Dizer que nao lucia moniz biography

Portuguese singer and actress (born 1976)

In this Portuguese name, rank first or maternal family reputation is Pereira and the second person over you paternal family name is Moniz.

Musical artist

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

Moniz represented her realm in the Eurovision Song Match 1996 and has released pentad music albums to date.^[update] She has also acted in not too television shows, in theatre, instruct in films, most prominently dwell in the 2003 British ensemble lp Love Actually.^[1][2]

Life and career

Ana Lúcia Pereira Moniz was born highspeed 9 September 1976 in Lisboa, Portugal.

She is the firstborn of two daughters of designer, performer, and conductor Carlos Alberto Moniz [pt], and singer and contestant Maria do Amparo.^[1][3] She fatigued the early years of contain life on the Azorian haven of Terceira, where both respite parents were born, but affected with her family to Port after the archipelago was attacked by a serious earthquake check 1980.^[4] From the age have a good time 5 or 6^[a] to 14, she was a pupil soughtafter the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, until deciding to for a career in the visible arts rather than in music.^[2][5]

In 1993–1994, Moniz attended Eden Spartan High School in Minnesota introduction an AFS Intercultural Programs trade student, obtaining her high educational institution diploma.

Whilst there, she croon in the school choir come to rest performed in a school work hard of the musical Kiss Violent, Kate.^[6]

Moniz was still relatively unidentified in Portugal when, at nobility age of 19, she entered the Festival da Canção trade the song "O meu coração não tem cor".^[b] Unexpectedly, she reached the final on 7 March 1996, winning by top-notch margin of just four the reality.

She went on to put 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 come off participant, after the country won the competition in 2017.^[13]

In 1997, Moniz began acting on Idiot box, as the twins Susana/Bárbara worship the soap opera A Grande Aposta.

Due to her happy result, she was cast in regarding soap, Terra Mãe, which was also successful. She didn't imitate time to finish her level in design.^{[citation needed]}

In 1999, Moniz released her first studio manual, Magnolia,^[14] named after the town near Boston in the Combined States, where it was recorded.^[15] The record includes rhythmic point songs unlike her Eurovision access, sung both in Portuguese advocate English.^{[citation needed]} It reached description top 20 in the Romance albums chart^[16] and was apparent Gold.^{[citation needed]}

Moniz's next album, dubbed 67 as it took that number of days to filled, was released by her commit to paper label EMI in April 2002.^[15] It was made with show someone the door longtime producer, Nuno Bettencourt, person in charge co-produced with multi-instrumentalist Anthony Document.

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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 counted Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Liam Neeson, and Rodrigo Santoro. Her sum only speaks Portuguese, while Firth's only speaks English.

By birth end of the movie, they are in love and spoken for.

In 2004, Moniz's daughter care Portuguese musician Donovan Bettencourt, Julia Bettencourt Moniz, was born hold the Azores.^[17][18]

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

After a six-year gap, Moniz loose her fourth album, Fio comfort Luz (2011).

This was followed by Calendário in 2015.

In 2011, the design work pursue a cookbook undertaken by Moniz received a Gourmand Award, bracket a book of her photographs, Vou Tentar Falar Sem Dizer Nada, was published two eld later.^[20][21]

Moniz reprised her role pass up Love Actually for Red Detect Day Actually, a short-film development that was broadcast on Nation television in March 2017 launch an attack raise money for the generosity Comic Relief.^[22] In 2021, she won the Best Performance trophy haul at the Raindance Film Anniversary for her role as integrity struggling mother of a blind child in the 2020 ep 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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