Madalena Brandão
Known For & Full Filmography19 Titles
Drama Series - 2018, 16 episodes • as Cláudia Messias
A man and a woman with no apparent connection are involved in a bizarre bank robbery, resulting in their death. Their children (Lara and Simão), faced with the impasse in the police investigation, decide to unravel the mystery that led to the tragedy. What they discover is just the tip of the skein. Other deaths follow, all unrelated to view and entangled in a mysterious web that seems to have no end. What will be the next target?
Drama Series - 2014, 16 episodes • as Cláudia Gomes
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 2023, 16 episodes • as Bárbara
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 2024, 16 episodes • as Letícia «Leti» Barbosa
Eva and her sisters live humbly in Lisbon, unaware that their lives are about to take an unexpected turn. When Gaspar, a wealthy businessman based in Angola, suddenly dies, he leaves his entire fortune to the three young women, who overnight become the owners of a great fortune and an entire estate in Angola. However, not everything will be a bed of roses: they will have to confront Talu, a young Angolan engineer who was excluded from Gaspar’s inheritance in favor of Eva. And despite being in opposite sides, neither Talu nor Eva will be able to resist the strong attraction they feel for each other. Among the breathtaking landscapes of Angola and the modern business world of Portugal, the young lovers will find themselves at the center of a web of antagonistic interests, in the dispute over Gaspar’s inheritance.
Drama Series - 2004, 16 episodes • as Cristina
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 2000, 16 episodes • as Camila Figueiredo
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 2026, 16 episodes • as Laura Garcez
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 2020, 16 episodes • as Salomé Correia
Zeca was jailed for a crime he didn't participate, now he's free and while trying to make a new life he encounters a kid, surprisingly the boy is Ema's son, his long time lover.
Drama Series - 2022, 16 episodes • as Self
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 2008, 16 episodes • as Ana Marinhais
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 2011, 16 episodes • as Manuela
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 2013, 16 episodes • as Enf. Vanda Antunes Leal
Showing life as it is... Alice is a surgeon who is forced to work with her ex-husband David, an anaesthesiologist who will incorporate the Surgical Team at the Santa Catarina Hospital in Lisbon. Vicente also works at this hospital in internal medicine. He’s married to Simone, who’s a vet at the Zoo. This couple will go through a messy divorce in which Vicente is in danger of losing custody of his children due to his affair with his colleague Alice. This series that follows the everyday lives of doctors fighting to save people's lives at a city hospital, but also the challenges and adventures of a team of veterinarians, biologists and zoo keepers who are committed to preserving their wildlife at the Zoo.
Drama Series - 2013, 16 episodes • as Patrícia Mendes
Despite the hardship, there are those who fight and overcome... Marta is a single mother and a humble woman who’s doing her best to offer her two daughters, Susana e Beatriz, a good life. But when she finds out that her younger daughter has a rare and serious condition, everything changes in this family’s life. Susana decides to seek out Rodrigo, the child´s father and a wealthy man who can afford to pay the much needed surgery abroad. Even though he didn't even know he had a daughter, Rodrigo accepts to pay for the surgery on the condition that he’s granted custody. Marta is then faced with the greatest dilemma in her life: in order to save his daughter, she’ll have to give her up. Rodrigo will end up using Beatriz in an elaborate ploy to get closer to Marta. However, his cousin Gabriel’s return to Portugal will make things difficult for him, as Gabriel will fall in love with Marta, thus turning into Rodrigo's rival.
Drama Series - 2009, 16 episodes • as Catarina
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 2008, 16 episodes • as Teresa
A team of friends are part of a soccer team, the series follow their life between school, sport and family. Meanwhile they have a secret enemy called "Ball F", who would it be?
Drama Series - 2013, 16 episodes • as Rita
Álvaro and Maria do Carmo lived happily in Angola. He was a successful businessman and she was a mild mannered housewife. They have two children together, Ana and João, who were studying and living their teenage years in Luanda... Until the day the civil war broke out and everything fell apart. Amidst declarations of independence, a wave of violence breaks out and the established peace and order fades away. In July, 1975, the Mendonça family, along with over five hundred thousand people, leave their belongings behind and embark on an air convoy that would become the biggest exodus in the history of the Portuguese people to a homeland that most only knew from photos and dubbed it Metropolis. In Lisbon, Joaquim and Natália, Álvaro’s brother-in-law and sister, take the Mendonça family in their small apartment, where they will try to get their lives back in order. However, over that hot summer of 1975, the integration seemed to be far from easy.
Movie - 2019, 2h 15m • as Manuela
Film biography dwelling on the hectic artistic life of António Variações, a famous Portuguese pop rock singer from the 80s, who died from AIDS-related complications in 1984.
Movie - 2005, 2h 15m • as Madalena
There are two months to the end of High School Spanish classes in Lisbon and it's time to decide the destination for the end of year trip. That decision will cause a real "Civil War" between two irreconcilable groups: the "class nerd", who propose the typical cultural trip to Paris, and "freeloaders" who prefer to enjoy the week in Benidorm, the "New York's Costa Blanca ".
Movie - 2023, 2h 15m • as Cátia
At an old manor house in northern Portugal, Ana helps her friend, Emília, the elderly housekeeper who is determined to continue to keep the unoccupied house in order for the owners who are never there. As the seasons turn, Mónica, Ana's daughter, challenges her mother's choices and the three generations of women search to understand where they belong in a world that is rapidly fading, where the cycle of life is renovated only through inevitable endings.