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).

Known For

Latin Blood – The Ballad of Ney Matogrosso

Sol Alegria

States of Grace

Antonio One Two Three

Rain Hums a Lullaby to Pain

Life Lasts Two Days

The Portuguese Woman

Foreign Desert

All Movies (16)

• Fuck the Polis2025
• Latin Blood – The Ballad of Ney Matogrosso2025 · as João Ricardo
• Greice2024 · as Afonso / Funcionário do Consulado
• Human Flowers of Flesh2023 · as Mauro
• Life Lasts Two Days2022
• The Kegelstatt Trio2022 · as Self
• Half a Light-Year2021
• Um Momento de Clareza em Meio ao Caos das Coisas2021 · as Self
• Foreign Desert2020 · as Gustavo
• Rain Hums a Lullaby to Pain2020
• The Useless2019
• Bela Mandil2019
• Antonio One Two Three2019 · as António
• The Portuguese Woman2019 · as Cavaleiro Jovem
• Hello My First Love, Over and Out2018
• Sol Alegria2018 · as Son

All TV Shows (1)

• States of Grace2011 · as Baby