Nuno Roque is a Portuguese artist, actor, singer-songwriter and director.

Biography

Child Star

His mother was a revue performer. He made his stage debut aged three at Coliseu do Porto and began a successful career as a child singer in

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. Roque's repertoire was known for employing a variety of musical styles, such as

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and most notably,

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. 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

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image. In 1995, he released his first album, ''Brincar a Brincar'', which compiled his most famous songs.

Theatre and Opera

He made his theatrical debut in

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's production of ''

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'' by

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. In 2005, he appeared in the first Portuguese production of '' The Laramie Project'', directed by

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, playing

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's murderer Aaron McKinney. In his adolescence, he studied theatre and film in

(graduating from Academia Contêmporanea do Espectáculo – Escola de Artes),

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(where he was a student of

Fábio Barreto Fábio Villela Barreto Borges (June 6, 1957 – November 20, 2019) was a Brazilian filmmaker, actor, screenwriter, and film producer. He was best known for directing ''O Quatrilho'' (which was the first Brazilian film nominated for the Academy Aw ...

and

Augusto Boal Augusto Boal (16 March 1931 – 2 May 2009) was a Brazilian theatre practitioner, drama theorist, and political activist. He was the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, a theatrical form originally used in radical left popular education movemen ...

at Casa de Artes das Laranjeiras in

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) and France, where he graduated from the École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris, studying

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and other major dramatic territories, such as

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, mime,

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, clowning and buffon. In France, his notable theatre appearances include ''C'était Marie-Antoinette'' at Festival de Radio France in 2009,

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's production of ''

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'' and Opéra National de Montpellier's production of '' Dido and Aeneas'', playing The Sorceress. In 2011, he joined the troupe of

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, daughter of Peter Brook, on her production of '' Peter Pan'' at

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. His performance as John Darling was praised for its employment of comedy, dance, singing, mime and acrobatics by

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and

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Contemporary Art

In 2015, his work ''My Cake'', was unveiled simultaneously in six European museums as part of Mons, European Capital of Culture. The art film was nominated for various art and music awards. In 2022, he was nominated for the ''Prix

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de la Photographie'' for his series of

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''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

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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

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in the program ''Bons Baisers d'Europe'' on France 2. In 2017, Nuno Roque joined ''#RightsOutLoud'', a global campaign by the

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to help promote the

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through multilingual videos, alongside figures such as

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and Paulo Coelho. Roque recorded videos, in English, Portuguese and

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, for an educational platform that aims to broaden access to the Declaration to millions of illiterate and

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Stage

Filmography

Film

Television

Discography

* ''Brincar a Brincar'' (1995) (

) * ''Eu, o Cão e o Gato'' (1997) (

)

Tours

* 1997 : ''Turné Nuno Roque'' (

) * 1996 : ''Turné Brincar a Brincar'' (

) * 1995 : ''Nuno Roque – O Espectáculo'' (

) * 1994 : ''Nuno Roque – A Alegria Dos Pequenitos, o Encanto Dos Adultos'' (

)

Awards and nominations

References

External links

Official Website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Roque, Nuno Living people 20th-century Portuguese male singers Portuguese pop singers Portuguese child singers 21st-century Portuguese male actors Portuguese male singer-songwriters Portuguese singer-songwriters Portuguese male film actors Portuguese male stage actors Portuguese male television actors Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Portuguese male singers Year of birth missing (living people) Portuguese artists