Member of the Casting Society of America (CSA)

Member of the International Casting Directors Network (ICDN)

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He was born in Lisbon in 1966 and lived abroad between 1976 and 1988. He launched as “Casting Director” in 1989. He is responsible for the casting of numerous films, national and foreign, programs and series for television, as well as more than a hundred advertising films. In cinema, he worked with numerous directors such as: Marco Martins ("Alice" and "How to draw ..."), Raul Ruiz ("Mistérios de Lisboa"), Joaquim Leitão ("Hope is where you least expect it", "Temptation" ”), António-Pedro Vasconcelos (“ A Bela ea Paparazzo ”,“ Call Girl ”,“ Jaime ”,“ Os Immortals ”,“ Cats Don't Have Vertigo ”,“ Impossible Love ”,“ Parque Mayer ”), Luís Filipe Rocha (“Signs of Fire”), Richard Curtis (“Love Actually”), Leonel Vieira (“Zona J)”, Patrice Chereau (“La Reine Margot”), Carlos Coelho da Silva (“O Crime do Padre Amaro” ), Luís Galvão Teles ("Elles", "DOT.com", "Gelo", ”Soft drinks (and Canções de Amor)”), among others.

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On television, his work for the SIC telefilms stands out, among others: “I love you Teresa”, “Knives and Angels”, “Mustang”, “Alta Fidelidade”, “Lampião da Estrela”, “Anniversary”, etc. … Lately, in partnership with RTP, castings of the series and telefilms: “Inspector Max”, “Tell me how it was”, “The Mystery of the Road to Sintra”, “1986”, and the 13 Tales series from Marginal Movies.

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Over the years she has been invited to teach Casting Techniques at ESTC, ACE in Porto, EPTC. In the summer of 2000, he organized, together with Elsa Valentim, the Act - Workshops Initiation to Actor Techniques for Cinema and Television, an initiative that gave rise to ACT - Escola de Actores founded in 2001.

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In 2010 he made his first documentary about Raul Solnado, for RTP. Author and presenter of the television program “Sei Quem Ele É”, which already has three episodes, broadcast on RTP1. There is a section on the Antena 1 radio, called “Pelo Sonho é que Vamos”.

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She is the founder and member of the Board of the Portuguese Academy of Cinema, where, among other initiatives, she created and developed the Passport project, with four editions held, making known Portuguese actors to renowned casting directors from around the world.

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Patricia Vasconcelos is also one of the founders and present members of the Portuguese Academy of CInema’s board, in which, among many other initiatives, she developed “Passaporte”, that enables the possibility of Portuguese actors to meet worldwide known casting directors.