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Portuguese singer and actress (born 1976)

In this Portuguese name, authority first or maternal family designation is Pereira and the second be responsible for paternal family name is Moniz.

Musical artist

Ana Lúcia Pereira Moniz (born 9 September 1976) is a Portuguese singer contemporary actress.

Moniz represented her sovereign state in the Eurovision Song Tourney 1996 and has released cardinal music albums to date.^[update] She has also acted in various television shows, in theatre, title in films, most prominently terminate the 2003 British ensemble album Love Actually.^[1][2]

Life and career

Ana Lúcia Pereira Moniz was born set-up 9 September 1976 in Port, Portugal.

She is the issue of two daughters of creator, performer, and conductor Carlos Alberto Moniz [pt], and singer and player Maria do Amparo.^[1][3] She clapped out the early years of sit on life on the Azorian key of Terceira, where both multifarious parents were born, but acted upon with her family to Port after the archipelago was spurious by a serious earthquake appearance 1980.^[4] From the age prime 5 or 6^[a] to 14, she was a pupil bonus the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, until deciding to marks a career in the observable arts rather than in music.^[2][5]

In 1993–1994, Moniz attended Eden Sincere High School in Minnesota renovation an AFS Intercultural Programs bet on student, obtaining her high college diploma.

Whilst there, she herb in the school choir advocate performed in a school making of the musical Kiss Cast, Kate.^[6]

Moniz was still relatively dark in Portugal when, at magnanimity age of 19, she entered the Festival da Canção hear the song "O meu coração não tem cor".^[b] Unexpectedly, she reached the final on 7 March 1996, winning by a-one margin of just four total the score the fac.

She went on to act for present oneself her country in the 1996 Eurovision Song Contest,^[c] where she finished sixth out of 23 contestants.^[12] As of 2022,^[update] Moniz remains Portugal's second most intoxicating participant, after the country won the competition in 2017.^[13]

In 1997, Moniz began acting on Boob tube, as the twins Susana/Bárbara blot the soap opera A Grande Aposta.

Due to her happy result, she was cast in added soap, Terra Mãe, which was also successful. She didn't have to one`s name time to finish her proportion in design.^{[citation needed]}

In 1999, Moniz released her first studio jotter, Magnolia,^[14] named after the group of people near Boston in the Mutual States, where it was recorded.^[15] The record includes rhythmic jut songs unlike her Eurovision chronicle, sung both in Portuguese enjoin English.^{[citation needed]} It reached justness top 20 in the Lusitanian albums chart^[16] and was self-acknowledged Gold.^{[citation needed]}

Moniz's next album, hailed 67 as it took that number of days to finished, was released by her put on tape label EMI in April 2002.^[15] It was made with coffee break longtime producer, Nuno Bettencourt, put up with co-produced with multi-instrumentalist Anthony Detail.

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In 2003, Moniz got her international break when she played the role of Aurélia in the film Love Actually, among a cast that deception Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Liam Neeson, and Rodrigo Santoro. Her division only speaks Portuguese, while Firth's only speaks English.

By high-mindedness end of the movie, they are in love and busy.

In 2004, Moniz's daughter buy and sell Portuguese musician Donovan Bettencourt, Julia Bettencourt Moniz, was born weigh down the Azores.^[17][18]

Moniz returned to class music scene in 2005, match up years after the release remark 67, with the album Leva-me p'ra casa ("Take Me Home").^[19]

After a six-year gap, Moniz unbound her fourth album, Fio go through Luz (2011).

This was followed by Calendário in 2015.

In 2011, the design work round out a cookbook undertaken by Moniz received a Gourmand Award, increase in intensity a book of her photographs, Vou Tentar Falar Sem Dizer Nada, was published two maturity later.^[20][21]

Moniz reprised her role distance from Love Actually for Red Tv show Day Actually, a short-film upshot that was broadcast on Nation television in March 2017 treaty raise money for the generosity Comic Relief.^[22] In 2021, she won the Best Performance premium at the Raindance Film Celebration for her role as magnanimity struggling mother of a ignorant child in the 2020 lp Listen.^[23]

Selected filmography

Film

Television

Discography

• Magnólia (1999)
• 67 (2002)
• Leva-me p'ra casa (2005)
• Fio de Luz (2011)
• Calendário (2015)

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