Portuguese actor. Born in 1953 in Santo Tirso, Portugal, Fonseca studied Theatre and Philosophy. THEATRE: Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists (National Theatre, UK and international tours from Festival d’Avignon); other theatre includes: Sandro W. Junqueira's Those who go to the sea don't return to land (directed by Giacomo Scalisi); Pedro Mexia's Sweden (directed by Nuno Cardoso); Federico Fellini's Orchestra Rehearsal (directed by Tónan Quito); Pedro Gil's The Unforgettable Teacher; The Lusiadas as You've Never Heard Them (based on Luís de Camões); and Dennis Kelly's The Ritual Slaughter of George Mastromas (directed by Tiago Guedes). TV: Wild Land, Salty Sea, Odyssey, The Boys, and Personal Cause. FILM: You Could Have Waited for August (César Mourão), First Work (Rui Simões), White Shadows (Fernando Vendrell), and Invisible Life (Karim Aïnouz). AUDIO: Os Lusíadas in the audiobook Os Lusíadas As You’ve Never Heard Them (a full version of Luís de Camões’s epic).

Filmography

• 2024Could Have Waited For August — Padre Benedito
• 2023Dialogues After the End — Oedipus
• 2023Jogos de Enganos — Dr. Álvaro
• Leading Role — Júlio Guerra
• Lusitânia — Tomás Menezes
• 2023Primeira Obra — Simão
• Salgueiro Maia - The Implicated: The Series — Marcelo Caetano
• 2023Sombras Brancas — Major Santos
• Natural Law — Judge Luciano
• 2022Pê — Médico
• 2022Salgueiro Maia - The Implicated — Marcello Caetano
• 2022Wolf Child — Tomás Menezes
• 2021The Lone Wolf — Raul Oliveira
• 2020Submission
• 2019A Matança Ritual de Gorge Mastromas
• 2019Invisible Life — Manoel
• 2019Snu — António Ferreira Gomes
• South — Médico Legista
• Wild Land — Raúl Santinho
• 2018Blood Lines — Mordomo
• 2018Maria — José
• Water Mirror — Danilo
• 2016Histórias de Alice
• 2016John From — Vizinho
• Os Boys — Ministro
• Salty Sea — João Pimenta
• Lifeline — Fernando Coelho
• New Beginning — Casimiro Marques
• 2013Nzinga, Queen of Angola — Bento Banha Cardoso
• Odisseia — Balhelhas
• Winter Sun — Médico
• 2012Anita Garibaldi
• 2012Florbela — João Espanca
• Perdidamente Florbela — João Espanca (1923)
• 2012The Great Kilapy — Homem do Restaurante de Luxo
• 2011Crónica Parisiense — Émile Vuillermoz
• Maternidade — Filipe
• 2011My Name Is Bernadette — Committee Member
• 2011The City and The Sun
• The Fire of the Rose — Ambrósio Conde
• 2010Brother and Sister — Disertante Embajada
• 2010Cinerama
• 2010Gigola — Jose
• Naked City — Alberto
• 2010O Segredo de Miguel Zuzarte — Lobão
• 2009O Último Condenado à Morte — Pai de Francisco
• Perfect Heart — Artur
• 2009Star Crossed — José Carlos Silva, Invicta President
• 2009The Dead Queen — Bispo da Guarda
• A Outra
• And the World May End
• 2007O Capacete Dourado — Pai de Jota
• Quando os Lobos Uivam — Police Inspector
• 2004Querença — Brito
• 2003A Imitação
• 2002Light Drops — César
• 2002The Uncertainty Principle — Policeman
• 2000Cães Raivosos
• 1998The Mutants — Man at Service Station
• 1994Blind Man's Bluff — Man
• Por Mares Nunca Dantes Navegados
• Cobardias — Jovem
• Passerelle — Cândido
• 1987Era Uma Vez Um Alferes — O que a mãe fez uma promessa
• A Festa é Nossa — Writer
• Sítio do Picapau Amarelo
• A Muralha

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 20138816 Versos — Himself
• Alta Definição — Self