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Nuno Roque
Nuno Roque performing live in Lisbon.
Background information
Birth name	Nuno Roque
Born	Portugal
Occupations	Artist actor singer songwriter director
Website	nunoroque.com

Nuno Roque is a Portuguese artist, actor, singer-songwriter and director.

Biography

Child Star

His mother was a revue performer. He made his stage debut aged three at Coliseu do Porto and began a successful career as a child singer in Portugal. Roque's repertoire was known for employing a variety of musical styles, such as dance, rock, cha-cha-cha and most notably, pop. His main collaborator was record producer Tony Lemos.

Throughout his early years, Roque won several awards at festivals and singing competitions and gained national recognition for his energetic television performances and androgynous image. In 1995, he released his first album, Brincar a Brincar, which compiled his most famous songs.

Theatre and Opera

He made his theatrical debut in São João National Theatre's production of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht. In 2005, he appeared in the first Portuguese production of The Laramie Project, directed by Diogo Infante, playing Matthew Shepard's murderer Aaron McKinney.

In his adolescence, he studied theatre and film in Portugal (graduating from Academia Contêmporanea do Espectáculo – Escola de Artes), Brazil (where he was a student of Fábio Barreto and Augusto Boal at Casa de Artes das Laranjeiras in Rio de Janeiro) and France, where he graduated from the École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris, studying physical theatre and other major dramatic territories, such as melodrama, mime, tragedy, commedia dell'arte, clowning and buffon.

In France, his notable theatre appearances include C'était Marie-Antoinette at Festival de Radio France in 2009, Théâtre du Châtelet's production of The Magic Flute and Opéra National de Montpellier's production of Dido and Aeneas, playing The Sorceress. In 2011, he joined the troupe of Irina Brook, daughter of Peter Brook, on her production of Peter Pan at Théâtre de Paris. His performance as John Darling was praised for its employment of comedy, dance, singing, mime and acrobatics by Le Figaro, France Inter and Financial Times.

Contemporary Art

In 2015, his work My Cake, was unveiled simultaneously in six European museums as part of Mons, European Capital of Culture. The art film was nominated for various art and music awards. In 2022, he was nominated for the Prix Voltaire de la Photographie for his series of self-portraits Self-Reflections (co-created with Gaudi Kaiser). On this occasion, the Centre des Monuments Nationaux exhibited Roque's work at the Château de Ferney-Voltaire and the Château de Bussy-Rabutin.

Cinema and Television

In April 2017, he hosted Le Gros Journal talk show on Canal+, live from The Peninsula Paris palace with a segment titled Le Coup d'un Soir avec Nuno Roque (One Night Stand with Nuno Roque). In 2018, he made his feature-film debut playing an illiterate 20-year-old in Best Intentions, starring opposite Agnès Jaoui, and participated as a guest columnist in the program Bons Baisers d'Europe on France 2.

In 2017, Nuno Roque joined #RightsOutLoud, a global campaign by the United Nations to help promote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights through multilingual videos, alongside figures such as António Guterres and Paulo Coelho. Roque recorded videos, in English, Portuguese and French, for an educational platform that aims to broaden access to the Declaration to millions of illiterate and visually impaired.

Stage

Filmography

Film

Television

Discography

• Brincar a Brincar (1995) (Portugal)
• Eu, o Cão e o Gato (1997) (Portugal)

Tours

• 1997 : Turné Nuno Roque (Portugal)
• 1996 : Turné Brincar a Brincar (Portugal)
• 1995 : Nuno Roque – O Espectáculo (Portugal)
• 1994 : Nuno Roque – A Alegria Dos Pequenitos, o Encanto Dos Adultos (Portugal)

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Country	Result
2022	Prix Voltaire de la Photographie	Prix Voltaire de la photographie		Nominated
2015	Blooom Award by Warsteiner	Blooom Award		Nominated
2015	Eurovideo Festival	Prix Eurovideo		Nominated
2015	30th International Digital Arts Festival Videoformes	Videoformes Award		Nominated
2015	International Portuguese Music Awards	People's Choice Award		Nominated
1995	Festival da Canção Infantil de Braga	Best Performer		Won
1994	Gala Internacional dos Pequenos Cantores – UNICEF	Best Song		Won
1993	Festival da Canção Infantil de Braga	1st Prize		Won
1993	Festival da Canção Infantil de Braga	Best Performer		Won
1993	Festival da Canção de Campanhã	1st Prize		Won
1993	Festival da Canção de Campanhã	Best Performance		Won

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External links

• Official Website
• Nuno Roque at IMDb

• Living people
• 20th-century Portuguese male singers
• Portuguese pop singers
• Portuguese child singers
• 21st-century Portuguese male actors
• Portuguese male singer-songwriters
• Portuguese singer-songwriters
• Portuguese male film actors
• Portuguese male stage actors
• Portuguese male television actors
• 21st-century Portuguese male singers
• Portuguese artists