Paula Guedes
- Actress
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
Daughter of a great stage and television actor, João Guedes, she started as
a ballet dancer, than dedicated herself to amateur athletics in a
popular club of her region, Leixões Futebol Club - javelin thrower,
hurdles, voleyball and boat sailing. At 12 years old she had her first
taste of the comedy stage, in the play "Pluft, the Little Ghost" by
Alda Rodrigues at Teatro Experimental do Porto. Her charismatic beauty
and athletic body were used for a number of characters by several
directors, never type cast but in small parts only, of which emerges
her portrayal of Rita Portugal in "O Bobo", by José Álvaro Morais. She knew more
success on the theatrical stage, though, in amateur groups, both in
darma and popular comedy. She was in the first play by the famous Grupo
4, a courageous trial of independent theatre when Portugal was still
under government censorship.
