Gonçalo Waddington (Acting)

Star Sailors

The fearless race of the 1920's Portuguese aviation pioneers to cross the South Atlantic Ocean through aerial navigation, became an epic story of the modern age argonauts. In order to reach the stars - sailing is necessary- navigandum est.

Release Date:2025-01-27

Character:Sacadura Cabral

Episode Count:6

Banzo

1907. Afonso, a doctor, arrives at Principe Island to cure servants from a cocoa plantation “infected” with Banzo, nostalgia of the slaves, who are dying from starvation and suicide. The group is confined to the forest, where Afonso decides to heal them by trying to understand what is affecting their soul. Will he manage to save them?

Release Date:2024-12-25

Character:Raimundo

Vote Count:1

The Cowboy

Early 80’s. A group of criminal’s spreads terror across the Algarve with more than 20 bank robberies. The gang is led by a man they call "The Doctor" and a carpenter who earns the nickname of "The Cowboy". Captured and sentenced to 18 years in prison he becomes the protagonist of the bloodiest escape in Portuguese prison history.

Release Date:2024-12-02

Character:Primo Amândio

Episode Count:8

Grand Tour

In 1917 Burma (now Myanmar), a British diplomat is set to marry his fiancée, but after a sudden panic, escapes to Singapore, sending her on what evolves into a chase across Asia.

Release Date:2024-11-27

Character:Edward

Vote Count:22

How We Got Mother Back

Shortly after the death of his wife, a father of four retreats into bed and into mourning until the house is left to self-manage. The older children think about how to pull him out of this stupor; the eldest begins by mimicking their mother's voice. Soon, the game spirals out of control, just like each of their identities.

Release Date:2024-10-31

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:

Caiu

Release Date:2024-05-28

Character:Pai

Vai Correr Tudo Bem

This is a fictional series with biographical elements where Guilherme Geirinhas tries to make everything go well.

Release Date:2023-11-26

Character:Manuel

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Vai Correr Tudo Bem

Release Date:2023-10-15

Character:Manuel Geirinhas

Vote Count:1

Sombras Brancas

At the age of 71, a highly regarded writer, José Cardoso Pires, suffers a major stroke and loses his memory and the ability to relate to the rest of the world. Everybody seems to defy the famous author to write another novel that recounts this adventure telling his "last story", the most conclusive of his career, the one of his accidental journey to the clear shadows territory.

Release Date:2023-04-20

Character:Captain

Vote Count:2

Nothing Ever Happened

António is a farmer who leaves his land to go to the city where his son Jorge lives. However, unlike a perfect portrait, the patriarch finds a life of lies, a broken marriage and Pedro, a grandson with dangerous attitudes. It all translates into a life of broken dreams.

Release Date:2022-09-29

Character:Pai Paulo

Vote Count:3

Remains of the Wind

A pagan tradition in a village in the countryside of Portugal leaves painful traces in a group of young teenagers. 25 years later, when they meet again, the past resurfaces and tragedy sets in.

Release Date:2022-09-22

Character:Vítor

Vote Count:10

Natural Law

After the murder of a local student, a small town judge faces an unexpected dilemma: now her actions can put her family at risk.

Release Date:2022-01-05

Character:Attorney Renato

Episode Count:7

Vote Count:7

Glória

A small town in Portugal becomes engulfed in a web of political intrigue when a young engineer is recruited as a KGB spy in this historical thriller.

Release Date:2021-11-05

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:33

O Outro Lado de Patrick

A behind the scenes look at Gonçalo Waddington's new film, Patrick, visiting the shooting locations and interviewing the main protagonists.

Release Date:2020-08-17

Character:Himself

Mosquito

Dreaming of great adventures and of standing up for his homeland, a young Portuguese man enlists in the army during World War I and is sent to the front line in Mozambique, Africa. Left behind by his platoon, he sets out on a grueling trek across the mystic Makua native land, walking for over a thousand kilometers, in search of his dream.

Release Date:2020-03-05

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:15

Bruno Aleixo's Film

Bruno Aleixo was invited to write a biopic about his own life. Lacking ideas, he decided to ask his closest friends for inspiration. Reunited in a cafe, each of his friends suggests a different idea, more or less biographical.

Release Date:2020-01-23

Vote Count:8

Sadness and Joy in the Life of Giraffes

The economic crisis, a teddy bear with suicidal tendencies named Judy Garland, the Discovery Channel, a black panther and the Russian playwright Anton Tchekhov are all part of the heroic adventure of a little girl who has a problem to solve.

Release Date:2019-11-21

Character:Bancário Pacote de Açúcar

Vote Count:5

Patrick

Patrick, 20-years-old, lives in Paris with his older boyfriend. He runs a teenage pornography website, which results in a prison sentence following a raid at a party. Mário, 8-years-old, was kidnapped 12 years ago in Portugal. Patrick and Mário are the same person with two conflicting identities: a life in Paris filled with parties, drugs, and promiscuity and a new rural life in Portugal, where he feels obliged to reconnect with a broken family.

Release Date:2019-09-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:

Vote Count:5

Teorias da Conspiração

Conspiracy Theories

Release Date:2019-01-25

Character:Pedro Soares Teixeira

Episode Count:18

Mariphasa

Paulo works as night security in a deactivated industrial complex. He lost his daughter in dramatic circumstances, and no regrets would console him. He sleeps at Luisa's house and witnesses the repeated transgressions of an unstable neighbour. Everything threatens to crack.

Release Date:2017-07-09

Character:Segurança

Saint George

In 2011 Portugal began the so-called "year of the Troika" (EU, IMF and ECB budget cuts and economic restructuring), with the level of debt among the Portuguese people reaching staggering amounts and a growing number of families and companies unable to repay their installment loans. Jorge is an unemployed boxer on the verge of losing his son and his wife, who has decided to return to Brazil. As a means of paying off his debt and persuading his wife to remain in Portugal, Jorge accepts a job with a debt-collection agency, which will drag him into a world of violence and crime.

Release Date:2017-03-09

Character:Chef Cardoso

Vote Count:23

Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One

In which Scheherazade doubts that she will still be able to tell stories to please the King, given that what she has to tell weighs three thousand tonnes. She therefore escapes from the palace and travels the Kingdom in search of pleasure and enchantment. Her father, the Grand-Vizier, arranges to meet her at the Ferris wheel, and Scheherazade resumes her narration: “Auspicious King, in old shanty towns of Lisbon there was a community of bewitched men who, in all rigour and passion, dedicated themselves to teaching birds to sing…”. And seeing the morning break, Scheherazade fell silent.

Release Date:2015-08-26

Character:Passarinheiro

Vote Count:35

Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One

In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men : “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a Judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence. A runaway murderer will wander through the land for over forty days and will teletransport himself to escape the Guard while dreaming of prostitutes and partridges. A wounded cow will reminisce about a thousand-year-old olive tree while saying what she must say, which will sound none less than sad !

Release Date:2015-07-29

Character:Filho que rouba / Careto / Vasco

Vote Count:40

The Portuguese Falcon

A satire on anti-communist paranoia in the days of fascist dictatorship in Portugal. The series follows the adventures of the "Lusitanian superhero", the ultra-patriotic Captain Falcão, a man who follows the direct orders of António de Oliveira Salazar in the fight against the "red menace".

Release Date:2015-04-23

Character:Capitão Falcão

Vote Count:31

Yvone Kane

After her daughter's death, Rita returns to the African country of her childhood to investigate the death of Yvone Kane, a former political activist and guerrilla fighter. There, she becomes embroiled in a journey into the past of a land haunted by war and evil.

Release Date:2015-02-26

Character:João

Vote Count:4

The Secret Agent

An adaptation of the 1907 political novel of the same title by Joseph Conrad set in Portugal during the so-called "Hot Summer" of 1975, re-contextualizing the anarchist prose within the Carnation Revolution.

Release Date:2015-02-19

Character:Ass't Commissioner

Vote Count:2

Capitão Falcão: Terror no Museu

The most famous duo of Portuguese superheroes are called once again to the office of Fascist PM António de Oliveira Salazar. Turns out communists are trying to invade the Natural History Museum. What do they want this time around?

Release Date:2015-01-01

Character:Capitão Falcão

Coro dos Amantes

Chorus is film about death, absence and how close they are to us. Based on a theater play by Tiago Rodrigues.

Release Date:2014-04-27

Character:Ele

Vote Count:3

Until Tomorrow, Comrades

Portugal, 1944. In a country oppressed by a brutal dictatorship, there are those who resist and mobilize the people to fight for bread and freedom, even if it cost them prison, torture or their lives.

Release Date:2013-11-07

Character:Vaz

Vote Count:2

Immaculate

A man lives isolated in his grandmother's country-house in an attempt to recover from a tragic event involving his family. His lonely and silent days are spent with an unnameable hope.

Release Date:2013-04-22

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:

Odisseia

A story developed in two different narratives which are interlinked. On the first one, the two friends Bruno Nogueira and Gonçalo Waddington (playing themselves) set out on a caravan trip through Portugal with the desire to escape from their daily lives and find a solution for their personal struggles. On the second one, there's the fictionalized making-off of the miniseries itself.

Release Date:2013-01-20

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Gonçalo

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:7

Lines of Wellington

Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal.

Release Date:2012-10-04

Character:Zanaga / Espião

Vote Count:42

Assim Assim

Five characters intersect at a sidewalk beginning a journey through their lives.

Release Date:2012-04-05

Character:Médico

Vote Count:1

Último a Sair

An original and unique parody to reality shows. In Portugal, different celebrities, from different artistic areas, "live" together in a house where everything looks real, but it's not. Pure comedy and social satire.

Release Date:2011-05-08

Character:Gonçalo Waddington

Episode Count:37

Vote Count:12

Nenhum Nome

After having suffered a serious car accident in which his 6 month pregnant wife is killed, X, a 35 year old man, is admitted in an intensive care unit. K, a 30 year old nurse, will help X during his rehabilitation. K is also 6 months pregnant. This curious detail makes their apparent impersonal relationship stronger.

Release Date:2011-05-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Hell

In the course of one afternoon, Raphael's paradise turns into a spiral of guilt and paranoia.

Release Date:2011-05-04

Character:The Father

Vote Count:10

Bloody Night

A group of soldiers are sentenced for the murders of key political figures in the night of October 19th, 1921, in the streets of Lisbon. But the names of the conspirators remain unknown. Berta Maia, a widow of the 1910 revolution hero Carlos da Maia, will fight for the truth…

Release Date:2010-10-23

Character:Abel Olímpio

Vote Count:1

Noite Sangrenta

Release Date:2010-10-23

Character:Abel Olímpio

Episode Count:2

How to Draw a Perfect Circle

Guilherme and Sofia, brother and sister, grow up sharing experiences and slowly discovering their sexuality. The thing that Sofia doesn't know is how far Guilherme will go to keep her inside his own perverse, dark and perfect circle.

Release Date:2009-09-23

Character:Carteiro

Vote Count:23

April Showers

April 1974 saw the fall of a long lasting dictatorship. The young democracy developed in the midst of much social and political turmoil. The armed wing of a leftist group changed the future of one family - the father disappears without trace, the mother denies their past, and the son grows up with unanswered questions. As a young man, Pedro is determined to reach for answers, aided by his apparently batty grandmother. Collecting clues and meeting people who would rather prefer to remain forgotten. His inner journey leads him Portugal to Spanish through the deserted roads of Alentejo. Pedro will find himself, but there is a price to pay.

Release Date:2009-01-26

Character:Pedro

Vote Count:2

Entre os Dedos

After the structural collapse at a construction site, Paulo loses his job because he denounces the situation to the authorities.

Release Date:2008-10-22

Character:Nuno

Vote Count:6

Aljubarrota

A commission from CIBA - Battle of Aljubarrota Interpretation Center, from the Batalha de Aljubarrota Foundation.

Release Date:2008-10-11

Character:Nuno Álvares Pereira

Vote Count:2

Os Contemporâneos

Release Date:2008-05-04

Character:Várias Personagens

Episode Count:42

Vote Count:4

Misbegotten

Lúcia is misbegotten, unloved and the eternal widow of her own father. A cry of rage in bodily form, she is mad, maltreated and humbled. She wears mourning in remembrance of her mothers crime and betrayal, and gives vent to her inconsolable pain to make sure theres no rest or respite for the killers of her father. She lives in hope of her brothers return so she can fulfil her promise of avenging her fathers blood.

Release Date:2007-09-05

Character:Augusto

Vote Count:4

Handing Over

A man has to sell the home he has spent such happy times in. His daughters have grown up and left. Reluctantly, he shows the house for some buyers: a young couple with a kid. When they arrive, in love and so happy, the house owner sees a reflection of himself years before. This unexpected glimpse of his past makes handing over somehow easier to bear…

Release Date:2007-01-01

Blood Curse

An urban family inherits an old country house located in a small village. Upon their arrival they try to adapt to the new lifestyle, but they soon learn that the village is overshadowed by superstition and mysterious folklore. As they are plagued by strange events, they learn more about the history of their family, and slowly begin to believe by inheriting the house, they also inherited a curse.

Release Date:2006-02-24

Character:António

Vote Count:29

Alice

In the wake of his daughter's disappearance, a father wallowing in grief feeds his desire to find her with unusual methods.

Release Date:2005-09-28

Character:airport security

Vote Count:32

Até Amanhã, Camaradas

Release Date:2005-01-28

Character:Vaz

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:1

Anjo Caído

Release Date:2001-09-29

Character:Polícia

Filha do Mar

Release Date:2001-09-03

Character:Vítor

Episode Count:169

Vote Count:1

A Senhora das Águas

Release Date:2001-09-03

Character:Lucas (jovem)

Episode Count:150

Ajuste de Contas

Release Date:2000-11-13

Character:Filipe

Episode Count:150

Conde de Abranhos

Release Date:2000-10-03

Character:Dr. Tavares

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

A Raia dos Medos

Release Date:2000-02-11

Character:Guarda Silvério

Episode Count:13

Vote Count:1

Esquadra de Polícia

Release Date:1999-09-13

Character:Antero

Episode Count:1

Terra Mãe

Release Date:1998-03-09

Character:Gonçalo de Castro

Episode Count:146

Não Há Duas Sem Três

Release Date:1997-10-07

Character:Alberto

Episode Count:1

Filhos do Vento

Release Date:1997-04-06

Character:Jorge (jovem)

Episode Count:150

Polícias

Release Date:1996-10-03

Character:João Luís

Episode Count:1

Ninguém Como Tu

Character:António Paiva Calado

Episode Count:1

Fateful Dawn

Filipe, a municipal architect known for his idealism and commitment to environmental causes, is the only person who can stop the construction of a luxury real estate development in a protected area. Maria Rodrigues, a young prosecutor, is pursuing a lead in a high-level financial corruption case. At the same time, the reopening of a closed case, in which she was the victim, forces her to confront the deep and painful trauma of a night that took place 15 years before. As she takes the investigation into her own hands, she struggles with the hazy memories of the rape and hit-and-run. Filipe is one of the main suspects, but was it really him?

Character:Luís Morais

Episode Count:6