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