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Hana Sofia Lopes
File:Hana Sofia Lopes.jpg
Hana Sofia Lopes in 2018
Born (1990-03-05) 5 March 1990 (age 34)
Luxembourg
Alma mater
OccupationActress
Years active2011–present

Hana Sofia Lopes (born 5 March 1990)[1] is a Luxembourger-Portuguese actress born in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

Biography

Hana Sofia was born and raised in Luxembourg, to Portuguese parents.[2]

After her high school degree at the Athénée de Luxembourg, she studied at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School,[3] from which she graduated in 2012. As part of the Erasmus Programme, she performed a one-year university exchange at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in Madrid (RESAD), Spain in 2011.[4]

She then studied at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique, France's National Drama Academy in Paris,[5] in the classes of Daniel Mesguich, Sandy Ouvrier and French choreographer Caroline Marcadé, among others.

During a performance of the Marriage of Figaro[5] at the Paris Drama Academy in 2014, film director Marco Serafini sees her performance on stage and decides to cast her in the leading female role in Toy Gun, a feature film that he is then developing.[6] In this film, she plays the leading female role alongside John Hannah, Anthony LaPaglia and Julian Sands.[7] Her performance in this film has landed her a Best Actress nomination at the Luxembourg Film Awards, the Lëtzebuerger Filmpräis, in 2018.[8]

In 2017, she made an appearance in the German TV series Bad Banks directed by German director Christian Schwochow.[9] The series was broadcast on ARTE and German broadcaster Zdf. This show marks Hana's first performance in a German-language project.[10]

Subsequently, she played a Spanish anarchist in the Belgian-Spanish film Escapada directed by Sarah Hirtt. Spanish actors Sergi López and María León are also part of the cast.[11]

In 2017 she was part of the cast of Arthur Miller's The Crucible,[12] directed by the English director Douglas Rintoul. The premiere took place at Queen's Theater, Hornchurch in London.[13] In 2018, she played the lead role in the French play Intranquillités, based on the Book of Disquiet by Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa, staged in Luxembourg.

In 2018, she starred alongside Juliette Lewis and Henry Rollins in the Canadian film Dreamland directed by Bruce McDonald.[14]

Meanwhile, she has also built a career in Portugal. Her roles in the prime time TV series Mar Salgado (2015) and Coração d'Ouro (2016), co-produced by TV Globo and viewed daily by nearly 2 million viewers,[15] have made her well known to audiences in Portugal.[16] In 2017, she played queen Elizabeth of Aragon, the queen of Portugal in the historical series Ministério do Tempo broadcast on RTP.[17]

Since 2020 she has been part of various plays in major theatres all over Europe: Hedda Gabler in French at the Grand Theatre de Luxembourg, Medea in English at the Grand Theatre de Luxembourg, The lost beginning in Portuguese at the São João National Theatre in Porto.[18] Furthermore, since was on a two year tour through France with the theatre play Habiter le temps with french actors Irene Jacob, Jérôme Kircher directed by Michel Didym.[19] This play was performed in multiple major French theatres: théâtre des Célestins in Lyon, théâtre Anthéa in Antibes, Châteauvallon-Liberté in Toulon, Opera-Théâtre in Metz, among others.

She speaks French, German, English, Portuguese, Luxemburgish, Spanish and Italian.[1]

Filmography

Film

Screen

Stage

References

  1. ^ a b "Hana Sofia Lopes". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
  2. ^ "Hana Sofia Lopes: do Luxemburgo para uma telenovela da SIC". BOM DIA Luxemburgo (in Portuguese). 2015-10-22. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
  3. ^ "A condutora da sua própria vida". Wort.lu (in Portuguese). 2018-12-28. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
  4. ^ "Relatório de Atividades da Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema" (PDF). www.estc.ipl.pt. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
  5. ^ a b "De la folle journée à la nuit des corps Légendes de la forêt viennoise - Programme 2013-2014 - CNSAD - Présentations publiques". cnsad.fr. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
  6. ^ Alexandra Parachini. "Flingues et jolie fille au Kirchberg". Le Quotidien (in French). Retrieved 2019-01-04.
  7. ^ Toy Gun, retrieved 2019-01-04
  8. ^ "Film Fund Luxembourg - Lëtzebuerger Filmpräis 2018". Film Fund Luxembourg (in German). Retrieved 2019-01-04.
  9. ^ Bad Banks, retrieved 2019-01-04
  10. ^ "Hulu Takes U.S. Rights to German Series 'Bad Banks'". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
  11. ^ "Hana Sofia Lopes | ArtemisProductions". www.artemisproductions.com. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
  12. ^ "#59 THE CRUCIBLE". www.theatres.lu. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
  13. ^ Rintoul, Douglas (2017-02-14). "The Crucible: the perfect play for our post-truth times". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
  14. ^ Dreamland, retrieved 2019-01-04
  15. ^ Soldado, David (2015-09-08). "Estreia de "Coração d' Ouro" atinge perto de um milhão e 600 mil telespetadores". A Televisão (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2019-01-04.
  16. ^ L'essentiel. "Une Luxembourgeoise dans une telenovela". L'essentiel. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
  17. ^ Ministério do Tempo, retrieved 2019-01-04
  18. ^ "O Começo Perdido: Mixtape #1". Teatro Nacional São João (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-11-30.
  19. ^ "Habiter le temps – La saison – Saison 22-23 – opéra-théâtre – metz". opera.eurometropolemetz.eu (in French). Retrieved 2022-11-30.
  20. ^ Teleboy. "Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten - RTL - 26. November 2019, 19:40". Teleboy (in German). Retrieved 2019-12-02.
  21. ^ "#33 DEALING WITH CLAIR". www.theatres.lu. Retrieved 2019-12-02.
  22. ^ C.R.I.S, Association. "Habiter le temps - Rasmus Lindberg, - mise en scène Michel Didym, - theatre-contemporain.net". www.theatre-contemporain.net (in French). Retrieved 2020-12-29.
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