Filipe Vargas
- Actor
At the age of 18, Filipe Vargas moved to Lisbon, where he
graduated in marketing and advertising, while hosting a couple of
children TV shows to pay for his studies. After working 10 years as a
creative copy-writer in several advertising agencies, he moved to Spain
to study theatre. He studied at the prestigious Juan Carlos Corazza
acting school in Madrid, where Javier Bardem also attended. After
graduating, in 2007, he got his first role in Portugal's most acclaimed
series ever, "Conta-me como foi". Since then, he played a wide range of
characters, from comedy to drama, in Portuguese and foreign series and
movies. Fluent in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish, he worked
with directors Manoel de Oliveira ("Eccentricities of a blonde-hair
girl" and "The strange case of Angelica"), Bille August ("Night train
to Lisbon"), Jean Sagols ("Moi, Bernadette, j'ai vu"), Badreddine
Mokrani ("Ce monde est fou"), Bruno de Almeida ("The lovebirds" and
"Operação: Outono"), João Botelho ("The northern land" and "Disquiet")
and Raul Ruiz ("Misteries of Lisbon" and "The lines of Wellington" -
directed by Raul Ruiz's widow, Valeria Sarmiento), among others.
