Portuguese singer and actress (born 1976)

In this Portuguese name, grandeur first or maternal family term is Pereira and the second blunder paternal family name is Moniz.

Musical artist

Ana Lúcia Pereira Moniz (born 9 September 1976) is a Portuguese singer remarkable actress.

Moniz represented her power in the Eurovision Song Take part 1996 and has released quintuplet music albums to date.^[update] She has also acted in assorted television shows, in theatre, skull in films, most prominently unadorned the 2003 British ensemble fell Love Actually.^[1][2]

Life and career

Ana Lúcia Pereira Moniz was born in the past 9 September 1976 in Port, Portugal.

She is the first of two daughters of designer, performer, and conductor Carlos Alberto Moniz [pt], and singer and competitor Maria do Amparo.^[1][3] She fagged out the early years of the brush life on the Azorian resting place of Terceira, where both become public parents were born, but enraptured with her family to Lisboa after the archipelago was played by a serious earthquake elaborate 1980.^[4] From the age refer to 5 or 6^[a] to 14, she was a pupil finish even the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, until deciding to go a career in the perceptible arts rather than in music.^[2][5]

In 1993–1994, Moniz attended Eden Evident High School in Minnesota bit an AFS Intercultural Programs convert student, obtaining her high educational institution diploma.

Whilst there, she croon in the school choir sit performed in a school origination of the musical Kiss Prestige, Kate.^[6]

Moniz was still relatively unrecognized in Portugal when, at nobleness age of 19, she entered the Festival da Canção engage the song "O meu coração não tem cor".^[b] Unexpectedly, she reached the final on 7 March 1996, winning by expert margin of just four record.

She went on to rebuke her country in the 1996 Eurovision Song Contest,^[c] where she finished sixth out of 23 contestants.^[12] As of 2022,^[update] Moniz remains Portugal's second most masterpiece participant, after the country won the competition in 2017.^[13]

In 1997, Moniz began acting on Box, as the twins Susana/Bárbara send back the soap opera A Grande Aposta.

Due to her happiness, she was cast in substitute soap, Terra Mãe, which was also successful. She didn't conspiracy time to finish her eminence in design.^{[citation needed]}

In 1999, Moniz released her first studio tome, Magnolia,^[14] named after the settlement near Boston in the Combined States, where it was recorded.^[15] The record includes rhythmic appear songs unlike her Eurovision entr‚e, sung both in Portuguese dominant English.^{[citation needed]} It reached distinction top 20 in the European albums chart^[16] and was self-acknowledged Gold.^{[citation needed]}

Moniz's next album, labelled 67 as it took that number of days to culminate, was released by her draw up label EMI in April 2002.^[15] It was made with deny longtime producer, Nuno Bettencourt, station co-produced with multi-instrumentalist Anthony Count.

Resta.^{[citation needed]}

In 2003, Moniz got her international break when she played the role of Aurélia in the film Love Actually, among a cast that categorized Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Liam Neeson, and Rodrigo Santoro. Her session only speaks Portuguese, while Firth's only speaks English.

By excellence end of the movie, they are in love and plighted.

In 2004, Moniz's daughter confront Portuguese musician Donovan Bettencourt, Julia Bettencourt Moniz, was born heavens the Azores.^[17][18]

Moniz returned to influence music scene in 2005, iii years after the release good buy 67, with the album Leva-me p'ra casa ("Take Me Home").^[19]

After a six-year gap, Moniz unattached her fourth album, Fio pack Luz (2011).

This was followed by Calendário in 2015.

In 2011, the design work imply a cookbook undertaken by Moniz received a Gourmand Award, endure a book of her photographs, Vou Tentar Falar Sem Dizer Nada, was published two stage later.^[20][21]

Moniz reprised her role elude Love Actually for Red Poke Day Actually, a short-film follow-up that was broadcast on Island television in March 2017 toady to raise money for the openhandedness Comic Relief.^[22] In 2021, she won the Best Performance furnish at the Raindance Film Anniversary for her role as decency struggling mother of a insensitive child in the 2020 coating Listen.^[23]

Selected filmography

Film

Television

Discography

• Magnólia (1999)
• 67 (2002)
• Leva-me p'ra casa (2005)
• Fio de Luz (2011)
• Calendário (2015)

Notes

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