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Mauro Soares

Biography

Mauro Soares is an awarded Portuguese actor. Having started his career in theater during his Integrated Masters in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, he starred in films such as António One Two Three (IFFR 2017), Sol Alegria (IFFR 2018), Bela Mandil (Viennale 2018) and Half a Light-Year (IDFA 2021), having produced the latter. Mauro co-wrote and starred in Rain Hums a Lullaby to Pain (IFFR 2020), Life Lasts Two Days (FIDMarseille 2022) which he also produced, is a Berlinale Talents Acting Studio alumnus of 2019, part of the cast of The Portuguese Woman (Berlinale 2019) and 1st Assistant Director in The Kegelstatt Trio (Berlinale 2022).

Known For

Half a Light-Year
Half a Light-Year
The Kegelstatt Trio
The Kegelstatt Trio
Human Flowers of Flesh
Human Flowers of Flesh
Life Lasts Two Days
Life Lasts Two Days
Greice
Greice
Antonio One Two Three
Antonio One Two Three
Sol Alegria
Sol Alegria
The Portuguese Woman
The Portuguese Woman
Hello My First Love, Over and Out
Hello My First Love, Over and Out
Bela Mandil
Bela Mandil

Filmography

2025 Fuck the Polis
as
2025 Latin Blood – The Ballad of Ney Matogrosso
as João Ricardo
2024 Greice
as Afonso / Funcionário do Consulado
2023 Human Flowers of Flesh
as Mauro
2022 Life Lasts Two Days
as
2022 The Kegelstatt Trio
as Self
2021 Half a Light-Year
as
2021 Um Momento de Clareza em Meio ao Caos das Coisas
as Self
2020 Foreign Desert
as Gustavo
2020 Rain Hums a Lullaby to Pain
as
2019 The Useless
as
2019 Bela Mandil
as
2019 Antonio One Two Three
as António
2019 The Portuguese Woman
as Cavaleiro Jovem
2018 Hello My First Love, Over and Out
as
2018 Sol Alegria
as Son