in 2021's Director's Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. Monteiro won the Portuguese Cinema Academy Sophia Awards as Best Actor for his work in Mosquito (2020). He was also nominated as Best Actor for his performance in The Tsugua Diaries (2021) by the Portuguese Golden Globes.

Tiago Guedes was born on 20 June 1971 in Porto, Portugal. He is a director and writer, known for The Domain (2019), Chorus (2014) and Blood Curse (2006). He has been married to Isabel Abreu since 1 January 2001. They have two children.

Beatriz Godinho is a Portuguese actress. Godinho studied classical ballet from a very early age and pursued a professional dance career until 2012. She trained as an actor at Academia Contemporânea do Espectáculo in Porto and shortly after began her professional acting career in theatre. Fluent in English, she attended the One-Year Acting Course at The Academy of the Science of Acting and Directing in London and completed a BA in Acting from Lisbon's Theatre and Film School in 2015. After graduation, she carried on investing in her acting skills, being taught by coaches such as Michael Margotta, Charlie Sandlan, Tom Todoroff and Cathleen McCarron. She appeared in many Portuguese series and films including the main cast in the TV movie O Sítio da Mulher Morta (2021) and the short film Cenas de Uma Vida Amorosa (2019). In 2021, she also appeared in Netflix's anthology series Love, Death & Robots (2019-) and her episode Love, Death & Robots: Ice won the Emmy for outstanding short form animated program. Recently, she played the lead role in Cuba Libre (2022), a TV Mini-Series based on the extraordinary biography of Annie Silva Pais, the only child of the director of Salazar's Portuguese political police that left her family to commit herself to the Cuban revolution, while being secretly in love with Che Guevara.

Inês Aires Pereira was born on 22 July 1989 in Porto, Portugal. She is an actress, known for Lua Vermelha (2010), Erro 404 (2024) and Rainha das Flores (2016).

Paulo Calatré was born in Porto on January 20, 1976.

He began his studies at ACE - Escola das Artes in the course of Visual Arts (set design, costumes and props). In 1998 he received a scholarship from the Leonardo Program and went to Madrid to study makeup special effects. He graduated in Acting and attended the Master's degree in Staging at the School of Music, Arts and Performance - ESMAE in Porto.

As a teacher he regularly collaborates with ESMAE - Escola Superior de Música, Artes do Espectáculo and ACE- Escola de Artes Porto and Famalicão and he is currently a professor of Improvisation and Acting at ACE Famalicão and Lusófona Porto.

As an actor, he collaborated with several companies and directors, highlighting João Cardoso (Assédio), Nuno Carinhas (Teatro Nacional São João), Nuno Cardoso (Ao Cabo Teatro and Teatro Nacional São João), Ricardo Alves (Teatro da Palmilha Dentada), Júlio Cardoso (Seiva Trupe), Avaro Lavín (Teatro do Morcego e Seiva Trupe), Roberto Merino (Seiva Trupe), Luís Varela, Gonçalo Amorim (Teatro Experimental do Porto), Luísa Pinto (Cine-Teatro Constantino Nery), Fernando Mora Ramos (Teatro da Rainha) , António Júlio (Teatro Experimental do Porto), among others.

In Teatro Nacional São João, he was part of the cast of Breve Sumário da História de Deus, by Gil Vicente, directed by Nuno Carinhas (2009); Le Fin des Possibilitiés, by Jean-Pierre Sarrazac, directed by Nuno Carinhas and Fernando Mora Ramos (2014); and Die Letzten Tage Der Menschheit, by Karl Kraus, directed by Nuno Carinhas and Nuno M Cardoso (2016), Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, directed by Nuno Carinhas (2017); A Promessa, by Bernardo Santareno, directed by João Cardoso and Danton Tod by Georg Buchner, directed by Nuno Cardoso (2019).

He has developed work as a theatre director, highlighting the following shows: Diário de um Condenado, from Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamné, by Victor Hugo; Quarto 34, from Le Malentendu, by Albert Camus; R.III, from Richard the III, from Shakespeare; Gil & Vicente - Uma Viagem de Barca ao Inferno, from Auto da Barca do Inferno, by Gil Vicente; and A La Poursuite de Lóiseau Du Sommeil and Les Aventures D'Auren, Le Petit Serial Killer by Joseph Danan; Pervertimento, by José Sanchis Sinisterra; Questa sera si recita a soggetto, by Luigi Pirandello; Chat Room by Enda Walsh; Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare and Coro dos Maus Alunos, by Tiago Rodrigues.

He is also known for is work in film and television.

João Pedro Vaz was born on 22 August 1974 in Porto, Portugal. He is an actor and writer, known for Colo (2017), Letters from War (2016) and Os Maias: Cenas da Vida Romântica (2014).

Ana Bustorff was born on 15 November 1959 in Miragaia, Porto, Portugal. She is an actress, known for Inferno (1999), Zona J (1998) and Ruth (2018).

Luciana Abreu was born on 25 May 1985 in Massarelos, Porto, Portugal. She is an actress and director, known for Sol de Inverno (2013), Floribella (2006) and Terra Brava (2019). She has been married to Daniel Souza since 21 October 2017. They have two children. She was previously married to Yannick dos Santos Djaló.

Ivo Alexandre was born on 17 March 1977 in Porto, Portugal. He is an actor, known for Lua Vermelha (2010), Ministério do Tempo (2017) and An Outpost of Progress (2016).

João Canijo was born on 10 December 1957 in Porto, Portugal. He is a director and writer, known for Blood of My Blood (2011), Living Bad (2023) and Bad Living (2023).

Francisca Cerqueira Gomes was born on 24 January 2003 in Porto, Portugal. She is an actress, known for Festa é Festa (2021), Formula 1: Drive to Survive (2019) and Jornal das 8 (2010).

Rui Poças was born in Porto, Portugal. He is a cinematographer and actor, known for Frankie (2019), Zama (2017) and Good Manners (2017).

Paulo Rocha was born on 22 December 1935 in Porto, Portugal. He was a director and producer, known for Os Verdes Anos (1963), Island of Loves (1982) and Vanitas (2004). He died on 29 December 2012 in Porto, Portugal.

Cláudia Varejão was born in 1980 in Porto, Portugal. She is a cinematographer and director, known for Ama-San (2016), Wolf and Dog (2022) and Amor Fati (2020).

João Villas-Boas was born on 21 October 1982 in Porto, Portugal. He is an actor, known for Al Berto (2017), Mau por um momento (2024) and A Espia (2020).

Joao Costa Menezes, a London-based film actor and film director, was born in Porto, Portugal. Over the course of his career, he has also lived in Paris, Barcelona and New York City.

Joao Costa Menezes grew up during Portugal's "Carnation Revolution," a military-led coup d'etat which began in Lisbon on 25 April 1974 and ended almost 50 years of dictatorship in Portugal. The revolution has had a lasting impact on Menezes's political and artistic views. The year following the revolution was punctuated by social anarchy and power disputes between left and right wing political forces - a time which Menezes often refers to as utopian. The chaos was live and real. It was the most exciting period of his life: the tanks, the clashes between people and police forces in the streets, freedom borne out of chaos, and the pervasive sense of empowerment and fear. Joao Costa Menezes remembers all of this as a powerful moment, in stark contrast to the general social apathy that democracy eventually brought.

It was his desire to follow in the footsteps of the revolution that led Joao Costa Menezes to undertake a law degree at the University of Coimbra, renowned as the font of the intellectual currents underlying the revolution. As such, played an active part in university life and politics, and was part of the board of Coimbra's infamous student union. This was the same union that organized groups of students to coat the streets and sidewalks of Coimbra with soap so that mounted police would have a hard time chasing them down to break their demonstrations in 1968. In the early 90s, when the government tried to introduce tuition fees, the student's union fought back with a series of protests that paralyzed Lisbon. As a result, the government capitulated and the Minister responsible for the bill was forced to resign his position.

After attaining a degree in law from the University of Coimbra, Menezes worked as a lawyer in Portugal for three years, before becoming disillusioned by the criminal justice system. Following his decision to abandon legal practice, Joao Costa Menezes moved to London, in 1998, to seek a career in the film industry.

As an actor, Menezes first appeared in the BBC series Sunburn, in 1999, starring opposite Sharon Small as a Portuguese fisherman named Luis. In addition, he performed stunts on Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang and played a Roman Soldier in Ridley Scott's Gladiator. In June 2005, Menezes got his Unarmed Rapier and Dagger Certification from the British Academy of Stage & Screen Combat. Joao Costa Menezes also completed voice-over work in his film, Serial Killer, and for Apple Inc.'s advertising campaign in Portugal in 2007.

However, it is his own work as a filmmaker for which he is most proud. In London in 2000, he directed, produced and starred in Zero, his first short film. It was awarded a special prize at the Huesca Short Film Festival in Spain. In 2001, he directed his first feature film, Akasha, a no-budget film shot in video, which was distributed in Russia and nominated for the Méliès d'Argent. Akasha premiered in the U.S. at the Atlanta Film Festival. In 2004, Menezes directed his first music video, Melancholic Ballad (for the Left Lovers), for the popular Portuguese band, The Fingertips, which went to number one on Sic Radical, a music television station. Pedro Abrunhosa, a top Portuguese musician, was quoted in Magazine das Artes saying "[Menezes is] a weapon of mass construction," who "seeks the unreachable horizon of the tireless navigators of dreams. He shoots with a hunger for the knowledge of the moment as if it was possible to make love, pain, desire and fear eternal." In 2007, he directed the short film Remember My Dream, with the English model Jakki Degg. In 2008, he directed Mulheres, Bah! - a short film with London's West End singer and actress Madalena Alberto - which premiered at the Fantasporto Film Festival and was presented at the 2008 Cannes Short Film Corner.

Fernando Rocha was born on 2 July 1975 in Porto, Portugal. He is an actor and writer, known for Balas & Bolinhos: O Último Capítulo (2012), Maré Alta (2004) and Balas & Bolinhos - O Regresso (2004).

Tiago Castro was born on 10 June 1983 in Porto, Portugal. He is an actor, known for Morangos com Açúcar (2023), Fascínios (2007) and André Valente (2004).