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Carolina Campanela

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Carolina Campanela is a Portuguese actress, playwright and creator, born in Lisbon in 1994.

She completed the Professional Actor Training Course at ACT – Escola de Atores in 2015 and earned a degree in Artistic Studies, specialising in Performing Arts, from the Faculty of Letters in Nanterre (Paris, France) in 2017. Her first play, Lettre de Motivation, granted her admission to the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique in Paris in 2019, within the international student programme, supported by a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation scholarship.

Since 2017, she has worked as an actress under the direction of António Pires, with notable performances in Yerma (2021) by Federico García Lorca, Dream (2022) by A. Strindberg, The Tempest (2023) by W. Shakespeare and Mother Courage (2024) by Bertolt Brecht. She has also collaborated as an actress with Carolina Serrão, Elsa Valentim, Pétronille de Saint Rapt (FR), Natália Luiza, Jorge Silva and Sandy Ouvrier (FR). In film, she appeared in João Botelho’s Filme em Forma de Assim and Jovem Cunhal, and recently starred in Mãos no Fogo, directed by Margarida Gil.

She also works in dramaturgy and creation, with particular emphasis on her autofiction pieces Feminismos. Citação and SOLO – Venturas e Desventuras de uma Viajante Ocidental.

She published an article on labour precarity, “Da Dessacralização da Arte – Topologia Breve e Inacabada do Meio Artístico”, in the performing arts journal Sinais de Cena (2023).

Since 2020, she has co-led the artistic direction of Além Mundus – Associação Cultural alongside Carolina Serrão.


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31 yearsLisbon (PT)
Genderfemale
Year of birth1994 (31 years)
Place of birthPortugal
NationalityPortuguese
Main professionActor
Working permitsEuropean Union (EU-27)
Driver's licensesB - Car
Eye colorbrown
Hair colorblack-brown
Height (cm)162
LanguagesPortuguese(native)French
AccentsPortuguese