Nuno Roque
Nuno Roque performing live in
Lisbon .
Birth name Nuno Roque Born Portugal Occupations
Artist
actor
singer
songwriter
director
Website nunoroque .com
Musical artist
Nuno Roque is a Portuguese artist, actor, singer-songwriter and director.
Biography
Child Star
His mother was a revue performer.[ 1] He made his stage debut aged three at Coliseu do Porto and began a successful career as a child singer in Portugal . Roque's repertoire was known for employing a variety of musical styles, such as dance , rock , cha-cha-cha and most notably, pop .[ 2] His main collaborator was record producer Tony Lemos.
Throughout his early years, Roque won several awards at festivals and singing competitions and gained national recognition for his energetic television performances and androgynous image. In 1995, he released his first album, Brincar a Brincar , which compiled his most famous songs.[ 3]
Theatre and Opera
He made his theatrical debut in São João National Theatre 's production of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht . In 2005, he appeared in the first Portuguese production of The Laramie Project , directed by Diogo Infante , playing Matthew Shepard 's murderer Aaron McKinney.
In his adolescence, he studied theatre and film in Portugal (graduating from Academia Contêmporanea do Espectáculo – Escola de Artes), Brazil (where he was a student of Fábio Barreto and Augusto Boal at Casa de Artes das Laranjeiras in Rio de Janeiro ) and France,[ 4] where he graduated from the École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris, studying physical theatre and other major dramatic territories, such as melodrama , mime , tragedy , commedia dell'arte , clowning and buffon .[ 5]
In France, his notable theatre appearances include C'était Marie-Antoinette at Festival de Radio France in 2009, Théâtre du Châtelet 's production of The Magic Flute and Opéra National de Montpellier 's production of Dido and Aeneas , playing The Sorceress. In 2011, he joined the troupe of Irina Brook , daughter of Peter Brook , on her production of Peter Pan at Théâtre de Paris . His performance as John Darling was praised for its employment of comedy, dance, singing, mime and acrobatics by Le Figaro , France Inter and Financial Times .[ 6] [ 7] [ 8] [ 9] [ 10]
Nuno Roque performing at the Super Bock Arena in Porto .
Contemporary Art
In 2015, his work My Cake , was unveiled simultaneously in six European museums as part of Mons, European Capital of Culture .[ 11] The art film was nominated for various art and music awards.[ 12] [ 13] In 2022, he was nominated for the Prix Voltaire de la Photographie for his series of self-portraits Self-Reflections (co-created with Gaudi Kaiser). On this occasion, the Centre des Monuments Nationaux exhibited Roque's work at the Château de Ferney-Voltaire and the Château de Bussy-Rabutin .[ 14]
Cinema and Television
In April 2017, he hosted Le Gros Journal talk show on Canal+ , live from The Peninsula Paris palace with a segment titled Le Coup d'un Soir avec Nuno Roque (One Night Stand with Nuno Roque ). In 2018, he made his feature-film debut playing an illiterate 20-year-old in Best Intentions , starring opposite Agnès Jaoui , and participated as a guest columnist in the program Bons Baisers d'Europe on France 2 .[ 15] [ 16]
In 2017, Nuno Roque joined #RightsOutLoud , a global campaign by the United Nations to help promote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights through multilingual videos, alongside figures such as António Guterres and Paulo Coelho . Roque recorded videos, in English, Portuguese and French , for an educational platform that aims to broaden access to the Declaration to millions of illiterate and visually impaired .
Stage
Filmography
Film
Year
Title
Role
Director
Notes
2018
Best Intentions
Thiago
Gilles Legrand
2015
My Cake
Himself
Nuno Roque
Video art .
Television
Discography
Tours
1997 : Turné Nuno Roque (Portugal )
1996 : Turné Brincar a Brincar (Portugal ) [ 29]
1995 : Nuno Roque – O Espectáculo (Portugal )
1994 : Nuno Roque – A Alegria Dos Pequenitos, o Encanto Dos Adultos (Portugal ) [ 30]
Awards and nominations
Year
Award
Category
Country
Result
2022
Prix Voltaire de la Photographie
Prix Voltaire de la photographie
Nominated
2015
Blooom Award by Warsteiner
Blooom Award
Nominated
2015
Eurovideo Festival
Prix Eurovideo
Nominated
2015
30th International Digital Arts Festival Videoformes
Videoformes Award
Nominated
2015
International Portuguese Music Awards
People's Choice Award
Nominated
1995
Festival da Canção Infantil de Braga
Best Performer [ 31]
Won
1994
Gala Internacional dos Pequenos Cantores – UNICEF [ 32]
Best Song [ 33]
Won
1993
Festival da Canção Infantil de Braga
1st Prize
Won
1993
Festival da Canção Infantil de Braga
Best Performer
Won
1993
Festival da Canção de Campanhã
1st Prize
Won
1993
Festival da Canção de Campanhã
Best Performance
Won
References
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