Maria de Medeiros Esteves Vitorino de Almeida (born August 19, 1965), better known as Maria de Medeiros, is a Portuguese actress, director, and singer who has been involved in both European and American film productions.

Filmography

• 2026Ce qui nous mène à toi
• Me Sometimes Always — Cinta
• 2025Ange — Georgina
• 2025No One Will Know — Picon-Lafayette
• 2025Reflection in a Dead Diamond — Laura
• 2025The Portuguese House — Amalia
• 2024Smoke Signals — Lucia Monteiro
• 2023Easter
• 2023Giorni felici — Serena
• 2022Les parents terribles — Léonie
• Hidden Truths 2 — Blanche Labelle
• 2020In the Country of Last Things — Victoria
• 2020Moral Order — Maria Adelaide
• 2019Onyx: Kings of the Grail — Margarita Torres
• 2019Our Children — Screenplay, Editor, Director
• 2018Black Is Beltza — Amira (voice)
• 2018Sea — Francisca
• 2018Two Fridas — Judith Ferreto
• 2017The Broken Key — Althea
• 2017The Killer — Madame Blanchard
• 2016100 Meters — Noelia
• 2016Pacifique
• 2016The Son of Joseph — Violette Tréfouille
• 2015Show Me Lisbon
• 2015The Forbidden Room — Blind Mother / Clotilde
• 2014Meetings with a Young Poet — Carole Thomas
• 2014Pasolini — Laura Betti
• 2014The Masters of Suspense — Maria / Scarlet
• 2014Women Directors — Elvira Notari
• 2013I'm Not Dead — Eléonore
• 2013Invisible World — Director, Writer
• 2013The Gang of the Jotas — Maria
• 2012Repare Bem — Director, Writer
• 2011Chicken with Plums — Faringuisse
• 2011Hitler in Hollywood — Maria de Medeiros
• 2011Holidays by the Sea — Madame Collier
• 2011Journey to Portugal — Maria
• 2011Medea Miracle — L'amie de Médée
• 2009David's Birthday — Francesca
• 2009The Story of Me — Margherit
• 2008Fallen Heroes — Cécile
• 2008My Stars — Adeline
• 2007Je t'aime... moi non plus — Director
• 2007Midsummer Madness — Livia
• 2007On The Ropes — Teresa
• 2007Shelter Me — Anna
• 2006Call Me Elisabeth — Mado
• 2005The Remains of Nothing — Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel
• Venus & Apollo — Suzy
• 2004A Trip to the Orphanage
• 2004Marlene de Sousa
• 2004The Lady of Lapa
• 2004Welcome to São Paulo — Director
• 2003I, Cesar — Chantal Petit
• 2003My Life Without Me — Hairdresser
• 2003The Saddest Music in the World — Narcissa
• Cuéntame cómo pasó — Carmen
• 2001Honolulu Baby — Margherita
• 2001Man of the Crowds — Dr. Giordano
• 2001Marafona — Maria Viola da Silva
• 2001Porto of My Childhood — Miss Diablo
• 2001Stranded — Jenny Johnsen
• 2001The Xango from Baker Street — Sarah Bernhardt
• 2001Water and Salt — Vera
• 2000April Captains — Antónia, Director, Writer
• 2000Second life — Laurie
• 2000The Art of Amália — Narrator (voice)
• 1999Babel — Alice
• 1999Les Infortunes de la beauté — Céline
• 1998El sudor de los ruiseñores — Goyita
• 1997Airbag — Fátima do Espíritu Santo
• 1997Land of Storms — Lena
• 1997Limited Edition — Nancy Pickford
• 1997Tempest in a Teapot — Vita
• 1997The Comedian — Antoinette Vervier
• 1997The Thousand Wonders of the Universe — Président Blandine Brucker
• 1996Le Polygraphe — Claude
• 1996News from the Good Lord — Karenine
• 1996Saint-Exupéry: La dernière mission — Consuelo
• 1995Adam and Eve — Catarina Meneses
• 1995Paraíso Perdido — Cristina Pratas
• 1994Jenseits der Brandung — Therese
• 1994Poorly Extinguished Fires — Tweedy Bird
• 1994Pulp Fiction — Fabienne
• 1994The Detective and Death — Maria
• 1994Two Brothers, My Sister — Maria
• 1993Golden Balls — Marta (La mujer, 45 kilos)
• 1992Alcibíades
• 1992L'homme de ma vie — Aimee
• 1991Alex — Bárbara
• 1991Meeting Venus — Yvonne
• 1991Retrato de Família — Ofelia
• 1991The Divine Comedy — Sónia
• 19901871 — Maria
• 1990Henry & June — Anais Nin
• 1989Easy in Mind — Cecile
• 1989Where the Sun Beats — Laura (voice)
• 1988La Lectrice — l'infirmière muette
• The Secret Files of Inspector Lavardin — Charlotte
• 1987Elvire Jouvet 40 — Claudia
• 1987Sorceress — Agnès
• 1987The Jester — Dulce (voice)
• 1987Zigzags — Claire
• 1985Vertiges — Blanche
• 1984I'm Hungry, I'm Cold
• 1984Paris Seen By... 20 Years After — La première fugueuse (segment 1)
• 1982A Estrangeira — Ana as a Child
• 1982Silvestre — Sílvia / Silvestre
• A Morte do Príncipe — Director
• A Solidez da Água
• An Odd Enchantment — Madame P.
• Coffeehouse Mysteries — Singer, Director
• Résilience
• Vindima

Appearances as themselves (8)

• 2025Bruce Willis : les secrets d'une icône — Self
• Correspondance vidéo — Herself
• Alta Definição — Self
• 2003José Saramago : le temps d’une mémoire — Self
• 2003José Saramago. O Tempo de uma Memória — self
• Lo + plus — Self - Guest
• Parabéns — Self
• Joaquim Letria — Self