Catarina de Lemos Wallenstein (born 23 August 1986) is a Portuguese actress. She has appeared in more than twenty films since 2004.

Biography

Wallenstein was born in

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, daughter of Pedro Franco Wallenstein Teixeira, double bass player of the Portuguese Symphonic Orchestra, and Lúcia de Castro Cardoso de Lemos, a lyric singer. Her family settled in

Lisbon Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administr ...

when she was still a child. On the paternal side, she is the granddaughter of the poet and actor Carlos Wallenstein and the actress, teacher and director Maria Wallenstein and niece of the actor

José Wallenstein José Wallenstein (born 18 October 1959) is a Portuguese actor. He appeared in more than ninety films since 1981. Selected filmography References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wallenstein, Jose 1959 births Living people Male ac ...

. She studied at the

Lisbon Theatre and Film School The Lisbon Theatre and Film School (''Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema'') of the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon inherited the function of the National Conservatoire, founded by Almeida Garrett, in 1836, and of teaching Film, introduced in the ...

. She joined the choir of the Children's Music Foundation, where she also studied cello and choral singing. The same foundation led her to participate in the children's ensembles of operas such as

Tosca ''Tosca'' is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1 ...

La Bohème ''La bohème'' (; ) is an opera in four acts,Puccini called the divisions ''quadri'', ''tableaux'' or "images", rather than ''atti'' (acts). composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1893 and 1895 to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe G ...

Carmen ''Carmen'' () is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the Carmen (novella), novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first perfo ...

, in the National Theatre of Saint Charles.

Selected filmography

Awards and nominations

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* 1986 births Living people Actresses from London Portuguese people of German descent Portuguese film actresses Portuguese voice actresses Actresses from Lisbon Catarina Lisbon Theatre and Film School alumni 21st-century Portuguese actresses 21st-century English women 21st-century English people {{Portugal-actor-stub